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Coaching vs. Advice

Tony Mayo

Advice is telling someone to take an action consistent with the advice-giver’s worldview, paradigm, opinions, interpretation, assessment, standards, etc. . Advice is telling someone to take an action consistent with the advice-giver’s worldview, paradigm, opinions, interpretation, assessment, standards, etc.

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Coronavirus is coming to us. Is your business ready?

Tony Mayo

You’ve no doubt heard the advice about handwashing and avoiding crowds in confined spaces: concerts, aircraft, conferences. Tony Mayo Executive Coach. A pandemic in the US now seems inevitable. ” Here’s one you may not […].

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Simple Science of Healthy Eating

Tony Mayo

The gist: dont be distracted by the latest popular diet or the tendency of publicized studies to contradict details of previous advice. Click here for an up-to-date review of what science knows about healthful diet, written by two public health experts at Yale. The basics have been established and understood for a long […].

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Peace and Acceptance

Tony Mayo

To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another’s way of life – [.]. Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance.

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Poor Morals or Poorly Managed?

Tony Mayo

Here is more support for my advice, this time from a rigorous study of new restaurant software. 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. Instead of using the software mainly […].

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“Time may change me; But I can’t trace time …”

Tony Mayo

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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Confront & Converse: Every Manager’s Responsibility

Tony Mayo

While coaching many top executives I have noticed that managers seeking “advice” are often just avoiding a confronting conversation. I remind them of some wisdom embedded in the development of our language. Con is Latin for “with.” Con-front is to face something together, to move forward in unison.

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