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Sports Teams Are NOT Work Teams

Mike Cardus

I am not a sports fan, and when I am leading team building & leadership retreats for Corporate Teams the topic comes up. I have lead programs with professional and college level sports teams, and learned a great deal about the similarities and differences. Are you a sports fan? Plus the whole idea of Fandom freaks me out.

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The Five Obsessions of Winning Teams

N2Growth Blog

Every coach, player and student manager is considered a leader and they understand that they compete as a leadership team against another team of leaders. Basketball is a sport where the most talented teams don’t always win but those that create a culture of leadership almost always do. Follow me on Twitter @brianlayer.

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Four Essential Behaviors for Every Leader

Leading Blog

Throw in complex organizations operating in complex markets, and you’ve really got to marvel at how it all comes together every day. There’s a reason that professional sports teams pay millions of dollars for a coaching team. Managing Engineers are expected to have their hands on a keyboard most of the time.

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What Makes a High-Performance Leader?

Great Leadership By Dan

High-performance leaders operate with a growth mindset and are great communicators. A growth mindset means they operate with: 1. They operate with an abundant, as opposed to a scarcity, mindset. Titled Leaders” operate from a scarcity mindset. I have grown up around high-performance sport. Curiosity 3.

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

Leading Blog

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. For example, evidence shows that for most of us, operating on fewer than six hours of sleep is equivalent to operating while drunk. In the U.S.,

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Front Line Leadership: The Keys To Managing Millenials, Part 1

Terry Starbucker

Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. Recently a survey was conducted that asked preteens about their long term career aspirations - the top three were sports star, pop star and actor.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.