http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/ Executive coach Scott Eblin’s goal is to help you succeed at the next level of leadership. Throughout the week, he’ll offer his take on the leadership lessons in the news and his advice on your most pressing leadership questions. A former government executive, Scott is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and is the author of The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. en Copyright 2009 Fri,20 Nov 2009 19:03:16 GMT http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss One of the big responsibilities of an executive coach is to help the client step back to a broader perspective and observe how what he's doing connects or disconnects with the results he's trying to get.  It's helping the client... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/if_i_was_coaching_goldmans_llo.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/if_i_was_coaching_goldmans_llo.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Current Affairs Leadership Personal Presence Fri,20 Nov 2009 19:03:16 GMT If you happen to have 100 million Euros (about $150 million) to spare, you might be in the market for the yacht, The Why, pictured to the left. Yes, that's the stern of a boat that was featured in the... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/slow_is_the_new_fast.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/slow_is_the_new_fast.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Books Current Affairs Personal Presence Wed,18 Nov 2009 15:08:44 GMT For the past four years, the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership has conducted an annual public opinion poll to determine the sector leaders in which Americans have the most and least confidence and the factors behind those confidence... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/the_six_factors_that_drive_con.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/the_six_factors_that_drive_con.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Current Affairs Leadership Personal Presence Mon,16 Nov 2009 17:11:41 GMT Something appeared in my inbox this week that sparked an opportunity to follow up on a post from last week - Feedback:  Why You Need It and What To Do With It. As an alumnus and faculty member of the... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/the_difference_between_what_sh.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/the_difference_between_what_sh.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Leadership Personal Presence Fri,13 Nov 2009 20:16:52 GMT President Obama appointed Rajiv Shah to head the US Agency for International Development. The appointment comes after a 10 month vacancy at the top of the Agency and a 40 percent reduction in its full time staff over the past... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/a_few_tips_for_usaids_rajiv_sh.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/a_few_tips_for_usaids_rajiv_sh.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Current Affairs Leadership Personal Presence Wed,11 Nov 2009 19:23:38 GMT First, let me apologize for implanting Subway's Five (five dollar), Five Dollar Foot Long ear worm in your head for the rest of the day. I hope that you'll agree with me that it was worth it to learn five... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/five_change_leadership_lessons.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/five_change_leadership_lessons.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Current Affairs Leadership Random Observations Tue,10 Nov 2009 14:38:34 GMT One of the things that I've come to count on over the past couple of years is that my blogging friend, Dan McCarthy of the Great Leadership blog will write consistently grounded and practical posts on how to be a... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/feedback_-_why_you_need_it_and.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/feedback_-_why_you_need_it_and.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Leadership Personal Presence Mon,09 Nov 2009 14:18:50 GMT The morning after election day 2009 was probably not a particularly fun one in the White House. As noted in a first rate summary by John F. Harris and Jonathan Martin in Politico, the outcomes of the Virginia and... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/leadership_questions_raised_by.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/leadership_questions_raised_by.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Current Affairs Thu,05 Nov 2009 14:29:28 GMT In its almost always interesting series, Sunday's New York Times ran a Corner Office interview with the president of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust. I've often thought that because of the range of different stakeholder groups involved that running an academic... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/leadership_takeaways_from_harv.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/11/leadership_takeaways_from_harv.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Leadership Personal Presence Tue,03 Nov 2009 14:45:08 GMT The next time you're feeling challenged about how to reach a goal, think of the sailors from the USS Carl Vinson. As reported in the Washington Post,  30 sailors from the Vinson set a goal to make last Sunday's Marine... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/10/learning_from_the_navys_commit.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/10/learning_from_the_navys_commit.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Current Affairs Leadership Personal Presence Wed,28 Oct 2009 20:35:54 GMT The tough economic environment of the past year and a half has made organizational leadership an even more challenging job than usual. A recent article in HR Executive Online by Lin Grensing-Pophal reports on a somewhat surprising aspect of that... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/10/keeping_your_best_engaged.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/10/keeping_your_best_engaged.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Current Affairs Leadership Mon,26 Oct 2009 13:12:24 GMT When faced with an intractable or complex problem, it's easy for leaders to get bogged down in the minutiae when trying to come up with a solution.  Another trap is to go binary - it's either this or it's that... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/10/the_power_of_the_obvious_quest.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/10/the_power_of_the_obvious_quest.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Current Affairs Leadership Thu,22 Oct 2009 13:44:07 GMT There's an old, old saying that, "A fish rots from the head down."  It dates in English from at least 1674 and has probably hung around all these years because it's true.  The Washington Redskins are one of the latest... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/10/learning_what_not_to_do_from_t.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/10/learning_what_not_to_do_from_t.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Current Affairs Leadership Personal Presence Tue,20 Oct 2009 17:03:43 GMT If you were looking for any news on health care reform, Afghanistan or the President's trip to New Orleans on television yesterday afternoon or most of last evening, you were out of luck. Everything else was pushed aside by the... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/10/the_balloon_boy_and_the_declin.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/10/the_balloon_boy_and_the_declin.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Current Affairs Leadership Random Observations Fri,16 Oct 2009 16:31:12 GMT British MP's Behaving Badly: When Appearances Trump the Rules I've been in London this week for a presentation I gave to a group of new executives yesterday. It's been a great trip with a lot of friendly people and fascinating... http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/10/british_mps_behaving_badly_whe.php http://blogs.govexec.com/executivecoach/2009/10/british_mps_behaving_badly_whe.php webmaster@govexec.com (Scott Eblin) Current Affairs Leadership Personal Presence Wed,14 Oct 2009 15:10:49 GMT