Effective Leadership Teams – Sheila Madden at Madden Coaching: Executive Coach & Consultant

February 4, 2015June 24, 2017

5 Ways Super Successful Leaders Operate

“I want to know God’s thoughts, the rest are details.” Albert Einstein

Einstein believed that God’s thoughts were accessible and that he could hear them if he got himself into a certain state of mind, the mind of imagination. When he said that imagination is more important than knowledge, my guess is that he came to that insight after he experienced what many of us have experienced: Knowledge can only take us so far.
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August 6, 2014June 24, 2017

5 Questions Leadership Teams Should Be Asking Themselves Everyday

Leadership = Fierce Conversations Required

Our lives are a series of relationships, the success or failure of which happens one conversation at a time. The same is true for our organizations. The quality of the conversations that executive teams have among themselves will either help their organization succeed, under-perform or potentially fail.
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June 4, 2013June 24, 2017

5 Things No One Will Tell You About Being A Great Leader

Leadership failures are failures of the soul. They are always the result of people losing sight of who they are, what their real job is and what the right thing is to do. We tend to make leader heroes out of those who have the sexiest products, the most successful innovations, the best financial results or IPO’s. Those are all great results, but they are just that: the results of great leadership. But what is the actual secret leadership sauce that is the catalyst for creating results like these? There are lots of combinations of things, which definitely include external as well as internal factors. But when you examine those stellar leadership stories, you will generally find individuals who understand that these 5 building blocks are key for creating a foundation for great leadership.
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March 5, 2012June 24, 2017

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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January 5, 2012June 24, 2017

10 Ways To Succeed As A Leader: Coach Madden’s Top 10 for 2012

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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