Lead on Purpose

MAY 23, 2009

He compares it to halftime in sports (games like basketball and American football) that have a break during games. In his book HALFTIME: Moving from Success to Significance , author Bob Buford explores three stages of life: The first half: On average, the first 40 years of your life. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The job seeker, Manos Katsampoukas, sent his resume to 4000 recruiters politely asking for a position in finance or marketing. The industry in general doesn’t have the greatest reputation when it comes to integrity, ethics, and treating people with respect. OK, granted, that’s not a very smart job-hunting strategy.

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PR McCarthy Learning-by-Doing Sports 218

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

In the world of professional sports the search for talent often starts during the middle-school years, which is long before the potential talent being tracked by the scouts has matured. People, their traits, attitudes, and work ethic (or lack thereof) are contagions. This can be positive or negative – the choice is yours.

Insurance 353

Insurance Bottom-up CEO Compliance 353

Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

Some of the writers pointed out that these were two different sports and couldn’t be compared. Whether it’s the style of play in a sport, or leadership style in the business world, men and women are clearly and obviously different. A lot of people said a lot of pretty dumb things. Can’t we all just get along?

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Press Release Discount PR Sports 165

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. love your site and marketing strategy. Think of something you never would have considered and do it; even if it’s riding a bull. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Taylorism Taylor Ethics Godin 150

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

The seemingly more attractive (and logical) option is to do more and more – the theory being the more markets, products, and businesses a company engages in, the better the results. Today, 40% of Nike’s revenue comes from apparel and sporting goods. Yet, do less better isn’t something most leaders embrace. This is not true.

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Company Apparel Competitive Advantage Long-term 177

Lead on Purpose

JULY 19, 2010

Champions: Usually associated with sports, the word champions identifies the ultimate winners. It’s the fuel that gets you going in the morning. It’s the energy that drives you throughout the day. You receive power from eating. These are the people who have worked smart and hard to achieve a goal. They work together.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Football field - What sports are you into? Wooden tennis racket – What do you do for fun? What are your interests? Bi-plane - Do you travel for business? Did you go on vacation this summer? High school - Where did you go to school? Goal post - What goals are you shooting for this year? All I ask is that you try it. Unported License.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 13, 2016

Competition is everywhere: Wall Street, private industry, start-ups, technology, sports, and school. They were dedicated and had a great work ethic because they worked more than everyone else. I wonder what they are thinking now that Amazon took a leading position in Market Cap. They went all-in and Wal-Mart made no changes.

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Succession Sports Ethics Reference 150

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport. I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game. Great insights Susan.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Although she is a sports fan and often invites people to join her at games, she doesn''t carry on conversations while the ball is live. Ethical Governance. Books Business Coaching Current Affairs Ethics Leadership U.S. Stock Market What is' White''s life is about working, and winning. Related articles.

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Insurance Industry Ethics Crisis 85

Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Or, it could be used poorly – just ask executives at Sports Illustrated who were recently terminated for their misuse of AI tools. Sample Prompt: Suggest five innovative product ideas for the <YOUR NICHE> of the <YOUR MARKET> market. Identifying New Market Opportunities Example 4.3.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

Tanya currently writes about leadership, in sport, work and life on Elevati’s Blog at www.elevati-inc.com/blog. include: MacDermid, Sanofi-Aventis, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Raytheon, USDA, Catalina Marketing, Nielsen Media, Starbucks, Fortune Brands, U.S.C., Clients served through TalentSmart® and Elevati, Inc. Tanya holds an M.A.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 100

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. Complacency has it’s price, up to and including some morally and ethically reprehensible leaders who have been elected to public office. We might simply vote without doing our homework first. Worse yet, we may not vote for anyone.

Leadership 150

Leadership Follow-up Blog Greenleaf 150

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 13, 2015

Easily definable” is the element within visions that facilitates the ethic of simplicity, and doing less, better in this complex world of business. Clear visions work for inventors, athletes, sports teams, nations, and companies of all sizes and shapes. Great leaders envision a better place for every stakeholder”.

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Sports Ethics Travel Follow-up 100

Strategy Driven

MARCH 13, 2019

Your focus will be on your business’s bottom line, and how you can exploit your chosen market to make it as healthy, buoyant and sustainable as possible. Work Ethic. Successful entrepreneurs are the people who have an exceptional work ethic. If you are starting a new venture, you are entering the heady world of entrepreneurship.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2024

Drawing on real-life examples from Wall Street titans, sports icons, and even FBI investigators, Walsh’s book is a call to action for leaders to become more aware of their “deaf spots”—or judgment. Consider how marketeers segment customers or how we rate colleagues as introverts or extroverts with high or low potential.

