-
New Yorker on Coaching
-
The Five Steps to “Coachability” – Forbes.com
-
Protected: Once Phrase Can Be > Than One Book
-
Take the LinkedIn poll
-
Smaller Businesses Seeking Loans Still Come Up Empty
By EMILY MALTBY, Small Business Writer - The Wall Street Journal online. Small businesses expected 2011 to be the moment a years-long credit freeze would finally begin to thaw. But borrowing has only gotten worse.Loans outstanding to small businesses totaled $609 billion at the end of March, an 8.6% drop from a year earlier, according to ... Read more »
-
Restore the RTC and Create New Jobs in USA
It's an axiom constantly repeated by politicians, the Federal Reserve, and the media: economic recovery hinges on job creation. Yet no one has come forward with a specific plan, so we are left with an official unemployment rate hovering at nine percent or higher. (Keep in mind that this already unacceptable figure further fails to account for the underemployed ... Read more »
-
Every Entrepreneur Needs These Relationship Skills
Starting and building a company is all about leadership – formulating an idea, building a unique plan based on vision and experience, and forging a path over and through all obstacles. Yet the image of leadership in business is at an all-time low, according to national leadership expertconsidering the political debacles, record business bankruptcies, and executive fraud cases. If the country is to recover financially and politically, new leaders will ... Read more »
-
The Business Sounding Board – 16 seconds
-
Intuit Co-Founder on How a Business Coach Can Improve Your Leadership Skills
If you’re the founder of your company, chances are not too many employees are keen to tell you when you are doing something wrong. For that, you need an objective outsider — such as a business coach. Or, if that doesn’t work for you, customers who are willing to speak freely about what they like and don’t like about your company. Scott Cook, the co-founder of Intuit (Quicken, QuickBooks, TurboTax), lists as ... Read more »
-
Turnaround Coaching – Oxymoron or Opportunity?
If you talk to a turnaround manager or consultant, the issue of business recovery is all about taking charge, immediate change, cash flow and leadership. The owners or stakeholders are often reduced to instruments the consultant uses and might later discard. To the command and conquer consultant the notion of coaching an owner or ... Read more »
