Tony Mayo

JULY 6, 2013

'Would you like to more than triple the chances that your employees will volunteer to help a colleague or a customer? In just two months. For free. Easy. Encourage your staff to meditate for 20 minutes per day. That is the conclusion from a recent study. The results were striking. Although only 16 [.].

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Cooper How To Stress Execution 156

Tony Mayo

DECEMBER 24, 2013

' There’s this tendency to say to people: “I want you to get good results. But I also want to review you along the way, I want you to tell me how you’re getting those results and I want you to review all these processes and everything else.” And what that does is, it turns experts […].

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Management Performance Review Delegation Review 153

Tony Mayo

JULY 12, 2013

'[Our data on hiring at Google show that] what works well are structured behavioral interviews, where you have a consistent rubric for how you assess people, rather than having each interviewer just make stuff up. Behavioral interviewing — where you’re not giving someone a hypothetical, but you’re starting with a question like, “Give [.].

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Execution 150

Tony Mayo

APRIL 30, 2013

'Many of my clients have noticed that among the many thoughts intruding upon their meditation are some that appear to be genuinely useful ideas and plans. My suggestion is to treat these like any other ideas that arise and use the opportunity to direct your attention back to the chosen focus of your [.].

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Execution Planning 150

Tony Mayo

JANUARY 17, 2013

Indifference The opposite of love is not to hate It is indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness It is indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy It is indifference. And the opposite of life is not death It is indifference. –Elie Wiesel Share it!

Execution 150

Execution 150

Tony Mayo

AUGUST 12, 2013

'One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. –Abraham Maslow, psychologist See also The Way of Transformation on this blog. Share it!

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Maslow Goal Blog How To 147

Tony Mayo

JUNE 28, 2013

'The coach whose philosophy I admired most was Amos Alonzo Stagg and he once made the statement he never had a player he didn’t love. He had many he didn’t like and he didn’t respect, but he loved them just the same. –Coach John Wooden Share it!

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Execution 147

Tony Mayo

AUGUST 19, 2013

'Vision Series: Transformational Leadership from GMU-TV on Vimeo. Jorge Haddock, Dean, School of Management talks about Transformational Leadership. Change focuses on behavior, whereas transformation focuses on “beingness” or culture. Transformational leadership is about shifting the organizational conversations or interpretations to create different results or outcomes.

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Executive Coaching Execution Leadership Management 146

Tony Mayo

JUNE 23, 2013

'Because it is possible to create [one''s self,] one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever. Now creating, actualizing one’s possibilities, always involves negative as well as positive aspects. It always involves destroying the status quo, destroying old patterns within oneself, progressively destroying what one has clung [.].

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Stress Positioning 146

Tony Mayo

JANUARY 7, 2013

Man in the Arena It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and [.].

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Execution 146

Tony Mayo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

'As I discussed in my popular article, Truth or Consequences: Beyond the Punishment Model, employers are too quick to act like cops with the result that employees respond like criminals. Here is more support for my advice, this time from a rigorous study of new restaurant software. Instead of using the software mainly […].

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Morale Management Teamwork Software 145

Tony Mayo

JULY 5, 2013

'I have great respect for Dan Gallwey; he is a pioneer of coaching and really gets it. Heard him just yesterday on a video from the 70s or 80s, paraphrasing, “When an employee or competitor fails to deliver what you require, start by inquiring into what he sees as the requirement, what he [.].

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Executive Coaching Video Execution 143

Tony Mayo

AUGUST 21, 2013

'People who are happy but have little to no sense of meaning in their lives have the same [inflammatory response] as people who are responding to and enduring chronic adversity. … Meaning was defined as an orientation to something bigger than the self. Happiness was defined by feeling good. … “Empty […].

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Stress Execution Management 141

Tony Mayo

AUGUST 5, 2013

'No sooner did I post my article on the pitfalls of misusing jargon that I found myself in a conversation confused by the use of technical terms without a shared context. A client mentioned his plan to delegate the task of staying in regular, informal contact with customers between transactions. We naturally […].

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Delegation Execution Article Planning 141

Tony Mayo

JULY 14, 2013

'A transformational leadership style, one that conveys a sense of trust, meaningfulness, and individually challenges employees, contributes to greater employee well-being* Leading by example, Contributing to a common goal, Intellectual stimulation, Positive feedback for good performance, Recognizing the needs of others, & Resolving conflict –Christine Jacobs, University of Cologne in the Journal of Occupational and [.].

Leadership Styles 141

Leadership Styles Execution Goal Examples 141

Tony Mayo

DECEMBER 20, 2013

'The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, if he wins,knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least […].

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Execution 135

Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 11, 2013

'The founder and CEO of Amazon seems to agree with Dan Pink’s famous TED video that incentive compensation plans can be detrimental to creativity, cooperation and–ultimately–companies. We pay very low cash compensation relative to most companies. We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it […].

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Incentives Cooper Video Creativity 135

Tony Mayo

AUGUST 20, 2013

'CEOs and their Boards agree. Executives need coaching on delegation, listening, and conflict resolution. Are you ready to get to work on these aspects of your job? –What CEOs Really Want from Coaching Gretchen Gavett Harvard Business Review.

