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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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Tag Archives: change
What… or Who…Would You Change in 2012?
I asked this question over on LinkedIn, “In your work, what’s one big thing you’d like to change in 2012?” I was expecting people to respond with their goals and plans for the coming year. I was a little shocked … most of the responses were from people who wanted to change their clients, their [...]
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New Year’s Resolutions: A Hard Look at
Competing Commitments
One of my favorite books over the Holidays was Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey. Last week I mentioned it in regards to New Year’s Resolutions. The authors make a very clear case for a hard look at [...]
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Leadership Challenge: Immunity to Change
If you find change hard, you may yet underestimate how powerfully strong is the pull toward non-change. As good as our intentions are, we don’t realize how strongly we hold onto competing commitments that prevent us from making real and lasting change. It’s as if we have an immunity to change.
Some of my coaching clients [...]
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The Backside of Leadership…
I asked a question about leadership competencies the other day and got a thoughtful response from a reader, worthy of sharing with you here in a new post. I’d like to stimulate your thinking on this topic — leadership competencies and values — and perhaps hear from you as well in the comments section.
In a [...]
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Management Innovation, Gen Y Style
What innovations to management would Gen Y’s make if they were in charge? I ran across an interesting HBR blog entry, Letting Gen Y Lead a Management Makeover by Vineet Nayar, about a business school contest where students are given a chance to reinvent management and organizations of the future. Some of the submitted ideas [...]
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Is Corporate Culture More Important than Strategy?
Anytime there’s a recession and subsequent recovery, the top executive minds huddle together to rethink strategy.
Strategic planning is the formal consideration of an organization’s future course. All strategic planning deals with at least one of three key questions:
“What do we do?”
“For whom do we do it?”
“How do we excel?”
I’ve been listening [...]
Posted in executive leadership, leadership, outcomes, strategy Also tagged business decisions, corporate culture, leadership challenges, organizational change, positioning, purpose, values 1 Comment
Change for the New Year: Call a Coach
One of the things we can look at changing and improving for the New Year is ourselves and our ability to manage ourselves well.
Smart people with career ambitions know they can’t do it alone. (Mainly because we are self-deceptive, but also because coaching works when you need to make personal changes.)
Many of the people I [...]
Productivity: A Day of Observance and Questions…
What if you were to pay close attention as you go through your day to the processes and systems you use? I’ll bet with a raised level of awareness, you could easily identify three things that could help you be more productive.
Maybe you could immediately think of more than three things, but just for the [...]
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Your Career Decisions: What’s It All About, Really?
“All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”—James Thurber
Your career depends upon having clarity of purpose to make the right career decisions.
Just about everyone I know reaches a point where they stop and ask themselves a bunch of “Big WHY’s”…
Why am I doing this?
Why am [...]
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5 Personal Leadership Questions to Ask Yourself