As a coach who often coaches leaders, I benefit from reading the best and most current and enlightened books and articles on leadership from people who have the real-life experience to back up what they are recommending. I have benefitted from my regular brainstorming sessions with Will Keiper (the Leader in our book The Leader […]

“Reliving past experiences through the lens of soporific sentimentalism, is a time-honored substitute for choosing to create the rest of your life.” ~Will Keiper Well, when I really got this—when I could really see it—I took it out and I field tested it and experimented with it and found out that it really did prove

“One does not ‘manage’ people. The task is to lead people. And the goal is to make productive the specific strengths and knowledge of each individual.” ~Peter Drucker Real power in leadership comes from partnering, not criticizing. The leaders who know how to coach, set themselves apart by retaining the power and efficacy of collaboration.

“Personalities don’t love. They want something.” ~ Byron Katie One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned from coaches is that my personality’s wild attempts at pleasing others and winning their approval was working against my happiness and success. In fact, I was losing the respect of others, the more I tried to please them. Not

Great coaches do work that is similar to a sculptor’s work. They see what’s possible in their client, and then they help the client carve the negative beliefs away. Soon the client is feeling a freedom they have never known. This happened for me many years ago when I turned my dreams (trapped inside my

My friend Steve Nicol is an accomplished and respected leadership coach who brought his massive experience as a leader in the corporate world into his current role as a coach. What I admire about Steve is that he didn’t rely on past corporate experience alone to carry him through as a coach (as many former

Nathaniel Branden was a hero of mine when I was younger and he was working alongside Ayn Rand in the “Objectivist” movement. She used him as her ideal for the famous character John Galt in her novel Atlas Shrugged. Later, after his split with Rand, he became a well-known psychotherapist in California and a best-selling

One of the dramatic elements in Will Keiper’s chapters in our upcoming book, THE LEADER and THE COACH, is how he embraces and illuminates the worldwide uncertainty leaders face today. Here are my thoughts on that from a coach’s perspective that I offered to Carolyn Freyer-Jones for her upcoming school: I like to remind myself

Will Keiper and I are in the final stages of completing a brand new book on leadership coaching. The title of our new book is The Leader & The Coach – The Art of Humanity in Leadership. It was a challenge and a thrill working with Will on this project because he took the voice