All Cows Will Please Report to the Barn

Recently, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy gave notice that all AMZN corporate staff were to be back in the barn working in January 2025. (Before anyone sends any inflammatory emails, we’ve used the Cows metaphor for better than 25 years and have gone to great lengths to be clear that we are NOT comparing people to […]

What to Look For in a Coach

I read with interest and am in furious agreement with Meg Myers Morgan’s recent piece detailing five requirements to participate in a successful coaching relationship (commitment, time, ‘coachability’, chemistry, and trust).    Let’s take the last of those stated requirements, trust, and expand on it just a bit from the coaching client’s perspective, with an […]

Leaders, Are You Adding Too Much Value?

memphis • 9.4.20 In his excellent book, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”, author and executive coach extraordinaire, Marshall Goldsmith presents a list of twenty performance disruptors that, if left unattended, can derail or diminish a leader’s career. An “oldie but a goody” the book is often required reading for my coaching clients […]

Unjobbed

Bill Catlette   8/7/20 • memphis Bored, Scared, Angry  In 2+ decades as a coach and advisor to business leaders, the very worst workplace situations I’ve encountered have almost always been those punctuated by boredom and bad leadership, usually in tandem. That stands to reason as most often, bad leaders concern themselves more with accumulating […]

Coaching From a Distance

With the sudden, COVID-inspired shift to WFH, one topic that has come to the fore is productivity. How do we get it? How can we possibly verify and measure it in light of physical separation? How can we coach people to better outcomes? Fair questions. One emergent point of view is that the manager/leader should […]

Move Over Fellas

March 11, 2020 6:46AM By virtue of my role as an executive coach, I have the opportunity to work with women (and men) who’ve taken it upon themselves to accelerate their rate of professional and personal growth. As for the women, their intensity and drive to succeed makes them a joy to work with. Usually, […]