Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo

I use Twitter to share brief messages, not more than two per day. You can have them delivered to your cell phone by text message (SMS) or view them when you visit your free Twitter web page. Create a Twitter account and “follow” TonyMayo. Here are my recent tweets (messages):

No matter how intense the suffering, no matter how tight you might be clinging, there is the possibility of dropping it. –Jonathan Foust

No goofs, no growth. –Tony Mayo See Stanford University research by clicking here.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures. –-Charles Noble

Becoming a CEO coach isn’t easy: “What is to give light must endure burning” –Dr. Viktor Frankl

… we now live in an era where people of vision are the only practical people. Functioning at the level of what is reasonable is as impractical as one can get. …be willing to bring forth a vision–not in ignorance of the circumstances or what is reasonable, but in addition to all that.  –Werner Erhard

I am the equal to all I meet because of the kindness in my heart. –Sarah Adams

 

If you want to know the culture of a company, then ignore the written stuff and go to a meeting. – Edgar Henry Schein of MIT Sloan Click here for more on meetings that matter.

Prior tweets are here, at Twitter Logs.

___ ©2011 Tony Mayo

Popularity: 1% [?]

Share it!

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

–Arthur Ashe
1943-1993
Tennis champion

Popularity: 1% [?]

Share it!

For a social discipline, such as management, the assumptions are actually a good deal more important than are the paradigms for a natural science. The paradigm—that is, the prevailing general theory—has no impact on the natural universe. Whether the paradigm states that the sun rotates around the earth, or that, on the contrary, the earth rotates around the sun, has no effect on sun and earth. But a social discipline, such as management, deals with the behavior of people and human institutions. The social universe has no “natural laws” as the physical sciences do. It is thus subject to continuous change. This means that assumptions that were valid yesterday can become invalid and, indeed, totally misleading in no time at all.

Because the generally held assumptions about management no longer apply, it is important that we first make them explicit, and then replace them with assumptions that better fit today’s reality.

That’s where we are today with the discipline of management.

 

–Peter Drucker
Forbes, 1998

Popularity: 1% [?]

Share it!

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. … Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

–Reinhold Niebuhr
The Irony of American History
Page 63

Popularity: 1% [?]

Share it!

I use Twitter to share brief messages, not more than two per day. You can have them delivered to your cell phone by text message (SMS) or view them when you visit your free Twitter web page. Create a Twitter account and “follow” TonyMayo.

Here are my recent tweets (messages):

There is no greater obstacle to freedom than the assumption that it has already been attained.

What prison could be more secure than one we’re convinced is “the world,” where the boundaries of action and thought are assumed to be limited by the permissible rather than the possible?

Democratic society, as we know it, is the ultimate prison, because who’s going to try to escape from a situation of apparent freedom? –David Edwards

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. –Wm. Shakespeare Measure for Measure

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. –Carl Jung

When tempted to compete & conquer, look to cooperate & create. –Tony Mayo

 

Prior tweets are here, at Twitter Logs.

 

___

©2011 Tony Mayo

Popularity: 1% [?]

Share it!

 

Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance.
 
To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another’s way of life – so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit.
 
Hands off!
 

– Henry Miller

 

Popularity: 1% [?]

Share it!