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ZenCEO Insights- Best of Blog and DC Metro area Leadership Workshop Guest Passes (limited)

October 25, 2010

October ZenCEO Insights
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From the ZenCEO front we are continuing to grow, just broke 15K fans http://www.facebook.com/pages/ZenCEO/10150112408455195 and taking our Mastering the Leadership Mindset [...]

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Animated talk: Drive – carrots, sticks, and human motivation.

August 3, 2010

Animated video of Daniel Pink’s speech on human motivation. How does this apply to you as an individual, how you reward employees and how you motivate those in your personal life?
“This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at [...]

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Smile or Die, the abuse of positive thinking

July 28, 2010

If you’re one of those people with a fake smile on your face and telling others “oh just think positively” please watch this, though your intentions are good you might be doing more harm then good. “The Secret” is not self delusion. Great animated talk from theRSAorg explores this in [...]

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The 3 P’s of Effective Communication

July 8, 2010

Here is the PDF for today’s workshop for attendees and those who couldn’t join us. The 3 Ps to Communication.pdf
The 3 P’s of Effective Communication
Communication is the key to human relationships and the primary means to our interconnectedness. Conversations are the most ancient, most common and most used forms of communication. To master conversation is [...]

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Don’t be a Dick but know when to be an A-hole

July 7, 2010

In an email I sent out to some of my old contacts I shared the ZenCEO core values and there was one response that i couldn’t help laugh about. Rick a CEO a small Midwestern Technology company responded with the following: “I like your core values i would just have to change [...]

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Zen wisdom from Ben Franklin

July 3, 2010

A day before the 4th of July and I look at this great country and reflect. There is much, a whole ton of crap that i’m not happy with… the corruption in our political system, the power of special interest, the military industrial complex, the radicals and absolutist, I can go on [...]

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Tim O’Reilly – a super ZenCEO

May 26, 2010

I’ve always respected Tim O’Reilly but after reading the latest article on him in Inc. Mag he just got elevated to “guy crush” status. An icon and leading voice in technology what really struck me was his way of thinking. He is what i imagine a stellar ZenCEO could be. [...]

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Delta Threated to Arrest Me

April 25, 2010

Its funny how absurdly inhuman companies have become.   Last Wednesday excited about attending Integral Coaching training in San Franciso I arrive at the airport around noon to catch my 2pm Delta flight.   I check in at the electronic kiosk and roll my carry on  to  security.   Looking at my ticket i realize [...]

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