Type A Executive Coach
“We had to dig the chickens out of three feet of snow yesterday.”
I chuckle at the surprising vision of this Type A power player shoveling snow while the chickens crow.
“I built my first company with a $5000 loan from my parents. I built it up to a $24 million dollar company.”
With [...]
“There was this conflict going on and when I asked what the problem was, one of the guys said, ‘“Get the b@#%$&* back to work and no one gets hurt. It’s that simple.’”
We’ve all been there. One team member was slacking off and putting the rest of the team at risk.
“That’s when [...]
“I’m such a Type A that I’m even a Type A when I’m decorating my home for the holidays.”
Whip together powerful, passionate and driven. Then stir in warm and thoughtful. Top it all off with a quick sense of humor and a healthy dose of perspective. That describes Type [...]
Why do you think so many smart and talented Type A superstar athletes fumble their exit from the playing field?
Simple. They can’t wrap their Type A hard-driving, ambitious, competitive minds around “exiting” a game at which they have always excelled. They can’t envision anything fun and exciting for themselves beyond the next [...]
“If I could, I would take this @#$%&@* ball and shove it down your @#$%&@* throat.”
“You lie!”
In the heat of the moment and fueled by passion, Type A top performers are notorious for short circuiting between their brains and their lips. Like Mt. Vesuvius belching lava, uncensored thoughts explode and rain down on [...]
I recently caught up with Greg Lippert, CEO of Mazzio’s Italian Eatery, the Tulsa-based restaurant company with 170 locations in 10 states. From his days as a college soccer player to positions with heavyweights like Proctor and Gamble and Philip Morris, Greg came up through the ranks in typical Type A fashion eventually holding [...]
A big congratulations to Mark Bronston, CEO of Legends Exploration LP located in Houston, TX. Mark, along with a team of fellow scientists, received the prestigious 2009 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s Thayer Lindsley Award for the discovery of the Donlin Creek gold deposit, considered to be one of the largest umined pure [...]