Blog | Master Coaches | MasterCoaches.com - Part 3

Great Leaders Know Where They’re Going (and embrace their cluelessness)

Posted by David Brown
/ September 11, 2012 / Leave a comment

Leadership is messy. It’s full of uncertainty, pitfalls and vulnerability. But wait, that isn’t the story you heard? In prior posts I’ve shared guiding principles about leadership. Recent events however have prodded me to share the paradox of leadership, especially if you think leadership is about certainty and knowing what...
Leadership: Align Around These Four Principles & You’re Good To Go!

Posted by David Brown
/ July 17, 2012 / Leave a comment

Leadership Dilemma You’re a c-suite executive in a services firm. Change is in the air. Layoffs are coming. The possible sale of a division (hushhush except for a chosen few). And while the default future’s not bad, it’s also not good. The only sure thing is that the future involves...
Free World Class Content Without a Sales Pitch in Less Than 30 Minutes

Posted by David Brown
/ May 1, 2012 / Leave a comment

As a member of Conversations Among Masters (CAM), the premier coaching collaborative for master-level coaches, I have been asked to become an official partner of The World Business and Executive Coach Summit (WBECS). While this is not my typical blog post, there is value for anyone in the coaching profession...
Get Fired Or Fired Up: They’re Only One Conversation Apart!

Posted by David Brown
/ April 16, 2012 / Leave a comment

The client is a senior executive in a large organization where firing an employee is a long and distracting process making it not worth most people’s efforts.Typically those employees are tolerated or moved around if possible. Besides the loss of a productive opportunity, there’s another usually overlooked loss because it’s...
How to Make Your Business Work Like The US Navy SEALS!

Posted by David Brown
/ March 9, 2012 / Leave a comment

What do values have to do with performance? Consider this three year study by Harvard business professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. In examining 350 major corporations throughout the world she found that companies that embrace values have a unique competitive advantage. They act with more rapidity and creativity when true to...
A Life To Die For

Posted by David Brown
/ February 6, 2012 / Leave a comment

A few blog posts ago I wrote about purpose and how it influences what we do and what we create. I included writing an obituary as a way of declaring the purpose you want to live into before you die. A way of creating a designed life. I once...
If You Can’t Be Wrong You’ll Never Get It Right!

Posted by David Brown
/ January 23, 2012 / Leave a comment

I just read an article called the The Bright Side Of Wrong and it should not have surprised me that it was written by Kathryn Schultz, who I’m beginning to see has made the study of being wrong a focus of her work. This is the same Kathryn Schultz in...
How to Die On Purpose (You’ll be glad you did!)

Posted by David Brown
/ January 2, 2012 / Leave a comment

Can you tell when someone is “on purpose?” Does it really matter what they stand for? Think of an insincere apology. Most of us know when we are on the receiving end of one, regardless of what is actually said. Similarly when we do business, we can tell immediately if...
The Honor I Wish I Didn’t Have: A Gift For The Season, and Beyond

Posted by David Brown
/ December 14, 2011 / Leave a comment

As a child I studied the piano. In 11th grade, I practiced all year for the opportunity to participate in my school’s talent show, a highly anticipated event. On the day of the talent show, the phone rang. It was my piano teacher. She called to tell me that one...
We Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Values

Posted by David Brown
/ November 16, 2011 / Leave a comment

Bringing up the notion of values, and more importantly, core values, is always an interesting conversation with clients. I hear a whole range of comments from c-suite executives. What do values have to do with running a business? We did that already at an offsite and it was fun while...

Requests & Promises Article

Everything gets done in an organization through a series of requests and promises. These are the linguistic building blocks that are the foundation for all actions and results. If things are not getting done effectively in your organization, your people are likely not being impeccable about their commitments. Our article titled "Promise Management or Time Management?" will give you immediate tools and insights for addressing this common and vexing problem. Click to download.