Do Leaders Need Coaches?
Reading Time: < 1 minute All executives should heed Malcolm Gladwell’s warning that “No one — not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.” A recent installment in Vistage Speaker Andi Simon’s new podcast series explores why “Leaders Need Coaches to Succeed.” Andi invited me
How to Fail In Public
Reading Time: < 1 minute Fear of failure can take a number of forms but the one that keeps many of us from taking a risk is the fear of failing where everyone can see. A few words from Richard Branson may help.
A Graduation Gift…
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s commencement time and whether your child is in high school, off to college, headed to a summer internship, or off to conquer the world, here is collection of my favorite commencement speaker advice and a few other observations that you may wish to share with the young people in
Your Eight Bad Habits
Reading Time: < 1 minute The most important person we ever manage is ourselves. To the extent that “habits are the magistrates of our lives,” taking a hard look at what gets in our way of adopting good ones and shedding bad ones seems a good prescription. This article from Forbes enumerates Eight Habits that
Got Peers?
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you’re reading this and have not availed yourself of membership in Vistage or other C-Level Peer Group, take a few minutes for an overview of peer power by a man who literally wrote the book on the subject. Leo Bottary, author of “The Power of Peers” was recently interviewed
I, Pencil
Reading Time: < 1 minute Those who are concerned that China’s economy will surpass ours should consider the following “required reading.” China just announced to great fanfare that after years of effort and millions in investment, it has managed to produce… a ballpoint pen! (This was accomplished in the US about 80 years ago). Before
