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What Makes an Effective Executive Coach?
What Makes an Effective Executive Coach? “The quality of your coaching isn’t measured by the quality of your questions. It’s measured by…
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Success Still Requires Focused Effort
Success Still Requires Focused Effort “Success usually isn’t determined by who has access to the best tools. It’s determined by who uses…
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Why Gratitude May Be the Most Underrated Leadership Trait
Why Gratitude May Be the Most Underrated Leadership Trait “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many—not on your…
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Keep Searching Until You Find Your Grant
Keep Searching Until You Find Your Grant Few leadership decisions create more excitement than hiring someone you believe will transform your organization,…
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What France Taught and Reminded Me About Family, Leadership, and Success
Opening Reflection – Balancing Achievement and Fulfillment As I write this, I am somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean on my way home…
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Why CEOs Fail
Why CEOs Fail is an important book because it reminds leaders that failure is rarely sudden. It is often built slowly through…
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Personal Responsibility at Work: Why Reliability Still Matters More Than Ever
Personal Responsibility at Work Why Reliability Still Matters More Than Ever One of the most overlooked professional traits today is personal responsibility.…
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Ed’s Confessions of A Vistage Chair Interview
In this interview with Ryan Hogan from Talent Harbor, I share my experience as a Vistage Chair and what I’ve learned working…
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Theme: Winning at Business
There is no repeatable formula for business success. The idea that high performance can be reverse-engineered from successful companies is misleading. What…
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Extreme Ownership
Book introduction Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win is a leadership book that centers on one powerful idea: you…
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The Mirror Test: 5 Truths About Leadership Accountability Every Leader Must Face
The Mirror Test: Five Hard Truths About Leadership Accountability Leadership conversations often revolve around strategy, vision, and growth plans. Those things matter.…
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Leadership Is Always on Stage
Leadership Is Always on Stage Every morning when a leader walks into the workplace, something important happens—whether they realize it or not.…
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Leadership Is a Daily Choice
Leadership Is a Daily Choice — And Most Leaders Drift Without Realizing It Most leadership breakdowns don’t happen because someone isn’t smart…
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Sopheva Roundtable Discussion on How Leaders Can Manage Stress and Pressure
Leadership stress is not a personal weakness or a lack of toughness. It is a predictable outcome of ambiguity, avoidance, misalignment, and…
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The Leaders Playbook for Managing Stress
The Leader’s Playbook for Managing Stress Leadership stress is rarely caused by long hours alone. Most leaders can handle hard work. What…
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The Four Pillars of Enduring Leadership
The Four Pillars of Enduring Leadership Enduring leadership is not built on personality, charisma, or short-term tactics. It is built on timeless…
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Theme: Leading in A Chaotic Environment
Uncertainty is no longer a passing challenge—it is a permanent condition. Organizations that resist change risk becoming irrelevant, while those that embrace…
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Where Have Our Leaders Gone?
Leaders: Something Feels Deeply Unsettled in Our Society Today. You can hear it in conversations at work, see it in headlines, and…
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How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
By understanding and addressing the stages of hubris born of success, undisciplined pursuit of more, denial of risk and peril, grasping for…
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Navigating Your Way Through Emerging Technology
The Major Players: Unavoidable Technologies Machine Learning and AI: The New Business Necessities The dynamic combination of machine learning and artificial intelligence…
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Acknowledging and Appreciating Two Impressive Business Leaders: Another Special Day in My Life as a Vistage Chair
Today was a great day, filled with moments that reminded me of how truly blessed I am to work with such incredible…
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BCG Henderson Institute
At its core, the Institute is Boston Consulting Group’s think tank—built to explore and develop new ideas across business, technology, economics, and…
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What Defines a Successful Organization?
The characteristics that help an organization succeed have changed over the past century. While a highly structured, top-down management style used to…
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Leadership-Tools
Leadership-Tools.com: From Knowing What to Do… to Actually Doing It as a Leader Most leaders don’t struggle with understanding leadership. They struggle…
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Reflections on Life and Leading Book Excerpts – Part 1
You do not have to settle for a life of quiet desperation and hope that one day things will change. The future…
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On Leadership and Business Book Excerpts Sections 3-5 by Ed Robinson
I believe that business and nonprofit leaders need to think differently about what constitutes success. Besides the quality of their people, what…
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On Leadership and Business Book Excerpts Sections 1-2 by Ed Robinson
The leadership journey requires you to cogitate constantly on the role you and others should be playing. As you achieve some level…
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Business Forecasts Are Reliably Wrong — Yet Still Valuable
Business forecasts are often wrong — and yet they can still be a powerful tool for savvy leaders if they view them…
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The Core Competence of the Corporation
In the early 1980s, GTE was positioned to become a major player in the information technology industry. NEC was much smaller and…