All the nine-boxes, ratings, and numerical rankings in the business world won’t create a good succession plan.   Accompanying that rating or ranking there must a thoughtful discussion of each person in the pipeline and their learning capability. What should be discussed? How [...]

Why is getting work so hard?  Don’t get me started on politics, greed, old media moving too slowly, etc. – but keeping that aside there are four Large Systems Changes that have converged at the same time in Los Angeles: 1.  The [...]

You can’t. However, in a recent study done by the International Coach Federation, 99% of people who had been coached were “somewhat” or “very satisfied with the process.”  And a whopping 96% would repeat the coaching process. But to get to those [...]

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, has said that, “EVERYBODY needs a coach!” Why would a successful executive need a coach? A leader needs a coach for the same reasons that successful and aspiring athletes need coaches.  A good coach is [...]

I’m going to do this blog while it is fresh, so I can be honest with you. Today I got rejected from a consulting gig I was going to do for FREE. Honest. And the way I felt (feel) is really, really bad. I [...]