Last Monday, Coach Steve Scanlon and I had breakfast in a New York café and were discussing our schedules for the upcoming week. We both had on-site coaching sessions with either an individual CEO or with their teams, we had the World Business Forum coming up, and then Steve was off to work with another group in Oklahoma.
While we were eating, Steve mentioned that he is seeing an increase in the number of professionals that are struggling to keep their minds out of the doom and gloom. He wanted to address this with the group he was going to speak to later in the week.
In challenging times, most leaders spend the majority of their time playing defense. This means time spent reviewing cash flow, sales reports, and financials so they can make the best reactive and tactical decisions in order to survive. Cost cutting, expense control, layoffs…..ugh! 
