Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 10, 2011

Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. She doesn’t exist, and career rewards for your great work don’t just appear.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

How you view people would have the greatest leadership impact on your careers as a leader. But leadership is a team sport. Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership When you are a leader, you are working with people. How you interact and motivate is an ongoing challenge. We all need one another to create great teams.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Communication is a team sport. Check for Understanding #2: I learned the importance of this technique from one of my favorite bosses early in my career, Ray Davidson. . When you can check for understanding, you ensure that everyone is on the same page. Not Just For Leaders. The check for understanding is not just for leaders.

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Rich Gee Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Today, work is weird, complex, and ever-changing — but you have the talent and tools to take advantage of this situation and grow your career. Past and present contacts, colleagues and friends are the lifeblood of any career (“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”). This may be a sports cliche, but right now, it rings true.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2024

Blog Post ) How Leaders Learn : Master the Habits of the World's Most Successful People by David Novak with Lari Bishop - (June 2024) When you put learning at the center of everything you do, you grow your career, your leadership, your relationships, and your joy and fulfillment in life. But this is not merely a sports book.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If the guys are big sports fans in your workplace, you might take the time to read up and follow the teams they like so you can connect on a topic they’re interested in. It doesn’t make women respected and it’s more likely to backfire by making women disliked. Katie Russell is a digital marketing specialist at E Pluribus Partners.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Scully , who got his start in broadcasting career as college student Fordham in New York, began calling games with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950 when he was just 22. While Scully would typically travel with the Dodgers, he did broadcast other sporting events such as golf or football (as well as baseball) for CBS Sports.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Whether it’s progressing in your career or being the head of a family, leadership skills are very important. Sports are a great way to teach confidence. Skateboarding, golfing, skiing, baseball, and basketball are all great examples of sports that will help kids get the confidence that they need.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There are rich leadership lessons to be learned from politics and sports. Given that I try to avoid politics in this blog, please allow me the indulgence of referencing a headline from my favorite sport to make a point about leadership: Chiefs' Romeo Crennel fires himself. as team's defensive coordinator.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We need new ways to lead during the crisis – from how to reshape our careers or work, to how to craft a fresh collaborative model in this instantly all-digital age. So he made “a conscious decision to play sports, to be a gangster.”. Sure he read the sports, but he also pored over the business pages. He saved a lot of quarters.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2011

Being Canadian, I’m sure it comes as little surprise that I’m not much of a baseball fan (growing up, hockey, football and soccer were the sports I preferred playing). When it comes to baseball heroes, few are as well-known and revered as Babe Ruth, or as he’s affectionately known by baseball fans “the Bambino”.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

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. Ankersen’s insight was this: soccer is one of the world’s unfairest sports. Let’s consider a few examples.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 8, 2012

So, at 5, I already was trying to imitate my parents, “playing house”, imagining myself behind the wheel of my Hot Wheels sports car, putting on one of my dad’s ties, and even sampling a couple of spirits from the liquor cabinet (that didn’t work out too well!). And not just in my personal life.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2024

Good Judgment : Making Better Business Decisions with the Science of Human Personality by Richard Davis In Good Judgment , Dr. Davis explains what the science of personality is and how it works, and how all of us can use it to improve our working relationships, careers, and lives. Now, he is sharing it with the world.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Other elements come into play as well in shaping how we approach situations and people, things as simple as what sports teams we root for or which political party we support. If ignored or met with intolerance or indifference, these dissimilarities can be divisive, even lethal for career or business success.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

In professional sports, especially basketball, trust is everything. He’s been practicing soft skills his entire career. They needed a new leader who could teach them new things, test their limits, get them out of their comfort zone, and learn every single day. Skip one step of this algebraic formula and the math doesn’t work.

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 4, 2012

In sports, be wary of the player who swings for the fences or the one who waits to be walked. I’ve always said, keep your eyes on people who live at the ends of any spectrum. In politics, be wary of the extreme conservative or liberal. In school, stand back and watch the student who [.].

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 27, 2012

Living in Indianapolis, and being a sports fan, makes it easy to like Mario Andretti. Mario won many accolades in his racing career, including being named by the Associated Press as the Racer of the Century in 2000. Mario won one Indianapolis 500 (in 1967) and came close to winning several others. In other words, [.].

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2019

These primary environments could represent one’s dorm room, home, place of work, government, sports team, nature, and especially one’s body and mind. Career-Development Plans : This is often overlooked but one of the most important activities to team members. Stagnation is a low-performing or low/no growth environment.

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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. He hit a point in his career where, while he was successful, he didnt feel he had that stamp to prove it.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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. Go ahead and try. But any aspiring leader should go through this exercise until they become comfortable. All of them came very early in his life. She beat Brad in the annual spelling bee.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 4, 2014

Will Jackson end his career in a blaze of glory or will the Knicks and New York City reduce him to smoldering ashes? connection culture employee engagement leadership connection Culture E Pluribus Partners michael lee stallard Organizational Management Phil Jackson Relationship Excellence Sports Examples Sports Management Team Management'

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Their ‘elite belief’ in a sport requires a mental focus and intensity that is different from the way that many others approach tasks. It’s a radio show and podcast from NPR that delves into the areas where the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. It’s a cool show. So to push themselves — they lie.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2014

In the history of every industry – manufacturing, tech, entertainment, sports, all industries – there have been many examples of talent that was overlooked only to be discovered at a later moment. Lucille Ball – This failed actress was told to pursue another career.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post by Ben Fanning , the Burnout Specialist: Let me share with you what happened when I started my job at the largest sporting goods retailer in the world. In fact they were all burned out in their careers fried, fizzled, and done. Just “making money “is not an adequate reason to sustain a career for the long haul.

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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

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.

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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.”. But people who perform better and are more engaged deserve to be treated better and have their strengths developed. Reveal Everything (Even Salaries). How will you lead today?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I have grown up around high-performance sport. High-performance in the context of sport covers a process that goes like this. It is the same in every sport where high-performance is the ticket to the dance. Motorsport in cars and motorcycles and more human powered endeavours in sailing and cycling. We are not.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 8, 2018

At the time Cooke was a very successful serial entrepreneur, in the media and sports arenas. Over my career I figured out that too much complexity in an organization, and too much data, can hamper the doers. “My boy, there are two kinds of people in the business world, doers and thinkers. Which one will you be?”.

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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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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Some may want to pursue a career separate from the family enterprise, while some who join the family business may feel an extra level of intensity around performance expectations. One family professionally designed “family trading cards” similar to those popular in sports, creating experience across generations.

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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. The co-head of investment banking at Goldman Sachs said, “The goal is for our analysts to want to be here for a career. This is a marathon, not a sprint.”

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 29, 2010

An example might be, “I want to own a BMW Z4 sports car&#. Steps - Chunk out each goal into simple and realistic tasks or activities. In addition, look at your goal, if it is too big or unwieldy, break it up into manageable steps. Normal steps might be save money, research best way to purchase, buy car. Unported License.

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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. All leaders face adversity at some point in their careers.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

But with competitive career stakes down the road, students need to continually be looking for leadership opportunities on campus. During their first year, students are encouraged to declare majors for study, and explore future career potential in certain fields. Allow for possible job acceptance in desired career field.

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