Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo

Wandering Attention

tonymayo — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:34:50 +0000

And the faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention over and over again is the very root of judgment, character, and will. No one is compos sui if he have it not. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence. –William James The Principles of Psychology 1890 Page 494 [...]

Life Strategy and Executive Coaching

tonymayo — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:50:02 +0000

The Harvard Business Review reprinted a wonderful speech by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen titled, “How Will You Measure Your Life?” Along with plenty of great advice for new graduates he shared some keen insights on executive coaching. If I had been suckered into telling Andy Grove what he should think about the [...]

Twitter Log XVIII

tonymayo — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:14:42 +0000

A collection of pithy and motivating quotes for managers collected by top executive coach Tony Mayo.

Update on Executive Coaching Fees

tonymayo — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:16:07 +0000

One of the most popular posts on this blog is my commentary on the 2008 Conference Board survey of worldwide top executive coaching rates and budgets. The Conference Board has recently released its 2010 update and revision to that report. Unfortunately, the report no longer contains information on the amount organizations are paying for executive [...]

Press On

tonymayo — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:52:53 +0000

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will [...]

What Trust Is

tonymayo — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:36:29 +0000

Trust is increasingly recognized as an essential element of successful personal relationships, effective teamwork, and large-scale commercial relationships. The amount citizens of one country trust the residents of another has even been shown to correlate with the amount of trade between the countries. Evaluating the level of trust in a relationship is an often evaded [...]

Havel on Hope

tonymayo — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:13:03 +0000

Hope is not a prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. –Vaclav Havel President of Czechoslovakia Disturbing the Peace Share it!

Business People Need History, Literature, and Art

tonymayo — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:56:49 +0000

New York Times columnist David Brooks, alumnus of my college and our off-campus newspaper, explains beautifully some of the reasons I advise my executive coaching clients to put away popular business books and get into great novels. Studying the humanities improves your ability to read and write. No matter what you do in life, you [...]

Readability — Great Tool for Online Reading

tonymayo — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:16:33 +0000

I’ve been using a fantastic, very simple tool in my web browser. With the click of a button the free Readability software converts a busy screen of small text into an easy-to-read format. Not only is the result larger and clearer, but it is simple to “control-a and control -c” to cut-and-paste the article into [...]

Results of Executive Coaching

tonymayo — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:34:26 +0000

An executive coaching client of Tony Mayo's comments on her results.