November, 2011

Tony Mayo

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Candidates not to hire; employees to fire.

Tony Mayo

A Wall Street Journal article identified three personality types that are poison in your workforce: Deadbeats: withhold effort, Downers: express pessimism, anxiety, insecurity and irritation, & Jerks: violate interpersonal norms of respect. Good research shows how just one will pull down the performance of an entire team. Click here to read more about how bad apples spoil the barrel. [.].

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Consider your point of view

Tony Mayo

A key benefit of discussing important decisions with your executive coach is the exploration of alternative explanations for observed events. Managers, particularly business owners, have a very distinct point-of-view, a set of filters that leads them to interpret the data differently than their coach, employees, and customers might. A good executive coach will help the manager consider [.].

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Face Life with Less Judgement

Tony Mayo

Life moves on, whether we act as hero’s or cowards. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestionably. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serve to defeat us in the end. What [.].

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Tony Mayo

I use Twitter to share brief messages, not more than two per day. You can have them delivered to your cell phone by text message (SMS) or view them when you visit your free Twitter web page. Create a Twitter account and “follow” TonyMayo. Here are my recent tweets (messages): No matter how intense the [.].

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