Start Your Week – 01/13/20
START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “Are you suffering from leadership heart disease?” Leadership is first a heart issue before it's a skill issue. You can't lead with integrity and effectiveness if you are morally bankrupt and emotionally immature, regardless of how smart...
Start Your Week – 01/06/20
START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “Great leaders don’t need a chicken.” In 1958 Mobil Travel Service, now Forbes Travel Service, launched its star rating system to rank hotels and restaurants in their quality of service, especially honesty and integrity. Millions of...
Start Your Week – 12/30/19
START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “You can’t measure busyness, only productivity.” “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” Thomas Sowell Great leaders constantly monitor their core values, core strengths, and...
Start Your Week – 12/23/19
START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH "Great leaders create victories while poor leaders are waiting for better opportunities.” John Wooden, the greatest college basketball coach of all time said, "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn...
Start Your Week – 12/16/19
START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “Compassion and kindness, two marks of all great leaders” Someone once said, “Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for service, your mind for truth and your heart for love.” Growing up in the 50s and 60s I...
Start Your Week – 12/09/19
START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH ”What’s the difference between a selfless leader and a selfish leader?” "If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet. How important you can be to the people you may never dream of. There is something of...
A Message From the Coach – 12/04/19
WHY?? “China’s schoolchildren are now the smartest in the world, outperforming their American and Canadian peers in an international assessment on reading, math and science. The U.S. ranked eighth in reading, 30th in math and 11th in science, per The Wall Street...
Start Your Week – 12/02/19
START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “How is your balance today?” Balance people and tasks in your leadership role. Tasks, deadlines, clocks, calendars, projects and events all create a demand. If you don't prioritize and handle those demands well they will keep you from...
A Message From the Coach – 11/27/19
“The two greatest reasons for Thanks-giving.” Ernest Hemingway told a beautiful story about a father and teenage son living in Spain. Their relationship turned sour and the son ran away from home. After a few years had passed the father began the long, but...
Start Your Week – 11/25/19
START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “Who wants to follow a leader who settles for second best?” At Disney leadership is not defined by your title or position, it's defined by your actions. Every leader proactively works to align their personal values with the Disney...