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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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Making and Breaking Habits:
How Easy Is It?
Many people believe it takes 21 days to master a new habit. Wishful thinking! Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. ~ Agatha Christie Self-help books and motivational gurus have promoted the 21-day myth for at least 50 years, with little research to validate the claim. In a 2009 European study, participants [...]
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Disruptive Innovation: In 5 Years, Will Your Business
Be Alive and Thrive?
When does an innovation become disruptive? I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what business is going to be like in five, ten years. Think about it, who could have imagined even five years ago how we’d be using social media sites and mobile devices in our day-to-day work? We’re all still trying to figure [...]
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Genius-Makers: How Smart Leaders Multiply Performance
Smart leaders know how to bring out the best in their people. They multiply performance, producing more with less. In the book Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (HarperBusiness, 2010), authors Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown interviewed and assessed more than 150 leaders on managerial practices. Their research sheds light on the important [...]
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Managing with Self-Deception: “You have a problem…”
Try telling a colleague or subordinate that he has a problem, and the depth of his self-deception will become clear. (Photo: FreeDigitalPhotos.net) Helping others see what they’re unwilling to recognize is a widespread leadership challenge. And it’s one of the prime reasons my clients engage me as an executive coach. It’s especially tricky when we [...]
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3 Reasons to Grow Talent You Have Into Leaders You Need
I received an email from Kyle Lagunas of Software Advice directing me to an excellent blog post he wrote about developing leaders from within a company. I’d like to share it with you here: Hello Chip, I recently read a compelling quote by Neil Nicoll, President and CEO of YMCA: “Until [we] become much more intentional [...]
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Executive Coach: A Personal Trainer for Your Career
The age of customization has brought us the personal trainer, personal shopper and personal computer. Now, we’re seeing a proliferation of personal development services available to help you reap more from your career: the executive coach. With an executive coach, you’ll develop your leadership muscles, and so much more. This trend doesn’t seem to be [...]
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Leadership Coaching: Set Clear Business Goals
Business and leadership coaching is well known for bringing bottom line success to both a business and a leader. But sometimes there’s confusion about what business goals should be set from the beginning. Part of the problem may occur during the leadership coaching contracting phase in defining business goals and outcomes for the coaching relationship. [...]
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True Grit Makes a Great Leader
Are you a boss with true grit? What does that mean? And how do you get it right? According to Wikipedia, Grit in psychology is a positive, non-cognitive trait, based on an individual’s passion for a particular long-term goal or endstate coupled with a powerful motivation to achieve their respective objective. This perseverance of effort [...]
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5 Goal Setting Strategies for Success
I’m following up on the great strategies Heidi Grant Halvorson writes about in her book Nine Things Successful People Do Differently. Most people don’t take goal setting seriously and never get beyond just thinking about them, rather than writing, planning and implementing. (Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net) Last week, I explained the first four strategies for effective goal [...]
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Change a Habit with These Six Steps