Coaching Tip

APRIL 5, 2011

Mayer, a psychologist and expert on personality testing at the University of New Hampshire, says it is "the system that organizes one's emotions, motives and capacities to think." Source: The Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2011. What, exactly, is personality? Self-awareness facilitates change.

Self-aware 84

Self-aware Education Operations Motivation 84

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 19, 2011

"The protesters are giving voice to a broad-based frustration about how our financial system works," the President said at an October 6 press conference. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 17, 2011. His kind words for Occupy Wall Street were a sign of the four-week-old grassroots leadership movement's success.

Price 84

Price Conference Report Marketing 84

Coaching Tip

MARCH 1, 2011

The main business of American soldiers is now building economies and political systems. Source: The New York Times, February 27, 2011. Under COIN, victory will be achieved first and foremost by protecting the local population and thereby rendering the insurgents irrelevant. Killing is a secondary pursuit.

Taylorism 90

Taylorism Taylor Leadership Politics 90

Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Talented people join and stay in an organization to have an impact – to do work that matters to them and to make a difference. But a badly designed organization keeps them from having an impact or satisfying their values ,” says Ms. Companies need to recognize the importance of addressing strategy, talent and organization design together.

Development 112

Development Bureaucracy Globalization Middle Management 112

Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

Maybe the two were related, he thought: What if the financial system took on so much debt because most of us assumed that growth was eternal? Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 30, 2011. Cowen says he has no grand plans when he begins to write, just what he refers to as myopia.

Globalization 84

Globalization Crisis Creativity Short-term 84

Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

He was talking about the decision by the networking giant Cisco Systems, this Spring, to shut down its Flip camera business, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. Sources: "Creation Myth" by Malcolm Gladwell and "Innovative Consumption" by James Surowiecki in The New Yorker, May 16, 2011. But that's not what the game is about.

Creativity 95

Creativity Process Wilde Innovation 95

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 20, 2011

Put in place a simple system or structure that allows you to sit down with each person, one-on-one, once a month to run through six simple questions: (1) What am I doing well that is helping you be successful? Your teammate’s, with respect to LLD, are your customers! They will define what successful coaching is --not you. .

Development 115

Development Learning-by-Doing Talent Management Process 115

Coaching Tip

MAY 25, 2011

We claim to be part of the American dream and of a system based on merit and opportunity and talent,” Mr. Anthony Marx, a political scientist and president of Amherst College, says. The New York Times, May 25, 2011. Sixty-seven percent came from the highest-earning fourth of the distribution. It’s pretty hard to call that meritocracy.

Human Capital 118

Human Capital Class Comparison Travel 118

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The protesters are giving voice to a broad-based frustration about how our financial system works," the President said at an October 6 press conference. Source: The NewYorker, November 28, 2011 and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 17, 2011.

Leadership 84

Leadership Document Conference Crisis 84

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In the December 18, 2011 edition of the New York Times , Thomas L. of LRN and the author of the book “ How.” “The old system of ‘command and control’ — using carrots and sticks — to exert power over people is fast being replaced by ‘connect and collaborate’ — to generate power through people.”

Leadership 106

Leadership Information Technology Bottom-up Globalization 106