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Self-aware Environment Learning-by-Doing Market Segmentation 81

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. Investigate those doing what you want to do.

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Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

We feel strong alignment in purpose: elevating the networking profession by teaching leadership and professionalism, and finally take network marketing mainstream as the most ethical and effective business model for the new economy. Thank you, Chris and Orrin.

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Letter Travel Blog Class 56

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 27, 2023

A rational response According to the researchers, a number of senior managers viewed the four-day workweek as a practical solution to the challenges presented by the pandemic, and anticipated that it would enhance their ability to recruit top talent in the job market after COVID.

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Participative Report Stress Survey 52

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Key components of courage include clarity of one’s own values, a deep sense of ethicality, being positively self-critical,being able to let go and move on, resilience to setbacks. Courage is the capacity to do the right thing, while being aware of the personal and wider risks.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

The best policy may be to avoid incentives altogether and focus instead on creating systems in which intrinsic motivation, cooperation, ethical behavior, trust, creativity, and joy in work can flourish. You will often see such stroies about successful sports teams and how their season long slogan helped them succeed.

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Deming System Incentives Short-term 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Increasingly, prescription ADHD drugs like Adderall , dedicated to improving attention deficits, are finding their way into gray market use by students looking for a cognitive edge. Indeed, is it ethical to discourage or ignore an option that might help an employee be more productive and keep his or her job?

Health Care 15

Health Care Ethics Pharmaceuticals Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

He would have to train in completely different ways, and unlearn many of the things that have allowed him to succeed at his chosen sport. His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth.

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Sports Christensen Innovation Class 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Adam Richardson, Assistant VP of Strategy and Marketing at global innovation firm frog design , is the author of Innovation X: Why a Company's Toughest Problems are its Greatest Advantage. He can be found on Twitter at @Richardsona.

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Metrics Education Software Tools 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

She ultimately realized she had to take control of how she told her story, and make those hiring managers understand she wasn’t marketing her flying abilities — it was about the leadership skills she’d developed. Do you have a strong work ethic?’” “It’s very much, ‘Can you learn?

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Career Skills Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. Whole Foods Market. Sports Direct International. JD Sports Fashion. compared to weighted average of 5.2% AstraZeneca.

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Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

But charging different customers different prices for the same or a similar product or service is tricky for reasons having nothing to do with ethics. Second: if you have different prices in the market for a similar product, there is no preventing your well-heeled customers from taking advantage of the lower prices, too.

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Price Discount Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Our prior research had found that increasing employees’ sense of play, purpose, and work potential can increase their adaptive performance, improving sales, customer experience, creativity, ethical behavior, and grit. Previously, working in the call center was a solo sport. First we reduced tactical performance pressure.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

Modern Servant Leader

JULY 2, 2024

Jim Collins 2019 Other Business Balance Case for Servant Leadership The author argues that servant leadership is ethical, practical, and meaningful. Ethically intelligent people know how to use this awareness the right way. Ethical intelligence may be the most practical form of intelligence there is Ñ and the most valuable.

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Library Leadership Greenleaf Servant Leader 100

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Praveen Kopalle – Associate Dean MBA Program, Signal Companies’ Professor of Management and Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. World authority on project management.

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Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2010

Elliot Ross May 20, 2010 at 8:05 am In some cases – rather than use the word ‘can’t’ Have the balls (to borrow from the post) to say I ‘Won’t’ Maybe ethics, maybe legal. Judy Helfand May 20, 2010 at 8:07 am Stopped by as Lisa Petrilli tweeted about your post.

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Learning-by-Doing Blog Definition Open-book 388

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

To shareholders, to the markets, to "consumers." If you're going to live a life that matters, you need an ethical compass: a belief system with a true north that points toward values that are in some sense enduringly, meaningfully good. To your boss, her boss, his boss, or their boss. Where's your true north?

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How To Armstrong Learning-by-Doing Belief Systems 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018, Dick’s Sporting Goods announced that it would no longer sell semiautomatic rifles in its hunting and fishing stores (it had already stopped selling them at its main stores after the December 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting). hbr staff/thelinke/Getty Images.

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Politics Brand Participative Retail 8