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Resources and Article Recommendations

Talent Isn't Everything VideoHighest Performers and How They Got There.  Geoff Covin, author of Why Talent is Over-Rated, reiterates the message that DELIBERATE, FOCUSED practice is the only and best way to raise above the pack.



Coca Cola Chairman Neville IsdellClick here to listen to Coca Cola Chairman Neville Isdell discuss the importance and relevance of emotional intelligence for today’s leadership.



In this Wall Street Journal article, Melinda talks about self-efficacy and how some individuals like, Michael Jordan, Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, have used it to alter their definition of what constitutes failure in order to realize high performance.

"Why do people resist change so stubbornly, even when it's in their own best interest?" Our own biology makes it so. (Careful, reading this may give some a reason to stop trying!)

Making an Impact with Your Executive Coaching Process

The Three Skills Critical for Implementing any CRM Process - as featured on InsideCRM, 2008

Books

  • The Leadership Pipeline: How to build the leadership powered company. Authors: Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel

  • If Aristotle Ran General Motors: Author: Tom Morris

  • Execution: The discipline of getting things done.
    Author: Larry Bossidy.

  • How Doctors think. Author: Jerome Groopman, M.D.
    (Lessons relevant and important for business leaders, as well)

  • Global Leadership: The Next Generation.
    Authors: Marshall Goldsmith, Cathy Greenberg,
    Alastair Robertson, Maya HuChan

  • The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book.
    Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves

In the News

Tanya is a featured weekly contributor (Fridays) on one of the highest ratest blogsites for women on business, according to Technorati.
Take a look here www.womenonbusiness.com for her refreshing and observant thoughts on leadership and business.

Tanya is interviewed on BNET discussing how to most effectively conduct your job search so you stand out from the crowd. Click here to watch.

Tanya talks on BNET about how leaders can more successfully transition into their new roles. Click here to watch.

Featured on a top BNET video, Tanya discusses one way of several to get meet an undermining boss in the middle and create an effective, working relationship:

Turning Coaching Inside Out and Upside Down.

How to develop job credibility when you’re searching for a job or customers.

Clarity Consultants recently highlighted Tanya as an EQ expert. Click here to read the interview.

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