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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: executive decisions
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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Executive Resilience: How Do You Handle Loss?
How do you react to failure? Ask any smart person working in a managerial position and you’ll get some interesting answers. Of course, it depends on the size of the failure, and how much error is your direct responsibility. But let’s talk about executive resilience and what it takes to sustain a long term successful [...]
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Fallible Leaders: 11 Derailing Behaviors
We live in a celebrity culture where leaders, especially CEOs, are expected to be perfect examples of heroes. They are held up as icons. We don’t like to admit they have flaws, or that the traits that make them special can also lead to poor executive decisions and failure. It’s probably human nature to want [...]
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Why Smart Executives Act Stupidly
What are some of the causes of CEO failures that we see today? In reading Robert J. Sternberg’s Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid, I’m reminded of several spectacular failures that really leave you scratching your head and asking “how can that happen?” And I think that paying attention to these foolish behaviors at [...]
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Wise Business Leaders: Who’s On Your List?
In my discussions with friends and colleagues about executive wisdom, I’ve come to realize how idiosyncratic our views of wisdom are. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then wisdom is even more so. Ask any of your people who their top five wise leaders are, you’ll likely get a wide variety of [...]
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Leadership Power: 3 Ways Power Changes People
How much does power go to your head? Really? Then you’re the exception if you’re magnanimous and generous of spirit. According to numerous studies, people put into power positions are prone to a couple of behavior changes: Power makes most people become more focused on their own needs and wants Power changes people to become [...]
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Leaders and Alpha Male Behaviors…
Being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in a jungle environment. The others in the troupe watch the alpha male closely. Studies of baboon troupes, for example show that a typical member glances at the alpha male every 20-30 seconds. But the leader doesn’t return their interest. The same is true in [...]
How to Avoid Leadership Decision Errors