I want to talk about a group of consultants and for the moment, let’s say I was involved, working with a CEO as a client. It has changed my thoughts on coaching and has me thinking that perhaps a new model for my business needs to be planned.

Imagine a CEO running a large company to the point where he needs help but is reticent, no maybe more worried that his power will be usurped or worse he will lose total control of his company – his baby. Yikes, this sounds like the beginning of another EMyth lecture – not exactly.

Let’s continue with this fictional company because it is a classic. Five new executives at the ‘VP’ level are brought in to take some of the stress off the CEO, give him more time to reflect on steady planned growth, allow him guidance on this planned growth and share his vision to these executives so all are on the right page. Read the rest of this entry

A wise man told me if you want to be a successful Startup Company you need three things:
1. An incredible product
2. Great people
3. And enough Money

The theory is, if you have any two of these three the third is easy to attain. Read the rest of this entry

One of my clients lives in Vancouver and is struggling with his business. He decided to take a respite and take a month off to his native El Salvador to get energized. Ouch I thought that was my job! Read the rest of this entry

150,000+ Twitter Followers, an influence rate of 70%, number 2 Social media networker in Vancouver,  hundreds of LinkedIn and hundreds more of Facebook followers reaching 18 million people daily.  Just numbers?  Sort of, but they are MY social media numbers.

In the beginning I got caught up in the trend like everyone. Wow, what a great way to sell people things on the internet. What if I didn’t want to sell anything but wanted to engage people in dialogue, sometimes funny, sometimes irreverent but always heartfelt?

As my numbers grew an interesting thing happened, masses of people started coming to my blog and actually read it. Then something else happened, people started hiring for my expertise. Read the rest of this entry

I’m taking a course in Kelowna with Community Futures, on Leadership. Sounds relatively straight forward until you compare management to leadership, compare manager to a leader more specifically.

A manager is someone who operationally directs or conducts the business of an organization. I see this as a technical role, a part of a system, measurable and as my Leadership instructor, Anita Bakker, today pointed out, a ‘doer’.  A manager establishes a plan, allocates resources and measures the results to monitor the success or failure of the plan. A manager relies on other people to fulfill and execute his plan.

Enter the LEADER! Read the rest of this entry