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Did you publicly criticize climate 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg for “surrendering to catastrophism”?  Really? I am so astounded by your comment, which I read moments ago in Forbes Magazine that I simply had to write to you and make sure that there was no error involved. Surely, as Europe’s wealthiest adult, you have better things…

Ask your team to identify their biggest productivity killer and inevitably two issues will rise to the top of the list: managing their inboxes and their useless meeting schedules. I'll tackle the former in a future post. For now, I'd like to focus on increasing the value of effective meetings by sharing a practice our…

Is Personal Coaching Exclusively for People with Problems? A potential client wrote me an email the other day. He explained that he had decided that he didn’t need personal coaching nor professional coaching. He said his business was going fine and he didn’t have any emotional issues to work out. His reasoning raised one of…

One common complaint among leaders is that they feel bogged down by verbal details from direct reports.  For this reason, I have created a list of five tips for having a great work relationship and to provide direct reports with just the right amount of information to your boss. (Bosses, I suggest that you offer…

A super-smart criminal lawyer and potential client emailed me the other day. He reasoned that he had decided not to pursue personal coaching because his business was going fine and he didn’t have any emotional issues to work out.  My eyebrows arched. He got me thinking: What do people think coaching is? He is probably…

I stumbled upon Thomas Oppong’s article, Why Eliminating Behaviors That Make You Miserable Can Make You Happier, which references a book by Randy J. Paterson, Ph.D., How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use.  I thought it could be helpful to create an exercise to enable others to practice the valuable advice  on how…