Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 23, 2011

Instead, you should be trying to do the right thing, looking for ways to clarify your own plans for this group of people. How does your current role fit into that plan? Source: The New York Times Magazine, October 23, 2011. The author writes, "You cannot work too hard to avoid the inevitable grayness otherwise called management.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 15, 2012

In " Beyond Management " (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2011) author Mark Addleson explains why workers have to manage themselves and tells them how to do it. Of course, we need administrators, just as we need plans, strategies, guidelines and budgets. They are not ends, but some means of doing good work.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Even before the protests started on September 17, the Administration had begun to move in that direction with a $447 billion job creation plan, to be funded by a tax on the rich. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 17, 2011. Obama allowed that he understood their anger and even offered a bit of carefully modulated praise.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 3, 2011

Consider the executive who briefed his top management team on the company's plans for the coming year, referencing products launches, pricing pressures, and analyst concerns. © 2011 Michael Useem, author of The Leader's Checklist. By Michael Useem, Author of The Leader's Checklist.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 1, 2011

The Wrong War” amounts to a crushing and seemingly irrefutable critique of the American plan in Afghanistan. Source: The New York Times, February 27, 2011. In his remarkable book, “ The Wrong War ,” Bing West goes a long way to answering that question. It should be read by anyone who wants to understand why the war there is so hard.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

Cowen says he has no grand plans when he begins to write, just what he refers to as myopia. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 30, 2011. "For something so fundamental to have gone wrong," he says, "my intuition and the evidence suggest that there's something wrong with the real economy as well."

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 10, 2011

By Scott Adams, the creator of " Dilbert ," abstracted from How to Get a Real Education in The Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2011. It would be valuable to develop a 12 to18-month growth plan. Combine Skills. The first thing you should learn in a course on entrepreneurship is how to make yourself valuable.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Your greatest challenge and opportunity in 2011 is to join the growing number of leaders who are focusing on a breakdown of trust as the greatest risk, and creating a “Building Trust Plan” to address it.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 13, 2011

Millions will only have the option of paying into a health-care savings plan. Such a plan means little if the cost of care exceeds the new law’s payout ceiling of $6,000 for individuals or $11,000 for families. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, August 8, 2011. The millions of self-employed shouldn’t have to struggle so hard.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 20, 2011

Be sure to document results from each session and create little action plans, with intervening touchpoints, where a change is involved. Therefore, don’t ask these questions with any teammate if you have no intention of forming a collaborative partnership with the person to make your mutual situation better.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Only 35 percent of 1,318 executives surveyed by Korn/Ferry International in December said their companies had a succession plan. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, February 7, 2011. Boards itching to change leaders often are starting from scratch.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Even before the protests started on September 17, the Administration had begun to move in that direction with a $447 billion job creation plan, to be funded by a tax on the rich. No matter what happens next, the movement's center is likely to shift from NYC and form somewhere else, around some other circle of people, ideas and plans.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Instead, Republican candidates fill their jobs plans with Chicagoan ideas that have nothing to do with the current crisis, like permanent cuts in taxes and regulation. Source: The New York Times Magazine, November 6, 2011. For how past U.S. presidents faced a speculative bubble that had burst along with a banking crisis, click here.

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