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Barry Goldberg

Barry Goldberg
Entelechy Partners
I. Barry Goldberg is managing director of Entelechy Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. His practice focuses on senior executives, change leaders and bet-the-business program teams. Goldberg holds a graduate certificate in leadership coaching from Georgetown University.

HBR and the Virtuous Circle

I mark it as a dark day for American corporate leadership when stock options became the fundamental center of executive pay.  Options were meant...

PonderThis: Don’t Buy the Doom and Gloom

I am on the way to Washington DC for meetings today and have been reading the Year-in-Review articles and blogs.  It is a pretty...

PonderThis: I Was Not Going to Write About Tiger

I was going to be the one person in the blogosphere not to weigh in.  But I have had about 5 people in the...

PonderThis: Opportunity Passes Quickly

I have been in Norway and the UK this week and the papers are full of scandal, controversy and panic.  But I also sat...

It’s What You Do Next That Counts

In big surgical procedures, doctors will often get donations of blood from a patient before surgery so that it can be used to for...

PonderThis: Choose the Battle. Win the War

In the 1908 London Olympic games a top rated springboard diver attempted a front double somersault over the objections and warnings of the judges. ...

PonderThis: When Values are Out of Sync

Values that have been thoroughly tested and go beyond the meaningless pabulum displayed on most corporate lobby walls are more important than you might...

The Cost of Asking the Wrong Question

Friday’s PonderThis focused on what happens when leaders are unwilling to ask the hard questions for fear that the answers they will find are...

Desperation Also Breeds Contempt

I have not posted here in a while; but I am seeing a disturbing trend. It seems that for many companies, go-to-market...

Airlines Are Passing the Customer Pain Buck

Seth Godin uses the airlines as an example on his blog today in an entry titled Bait and Switch (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/07/bait-and-switch.html). I would not...

Don’t Add Insult to Injury: Make It Right or Do Not Bother

At the risk of turning blogging into ranting, I am going to share another "Why would you do this to a customer?" story. I travel...

What CRM Was Supposed to Be–and From the Government!

I was in Yosemite National Park a couple of weeks ago. Downstream of my visit, I got an email survey about my stay...

(With Apologies to the Borg) Resistance Is Not Futile

As an executive coach, one of my weapons of choice is the contrarian question. At no time do I use that weapon more often...

Avoid Fist-Fights and First Figure Out Who Owns the Customer

I had the distinct feeling of being in an aquarium. Instead of conversation and animation, I was looking at a silent group of people...

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