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Tony Schwartz | Creativity, Innovation, Leadership, Mental Needs, Mindfulness, Recovery | 4 COMMENTS | August 10, 2010


When IBM recently polled 1500 CEOs across 60 countries, they rated creativity as the most important leadership competency.

Eighty percent of the CEOs said the business environment is growing so complex that it literally demands new ways of thinking. Less than 50 percent said they believed their organizations were equipped to deal effectively with this rising complexity.


Annie Perrin | Coaching, Energy Coach, Relationships, Spiritual Needs | 0 COMMENTS | August 9, 2010


Meet Robert, a managing director at a leading investment bank. Robert is financially successful, has three thriving children,, and is greatly admired professionally. He devotes a significant amount of his personal time to mentoring and recruiting new talent. and he is a loving father. He coaches his children’s’ little league teams and takes them out for breakfast every Saturday morning. He’s also a dutiful son, spending the rest of his free time caring for his ailing father. All around, Robert is a remarkable human being.


John Rambow | Emotional Needs, Physical Needs, Recovery | 1 COMMENTS | August 6, 2010

Everyone knows that Europeans get weeks and weeks of vacation and the typical American is lucky to get more than two weeks in a year. How did things become the way they are -- and is the gap really that big?

The New York Times' Room for Debate article on this topic make a good read, although it might rely a little too much on anecdotes for some. Here's one quote from the comments that jumped out at me:


Emily Pines | In the News, Productivity, Recovery | 0 COMMENTS | August 4, 2010

It would be safe to say that most radio hosts probably don’t read guests' books in their entirety before an interview.  But it was clear in Tony’s recent interview with Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau, host of The Kathleen Show, that she not only read The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, but also deeply reflected on the book.  
 


Tony Schwartz | Emotional Needs, Life Lessons, Mental Needs, Mindfulness, Physical Needs, Recovery, Spiritual Needs | 0 COMMENTS | August 3, 2010


I've just rented a house for five weeks near the beach. It was my wife Deborah's idea. At first, I thought I'd work in my office in New York during the week and come out here Thursday nights for long weekends.

But Deborah is planning to stay here for the full five weeks. I've been working really hard for the past year and the more I thought about it, the more it started to sound really appealing.