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Coaching Others: Short Term Pain for Long Term Gain

Persuasive Powerhouse

I teach coaching skills to groups of managers regularly; every individual executive client I have gets taught coaching skills in some way or another; and of course, I practice coaching myself (I call it “practice” on purpose). Let’s call using coaching skills “short term pain for long term gain”.

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Leadership and Your Long Term Legacy

Next Level Blog

  My friend told me about an executive she knows named Bill who's been with the company for more than 30 years and who, through his leadership and tough love mentoring, has developed two generations of world class supply chain managers.    How long term is your perspective? 

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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Covey has garnered the loyalty and love of her students, something that she still evokes in my daughters even though they have long since left her classroom. link] Scott Eblin Earlier this year, I spent an amazing afternoon with the wounded warriors at the Mologne House which is the long term lodging facility at Walter Reed Army Hospital.

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Infinite Leadership: Lessons From Nature

Lead Change Blog

In it, he suggests that business leaders should stop focusing on short-term (finite) gains and instead focus on the long-term (infinite) game of the business. The challenge for leaders in the West today has become the fixation on short-term results. If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets.

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

As we read year-end and best-of 2010 articles and watch the tribute shows, take a moment to try to add up the cumulative wealth of those being remembered. In the years leading up to 2010, estate planners believed that an estate tax-free 2010 would never happen, but Congress never got its act together long enough to change the law.

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ASA Deming Lecture by Brent James: Long Term View of the Healthcare System

Deming Institute

2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. Deming added excessive health care costs to his 7 deadly diseases of Western management. Next, Brent James looks at the long term history of health care in the USA and the great gains achieved during the 1900s. Guest post by John Hunter , who founded curiouscat.com in 1996.

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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

Leading Blog

That meeting went way too long.”. What does too long mean? For example, instead of saying, “That meeting went way too long,” you can say “The meeting ended 20 minutes past schedule. In terms of concerns, you may be concerned that the team is throwing good money after bad. This is harder than it sounds. Is that accurate?”

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