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Leverage Your Best, Ditch the Rest: The Coaching Secrets Top Executives Depend On
Leverage Your Best, Ditch the Rest eliminates the stupid stuff that distracts you and gets in your way. It shows you how to take full advantage of -- Leverage! -- your strengths and most positive qualities, while at the same time discarding or getting around -- Ditch! -- whatever gets in your way.
Scott Blanchard and Madeleine Homan, co-founders of Coaching.com, share their groundbreaking program, honed by fourteen years of high-level executive coaching and consulting. They offer new perspectives on how to spend your precious and limited resources, time, emotions, passions, and energy to generate the best results.
The three-part process begins with a twenty-five-question self-assessment, then moves on to the Three Perspectives -- major life queries that focus on how you are perceived, your own self-image, and self-imposed limitations. The final step, the Seven Leverage Points, offers fresh insight into the choices you make and how you conduct yourself in business and in life. You will find immediately applicable tools to appraise and manage your work environment and personal gifts. You will be guided to make tiny but crucial shifts in getting needs met and drawing boundaries.
Scott Blanchard and Madeleine Homan, co-founders of Coaching.com, share their groundbreaking program, honed by fourteen years of high-level executive coaching and consulting. They offer new perspectives on how to spend your precious and limited resources, time, emotions, passions, and energy to generate the best results.
The three-part process begins with a twenty-five-question self-assessment, then moves on to the Three Perspectives -- major life queries that focus on how you are perceived, your own self-image, and self-imposed limitations. The final step, the Seven Leverage Points, offers fresh insight into the choices you make and how you conduct yourself in business and in life. You will find immediately applicable tools to appraise and manage your work environment and personal gifts. You will be guided to make tiny but crucial shifts in getting needs met and drawing boundaries.
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First published May 25, 2004
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November 7, 2022
It's got some useful tips and questions to help one think through some of the areas that often trip us up -- tolerations, boundaries, perceptions, superpowers, valuables, etc. Some helpful worksheets to use if you really want to dig deep on yourself, though I didn't find them all equally helpful. For example, it's one thing to write down your values and examine them, but what if you don't even really know what they are in the first place? It's nice in that the "help topics" chapters are standalone enough that you can read them in any order and whenever you need to revisit that topic. It makes it a good refer-to-as-needed book, in that way.
October 4, 2018
Bok för den som behöver hitta sina styrkor i arbetslivet. Lite spretig och en bok där det läggs för mycket övningar inom för många områden för att den ska få ett högre betyg än 3:a. Men ändå fullt godkänd!
December 10, 2013
The first chapter or two asks that you think about who you are and where you're going. Then the book continues into practical advice to achieve your goals. I picked up some useful nuggets including:
> Think about what your coworkers want. Help them get it. Find mutually beneficial goals.
> Tolerations are the little things that bug you day to day. Slow leak in car tire. An annoying alarm. Etc. When they build up too much, they can affect your day. Make a conscious effort to identify and remove these as they build up.
My overarching concern with this book is that it requires some big pitch life goal to be used to its fullest. Call me crazy, but that's not to me. I can picture myself having a perfectly fulfilling and meaningful life that ends up a number of very different ways, so I have a lot of difficulty hanging my hat on any one goal and trying to build a life around that. Heck, I think that's a mistake in general.
> Think about what your coworkers want. Help them get it. Find mutually beneficial goals.
> Tolerations are the little things that bug you day to day. Slow leak in car tire. An annoying alarm. Etc. When they build up too much, they can affect your day. Make a conscious effort to identify and remove these as they build up.
My overarching concern with this book is that it requires some big pitch life goal to be used to its fullest. Call me crazy, but that's not to me. I can picture myself having a perfectly fulfilling and meaningful life that ends up a number of very different ways, so I have a lot of difficulty hanging my hat on any one goal and trying to build a life around that. Heck, I think that's a mistake in general.
July 31, 2012
Like many of the Blanchard books, this one comes with assessments for the reader to take in order to determine what your "best" is that needs leveraging.
Key concept: Backward Plan - Start with the end in mind and drill down to determine the steps you need to take.
Favorite quotes:
"The problem with the rat race is that if you win, you're still a rat!" - Lily Tomlin
..."Only action creates movement and if you aren't moving, you are standing in the same place..."
..."A goal without a date is a dream...." - Henry Kinsey House
..."the back of even the strongest camel will break if the load becomes too heavy..."
..."you will be judged, no matter what you do..."
Key concept: Backward Plan - Start with the end in mind and drill down to determine the steps you need to take.
Favorite quotes:
"The problem with the rat race is that if you win, you're still a rat!" - Lily Tomlin
..."Only action creates movement and if you aren't moving, you are standing in the same place..."
..."A goal without a date is a dream...." - Henry Kinsey House
..."the back of even the strongest camel will break if the load becomes too heavy..."
..."you will be judged, no matter what you do..."
June 20, 2009
It's the audio CD and I'm finding it very useful advice. I plan to purchase the book and go through the exercises. It's a self-improvement book that does not demand any particular religous belief, making it accessible for a diverse audience.
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