Thomas Leonard wasn’t necessarily wrong – just inexperienced outside of his niche.
In Krishna De’s blog at http://www.krishnade.com/blog/wp-trackback.php?p=231 she mentioned a quotation that I attributed to Thomas Leonard and, I should add, the coaches I trained with at CoachU in the 90′s. Leonard commented that: “The coach doesn’t do the work – the client does the work.†I wonder how many coaches would recognise that in fact [...]
Sometimes you just have to take action
I’ve called an extraordinary management meeting today – pulled Team CB off the road and we are all going to meet at Bonnie’s house. Why? Because I monitor my cash flow like a hawk, using an Excel spreadsheet that we call the “MOAS” (mother of all spreadsheets). The MOAS is created during my annual retreat [...]
Hiring a blogging coach
I’ve taken a plunge. After a search on Google I found Mark White at http://www.betterbusinessblogging.com/. After starting to read his free e-course on business blogging I called him in a technical emergency last week and found his style to be “right up my street” as well as in the same time zone and in relaxed [...]
Business planning and goals
I’m about to start my third week of working mainly from a desk (although that desk has been alternately a home office and a garden table during our recent glorious weather). This is in stark contrast to months of “road warrior” lifestyle in the first half of the year. It has been a chance to [...]
Everything is sales-driven
In the 1980′s I was a financial planner and fortunate to work for what was then Hambro Life Assurance (now Allied Dunbar). Then, it was an owner-managed business and Sir Mark Weinberg was the inspirational leader who drove a talented management team to build a young, upstart, unit-linked life assurance company that “broke all the [...]
Listening for the clues in your niche
I reflect upon a conversation with a prospective new client last Monday. He is an orthodontist who first heard me speak at the annual conference of the British Ortho Society (BOS) last year. This encouraged him to subscribe to the ezine, which he has read since then. Initially he called our offices about 2 months [...]
Superachievers, management meetings and humour
Read a great blog article this morning on the top 10 characteristics of superachievers – bearing in mind the amount of discussion I have facilitated on “leadership” these last few weeks, this was a good summary. http://careerintensity.com/blog/2006/07/11/superachievers%e2%80%99-top-ten/ Yesterday was my monthly meeting with Team CB to dicuss “the broad concept” of The Dental Business School: [...]
Friday as a free day
You’ll notice over to the right and under “Websites” Kim Black has added a link to the archive of my ezines – so if you haven’t read enough of my scribbles, you can immerse yourself in the last 12 months of business and personal reflections by looking there! One of my objectives for many years [...]
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