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Many of the meetings the people in your company are in are laughably inefficient and ineffective.
The good news, if there is any, is that this article has nothing to do with meeting best practices. ...
The common root cause across all those lousy meetings you find yourself in is not...the lack of a stated meeting purpose.
It is not the lack of an agenda.
It is not that the right attendees are not ...
One of the best ways to increase your chances of success with team building is to just avoid making rookie mistakes.
Here are three and some ways to avoid them.
Have a model. You can't build a high ...
We regularly hear laments about our win-at-all-cost culture.
Don't worry, this isn't one of those “what’s the world is coming to?” posts.
Winning is, of course, great, but sometimes the moments that...
Like the Taoist Farmer story, the story of the Empty Boat is often used by Executive Coaches to help their clients gain perspective.
Here’s a short version of the story:
A fisherman is on the water ...
Cecilia Ziniti is GC at Lambda, the start-up that trains people to be software developers and data scientists, but doesn’t charge them until they are hired.
Cecilia is barely mid-career, but what s...
I recently wrote about an experience with my 98-year old mother that touched me deeply.
I know how lucky I am to have had her for so long. She has been a teacher and a role model for me for decades a...
The most significant undertakings at work and in society depend on teams of people working together effectively. Oddly, organizations largely leave effective teamwork to chance.
My colleague and frie...
I had been staying with my mom for a month, nursing her 98-year-old body back to a relative state of health after a downturn.
I am not sure what really happened prior to me getting there, but I think...
Richard Levi had a powerful influence on me early in my coaching journey. He died recently and his passing is a loss to me and the entire coaching community he was a pillar of. These three stories are...
There is a well-known Zen story about a rather non-conventional response to impending doom.
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he...
his is the long version of this post complete with data, academic references, and disclaimers. The short version can be found here.
The Enneagram Personality Typing system is showing up more often in...
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