Tag: personal-growth
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The Same Stories Show Up Everywhere
After nearly two decades of working with high-achieving people from all walks of life, I’ve learned that the same stories show up everywhere. The perfectionism that delays a project also slows progress on a passion. The fear of judgment that keeps someone quiet in meetings also keeps them from expressing their creativity. The inner voice…
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Is This Person Coachable Right Now?
“This person is amazing, BUT…” I call this the big “BUT.” It comes up so often in conversations with leaders that I could finish the sentence for them. The BUT is a list of behaviors they want changed in someone on their team. The ones I hear most often: micromanaging, talking over people in meetings,…
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The Conversation You’re Having With Yourself
I wrote Make Them Think to help people show up better in the conversations they have with others. What I didn’t anticipate was how many readers would tell me it changed the conversation they’re having with themselves. In her Amazon review, a reader named Erin wrote: “I picked up Make Them Think to become a…
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The Most Natural Question in the World (And Why it’s the Wrong One)
A reader named Layne, a CMO with 20+ years in startup tech, wrote something in her review that I keep coming back to: “I thought good coaching meant having better answers. This book showed me it means asking better questions.” That one sentence is the whole paradigm shift. Most of us were trained, implicitly or…
