Why we'd rather talk than listen

Years ago I was hiking with two close friends and when we finally got back to our cars I said to my friends, "Did you notice that the first half of our walk took much longer than our return to the parking lot?" One of my friends with a wry sense of humor looked at me and smiled, "That's because you didn't stop talking on the way back!"

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Are you a blessing?

I have often suggested my executive coaching clients might do well to think of themselves as role models to others. I say this because they ARE role models, regardless of whether they see themselves in that light. When they are confronted with a challenge, I ask them, "what would YOUR role model do?"...referring to that person they most admire and who helped instill their values. When they answer me, I generally say, "Why not do that?”.

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How to Leverage Your Accomplishments - The DNA of Success

The problem for many people in their career is that they can sometimes come up with a dream job, have the correct mindset and skill set for it and then go to the right person hiring for that position, but then be told, “No.”

How come? What’s missing?

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Syria, Iran, Israel, Russia, America, etc. - Who's the "hammer?" Who's the "nail?"

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind - Mahatma Gandhi

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Is Deming passe or was he ahead of his time?

Some of you who are familiar with W. Edwards Deming, the American Statistician, may think of him as the "Father of Total Quality Management (TQM)". While it's true....he taught "systems thinking" to Japanese automakers, I think Deming was really about heartfelt leadership.

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How Do You Grab People's Attention?

In an attention challenged world, if you don't grab people's attention quickly, they'll tune out

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Grokking Steve Jobs - Build an "Insanely Great" Business

Their gap is your command

Last year like one of the multitude of enthusiastic readers of Walter Isaacson’s terrific book, I’ve been trying to grok Steve Jobs’ way of looking at the world so that my clients and I can benefit from it.

This is a work in progress but this is what I think Jobs recognized:

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How to Deal With Distractions – Concentration Interruptus and “Pseudo ADD”

When your thinking is interrupted by your brain,
you’ve got real ADD;
When it’s interrupted by the world,
you just have trouble saying, “No.”

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