We do not spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half of the leaders I have met don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

The higher up you go in your organization, the more you need to make other people winners and not make your job about winning yourself.

An easy habit for people who like to win to fall into, and a surefire shortcut for killing conversations, is to start a sentence with “no,” “but,” or “however”

I’m a little skeptical of self-diagnosis. Most people tend to overestimate their strengths and overrate their weaknesses.

The higher up you go in the organization, the more your problems are behavioral. You’re smart, you’re up-to-date, you know the technical aspects of your job, but often you may lack some important people skills and it’s hindering your success.

It is extremely difficult for successful people to listen to other people tell them something that they already know without communicating somehow that (a) they already knew it and (b) they know a better way.

Although most judges come to the job with the highest credentialing and experience as lawyers, they arrive at the bench with low credentialing and experience as a judge.

Videos from previous sessions of the World Business and Executive Coach Summit have been released and we’ve provided three of the best ones here for you: “The Coaching Advantage: Cultivating Self as Coach” by Pam McLean “Effectively Influencing Decision Makers” by Marshall Goldsmith “Leading with Backbone and Heart Creating and Maintaining Equilibrium Amidst Challenges”  by Mary Beth O’Neill If you …