Leadership Lessons from Lance Armstrong

Executive coaching sometimes covers the bases on helping leaders be the best at what they do. Sometimes, being the best means eating crow when something is your fault. An executive coach will help reunify the office or business so life can go on post-mistake.

While there are crisis intervention public relations folks who deal with the public during an emergency (i.e. a CEO was caught stealing) that’s not what we mean.  This type of executive coaching is designed for executives to be a better leader on a day to day basis.

There is no better person, perhaps, to prove our point on a very large scale than Lance Armstrong. Based on his recent interview with Oprah, we got so see just how far not coming clean after a huge mistake will get us – he wasn’t winning all those medals thanks to his team uniform designs.

To get started, here’s the best holistic (i.e. on a realistic day-to-day basis) approach to almost any mistake:

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10 Leadership Lessons for Gen-Y

Wish I knew then what I know now.

You hear that sort of thing all the time; a lament to the wisdom that seems to come too late in life, or at least later than we'd like it to.

The current generation of up-and-comers certainly has its opportunities and its challenges. Having grown up with high-tech, they're probably best suited to thrive in the brave new connected world. And I happen to think the digital revolution has only just begun.

On the other hand, the world is in the midst of cultural and economic upheaval. Perhaps that's nothing new, but it is challenging, to say the least. There's so much information, so many choices, so much distraction, just those things alone present more complexity than any generation has ever had to deal with.

That said, I have a sneaking suspicion that the wisdom that comes from real-world experience applies to anyone in any generation. At least, that's the theory. Here are 10 lessons I've learned that I suspect will prove useful to the current generation of up-and-coming entrepreneurs and business leaders.

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