Accelerating Your Development as a Leader: A Guide for Leaders and Their Managers

Case in Point: Tony

One of my coaching clients, Tony, was an incredibly adept leader when it came to knowing his field, which was online marketing. The problem was that, although Tony had advanced very quickly through leadership levels, he still conducted himself as he did a few years ago when he was fresh out of college. The most noticeable problem was that Tony's overall appearance was very shabby. He would walk into an important meeting wearing a wrinkled shirt that looked as if it had been slept in the night before. On the few days that he wore a tie (and he worked in a very conservative business environment in which ties and sports coats were mandatory for certain events), it tended to be loud and tacky. Tony was also a very big and hefty ...