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Chip Scholz
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Chip Scholz is Head Coach of Scholz and Associates, Inc. He is a nationally recognized executive coach, public speaker and author. He is a Certified Business Coach and works with CEO’s, business owners and sales professionals across North America.
Chip has written for a number of business and trade publications. 2009 saw the release of his first book project, “Masterminds Unleashed: Selling for Geniuses.” His second book, with co-authors Sue Nielsen and Tracy Lunquist, “Do Eagles Just Wing It?” was published in 2011. His next book "Clear Conduct" is due in 2013.Do Eagles Just Wing It?
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Masterminds Unleashed: Selling for Geniuses
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Category Archives: executive leadership
How to Avoid Leadership Decision Errors
What can smart leaders do to avoid making decisions errors that lead to business and career bloopers? You can start by reading Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath as well as Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Working with an executive coach can raise your level of awareness about your own thinking. For example, [...]
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Leadership Decisions:
How to Avoid Faulty Thinking
I’m curious about business decision processes and I’ve been thinking about how even smart leaders can make the wrong choices. For one thing, I’ve been reading Chip and Dan Heath’s new book Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (Random House Digital, Inc., 2013). The Heath brothers are professors who have several [...]
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How to Make Great Leadership Decisions
As a leader, your career depends on making the right decisions: From what you say, to what you do, to how you delegate and spend resources. The normal state of your mind is that you have intuitive feelings and opinions about almost everything that comes your way. ~ Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize laureate in economics [...]
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6 On-the-Job Brain Workouts for Leaders
I don’t think anyone would disagree: leaders who excel in their positions have brains that are highly efficient at handling complexities and stress. Beyond being born with high intelligence, however, great leaders recognize the need for continually strengthening their brains. In a November 2007 Harvard Business Review article, professors Roderick Gilkey and Clint Kilts describe [...]
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Leaders: Are You Getting Enough Brain Exercise?
As a busy executive, you barely have time to get enough physical exercise into your schedule. And now it’s just as important you keep your brain fit and strong if you want a competitive advantage as a high potential leader. The American Heart Association recommends 30 minutes of moderate physical exercise five days a week. [...]
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Leaders: How Fit Is Your Brain?
We’ve known for some time that leaders require higher levels of emotional intelligence as they pursue career advancement. There’s now accumulating evidence that cognitive fitness is becoming a focal area for high-achieving leaders. Until recently, busy executives could find few guidelines for increasing mental fitness on the job. There are thousands of books about leadership [...]
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Leadership Trust: Who’s Behind the Mask?
Even the most competent managers and leaders will suffer a trust deficit if they fail to communicate well with their people. Misguided communications are a big cause of lack of perceived trustworthiness in bosses. And in the work I do coaching people in organizations, it doesn’t take much to fuel the flames of mistrust. Business [...]
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Trust: Why Some Companies Outperform Others
You probably assume that because you’re trustworthy, the people who work for you trust you. But that may not be true, according to worker surveys. And it could be a cause of poor business results. A Watson Wyatt Worldwide study of 12,750 U.S. workers in all major industries found that companies with high trust levels [...]
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Is There a Leadership Trust Deficit in Your Workplace?
The leaders I work with are 99.9 percent trustworthy. At least in the relationships we have, there is no doubt in my mind they are good people genuinely interested in bringing out the best in themselves and those who work for them. They are leaders you can trust. And yet, if we were to survey [...]
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Mentoring Vs. Coaching: Is There a Difference?