Tony Mayo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

'I am happy to make available at no charge and for a limited time the bonus chapter to my Amazon #1 best selling book, The Courage to be in Community. It is a simple, practical guide to building better relationships at work and at home. The focus of the book was the importance […].

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Tony Mayo

AUGUST 9, 2014

'Click here for an up-to-date review of what science knows about healthful diet, written by two public health experts at Yale. The gist: dont be distracted by the latest popular diet or the tendency of publicized studies to contradict details of previous advice. The basics have been established and understood for a long […].

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Advice Review Goal Execution 138

Tony Mayo

MARCH 6, 2014

'This summary note, based on recent conversations with coaching clients, is useful for any business owner who has grown beyond finding and fixing and is ready for the next stage of development. Strategic Leadership Developing people is your primary work product. Empowering others by holding a space that calls forth excellent performance Being […].

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Tony Mayo

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

'Reagan had been doing it for years. He understood an important distinction that [President] Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren’t always the same thing. –Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reaganat the Dawn of a New America by Jonathan Darman via Delancy Place lyndon johnson and ronald reagan — […].

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Leadership Development Execution Development Leadership 135

Tony Mayo

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

'The business ability of the man at the head of any business concern, big or little, is usually the factor which fixes the gulf between striking success and hopeless failure. –Theodore RooseveltAnnual Message to CongressDecember 31, 1901.

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Leadership Execution Succession 135

Tony Mayo

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

'Eric Tonningsen interviewed Tony for his radio program, “Awakening to Awareness: Realigning with What Really Matters” Click here to listen to Tony Mayo talk with Eric about “The Courage to Be in Community” Eric wrote: Tony’s recently published book, “The Courage to Be in Community” served as the underlying focus for […].

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Mayo Execution Books 135

Tony Mayo

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

'Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, canceled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change. D. H. Lawrence Phoenix quoted in Holotropic Mind.

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Execution 135

Tony Mayo

MARCH 27, 2014

'The tempo of modern civilization has a centrifugal force that carries us outward from the core of life toward ever expanding peripheries. One should return frequently to the core, and to the basic values of the individual, to natural surroundings, to simplicity and contemplation. Long ago, I resolved to so arrange my life that […].

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Review Books Execution 132

Tony Mayo

MARCH 15, 2014

'Your efforts to lead, manage, and sell often fail because of people’s fears. The fear may be disguised as resistance, indecision, lack of creativity, poor communication or reluctance to take responsibility. You can work on the symptoms forever, but the big rewards come from dealing with the fundamental fears we all share. We […].

Executive Coaching 132

Executive Coaching Career Company Resistance 132

Tony Mayo

JANUARY 29, 2014

'This was a guy in one of their [Men''s Wearhouse] stores in the Northwest who was an exceptional salesperson. But the company’s managers believe in the concept of team selling — they believe in this idea of human development that you always succeed when your colleagues around you succeed, and that you ought to […].

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Execution Skills Team Management 132

Tony Mayo

JANUARY 27, 2014

'Boys learn about hierarchy from day one. They understand that that the guy with the most power wins. Girls are taught to be nice. Nice people don’t negotiate, they learn to give in. Betty Carter, Ph.D. in Psychology Today Nov/Dec 97 p. 84.

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Execution Strategy Power 132

Tony Mayo

JANUARY 20, 2014

'It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. … What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarcely be folly in that of a great kingdom. […].

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Cost Execution 132

Tony Mayo

JANUARY 15, 2014

'Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing. –Helen Keller.

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Execution 130

Tony Mayo

MARCH 11, 2014

'Scientific evidence and personal experience tell us that sincere, engaging personal relationships are essential for health and happiness. Yet, little is said about how we might actively nurture such relationships for ourselves and for people near us at home and work. I recently delivered a non-sectarian, non-doctrinal “sermon” to one of my […].

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Teamwork Leadership Development Skills Execution 129

Tony Mayo

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

'From 1840: In the United States a man builds a house to spend his latter years in it, and he sells it before the roof is on: he plants a garden, and lets it just as the trees are coming into bearing: he brings a field into tillage, and leaves other men to […].

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Tony Mayo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

'You have very few hours in the day when you’re at peak performance, so every minute of these hours that isn’t spent doing something important is just waste. –Dan ArielyThe Washington Post.

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Management Execution 127

Tony Mayo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

'These leadership insights from MCI founder Bill McGowan should sound familiar to my executive coaching clients and to readers of this blog. INC.: You’ve taken a company from nothing and, in the span of 18 years, created a new industry and built a company doing almost $3 billion worth of business. How […].

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Company Executive Coaching Execution Industry 127

Tony Mayo

AUGUST 26, 2014

'Failing entrepreneur: “My problem is money.” Entrepreneurship Coach: “No, your problem is trying to do everything yourself. Finding people is your job.” … One of Sirolli’s current goals is to work with business schools to shift the nature of entrepreneurial education. “Most schools teach entrepreneurs that they must have all the skills—product, marketing, […].

