Strategic Thinking & Strategic Action

Fostering strategic thinking and strategic action by organizational leaders since 2007.

Pick the best: Don’t let the bad drive out the good
Coaching Lee Crumbaugh Coaching Lee Crumbaugh

Pick the best: Don’t let the bad drive out the good

It may be the same with every industry. Likely the sham artists and hucksters and skimmers and those just in it for the buck are pervasive. We all see them and have to deal with them (or try to ignore them).

I know that in business coaching, there are those who purport to be serious business coaches but aren’t. There are those who call life coaching or motivational coaching or something other than business coaching “business coaching.” There are those whose coaching credentials are hollow, missing, or misrepresented, who don’t know net margin from a fishing net.

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Coaching and change
Coaching Lee Crumbaugh Coaching Lee Crumbaugh

Coaching and change

My fellow coaches and I use the Pygmalion Effect, not as a trick but as a valuable tool, by seeing the best in and expecting the best from our clients, building them up so they can excel at whatever they want and need to be good at and at progressing toward their loftier goals.

Simply, by expecting the best behaviors, we are more likely to see the best outcomes. Rise and shine!

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Let’s not be complacent about our ignorance!
Coaching Lee Crumbaugh Coaching Lee Crumbaugh

Let’s not be complacent about our ignorance!

My mother encouraged me to read and learn. But she cautioned me, “The more you learn the less you will know.” That was her way of saying that learning opens whole domains about which we were previously ignorant and shows us how much more there is to learn.

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Why settle? Go for the gold!
Coaching Lee Crumbaugh Coaching Lee Crumbaugh

Why settle? Go for the gold!

A business coach who “has been there” and has the right skill sets for coaching, planning, decision making and implementation, can help you develop and execute a winning plan, guide your decision making and actions along the way, motivate you, and hold you accountable.

Why go it alone when you can have a coach who can help you go for the gold?

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