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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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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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10 Ways to Self-Sabotage Your Success
In my previous post, I mentioned that self-sabotage was one of the main ways executives lose personal power and influence. And yet, many don’t see themselves doing it because it can be so extremely subtle. We’re very poor at making self-examinations. There are many ways we unintentionally lose power and confidence and stay stuck in [...]
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Leadership Self-Deception: The Lake Wobegon Effect
As a leader, how do you know when you’re engaging in self-deception and have an inflated sense of self-worth? And what are the consequences for leading others? (Image: rajcreationzs-freedigitalphotos.net) In Garrison Keillor’s fictional community of Lake Wobegon, “The women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” As it turns [...]
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The Pervasive Nature of Leadership Self-Deception
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with the power to learn from past mistakes. ~ George Orwell As much as we’d like to believe that we’re rational human beings, we can all too easily mislead ourselves. Self-deception is a process that encourages us to justify our false and [...]
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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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The Expectation Gap: Set Yourself Up for Success
Recently I’ve come to realize how much disappointment is caused by our own faulty expectations. Without setting realistic expectations for ourselves and our people, we miss out on success. (Image: Freedigitalphotos.net) We’re wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize [...]
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Emotional Hijacks at Work: Beware the Tiger
Most of the books I read about the brain and emotional intelligence talk about an emotional or amygdala hijacking, which is what you see when the boss loses it and goes on a rant. It’s not pretty, and almost always makes the hijacker look pretty stupid. The amygdala is the brain’s radar for threat. It [...]
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How to Avoid Leadership Decision Errors