Executive Aid Station Bobbie LaPorte & Associates October 2017 Like the aid stations that help athletes make it through an endurance race, this Executive Aid Station is a place for you to take a brief break from your busy day, reflect, and learn something new to help fuel your personal and professional success.

What's New with Bobbie?

Business Update One of the new practices I am using with clients is called “Generative Leadership.” This is an innovative approach that taps into an organization's collective intelligence to catalyze organizational development and build personal leadership. It has been particularly effective with my clients who lead technology and/or engineering organizations but can be applied to any functional teams. Read more Training Update In early September, I was at Lake Tahoe, ramping up my training for my next race, feeling excited to be swimming in the lake each morning and training in such a beautiful and inspiring locale. Then I had a cycling accident (trying to avoid a car on a narrow driveway) and broke my right wrist. And yes, I’m right-handed. Read more

Insights

Plug into a New Podcast Check out my most recent Executive Aid Station Podcast with Meg Bear. Meg is passionate about applying technology to solve business problems, building and growing teams to be their best, and defining market-winning product strategies that are customer-centric and innovative.

What I'm Reading Good People by Anthony Tjan. This former McKinsey leader, entrepreneur and VC says that “there is ‘hard truth’ in the ‘soft stuff’ of business,” and that choosing to work with good people is the only real leadership decision that matters. It’s good stuff!

Work/Life Balance Tip Take a few moments and give this Three-Minute Breathing Space Practice a try. This deceptively simple yet very effective exercise can help you pause, reset, and get back on course with your goals and intentions for the day. And no one knows you are practicing it!

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