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Everybody needs a mentor and I wish I had had one when I needed one. From time to time in any life we come to a crossroad, a situation in which we have to make a decision, make a choice. Those are the times when you need an advisor, someone

In his book, The Dynamics of Management: Mastering the Art of Influencing Others, Doug Jordan argues that successful executives must master the dual requirements of leadership: To have an inspiring vision of where he would like his organization (whether company, division, or team) to go; but also the interpersonal effectiveness

You may have found my previous blog on this theme a bit jaded; but for many of you I’m sure it came close to the mark. The fact is, many organizations simply do not execute well on this strategic imperative, even when they claim that it’s important to them. Sounds

In my years of coaching and consulting it no longer surprises me when a client tells me, ‘our company doesn’t do a good job of identifying/selecting/developing/ promoting managers’. Self-servingly I could offer that companies should hire more management effectiveness coaches but that isn’t the whole story. Despite decades of books

In our previous blog (The Paradox of E-mail Communications) we argued that e-mail was not a very effective medium of communications because, as Marshal McLuhan explained, despite its advantages of speed and asynchronosity, it lacks ‘media richness’, i.e., human contact. In these circumstances, it is argued, the intended recipients can

E-mail offered the hope of instant communications. It also offered the advantage of asynchronous communications – the sender and receiver don’t have to be directly connected in real time for communications to occur. (Of course the tyranny of e-mail is the presumption or expectation that we must answer at 3:00