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Phil Holberton

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Your Orchestra for Success

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Ah, weaving together sleep, physical fitness, and mental fitness into a leadership tapestry—let’s dive in and recreate something fresh but with the same essence, your orchestra for success. In the grand symphony of effective leadership, sleep, physical fitness, and mental fitness are the trio of instruments playing the most pivotal

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Cultivating Mental Agility

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Cultivating mental agility is akin to engaging in a dynamic workout for your brain, emphasizing flexibility, strength, and endurance. It’s about adapting your thinking, seamlessly switching between tasks, and approaching problems from multiple angles. For leaders and coaches, mental agility is crucial for navigating today’s complex, fast-paced business environment. Here are

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Reflections on My First 80 Years

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Today, I am 80 years old, and the following is a compilation of my thoughts and reflections on my first 80 years. I’ve learned so much along the way, and I hope these lessons will help you live a life filled with love, joy, and peace.

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Leadership Qualities: What It Takes to Be an Executive Leader

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Reading Time: 4 minutes The value of scarcity has been praised by poets, philosophers, and storytellers for thousands of years. They correctly point out that sometimes having nothing at all is preferable. Yet, it seems to me that few people think about the risks, challenges, and setbacks—all of which are equally important. We need

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Executive Success: When The Best Factors Fit

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Leadership is extremely dependent on the interrelationships between other critical success factors. In short, you cannot lead in a vacuum. That would defeat the whole point of leadership. Moreover, the more established a business becomes, the more important it is to master its management. After all, certain success factors are necessary for effective leadership and executive success. Knowing this, is it invaluable for us to understand what is really necessary for executive development to bring results to the organization.

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Success Factors: The Basis of Executive Leadership

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Success factors are necessary for effective executive leadership. They constitute the various forces (internal and external) affecting executives and business operations. After all, executive leadership depends as much on success factors like well-developed and goal-oriented strategies, proper procedures, and qualified staff as it does on managing interactions with the surrounding “system.” The end result is a systemic model that, when properly applied, has the potential to enhance effective leadership.

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Organizational Development: Personalized Executive Support

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Reading Time: 4 minutes An organization would be nothing without its people. Even the best organizations need skilled leaders at all levels to stay motivated, supported, and guided in finding creative solutions to challenging problems. Leaders do not simply arise out of nowhere. Rather, organizations develop such roles for people to advance into executive leadership and assist firms in developing other leaders with company-based values, visions, and overall goals.

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Positive Intelligence: The Beginning of Emotional Intelligence

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Positive intelligence (PQ) is a measurement of how well your thinking can benefit you in the workplace. Essential players are on the frontlines of this never-ending mental battle: The destructive “Saboteur” and the wise “Sage”. Different regions and muscle powers of the brain fuel the Saboteurs and Sage. Both are crucial to improving one’s PQ — then, subsequently, one’s emotional intelligence (EQ). It’s all about understanding how to navigate them.

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Leadership Mindset Matters: The Development of Emotional Intelligence

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Reading Time: 3 minutes EQ involves processing emotions that influence our decisions. Effective leadership consists of strategy and long-term solutions. To become such a leader, you must improve the development of your EQ.

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Key Advice for Leadership Development

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Leaders’ essential habits to be effective are ingrained in good leadership practices and leadership development.

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