Throughout history, the wealthy and powerful supported their children with private tutors.  Alexander the Great probably wouldn’t have been so great if his tutors weren’t Aristotle, Leonidas, and Lysimachus.

In 1984, education researcher Benjamin Bloom identified, “the two sigma problem”.  A student in the middle of a class (the 50th percentile) shoots to the top of the class, (the 98th percentile), when

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The previous 30 days, I attended a coaching bootcamp, volunteered at the Jobing.com career fair, ran a focus group on my own business, interviewed a few successful coaches, looked at six coaching surveys, and read Coaching Millions.  If you don’t mind, I would like to share a few thoughts with you about the Future of Coaching. 

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Q: How do you address the issue of "executive presence" when it is missing? Can it be taught?

Mark Herbert
New Paradigms LLC
 

A: Yes, anyone can learn.

As you know Mark, "Executive Presence" is acting and looking like an executive.  Teaching it is what I do for a living.  I happen to call it "Nonverbal Leadership", because many of my clients are not executives.  Many are consultants, sales professionals, and experts such as engineers, lawyers, etc.
 
(I chose to emphasize "nonverbal" because most communication is nonverbal

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Q: What are the shared values that the company or team have in an inspired IT environment? 

Similarly, what are the behaviors or conditions that threatened this environment?

NG
IT Strategy & Globalization Professional in the Auto Industry

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In Fortune Magazine, Steve Jobs said, "We don't get a chance to do that many things, and everyone should be really excellent. Life is brief and then you die... So it'd better be damn good."  How can we make our lives that damn good?                    Anonymous

A: Ever life can be a damn good one

Dear Anonymous

Steve’s quote is interesting because it reveals a model that I think Steve didn’t followed himself.  The model is, “Be excellent, so you can do great things in a short lifetime.”  Is that how Steve did it?  No.

Steve Jobs a driver who is also a visionary.  He has high standards and demands excellence from others.   He never settles for ordinary. 

That is not the same thing as being excellent.  Steve has never been about “being”; Steve’s life is all about “doing”, not about being excellent, but about making excellence.

I love the quote from Joe Sabah, “You don’t have to be good to start, but you have to...

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