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75% of Companies Don’t Know If They Have The Talent Needed To Create Value. Do You?

Sheila Madden, CEO, Madden Coaching & Consulting

6 Questions All Executives Should Be Asking Themselves

1. Does everyone on my team and in the organization know our strategy and are they aligned and committed to do what it takes to execute it successfully?

2. Do  I have the right talent in the right places (in the world as well as in the organization) doing the right things to successfully execute our strategy today and in the future?
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10 Ways To Succeed As A Leader: Coach Madden’s Top 10 for 2012

Sheila Madden, CEO, Madden Coaching & Consulting

Do you ever notice that genuine leaders never stop saying “yes” to life? When good things are happening they celebrate but continue moving forward and no matter what adversity faces them, they find a way to transform it and create something good.

Fundamentally, that is what leadership is. It has nothing to do with titles, paychecks, spans of control or expectations.  It has everything to do with who someone is on the inside. It has to do with the character, creativity and promise with which they approach every single person, situation and day.
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How Extraordinary Leaders Communicate: 7 Principles of Fierce Conversations

Sheila Madden, CEO, Madden Coaching & Consulting

As I watch the staggering inability of the world’s leaders to communicate with integrity and to engage people in solving the problems we face, I am reminded of one of the best leadership books I have ever read: Fierce Conversations, by Susan Scott. 

Does the word “Fierce” scare you? It shouldn’t. The lack of it is what should scare the living daylights out of you.  As defined on the book’s cover “fierce” means “robust, intense, strong, powerful, passionate, eager and unbridled.”
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20 Habits That Can STOP You From Being An Extraordinary Leader

Sheila Madden, CEO, Madden Coaching & Consulting

Wisdom from Marshall Goldsmith & Peter Drucker

One of my favorite leadership books is Marshall Goldsmith’s, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”.  I particularly like the chapter on the 20 habits that can keep leaders, and subsequently their organizations, from being extraordinary and reaching their full potential.

Goldsmith shares a great quote from Peter Drucker:

“We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don’t spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.”

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How Executive Coaching Accelerates Leadership Success

Sheila Madden, CEO, Madden Coaching & Consulting

My clients count on me to accelerate their success by being:  

1. A trusted, strategic business thinker with a passion for partnering with them to consistently achieve extraordinary results

2. Someone who has an unending ability to see their full potential and the ability to coach that potential into reality
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Executive Compensation That Drives Accountability & Success

Sheila Madden, CEO, Madden Coaching & Consulting

Nowhere do you get what you pay for more than with executive compensation.

This blog is Part 3 of my series on the 5 Steps To Ensure Executive Success.

If you want to set a room on fire with passionate debate, mention executive pay. Many people got their first purview into the world of executive pay during this economic crisis and were horrified at what they saw. The number one culprit? The convoluted relationship, or lack thereof, between pay, performance and accountability.

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Conscious Capitalism

 
 
 

Sheila Madden, CEO, Madden Coaching & Consulting

Can Businesses Do Well By Doing Good? You Bet They Can!

Business has been, and should always be, a powerful force for good in the world generating not just financial wealth but social, emotional, intellectual and cultural wealth as well.  This is the message of Dr. Rajendra Sisodia, Professor of Marketing at Bentley College, John Mackey, Co-Founder and CEO of WholeFoods and other global thought leaders involved in the Conscious Capitalism Institute.  http://www.consciouscapitalism.org/whatis-conscious-capitalism.html
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