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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Advisory, Blog, Executive Coaching, tags: adviser, advisory board, angel investor, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, earl r smith ii, earl smith, Executive Coaching, federal circle, federal contracting, funding, Governance, government contractor, investing, investment, investor, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, management assessment, managing partner, Personal Growth, the federal circle, turnaround, Turnaround Management, Venture Capital
I’m not sure if it was because of Mr. Spock or Dr. Spock but there is a generation of managers and business leaders out there who seem to have great difficulty being human.
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Blog, tags: adviser, advisory board, angel investor, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, earl r smith ii, earl smith, Executive Coaching, federal circle, federal contracting, funding, Governance, government contractor, investing, investment, investor, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, management assessment, managing partner, Personal Growth, the federal circle, turnaround, Turnaround Management, Venture Capital
It’s such a simple idea – knowing what is going on around you. So why are people often so bad at it?
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Blog, Venture Capital, tags: adviser, advisory board, angel investor, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, earl r smith ii, earl smith, Executive Coaching, federal circle, federal contracting, funding, Governance, government contractor, investing, investment, investor, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, management assessment, managing partner, Personal Growth, the federal circle, turnaround, Turnaround Management, Venture Capital
Here is a simple prescription for killing the tendency of founders to produce hockey-stick financial projections. Base the valuation of their company on the money being invested and let them ‘earn in’ to the extent they actually meet those projections.
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Blog, tags: adviser, advisory board, angel investor, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, earl r smith ii, earl smith, Executive Coaching, federal circle, federal contracting, funding, Governance, government contractor, investing, investment, investor, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, management assessment, managing partner, Personal Growth, the federal circle, turnaround, Turnaround Management, Venture Capital
It may be a strange question to ask – but why aren’t people more human? You would think it would help them to succeed – be in their own best interest.
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Blog, Leadership, tags: adviser, advisory board, angel investor, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, earl r smith ii, earl smith, Executive Coaching, federal circle, federal contracting, funding, Governance, government contractor, investing, investment, investor, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, management assessment, managing partner, Personal Growth, the federal circle, turnaround, Turnaround Management, Venture Capital
I described two approaches to leadership. They were based on two recent conversations with ‘leaders’. Out of those conversations came two different approaches to answering the question ‘what makes you a leader’.
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Blog, Personal Growth, tags: adviser, advisory board, angel investor, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, earl r smith ii, earl smith, Executive Coaching, federal circle, federal contracting, funding, Governance, government contractor, investing, investment, investor, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, management assessment, managing partner, Personal Growth, the federal circle, turnaround, Turnaround Management, Venture Capital
One of my favorite sayings is ‘to excuse yourself is to excuse yourself. I recently intervened with a management team that had really messed things up – and that saying kept running through my head. They were masters of the excuse.
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