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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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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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Leadership Challenges: Pause and Reset
Most professional athletes have days off between matches or tournaments. Some sports have off seasons. But in your career, except for vacation weeks, you’re expected to be in tournament-form every day, eight to 12 hours a day. It’s no wonder so many leaders are tired and stressed out. It’s a big leadership challenge. If only [...]
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Great Leaders Communicate Why
How come some leaders inspire us to give our best, even when it involves our own hard work and sacrifice? There are as many different formulas for leading a company well as there are brands of cereals at your local supermarket. I think it has more to do with communicating true purpose and vision, the [...]
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Great Leaders: Was Steve Jobs Good at Leading?
What makes a great leader? Think about the leaders of Apple, Amazon and Southwest Airlines. You can probably name them: Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Herb Kelleher. Next, try to name the leaders of General Motors, TiVo and AOL… right, I’d have to go look them up too. Most senior leaders are highly qualified, experienced [...]
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Honesty vs. Integrity: What’s the Difference?
I think honesty is being true in what you say, while integrity is being true in what you do. Honesty is giving your word, integrity is keeping it. Leadership communications are important only so far as they match up with actions. I asked members of my groups over on LinkedIn this question about the differences [...]
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Purpose: What Really Matters to You?
Here’s the question: “What advice would you give a young worker in order to have a truly meaningful career?” This is interesting: I asked this over on LinkedIn and tallied up the responses into an informal poll. The top advice was tied at 45% between these two answers: Find your true purpose, do what you [...]
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Leading Gen Y: 3 Lessons for a Meaningful Career
As a leader, what three suggestions would you give to Gen Y people about living a truly meaningful life? Beyond making a living, what would you tell someone are the keys to creating a worthwhile career? I think it starts with answering the same question for yourself. What do you need to be doing to [...]
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Is Leadership Changing?
Someone asked me the other day if leadership is changing… if the skills required today for good leadership are any different than 20 years ago. Clearly, businesses are getting more complex, as are all organizations and governments. Are the guiding leadership principles the same? I just kicked off my 16th session of the North Carolina [...]
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Define Success: Two Olympic Heroes
How do you define success for yourself? One brilliant moment, or do you strive to leave a legacy of small victories over a lifetime? How many of you know who Jesse Owens is? Yes, he’s a major figure in American history. In 1936, Jesse won the Gold Medal in the 100 meter dash at the [...]
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Leadership Health: Tough Choices