Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall. Often leaders are described by action words such as “results-oriented, innovative, driven and visionary”.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. He went on to start two successful gaming companies, Matchbook, a sports betting exchange community, and Smartodds, which provides statistical research and sports modeling services. Let’s consider a few examples.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia. Show-up : You can’t make a difference if you don’t show-up. It requires zero talent to be present mentally and physically. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

During one of the most turbulent times in Silicon Valley history, Brad Smith was the steady-handed, innovative, and always resilient CEO of Intuit. Lots of practice is required, but it will pay off 100X throughout a career. Smith realized at that moment that life is a team sport. Brad Smith has a unique perspective.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

As a kid in sports, I played my heart out, hated my opponents and cried when I lost. The late French author Andre Maurois once said, “Business is a combination of sport and war.” For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Sure it would…Likewise, if I drove up in a new Bentley, wearing a $3,000 custom tailored suit, sporting a fresh manicure, a GQ hair-cut, and with an attitude of arrogance, wouldn’t that also color your opinion of my ability? While I have a few swiss watches, my Timex Ironman is still my favorite. I Think Not.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 16, 2017

Employers underestimate the importance of personal and career development on employee retention, vastly overestimating the importance of salary and benefits. As Christopher Bishop, head of Herman Miller’s Innovation lab has said, "The war for talent is over, talent has won." This is a marathon, not a sprint.”

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Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2019

Great leaders take the time to identify each person’s strengths and then align opportunities and career path options to take advantage of them.”. A culture of trust and psychological safety reduces the magnitude of mistakes and fosters innovation. Reveal Everything (Even Salaries). Leadership Is Not A Choice. Leadership is influence.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Sports teams with momentum go on inexplicable winning streaks while opponents can’t seem to string two wins together no matter how hard they try or how ‘talented’ their roster. Early in my career, I swam in four years of red ink at Jacobs Suchard ’s Canadian subsidiary. Gamblers in the rush of a hot-streak believe in the force.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 24, 2025

But beyond these definitions, we know that character is manifested in leadership, innovation, resilience, change, courage, loyalty, breaking barriers, and more, explains Robert (Bob), Character drives the best traits in our society, such as honesty, integrity, leadership, and transparency, and it drives others to exhibit those qualities.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 13, 2025

Dervan is now director of public and sport lighting solutions across the UK and Ireland for Signify. Just one of those days It was a chance moment in my career where I took a different direction, says Dervan. Im right at the cutting edge of that innovation, he says. You understand whats going on. It was fantastic, he says.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. When black & white becomes permanently blurred so that everything reads as shades of grey, things can become dicey. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 18, 2010

This is the career record of Larry Gelwix, coach of the Highland High rugby team (Salt Lake City) for more than three decades. This team was featured in the recent movie Forever Strong.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : Leadership is a contact sport and it’s often messy. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 29, 2022

Professional sport provides perhaps the most visceral example of career transitions in modern society, as the athletic potential of performers is usually limited to perhaps a decade, after which their physical strength wanes and they’re no longer able to maintain their competitiveness. Past our peak.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

If you’re not familiar with it, stand-up paddle (SUP) boarding is one of the fasting growing sports around. Failure supports innovation and improvement. She consults with organizations to develop and deploy innovative instructional designs and training programs. The Outdoor Industry Association reports that 1.24 And I know why.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 1, 2020

For some men, the traditional model of masculinity steers men away from talking about emotional topics (except to rant about sports or politics). Previously she was head of the UN Women’s Global Innovation Coalition for Change. However, many men don’t feel equipped to play any role in inclusion and equity.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared 6 of the Most In-Demand Skills for the Future Workplace. Be it in the field of sports, business, academics, and any other human venture. Neal Burgis of Successful Solutions contributed Bringing Out the Innovator in Your Employees. ” Follow Bill on Twitter at @btreasurer.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

In thinking of your example of sports teams, for example, is it possible that leaders can emerge at different times, for different purposes or tasks? One question: in addition to the hierarchy (focused accountability) you identify so well, is it still possible that leadership can emerge at any level? I Think Not.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 13, 2012

Perhaps innovators and entrepreneurs aren’t more risk-o-philic, they just define risk differently – not following one’s passion and purpose is a greater risk than financial or reputational security. We can all learn from their transformative innovations. ” Well, someone = us ! You create a scalable solution!