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CEO Survey Delegation Execution 135

Tony Mayo

DECEMBER 18, 2013

'This child — he thought — has this child heroically persevered under all doubts and dangers, struggled with poverty and suffering, upheld and sustained by strong affection and the consciousness of rectitude alone! And yet the world is full of such heroism. Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials […].

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Execution Books 132

Tony Mayo

JULY 30, 2013

'The point at which what we are given is difficult beyond endurance is a point that pierces and refines the soul. And (though this may be hard to believe) it is possible to be so fluid and centered, so filled with trust in the intelligence of the universe, that even the horror can [.].

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Stress Execution 132

Tony Mayo

JUNE 18, 2013

'The fraud triangle is a model for explaining the factors that cause someone to commit occupational fraud. It consists of three components which, together, lead to fraudulent behavior: 1. Perceived unshareable financial need 2. Perceived opportunity 3. Rationalization The fraud triangle originated from Donald Cressey’s hypothesis: Trusted persons become trust violators when they [.].

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Commitment Execution 132

Tony Mayo

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Cheerful Giver The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God [.].

Execution 132

Execution 132

Tony Mayo

JANUARY 31, 2013

Shut Me Out They drew a circle that shut me out Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took them in. –Edwin Markham Share it!

Execution 132

Execution 132

Tony Mayo

DECEMBER 13, 2013

'Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Harold B. Melchart.

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Goal Execution How To 129

Tony Mayo

AUGUST 21, 2013

'To live is to suffer. –The Buddha But not only creativeness and enjoyment are meaningful. If there is a meaning in life at all, there must be a in meaning in suffering. … Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. – Viktor Emil Frankl Man’s Search for Meaning […].

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Stress Goal Creativity Execution 129

Tony Mayo

MAY 25, 2013

'In 1966 Roshi Philip Kapleau, author of the landmark book The Three Pillars of Zen, was invited to give a talk at MIT by Nobel Laureate Salvador Luria. Only six people came. He gave his talk on Zen meditation anyway. One of the six became Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., who had his first encounter [.].

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Audience Execution Books 127

Tony Mayo

DECEMBER 2, 2013

'I am an artist…It’s self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, “I know all about it. I’ve already found it.” As far as I’m concerned, the word means, “I am looking. I […].

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Executive Coaching Execution 124

Tony Mayo

JULY 14, 2013

'A transformational leadership style, one that conveys a sense of trust, meaningfulness, and individually challenges employees, contributes to greater employee well-being* Leading by example, Contributing to a common goal, Intellectual stimulation, Positive feedback for good performance, Recognizing the needs of others, & Resolving conflict –Christine Jacobs, University of Cologne in the Journal of Occupational and [.].

Leadership Styles 124

Leadership Styles Execution Goal Examples 124

Tony Mayo

MAY 17, 2013

'Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. (‘What else could it be?’) I was amused to see that Sherrington, the [.].

Executive Coaching 124

Executive Coaching Technology Execution 124

Tony Mayo

DECEMBER 30, 2013

'When you judge peoples worth only by the results they produce you elevate people whose ends justify the means. We no longer elevate people of character but people of ruthless results. We are abdicating our right to evaluate character or methods. The exclusionary rule is a vestige of the character school of public […].

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Execution 121

Tony Mayo

AUGUST 9, 2013

'We literally see the world the way we want to see it. But the Dunning-Kruger effect suggests that there is a problem beyond that. Even if you are just the most honest, impartial person that you could be, you would still have a problem — namely, when your knowledge or expertise is […].

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Dunning Execution 118

Tony Mayo

AUGUST 1, 2013

'To be totally engaged with all my functions, all my faculties, all my capacities in life. To me that would be success. –Philosopher Jacob Needleman in Money And The Meaning Of Life Fast Company See also on this blog, Thoroughly Used Up When I Die Share it!

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Succession Execution Blog Company 118

Tony Mayo

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'Principle — particularly moral principle — can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. Edward R. Lyman.

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Morale Execution 116

Tony Mayo

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. – Albert Ellis.

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Tony Mayo

AUGUST 30, 2013

'I have written before about the health, mind, and business benefits of walking. I even went so far as to build a treadmill desk so I can walk while using my computer. To bolster your motivation toward movement read this overview of clinical and anecdotal evidence assembled by Arianna Huffington. The moment […].

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Stress Motivation Execution Management 116

Tony Mayo

DECEMBER 9, 2013

'by James Gleick To purchase through Amazon.com, click here. See other recommended books. Page references are to the soft cover edition [Items enclosed in brackets are paraphrases or commentary by Tony Mayo] Capsule Review p. 38 Shallow ideas can be assimilated; ideas that require people to reorganize […].

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Mayo Reference Review Books 113

Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 25, 2013

'HAMLET Let me question more in particular: what have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune, that she sends you to prison hither? GUILDENSTERN Prison, my lord! HAMLET Denmark’s a prison. ROSENCRANTZ Then is the world one. HAMLET A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark being […].

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Stress Execution 113