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The Surprising Truth About Feeling Powerless

by Julie | Mar 27, 2019 | Abuse of Power, Articles, Leadership, powerless

“I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them. … That’s all the powers of the President amount to.” Although this quotation is attributed to Harry Truman, any...

5 Ways to Cultivate Your Personal Power

by Patrick Kitchen | Sep 11, 2018 | Articles, Change, Identity, Leadership, Learning and Development, powerless

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you. –Lao Tzu As an executive coach, I’ve had plenty of experience helping clients deal with ineffective leadership in the form of an insecure boss. This isn’t just a...

Underdogs and Alpha Dogs

by Julie | Oct 7, 2017 | Articles, Change, Identity, Leadership, powerless

In his well-known book, Only the Paranoid Survive, Andy Grove, Silicon Valley pioneer and former CEO of Intel, recounts the story of the Pentium FDIV bug, an error in one of the earlier versions of the Intel Pentium processor. Intel was aware of the bug, but made the...