The Vast Majority of IRS Employees Aren't Corrupt
GSA Mishandled Executive Bonuses
EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Infographic: Nominee Limbo
Will You Be Furloughed?
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Scott Eblin
Executive Coach
Executive coach Scott Eblin’s goal is to help you succeed at the next level of leadership. Throughout the week, he’ll offer his take on the leadership lessons in the news and his advice on your most pressing leadership questions. A former government executive, Scott is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and is the author of The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success.
What Leaders Can Learn from Obama and the GOP
February 1, 2010 Early last week, my 10th grade son asked my wife and me for ideas on a speech he has to write for his composition class. The assignment is to write a speech that fills in the blank on, "I have a dream that..." After thinking about it for a few ...
Three Mantras to Keep Your Ego in Check
January 29, 2010 Leaders have to walk a fine line. On the one hand, it's important to leverage the footprint of the role that you're in. As I said in a webinar on leading at the next level for Government Executive magazine yesterday, there are certain things that only you can do given ...
Truman Thursdays - Commanding Officer Joe Clarkson on Leadership
January 28, 2010 As promised, over the next several Thursdays I'll be sharing interviews with some of the commissioned and enlisted personnel I met on my recent trip to the aircraft carrier, USS Harry S Truman. The basic question I asked everyone was, "What are you looking for in a leader?" First up ...
Three Reasons You Should Fire the Prima Donna
January 28, 2010 Over my ten years as an executive coach, I've come across situations where one of my clients feels like they're between a rock and a hard place because they have someone on their team who produces great results but alienates everyone around them. You know the type. It's what we've ...
What I Learned on an Aircraft Carrier
January 25, 2010 Last October, I had the opportunity to speak on leadership to newly promoted admirals and senior executives of the US Navy in their annual symposium. That led to an invitation to join a group of civilians to visit the aircraft carrier, USS Harry S Truman, on a training cruise off ...
What You Can Learn About Negotiating From Conan O'Brien
January 22, 2010 As I'm writing this a few days before publication, by the time you read this Conan O'Brien will have probably left The Tonight Show on NBC with a hefty severance package in the neighborhood of $30 million. (See this article from the Financial Times for details.) I'd leave for that ...
How Coakley and Brown Pulled Defeat from the Jaws of Victory and Vice Versa: What Leaders Can Learn
January 21, 2010 One of the most fun aspects of my work as an executive coach is the opportunity to work in a lot of different organizations. I enjoy observing what's different and similar in the various cultures. One thing that's more or less the same everywhere is that most people profess a ...
Six Qualities That Made Martin Luther King, Jr. a Great Speaker
January 19, 2010 Several years ago I was given the gift of the recordings of the sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. The sermon set is called "A Knock at Midnight," and the speeches set is titled "A Call to Conscience." There are companion books of the same title for each ...
Make a Difference This Year. Right Now.
January 15, 2010 The tragedy in Haiti is a leadership moment for all of us to step up and do what we can do to help. I was talking with my college junior son on the phone last night and he said he wanted to go to Haiti to help. I know how ...
Three Simple Ways to Improve in 2010
January 13, 2010 This is the week where the rubber meets the road on all of those grand plans that we have for changing things in the new year. The glow of being out of the office for a week or two has worn off, all of the stories about what you did ...
