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Why You Need an Executive Coach

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Bonnie Marcus : I earned my certification as an executive coach in 2006. At that time most people still assumed that coaching was done primarily in sports not business. Coaching for executives was a relatively unknown field and untapped resource. Bonnie Marcus , M.Ed.,

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How Leadership Team Coaching Benefits More Than Executives

N2Growth Blog

One Stanford study demonstrated that while about 75% of CEOs say they don’t receive any leadership advice, almost 100% of CEOs want this advice and welcome coaching. Much like the coach of a sports team, a leadership team coach will challenge executives to pursue their full potential.

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2023

Leading Blog

We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. He offers clear-headed lessons for the entire life cycle of an enterprise, from bootstrapping a startup to going public to managing large companies to selling a business. And the relevance of his message doesn't end in the boardroom.

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The 3 Biggest Problems with Accountability and What You Can Do to Fix Them

Leading Blog

Whether you’re talking about governments, companies, sports teams, or families, accountability is what ensures that things run smoothly and that progress continues. Make accountability a team sport. Marianne Pantalon is a licensed clinical psychologist and executive coach.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. I had coached many groups of mid-level managers who were on the verge of success, but never an individual who was already very successful and needed to make a change to be blasted into the stratosphere.

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How to Win with Pattern Recognition

Next Level Blog

As an executive coach and advisor to senior executives in a wide range of industries, pattern recognition is vital to my work as well. Keep Them in the Loop : Pattern recognition should be a team sport. The hook of a hit song by Matchbox Twenty year ago was the lyric, “Let’s see how far we’ve come.”

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Ask

Marshall Goldsmith

The reason we don’t want to give it is because our leaders and managers have power over us, our paychecks, advancement, and job security. Dr. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. The more successful a person is the more power they have.

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