I want to talk a little bit about burnout and coping with stress. I see this a lot in my coaching practice working with senior leaders. As a rule, they’re very successful, they’ve moved up the ladder in their organizations, running huge operations of hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in revenue a…
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In this video, I discuss two things you need to consider to lead change, over and above developing a strategy, which are what I call intelligence preparation of the battlespace and operational preparation of the battlespace. From a military perspective, intelligence preparation of the battlespace is gathering all the data on the problem that you’re…
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If you recall the movie 300, it immortalizes in film—in a very, very graphic way–the battle of Thermopylae when the Persian army led by Xerxes sailed across the Aegean Sea in order to invade Greece and conquer the Greek city-states. Well there was a force led by the Spartan general Leonidas and armies from various…
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I want to ask you a couple questions about success. First, what does success really mean for you? For some people it’s the money, it’s the big house, it’s the fame, it’s the power. What I submit is that all those things are transitory, and if that’s what drives you, then you need to re-evaluate…
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