Although I do focus on “the hardlines,” I will often talk about other aspects of leadership and life as well. Here is an example.
Leaders, fess up! What are your flaws?
What vulnerabilities do you face, day by day and hour by hour, as you make decisions and take actions to enhance your enterprise? Does your picture of yourself [...]
I have been working on this blog for a while, and now it’s time to go public. I hope you like what you read, and I look forward to hearing from you. Let me know if you disagree, think I am way off track, or, better still, share a story, article or thought that reflects [...]
‘Go Easy On Him’
Hardlines means making hard decisions and taking risks. As leaders and coaches, we have to act with courage and honesty, even at the risk of encroaching on some established communication patterns, if those patterns are dysfunctional.
I once worked with a client whose manager was having some difficulties with him. I tried to [...]
The science section of the New York Times recently featured a piece claiming that mindfulness meditation is perhaps the most popular new psychotherapy technique of the past decade. One psychologist at the Center of Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto states that a major factor in this shift is that more and more therapists are [...]
What is executive coaching? Come on – let’s get focused and clear!
I recently attended a presentation entitled Executive Coaching: The client perspective. Here both coaching clients and their coaches had an opportunity to talk about what the coaching meant to them, and the specific interventions and practices that made a difference in behavior. Although there [...]