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Entrepreneur Education Leadership Development Execution 127

Tony Mayo

MARCH 28, 2014

'Some of the most concise and useful personal productivity advice I have seen comes not from David Bowie, but from Peter Drucker. I have often rejected time management with the observation that time seems immune to my attempts at controlling or directing it; time just goes. Personal management is work, but it works. […].

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Drucker Advice Execution Productivity 127

Tony Mayo

MARCH 16, 2014

'It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is the system of reality in what they assume themselves to be. One […].

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Executive Coaching Leadership Development Execution Skills 127

Tony Mayo

MAY 27, 2014

'Here is a top-level endorsement of a principal I have often voiced, most specifically in this popular post, Truth or Consequences? Beyond the Punishment Model. “By the standards of the rest of the world, we overtrust. So far it has worked very well for us. Some would see it as weakness.” … Mr. […].

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Strategy Execution 124

Tony Mayo

MARCH 19, 2014

'You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. –Mortimer Adler See free, easy Meditation Instructions on this blog.

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Tony Mayo

JANUARY 17, 2014

'If we could get to know all the consequences of our actions history would be nothing but an idyllic and constant harmony of free wills, or the infallible unfolding of a rational design. We would then always act rationally, that is, we would not act at all, since we would simply follow a pre-established […].

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Execution 124

Tony Mayo

JUNE 12, 2014

'AT&T’s Bell Labs can be credited with inventing the 20th Century, having created the transistor, solar cell, trans-continental and trans-Atlantic telephone cables, and communication satellites, not to mention digital audio and information theory. How they did it is the story of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation […].

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Creativity Innovation Execution Books 121

Tony Mayo

MARCH 25, 2014

'…but being hypomanic seems to help, according to John D. Gartner, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and author of The Hypomanic Edge In his article for The American Enterprise Institute, America’s Manic Entrepreneurs Dr. Gartner writes, “Successful entrepreneurs are … are highly creative people who quickly generate a tremendous number of ideas—some clever, others […].

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Entrepreneur Creativity Execution Article 121

Tony Mayo

JANUARY 23, 2014

'I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. Leo C. Rosten Author of The Joys of Yiddish.

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Execution 121

Tony Mayo

JANUARY 6, 2014

'There is great power in a resolution that has no reservations in it — a strong, persistent, tenacious purpose — which burns all bridges behind it and which clears all obstacles from its path and arrives at its goal, no matter how long it may take, no matter what the sacrifice or the […].

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Goal Execution Power How To 121

Tony Mayo

JANUARY 7, 2014

'We never know how high we are, Till we are called to rise. And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies. –Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 American Lyric Poet.

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Execution Planning 118

Tony Mayo

JANUARY 12, 2014

'Everyone’s favorite radio station is WII-FM What’s In It - For Me Broadcast on their frequency and they’ll tune in.

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Teamwork Leadership Development Execution Skills 141

Tony Mayo

JANUARY 13, 2014

'Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. –Charles Caleb Colton.

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Morale Execution 116

Tony Mayo

JUNE 18, 2014

'It is likely that depression, anxiety, and anger come from heritable personality traits that can only be ameliorated, not wholly eliminated. This means that, as a born pessimist, even though I know and use every therapeutic trick in the book about arguing against my automatic catastrophic thoughts, I still hear the voices frequently […].

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Executive Coaching Execution Books 113

Tony Mayo

MARCH 15, 2014

'Your efforts to lead, manage, and sell often fail because of people’s fears. The fear may be disguised as resistance, indecision, lack of creativity, poor communication or reluctance to take responsibility. You can work on the symptoms forever, but the big rewards come from dealing with the fundamental fears we all share. We […].

Executive Coaching 113

Executive Coaching Career Company Resistance 113

Tony Mayo

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Enjoy the videos online of Arthur Ganson‘s compelling kinetic sculptures. In our era of concealed, abstractly-comprehended, and practical technology we can still admire the overt and elegant application of simple gears and levers to accomplishing tasks with no end purpose, only a grace in the doing. .

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Tips Technology Video Execution 113

Tony Mayo

MARCH 20, 2014

'Dr. Peter Suedfeld, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia and an expert in human cognition. …told us that creativity is a “very mysterious thing” that “exists in pretty much everyone” — but that there are indeed ways to improve it. One method he has studied extensively is what he calls the […].

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Creativity Execution Management 107

Tony Mayo

MARCH 28, 2014

'Download Tony’s short book on building community from Amazon by clicking here. Audio version read by Tony Mayo also available on Audible and iTunes.

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Tony Mayo

APRIL 5, 2014

'Download Tony’s short book on building community. Click here to see a sample on Amazon. ? Paperback and & hard cover available on Amazon & Barnes and Noble! Audio version read by Tony Mayo also available. To hear a sample click here for Audible or iTunes. […].

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Tony Mayo

MARCH 24, 2014

'I have often remarked on this myself; now I learn it has an “official” name. Why Speculate? A talk by Michael Crichton International Leadership Forum La Jolla April 26, 2002 …the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In […].

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