by Scott Anderson | Oct 16, 2015 | Coaching, Leadership
One of the biggest secrets of effective coaching is perhaps that there is no secret. There are techniques and insights but no magic bullet, no gold ring. You will ask more questions than you will get answers, and sneaking bluntly, that is the point. In a recent Fast...
by Scott Anderson | Oct 7, 2015 | Coaching, Playing Big
For forward-thinking organizations and their high-level leadership, coaching has been a crucial part of their toolbox for years now. It’s a way for them to foster their top talent in ways that directly benefit both the organization and the individual. It’s an...
by Scott Anderson | Sep 4, 2015 | Coaching, Playing Big
Thanks to the proliferation of success stories like those of Facebook, Uber, and others, the entrepreneur has attracted a cowboy-like mystique in contemporary American business culture. Programs like Shark Tank and figures like Richard Branson make it all seem so...
by Scott Anderson | Jul 17, 2015 | Coaching, Playing Big
Maybe you’ve only recently heard about this coaching thing. Many Fortune 500 companies have been hiring executive coaches to work with their leadership teams for decades. Today, we seem to have entered a cultural moment where self-actualization has become a higher...
by Scott Anderson | Jun 12, 2015 | Coaching, Playing Big
“I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.” – attributed to Thomas Jefferson and others There is a Latin proverb that a dear friend used to say to me when I was feeling lost or stuck. “If there’s no wind, row.”...
