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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: decision-making
Leadership Decisions: Fast and Slow Thinking
If you haven’t read this great book on leadership decision making, I suggest you do: Nobel Prize laureate Daniel Kahneman writes in Thinking, Fast and Slow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011): My intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of [...]
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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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Creative Thinking and Leadership: Are You Too Analytical?
I’m curious. What do you think about at the end of the year? Are you thinking about what you accomplished in 2012? Or dreaming about what you could do differently in 2013? One type of thinking focuses on concrete facts and analytical thinking. The other type of thinking involves dreaming and creative thinking. You probably [...]
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Meetings: Can We Really Thin Slice Accurately in Two Seconds?
Forming first impressions accurately can be essential in business meetings, especially in sales. But making poor snap judgments because of unconscious biases can be disastrous. The idea of “thin slicing” — sizing someone or an event up in the first two seconds — became popular with the publication of Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink: The Power [...]
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Gender Bias and Snap Judgments about CEOs
Ever since reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink, I’ve become acutely aware of how quickly I make snap judgments about people. No matter how fair and unbiased I think I am, I notice myself forming opinions about people before actually talking to them. In fact, if you travel a lot, you may find yourself doing this [...]
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Leadership Behaviors: Decisions or Automatic Habits?
How much of what you do and say is based on carefully-thought out decisions? And how much of what you do and say is automatic, based on routines and habits? Take a guess: 80%-20%? 20%-80%? Your boss says one thing, you respond in your habitual way, he counters in his way, and you both end [...]
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Leadership Problems: Clear Thinking
Clear thinking leads to decisive action. Too many leaders, however, rush to judgment and act before really examining the problem from all perspectives. In today’s organizations, if you’re dealing with simple and easy solutions, then you’re missing something. Problems are multifaceted and complex. As I mentioned in a post last week, problems are both technical [...]
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Resilience: How to Manage Your Brain in Crises
As a busy executive, you manage people, yet the most challenging person to manage may be yourself. Stress and business crises happen all the time, and even more so to leaders. How can you manage your brain so that you develop resilience? I read a lot of business books, mostly on the people side of [...]
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How to Avoid Leadership Decision Errors