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Use your body to make better choices

Tony Mayo

clench fist, contract calves, tense bicep] can help firm willpower and firmed willpower mediates people’s ability to withstand immediate pain, overcome tempting food, consume unpleasant medicines, and attend to immediately disturbing but essential information, provided doing so is seen as providing long term benefits.

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Rising to power in business

Tony Mayo

Nurture relationships across departments and levels; be able to call on the right person to get key information or smooth a transaction. Ask for help and mentoring; flatter your seniors; and make an good impression. Be a bridge or node. Practice loyalty. Persevere with difficult postings. Don’t change companies for short term advantage.

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Tony Mayo

Here are my recent tweets (messages): A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. — Joan Didion Meetings suck for information sharing. — Joan Didion Meetings suck for information sharing. Create a Twitter account and “follow&# TonyMayo. More on Gandhi here.

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Update on Executive Coaching Fees

Tony Mayo

Unfortunately, the report no longer contains information on the amount organizations are paying for executive coaching per hour or by engagement. The Conference Board has recently released its 2010 update and revision to that report. The most interesting tidbit is that most organizations are compensating executive coaches for travel time.

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Why work for nothing?

Tony Mayo

Exactly what information will satisfy a prospect who is looking for a reference? It frequently happens that the prospect simply does not want to do business with you and the information request is only an excuse to say, “No.” My experience is that it pays big dividends to slow things down by asking some clarifying questions.

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“Priceless” Executive Coaching Teleseminars

Tony Mayo

All of the topics covered on his blog, Top Executive Coaching , may appear on the workshop agenda, for example, difficult conversations, leadership, goal setting, habits, stress, and teamwork. Subscribe to the announcements email or Twitter feed to stay informed. Schedule Tony will be experimenting with a variety of dates and times.

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Create More Time by Tracking Your Goals

Tony Mayo

The mind is a wonderful sense-making device: it takes ambiguous or confusing information and simplifies it according to rules of thumb. The perception heightened their enjoyment of music and eased their annoyance at doing menial tasks. –Aaron M. Sackett Psychologist University of St.

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