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Five Ways for Leaders to Get Out of Chronic Fight or Flight

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Pretty much every senior leader I work with has a plate that is overflowing with big issues – return to office initiatives, higher performance goals, huge investments, achieving operational excellence, you name it. In this short video , I draw on my training as a registered yoga teacher to teach you how to do that.

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How Do You Combine Patience and Urgency?

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Patience Prepares the Ground for Urgency : To act with urgency on the right things in the right ways first requires the patience to step back and determine what’s going on, what you’re trying to do and how you need to proceed to accomplish that goal. It’s the patience to step back and assess followed by the urgency to act.

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Eight Ways to Stay Sane During Holiday Travel

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As Ward Maillard said to me when I interviewed him for Overworked and Overwhelmed , “If you want to be stressed in your life, if that’s your goal, be attached to the outcome.” If you were watching John Candy and Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles , you’d probably be laughing your butt off.

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Four Steps for Making Better Decisions

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  What impact do these facts have on our goal?   What other options do we have for reaching our goal? specialist field is improving onjob employee performance without training courses. What might we be missing here?  What criteria should we use for making a decision? What are the pros and cons of the decision?

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Driving School for Leaders

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Brad is the second driver my wife and I have trained after teaching his older brother a few years ago. Anyway, Brad and I were practicing in the empty parking lots of a large government office center  It’s a great place for driver training because the lots are connected by marked two lane roads with stop signs at intersections.

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Ten Years On: Semi-random Reflections from a Decade of Coaching

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.  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.    As the PATH train emerged from underneath the Hudson, I realized that we were coming up through the foundation of what used to be the World Trade Center.    My first view of Ground Zero was from within it. 

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Seven Simple Rules to Create a Fear Based - Next Level Blog

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be sure to do it before anyone actually completely understand their new rle, however, or they'll start to think you're doing some useful cross-training. The latter requires effort ;) Posted by: Anon | August 05, 2010 at 11:11 AM Publicly humiliate those who are struggling to meet their goals, but don't recognize top achievers.

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