01 Jun

Your Personal Development Plan

It might sound simple but constructive change rarely happens without a plan.  The difference between a wish and an accomplishment is the plan.  Hopefully, the last few posts that discuss thriving and taking radical responsibility for your life have prompted
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04 May

Are You Thriving?

Change starts by making an honest assessment of your life.  It is easy to get used to your circumstances and to think life can’t be much better than how it is now.  But that is not true.  A very simple
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29 Mar

Messing with your Operating System

Long ago I was taught the interconnection between our beliefs, our attitudes, and our behavior.  Beliefs are mental.  We all have a set of beliefs about what is important and how things work.  Many of our beliefs are unexamined hence they
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09 Mar

What Kind of Coach Do You Need?

I began my career as a coach over 25 years ago.  The concept of a corporate coach was brand new.  Now coaches come from every background under the sun.  Some came up through human resources.  Others were executives who ran
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23 Feb

How Can You Be so Dumb?

Robert Sutton’s book, The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t, points to a second critical role for a coach.  People, even bright and talented ones, frequently do really stupid things that are shipwrecking their
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09 Feb

Breaking Through Upper Limits

Marshall Goldsmith wrote a very helpful book entitled, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.  As you might imagine, the point is that the skills and perspective that have made you successful may not be adequate to get you
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27 Jan

Do I need a coach?

What a great question!  Sometimes I have been hired to coach a business leader who is certain she doesn’t need a coach.  In truth, no one needs a coach.  You can probably do just fine figuring things out on your
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13 Jan

Your Free Coach

My career has exceeded my wildest expectations.  I have had the opportunity to coach very successful executives from all over the world.  I have made more money than I ever hoped I would. I have met some amazing people and
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23 Oct

Civility and Identity

We have a choice as to how we identify ourselves.  You can pick based on gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, political party, and an almost endless number of other characteristics. Notice that our choice determines the nature
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