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The Champion's Mistakes

Jun 17, 2010

This week the U.S. Open golf championship is being played out on a beautiful, windswept golf course in California. In looking over the names of the players, and considering which one would hold the champion’s trophy on Sunday, I was reminded of a...

Tagged: champions, expertise, experts, responsibility, management, leadership, productivity, management skills, leadership skills, leadership development, expertise development

On following one's heart

May 21, 2010

As this is the season of graduations, I enjoy perusing the commencement speeches in search of penetrating insights and perils of wisdom on how to make one’s way in the world. This year as I Googled commencement speeches, one popped up that I had ...

Tagged: intuition, expert, expertise, management skills, leadership skills, process improvement, productivity

Strongest Dawg

May 13, 2010

His nickname is “Fierce Pearce.” The name comes not from a hostile personality, but rather from the intensity he gives to his efforts. Bud Pearce is a competitive weight lifter. Physically, he is not an imposing character. But I’ve never met a...

Tagged: champion, expert performance, winner, leadership, productivity, management skills, leadership skills, leadership development, expertise development

Losing luggage and taking control

Mar 9, 2010

Rubina Rob arrived in Montgenevre, France this week. Her luggage didn’t. She had come for a continuing education program being conducted by Mountivation for British attorneys. The program blends in-class presentations on developing professional...

Tagged: taking control, decision making, management skills, leadership skills, process improvement, performance management, leadership development, expert executives

Pre-performance routines

Feb 24, 2010

Steve Atherton, PGA Master Professional and GolfTEC instructor called this afternoon to invite me to speak at an upcoming event in Denver, Colorado. With business dispatched, we began talking about teaching and coaching golf, and the topic of pre...

Tagged: preperformance routine, routines, expert routines, developing expertise, practice, motivation, management, management training, leadership skills, performance management, leadership development