Over the past few years, storytelling as a leadership tool has garnered more and more attention. So why are people looking to tell stories, and why now?
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One of the great privileges of being a leadership coach is getting to work with and learn from some of the smartest and most-driven people working today. You learn from each other, you form a partnership, and, as is the case with any good working relationship, both parties walk away from each interaction smarter.
A recent HBR study unpacked the qualities that make for a great leader. We examine them here.
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We get asked it a lot. "Why 'Pencil or Ink'?"
The short version is that it connotes both communications and flexibility. But there's more to it than that.
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I once worked with a leadership coach; it can't have been an easy gig for him. My company at the time hired him to work with a few senior leaders, all of whom were themselves coaches to senior leaders at other companies.
But even making allowances for that, let me put it bluntly: he did a terrible job.
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