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A Culture of Excellence

Ask the head of any major personal service firm – law, consulting, accounting, health care, investment management, etc. – about their...

Hiring and Firing New Leaders and Managers

Most CEOs and senior executives agree that one of their most challenging tasks is choosing the right people to take on leadership...

Should a nonprofit be run like a business?

Many leaders and participants in the nonprofit world believe that the introduction of businesslike practices have no place in an...

Leadership, Ethics, Rules and Culture

Whenever a major organizational scandal breaks - widespread fraud in a company or terrible behavior in a university, a prestigious...

Strategic Thinking

Ask almost any CEO in America to list their three biggest challenges, and the likelihood is high that near the top will be “devoting...

What's stopping you?

In my last post, I mentioned the role of a coach in helping a client establish and achieve more ambitious goals. I had a rather dramatic...

Who is coaching for?

From time to time in discussions with a CEO or board Chair who is considering whether coaching would benefit a senior officer, that...