Coaching Alpha Males
Highly intelligent, confident, and successful, alpha males represent about 70% of all senior executives. As the label implies, they're the people who aren't happy unless they're the top dogs – the ones calling the shots. Although there are plenty of successful female leaders with equally strong personalities, we've found top women rarely if ever match…
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Your Brain on Stress: An Unfocused Picture
The link between stress and heart disease has affected thousands of patients of Dr. Eddie Erlandson, a vascular surgeon and the former chief of staff at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich. But two years ago, Dr. Erlandson noticed another kind of link between chronic stress and the job performance of many of…
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Go for the Gold
BY EDDIE ERLANDSON, KATE LUDEMAN & CATHERINE LUDEMAN-HALL For some managers and their work groups, everything they do seems to result in gold-medal performance. Roadblocks appear to fall away. Goals are achieved even when opportunities or resources are slim, or conditions are rapidly deteriorating. They have an uncanny ability to sell new ideas and get…
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The Man Who Saved the Red Sox
How did they regain the World Series trophy? By sending their executives to obedience school.
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