Archive for 'Executive Coaching'

Embody Creative Leadership

Creativity is the most important leadership competency, according to IBM’s Global Chief Executive Officer Study. According to the study, leaders work with teams toward a shared vision and integrate a strong learning component with feedback loops that allow for learning and adapting to changing needs and services.

Creative leadership embraces creativity, takes risks that disrupt legacy and leaps beyond the tried and true management systems.It should be taught and fostered throughout the organization, not just in silos. The approach ...

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IBM on Capitalizing on Complexity

Complexity is the biggest challenge facing us, says the paper describing the results of IBM’s Global Chief Executive Officer Study. Today’s world is deeply connected on many levels which means it is susceptible to system-level failures. Therefore we need systems-level thinking regarding physical and digital infrastructures to anticipate and respond to how a change in one system affects another. But often the consequences of any change or decision are unknown.

The survey found three widely accepted ...

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Defining and Creating Lasting Success

Since the tech crash of 1999, 9/11 and the more recent great recession,  many have  looked at their values and how they fit, and in many cases, don’t fit, with  the realities of their life .  Some talk of  finding work-life balance, but many times we find ourselves neglecting certain areas in the push to achieve in another.    So the short-term feeling of success that comes from one victory; getting that well earned bonus or finishing a project, lasts only ...

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How Companies are Failing Middle Managers

In a recent article in Workforce online, the author discusses four ways that companies are failing middle managers. With the focus on technology, social media  and  organizational profits, large companies have streamlined management, increasing the workloads of managers who are expected to do more with less.

The author states there is  a downside to the traditional methods of promoting employees into leadership roles. Supervisor ratings are often political and the bold behavior in employees that succeeds on one level, may ...

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Microsoft Stops Stacked Ranking

Last year I posted an entry in this blog that discussed the flaws of a stacked ranking performance management system. (See “Grading on a Curve: Does it Work?”  posted o8/07/2012. ) Stacked ranking was popularized by Jack Welch of GE and was in use at Microsoft. With stacked ranking  at Microsoft, employees were ranked from 1 to 5, with the person who ranked 5 in the group at risk for reassignment or dismissal. This tended to encourage competition, rather than ...

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NOV
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Is Positive Intellligence a Better Predictor of Success?

In earlier posts I have touted the importance of emotional intelligence for  career success.  But I recently read an article in qz.com that adds another important dimension.

Shirzad Chamine  was a Stanford MBA student when he was informed by some fellow students that they always felt judged by him.  After some soul searching, Chamine  named this judge inside his mind a “sabateur.” Our minds, he says, can be our best friend or our worst enemy. The sabateur  judges, controls, is a ...

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NOV
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Sleep and Rest: Your Brain Needs More Downtime

Do you ever seem to crash around 3 PM in the afternoon?  This happens to me religiously; and it is my cue, if my schedule permits,  to do my afternoon 20 minute meditation.  Although I have been practicing TM since the 70’s,  I don’t always do it the best way.  Sometimes my dog interrupts me or insists on getting on my lap,  or perhaps I need to work through that mid-afternoon period because of scheduled appointments.  But when I do ...

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