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Most common executive manager mistakes

They weren’t worried about being the smartest player in the room—they were aiming to make the room smarter.

Once you’ve finished at Harvard Business School or any other top academic institution, the vast majority of people you’ll interact with on a day-to-day basis may not be smarter than you. And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. But if you have a humble eagerness

Your growth as an individual defines the growth of your business. Your ability to go deep with yourself allows you to go deep with your work as a coach. Your courage translates to fearlessness in your coaching. Your ability to have extraordinary conversations leads to extraordinary results for clients. Your power to get past your negative beliefs,

achava que as qualidades humanas eram esculpidas em pedra.

Most people go through life without anyone cheering them on and encouraging them to grow and change. To aspire for more. To achieve. That’s what you need to do as a coach. That’s your real job.

Being able to escape from what Karl Duncker,13 in his series of experiments in the 1940s, famously referred to as ‘functional fixedness’ – the inability to see more than the most obvious or habitual affordances – has to become a key educational aim for a teacher who takes the idea of distributed intelligence seriously. As Luis Moll has put it, ‘A g

Whatever the topic was, she would find the person who could teach her. This is a humility that is historically rare among executives, and it is crucial to a digital mindset.