Full disclosure notice: I’m a fan of coaching and I have been since I was a youngster growing up in the farmland of the central United States when I first heard the unmistakable voice of a man who was later described as the...
The most common reaction I get from leaders when I ask this question is a blank stare. Perhaps the reason for this reaction is that they realize that the answer they give will summarize, in a sentence, who they are, what type...
This is a time when many people traditionally reflect on the past year and try to identify ways in which to make the coming year a better one. They want to look forward to a new year with hope and resolve to become a better...
Recently, I was invited by the Czech and Slovak chapter of The Young Presidents Organization and Forum 2000 to hear a speech by the well-known and highly regarded international pollster, John Zogby. Zogby’s company, Zogby...
Time is a great evaluator of people and their impact on things. Too often, especially in this age of instant, always-on information, after the test of time, we find that someone who was revered for something turns out to be...
I am told that the all-time best selling book on finding a job (more than 8 million copies sold) was written 37 years ago by an Episcopalian clergyman who lost his job as a pastor in San Francisco in what we today call a...
What would a column on career development be without a discussion about your future? For millennia people have been fascinated with methods of predicting the future—tea leaves, tarot cards, astrology, psychics, palmistry—the...
