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5 More Ways Leaders Can Develop Brain Fitness

By chipscholz | Published: April 4, 2013
I’m intrigued about the brain and what neuroscientists are discovering. It’s especially important that leaders to look at ways they can develop their brain fitness on-the-job, to keep ahead of the curve. Brain fitness is a key competitive advantage for anyone who aspires to higher levels of responsibilities at work. The higher your responsibilities, the [...]
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Leaders: How Fit Is Your Brain?

By chipscholz | Published: March 26, 2013
We’ve known for some time that leaders require higher levels of emotional intelligence as they pursue career advancement. There’s now accumulating evidence that cognitive fitness is becoming a focal area for high-achieving leaders. Until recently, busy executives could find few guidelines for increasing mental fitness on the job. There are thousands of books about leadership [...]
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Autopilot at Work: 3 More Ways to Wake Up Your Brain

By chipscholz | Published: March 21, 2013
In my last two posts here and here, I talk about becoming more mindful. We need to take ourselves off autopilot and wake up our brains. Most of us organize our work tasks with to-do lists in order to prioritize and focus on getting done what matters most. But the danger is that we focus [...]
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4 Ways to Take Your Brain Off Autopilot

By chipscholz | Published: March 19, 2013
Is your work becoming so habitual you’re on autopilot? I was talking with a business leader the other day who was telling me how he got more done than anyone else because of his ability to focus and prioritize. He had everything organized into a system of routines and habits. If A, then B. One, [...]
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Leadership Health: Tough Choices

By chipscholz | Published: February 18, 2013
Leaders deal with tough choices all the time. But when it comes to their own health, they are often self-defeating and self-deceiving! I don’t buy the excuse that some of us don’t have time for exercise. Or the excuse that we don’t really need to or can’t reduce our stress levels. Here’s why: It all [...]
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Leadership Health: When to Call a Coach

By chipscholz | Published: February 13, 2013
The idea that leadership health and peak performance at work is linked to health is not surprising, nor is it new. There are health and fitness programs offered through many employers. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s 2012 annual survey of employer health benefits, 63 percent of U.S. companies offer at least one wellness program, [...]
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Executive Wellness: Key to Leadership Effectiveness?

By chipscholz | Published: February 8, 2013
I’m interested in learning more about the link between personal good health and wellness and one’s effectiveness as a leader in the workplace. Let’s talk about what is executive “wellness.” How important is it to leaders’ peak performance? In past decades, psychologists used Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to gauge satisfaction. Maslow measured five key life [...]
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Is Leadership Linked to Health & Wellness?

By chipscholz | Published: February 6, 2013
If you’ve ever struggled with diet, smoking, exercise or health problems, then you know what I’m talking about: changing or maintaining healthy habits is hard! I don’t care how smart or disciplined you are. It’s not easy for any of us. Many of the people who come to me for coaching struggle with health habits. [...]
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Is Your Boss a Know-It-All?
5 Ways to Diminish Others

By chipscholz | Published: November 1, 2012
Does your boss inspire? …Or crunsh desire? Maybe your boss doesn’t mean to, maybe he’s just asserting himself, reinforcing his credibility…trying to remind himself that’s he’s the smartest person in the room. It seldom works, does it? Worse, it back fires because it doesn’t inspire anyone to bring out their best. In the book Multipliers: [...]
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The Mindset of Genius-Makers

By chipscholz | Published: October 30, 2012
What makes working for some leaders tough but worth it, while others are simply tough and disagreeable? I’ve been reading up on the mindset of leaders who are genius-makers. 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 [...]
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