Author Archives: Ron Hurst

Leadership Coach: Ron Hurst… ACC (well almost)

Hey everyone next January I will complete a year long program through Fielding Graduate School in coaching. When complete, I will soon thereafter obtain the ACC designation (Associate Certified Coach) from the International Coaches Federation or ICF for short. I am very … Continue reading

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AWOL Leader

Hey everyone its been a while 5 months wow. A lot has happened since then. I enrolled in a coaching program at Fielding Graduate School to test how well my coaching skills fared against a formal program and I am … Continue reading

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I Dare Ya Ron

A while back I took my own medicine. Now for me the act of reading to children at a library seemed fairly straight forward. I was planning on meeting a friend who works at a local Barnes and Noble and … Continue reading

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Alright I got to 40 and got Bored… Let’s talk about Something Else

So I wrote 40 posts on Tom Peters and got bored with the rest because there wasn’t much new there. Hard to add value when there isn’t much to begin with. So I stopped for a while. I was writing … Continue reading

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50 Posts 50 Rules: Tom Peters on Leadership: 40

40. Leaders give everyone a cause. Maybe I am getting a bit tired of this series but this rule seems so obvious as to be silly. Yet is it? The other day I was considering the management model of theory … Continue reading

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The Complete Leader

What is the complete leader? This is a model I have been working on for the past 5 years. Essentially the model reflects the simplicity and complexity that is leadership. A leader is not a cookie cutter set of skills and … Continue reading

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50 Posts 50 Rules: Tom Peters on Leadership 39

39. Leaders have great stories. I remember a time a few years back when a colleague had said to me, “we don’t tell stories anymore”. This statement cut deeply, he had verbalized angst I had been feeling for some time … Continue reading

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Ron on Twitter

I finally did it. I signed up on twitter. I am late to the party to be sure. In this respect it woluld be easy to say I am a follower and that would be true.I decided though that twitter … Continue reading

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50 Posts 50 Rules: Tom Peters on Leadership 38

38. Leadership is a performance.   Okay when I first read this rule by Tom Peters I was thinking he was going to discuss performance as in measurable progress against a goal but he took a left turn here. He … Continue reading

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Leadership Challenge: Ron Style…

Everyone Great news! After a grueling 8 months of leading an organization by day, evenings in B school obtaining an MBA and spare time split between family friends and volunteer leadership roles, I am happy to announce that I finished … Continue reading

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