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What Can Leaders Learn from Elite Athletes About High-Level Performance?

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Be like Roger. The Roger, in this case, is none other than Roger Federer, the tennis legend considered an exemplar of athleticism and sportsmanship. Indeed, executives often see themselves as industry or functional domain expertswhether in tech, health sciences, finance, or as an engineer, designer, or head of operations.

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Fixing the Game: What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL

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Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. Instead, we’ve looked for a new scapegoat, chosen to operate from the same fundamental theories, and doubled down on the same fixes." THE STORY BEGINS.

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

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Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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The Key to Change is a People Focus

Lead Change Blog

Prussian Field Marshal Graf Helmut Von Molke the Elder , famously said that no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force. More subtly, however, it appeared that senior managers could not or chose not to see the need to harness the power of relationships.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2022

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Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Section III: Strategy. Section VI: Persuasiveness. Section IX: Team Building.

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Change is a Double-Edged Sword

Lead Change Blog

Leading change well requires managing arational factors. Fullan describes these as ‘arational’ factors and provides several examples, such as: Strategy and operations are not always fully integrated. It first appeared in his book, “Managing Change … and making it stick!”. Moreover, you can view it on my Slideshare account.

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