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What the Lance Armstrong Story Teaches About Sustainable Leadership

Next Level Blog

Anyone in the market for a 24” by 36” signed color portrait of Lance Armstrong leading the Tour de France? Over the past several weeks, Armstrong has experienced one of the most dramatic self induced falls from grace ever. I’ve had one on my office wall for four or five years but I’ll be taking it down now.

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It’s Not About the Bike: A Lesson from Lance Armstrong

Leading Blog

Lance Armstrong once wrote: “I believed I had a responsibility to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking and honorable. If I did that, if I was good to my family, true to my friends, if I gave back to my community or to some cause, if I wasn't a liar, a cheat, or a thief, then I believed that should be enough.”

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Respect in a New Era of Responsibility

Lead Change Blog

Lance Armstrong is the latest hero to have fallen in the public arena. Posted in Self Leadership Recent events in the news indicate a need for a new era of responsibility.

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Better Einstein than Armstrong

CO2

Better Einstein than Armstrong. When I was younger, a mentor of mine use to say, “Better Einstein than Armstrong.” He had no idea, of course, just how lopsided the Einstein/Armstrong contest proved to be. I took the liberty of assembling the photos above of Armstrong, Spitzer, and Madoff. Dishonest Role Model.

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Leading In Difficult Times With Steve Armstrong

Joseph Lalonde

Answers From Leadership Episode 31 Steve Armstrong is a Calgary-based speaker, educator, and consultant. Continue Reading… The post Leading In Difficult Times With Steve Armstrong appeared first on Joseph Lalonde. My recommendation for this week is How to Stay Motivated: Developing the Qualities of Success by Zig Ziglar.

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The wisdom of Neil Armstrong….

First Friday Book Synopsis

Although he will be remembered as the first human being to walk on the surface of the moon, Neil Armstrong said something in later years that I will always think about whenever his name is mentioned. He was justifiably proud of his various achievements as an astronaut and, especially, the “moon walk” but whenever praised [.].

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What’s The Right Stuff of Leadership? Think Dog, Turtle, and Cockroach

Terry Starbucker

They were my childhood heroes, and I still vividly remember that night in July of 1969 when I ran outside moments after Neil Armstrong uttered that famous “one small step” line and stared at the moon, utterly captivated by the notion that a man was walking on it at that very moment.

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