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The Unmasking Of Ego 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Great leaders often pride themselves on having a great mind. They are often thought of as brilliant philosophers, scholars, savants, sages, intellectuals, or geniuses by the outside world. But there ...
The Heart Of Struggle: The Leadership’s Journey 20 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
We all have experienced difficult events, emotional hurts, and serious mistakes. Life is never without struggle, and the way to live it on life’s terms is to accept ourselves as we truly are, and embr...
Expectations Mislead Us 13 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Life is leadership and leadership is life. How we lead ourselves is how we lead our lives. A client of mine had an important interview not long ago, for an opportunity that she had been pursing for ...
Get To Know Your Fears 6 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
A friend was suffering from massive anxiety after losing her job. “What is frightening you most about that?” I asked her. “Everything,” she responded. With an unstable world economy, increasing une...
Leading Through The Heat 30 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm
Even though there were only two people talking, the room was filled with tempestuous discussion. It smelled of conflict and felt like the heat was on. They had been stuck there for a long time. Both ...
Nothing Personal It’s Strictly Business 23 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm
Watching The Godfather not long ago with my teenage son, I was struck by Michael Corleone’s line “It’s nothing personal, Sonny—it’s strictly business.” Is business really ever “nothing personal”? Ca...
The Honest Truth About Teams 16 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm
There’s a good reason we spend so much time thinking about teams. Every organization in every industry pursues ambitious projects, works hard to get and serve clients and customers, and tackles new m...
Leadership of Wonder 9 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm
We all seem to spend a lot of time wishing. We wish we were taller, richer, smarter. We wish our businesses were more successful, our teams more productive. But what would it sound like if we could ...
The Wisdom of Uncertainty 2 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm
Alan Watts, the British-born philosopher, has pointed out the sense, which we all seem to share, that we live in a time of unusual uncertainty. He accredits this feeling to all the new technologies an...
The Gift Of Being Present 25 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm
One of the clients I coach—an important leader in his industry—was extremely distraught and agitated about the future of his company. I allowed him some space to vent and rant, and then I reminded...