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Five Choices That Created an Amazing Five Years

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Today, I regularly give speeches and lead workshops on mindful leadership and self-management based on the content of that book. We’ve just certified and licensed 30 great coaches to lead workshops on using the Life GPS®, the self-management tool I unpack in Overworked and Overwhelmed , and are getting ready to train more coaches this summer.

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Three Life Lessons from Vin and Arnie

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When Lawrenson arrived at Oakmont the day before the tournament started he was surprised to find Palmer “in the professional’s workshop mending an old wooden club, repairing the binding that had come unglued. ‘I would rather be doing this, what I trained to do and what I do best.'” ’ he said.

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Lessons from the TSA on Communicating Change

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Don’t create information vacuums:   In the run up to the body scan and pat down changes,  the TSA declined to comment on what is different about the pat down procedure or how agents were trained to conduct them. Train and support your people to do the same.   If anything, it was faster. Most of us get that.

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Four Steps for Making Better Decisions

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specialist field is improving onjob employee performance without training courses. Posted by: Scott Eblin | January 17, 2011 at 05:02 PM G'Day Scott, I work with owners and managers in small-medium business.My Your post really struck a chord with me.

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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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The Power of Courtesy

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  From there, I caught a taxi to the train station, hopped on TrenItalia to Florence and was at my hotel maybe an hour later than originally planned.   Mainly domestic in the US, two or three round trip flights a month for business.    In an average year, I'll travel internationally once or twice. 

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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.    You can only connect them retrospectively. . 

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