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Confidence Forgives
Any number of minor faux pas.
Fear enhances them.
But confidence sometimes gets confused with arrogance or contemptuousness or grandiosity.
It is none of those
This Morning
I got up and headed straight for the woods. The outdoors was calling, and although there was much to be done, much that was pulling,
Your Coach
If what I’m seeing in Q1 is any indication, there is a pent-up demand for executive coaching. If you’re looking, consider the following 9 criteria:
Incorporating Intuition
I was talking with several clients recently about the topic of intuition in decision-making and possible opportunities to use it in conjunction with reason and
My Favorite Question for 360 Conversations?
The last: “Is there anything else you’d like to add?”
The Magnificent Leadership® Ascension program is designed specifically for bold leaders who want to create a lasting imprint of meaningful
What Happens When Buddhism Meets Romantic Love?
I don’t know, but we’re going to find out.
Straight from my wish list, Polly Young-Eisendrath, author, TED-talker, and couple therapist, is joining me for
Archimedes Takes a Tub
You know the story, yes? Mathematician and scientist Archimedes gets into the bathtub and comes out with the formula for volume.
Earlier this month in
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Repetition is Reputation
What are you repeating?
Come in from the cold for a brief application conversation to join 2021 Magnificent Leadership® Executive Forum. It’s cozy in this vibrant, trusted learning
Raising the Barre — Again
The first time I wrote about barre class and my favorite teacher, Maureen, was pre-pandemic. Two months in, I’d begun to get the gist
Le Week-End
A bit fatigued? Frayed around the edges?
Know that you’re in good company. Just about everyone I spoke with this week is talking about it.
Rapt Attention
A few of the many nuggets from Glen Tullman’s chat at the Magnificent Leadership® Executive Forum last night:
There is more innovation in business model
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Chapter 7
I once heard a presenter at a conference, a consultant, declare without reservation or hesitation, that they were smarter than their clients.
My first thought
Congruity
Congruity is alignment, authenticity its expression.
Something that puts them both under a high beam, electron microscope?
Leadership.
A few things:
Do I know and
Wish List
Below is an initial interview wish list for On Love and Relationships℠, my new podcast. If you have suggestions for how to contact someone, please
A Valentine
When this was posted in December of 2019, there would be one more visit. And then a year – and counting – without return.
Sex is Another Planet
That was one of the observations that Ian Kerner, renowned sex and relationship specialist, shared during this afternoon’s taping of the inaugural episode of
Spring is Coming
Even if you’re sitting in a place looking out the window to snow and icicles, like many of my clients.
I saw robins – lots
3 Questions When Delegating
- What role/initiative/project would you like to take on?
- What do you see on my plate that you would like to be responsible for?
- What
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What Clients are Reading
Fiction and Non.
History.
Biography.
Business books, not so much.
The pages I’m turning these days, some still months later:
A Promised Land by Barak
2 Essentials for Managing Up
- Be able to convey your value in the context and language of the organization’s strategy. How is what you do advancing those initiatives? Integral?
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Connection During Disconnection
Many clients are telling me that despite the challenges of WFH, they’re feeling connected to their team in ways they hadn’t before.
As we Zoom,
Manolos for Meetings
Of the few newsletters that I subscribe to, two of them arrived this morning with similar messages about combating pandemic fatigue.
Which was exactly what
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What Comes Naturally
Is likely where you add the greatest value. (A truism from one of my first coaching mentors.)
And not only can you not see it,
Before I Reconsider
At last night’s Executive Forum, we discussed 2021 commitments, and I asked about a fulcrum, something that makes everything else better.
5 months ago, I
Are you elevating your leadership as your business grows?