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 23, 2009

This is the time when most people focus more on their careers and less on others (and other significant causes). Bob talks about how his career (in TV station business) took off. He compares it to halftime in sports (games like basketball and American football) that have a break during games.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Priscilla writes: “ Learn how to leverage four steps in charting a CERTAIN future for your team: Sharing vision and values, Inspiring innovation, Communicating with clarity, and Engaging and enabling. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared The Top 5 Qualities of a Great Leader. Development.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

Local crime increases after public sporting events. The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills. At Stanford University, a machine learned to diagnose breast cancer better than human doctors by discovering an innovative method that considers a greater number of factors in a tissue sample.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Even in so-called “individual sports&# such as running, race car driving or gymnastics, the athletes depend on many other people for their success. You’ll find satisfaction in knowing you helped someone else, and doing so will benefit your career. The teams that have people who work together win.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 22, 2010

Simmons C-level Strategies and Awakenings Execupundit Fistful of Talent Great Leadership HR Bartender Inflexion Point John Baldoni Leading Blog Management Excellence Managing Leadership Michael Lee Stallard Mountain State University LeaderTalk QAspire Blog: Tanmay Vora Ramblings from a Glass Half Full Reflections for Personal and Business Development (..)

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Michael Carty, XpertHR : Why It's Time for HR to 'Step to the Front' in 2011 Drew Tarvin, Humor's' Office : 5 Work Resolutions You Shouldn't Make (And One You Should) Kaihan Krippendorff, Fast Company : Five Innovative New Year's Resolutions Roberta Matuson, Fast Company : Will 2011 Be Your Best Year Ever ?

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

I admired him and was pleased when later in his career he managed the Tigers to a World Series Championship as well. Reply Ken Carroll November 8, 2010 at 1:08 am There’s something great about the old style leaders, espeically in sports. Jack Welch had some of it, but the sports coaches were a law unto themselves.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 10, 2017

It’s about innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. Tim Ferriss deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, chess, pro sports, etc.), So here goes. Podcasts: How I Built This – I religiously listen to ever episode.

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HR Digest

MAY 9, 2024

According to Retail Dive , the company has returned to conversations with outlets like Macy’s, Foot Locker, and DSW to help make progress with innovation. The company made multiple changes to its leadership recently, with a new CTO, Amazon’s Dr Muge Erdirik Dogan, and a new CMO, Nicole Hubbard Graham, who was a returning employee.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 7, 2011

They don’t even have to be good at the sport. Vocalists, he pointed out, employ voice coaches throughout their careers. In sports, coaches focus on mechanics, conditioning, and strategy, and have ways to break each of those down, in turn. Coaches are not teachers, but they teach. Mainly, they observe, they judge, and they guide.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Innovation is a subject that fascinates and beguiles us at the same time. There are many myths about innovation. And myths in our own minds which often inhibit innovation. 63 Innovation Nuggets will inspire you to develop your own innovation talents as well as innovate new products and services.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

What shared interests can you learn about that you can combine to catalyze innovation for your organization? Learn more and understand more about others: What can you ask others that will provide you with a deeper understanding of individual motivations?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2024

You want to pick a career that fits your talents, interests, and skills if you want to succeed at work. Find out which careers are most suitable for those with ADHD and how to maintain motivation at work. ADHD can help with innovative design concepts and attention to detail when working on challenging assignments.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Sports teams with momentum go on inexplicable winning streaks while opponents can’t seem to string two wins together no matter how hard they try or how ‘talented’ their roster. Early in my career, I swam in four years of red ink at Jacobs Suchard ’s Canadian subsidiary. Gamblers in the rush of a hot-streak believe in the force.

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