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Unconscious Paradigms Worth Examining: Conclusion first 100 days / career leadership: managing yourself

You see a big opportunity, a new level you aspire to play at.

They say what got you here won't get you there. 

Leaders I know who have made the leap describe it as requiring a new way of...

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Unconscious Paradigms #4: Meaning first 100 days / career leadership: managing yourself

This is the fourth article in a series about the inner paradigms that shape how we...see, navigate, make sense of, and carve success in the world. 

If it's true that "what got you here, won't...

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Unconscious Paradigms Worth Examining #3: The Web of Causation first 100 days / career leadership: managing yourself

This is the third article in a series about the inner paradigms that shape how we...see, navigate, make sense of, and carve our success...in the world. 

If it's true that "what got you here,...

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Three Paradigms Worth Holding Up to the Light first 100 days / career leadership: managing yourself

A popular coaching trope is "What got you here won't get you there." 

If true, it begs two questions.  Here is the first: what must I change? 

The famed coach Marshall Goldsmith...

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The Tiger and the Strawberry Revisited: The Rapture of Being Alive leadership: managing yourself

It seems hard to believe, but one of the best selling Zen books for all time, Zen Mind, Beginners Mind, was published over 50 years ago.  

There is a chapter on Excitement, where Suzuki...

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Emotional Roadwork leadership: managing yourself

Roadwork has long been a conditioning strategy used by boxers to fuel recovery and build an aerobic base onto which more interval and high intensity work could be layered.  Despite the...

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It's Still a Tiger leadership: managing yourself

Most are familiar with the tragic story of the devastating onstage attack by a tiger during a Siegfried & Roy show at the Mirage in Las Vegas.  The attack left Roy crippled for the rest...

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Presenting to an Egomaniac? Get Your Head Right First leadership: managing yourself

You are dreading an upcoming presentation to senior leaders, or the C-Staff, or the Board. You are dreading it because at least one person has a rep as a egomaniac. Sotto voce: you might...

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Authentic Leadership and the Nose-of-the-Camel leadership: managing yourself

One night long ago, a camel was freezing in the cold desert. He asked his master if he could just put his nose inside the tent for a bit of warmth. The master thought there would be no harm in that...

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"The Facilitator" is Not HR. It's Not Even a Single Person. It's a Role. culture leadership: managing yourself the "me" in meetings

Meetings are often more effective when there is a skilled facilitator present to keep things on track, holdup the mirror, create a safe space, etc.

Unfortunately, few meetings have one.

Many have a...

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Messages from...not Beyond, but Near...the Grave first 100 days / career leadership: managing yourself

I recently wrote about an experience with my 98-year old mother that touched me deeply.

I know how lucky I am to have had her for so long. She has been a teacher and a role model for me...

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How to *Be* a Coach: Lessons Learned from the Late Richard Levi leadership: managing yourself

Richard Levi had a powerful influence on me early in my coaching journey. He died recently and his passing is a loss to me and the entire coaching community he was a pillar of. These three stories...

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