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What You Can Learn About Self-Observation and Self-Improvement from Kevin Durant

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With Steph Curry and Kevin Durant leading the team and (my idol) Steve Kerr coaching, Golden State is so good that it’s been reported that other teams in the league are suffering from Warriors Derangement Syndrome. In the post-game press conference , he calmly talked about why he thought he was right and the refs were wrong.

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Beat the Churn with Context

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The answer was, “You told us to at the top executive conference.” Another way to spark churn in your organization (which both I and a number of my executive coaching clients have been guilty of) is to send your team members an email with a report or article attached with a cryptic cover note like, “Please take a look at this.”

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Three Life Lessons from Vin and Arnie

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As reported in The Washington Post this morning, Scully explained at a pre-game press conference that “You don’t go through life thinking, ‘Wow, I’m really good.'” In the press conference before his last game, someone asked Vin how he made his audience members feel like friends.

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Remembering What’s at Stake

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I had just finished a day of delivering workshops for a client company management conference and was in my room getting ready to end the day with an hour or two on the beach. CNN was on the television and the first uncertain reports were coming in about something going on in Paris. I was in Cancun on a business trip.

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How to Tame This Attention Span Killing Device

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Leave it behind – In a 360 degree feedback survey I conducted for an executive client a few years ago, his direct reports left a lot of comments about how they felt unimportant because he was always distracted by something on his smartphone. His solution was to start conducting his meetings with them in their offices or in a conference room.

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Found in Translation

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.  Most of the early analysis and reporting suggests that, all things considered, the meetings between the Chinese and the Americans were worthwhile. Here’s a quick one that dawned on me as I was listening on my car radio to the joint press conference between President Obama and President Hu.

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How to Apologize When Your Candid Comments Show Up on WikiLeaks.

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As reported in the New York Times and other major publications, the State Department memos contain some rather embarrassing details of how diplomacy gets done and some very candid assessments of individual world leaders.  As this week’s WikiLeaks release of more than 250,000 U.S.

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