Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

by Sbastien Page The Psychology of Leadership offers a fresh take on leadership through the lens of groundbreaking research in positive, sports, and personality psychology. The Psychology of Leadership : Timeless principles to perfect your leadership of individuals, teams and yourself!

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

I N BUSINESS, as in sports, the aspect that distinguishes the best teams from the mediocre teams comes down to collaboration. Too often, managers put their heads down and focus only on their own departments. Let’s apply the team sport analogy further. His new book, Trust the Plan: Demand Management for Business Leaders (J.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Some of the most successful leaders in sports, like former Super Bowl-winning coach Bill Walsh, exemplify this mindset; he emphasized focusing on continuous improvement, not winning. We dont have control over all outcomes, but we do have control over our process. Laurent Valosek is CEO of Peak Leadership Institute.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Published by Michael Lee Stallard on October 28, 2010 02:58 pm under connection culture , employee engagement , knowledge flow A participant in a recent session Jason Pankau and I were teaching on Connection Cultures and employee engagement shared that she connects with her sons by talking about sports. why is everyone smiling?

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Listen here: Ever played a sport in school? They taught you how to be effective in that sport. Many managers today are task masters. Today, many organizations make the mistake of letting their managers do whatever they want without focusing on each associate — they make the process mechanical and impersonal.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 14, 2013

This advice is commonly touted in a variety of high pressure situations: life, school, sports, business deals. When I facilitate workshops on leadership with students and experienced managers I invite them to share the best leadership advice they’ve ever received. But does it have a place in leadership? This invitation [.].

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 27, 2014

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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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Why do people all over the world enjoy participating in games and sports? Why have games and sports been going on for not just centuries, but millennia? Indeed, a good part of the joy and appeal of every sport is this immediate feedback. Managers learn valuable information that comes in no other way. It conveys respect.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. 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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

It’s September, and for sports fans that means the NFL season is starting, and the Major League Baseball pennant races are heating up as they head to the postseason. It was a profile of Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter , whose team is in a great battle with the mighty New York Yankees for first place in their division.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

There’s a reason that professional sports teams pay millions of dollars for a coaching team. I once worked with a company that decided to collapse its engineering organization by turning Engineering Managers into Managing Engineers, and oh, what a difference the word order makes.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

If you’ve ever played a team sport like soccer or basketball, you quickly learn that while it is helpful to have an “all-star” player, the best teams leverage the talents of all their players on the field and elevate everyone’s game in order to consistently win.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 22, 2024

You’re not trying to micro-manage. Use Technology Carefully Used well, tools like project management software, automated checklists, and collaborative platforms are great ways to ensure tasks are completed accurately and on time. On the highest-performing teams, accountability is a team sport. You don’t have time for that.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

wallybock says, " Being a boss is a team sport.". FT: Zen and the art of management by By John Paul Rathbone. FT: Why are good managers so rare? Six Key Elements of Strategic Thinking for CEOs. What Personal Characteristics Do You Need To Become an Executive? by @MarbleHillLtd. Read The Wisdom Of Insecurities by @LollyDaskal.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Cruz’s unfortunate injury reignited the debate over the appropriateness of not only crying in sports (“ There''s no crying in baseball! Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership for tips on how to deal with handle crying at work. No crying! ”), but crying at work. crying crying at work emotions Victor Cruz'

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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. elliotross So well said Mike, I know for myself that managing conflict is not a 'natural' for me. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 3, 2025

His multifaceted role at further education (FE) institute Exeter College combines two things hes passionate about: management, and teaching and learning. After a degree in sport and recreation management, Simon started his career in health clubs before moving to the University of Exeter sports centre as a duty manager and then acting manager.

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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. Leadership gets the team going and management keeps it going. It is no different with leadership.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Curley Fujihara, their 5-foot manager, stood on a chair with the broom raised high, allowing the players to practice shooting over what would feel like an impossible obstacle. In business, just as in sports, talent will always be valuable — but it’s not enough on its own.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With the exception of entertainment and sports where youth is over served, we defer to age, experience, and maturity in most facets of our life. Crisis Management Leadership Rants Brian Layer Congress government shutdown leadership and congress N2growth politicians as leaders' Their previous cooperation will have paid this forward.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

It is rife with struggles related to managing the emerging responsibilities of adult life. If ownership or management of a family enterprise is an expectation, the pressures only mount. One family professionally designed “family trading cards” similar to those popular in sports, creating experience across generations.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2024

An athletic director is a strategic leader responsible for managing budgets, developing policies and procedures, and promoting a positive and inclusive athletic culture. In addition to leadership qualities, an athletic director should have a solid understanding of athletic programs and the sports industry.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 16, 2019

Whilst leading the organisation does often come with a title – like CEO or Managing Director – leading a group of people does not. In high performance sport, confidence is a topic on everyone’s agenda, because the sports world knows what business has been slow to pick up on – that confidence is the secret to performance.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And managers spend twenty-six percent of their time addressing and resolving conflicts on their teamthe equivalent of chewing up one full workday each week. "If Because the average American worker spends 156 hours a year engaged in the kind of moderate to intense workplace conflict that adversely impacts both performance and health.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 14, 2013

However, for a manager, being unskilled in leadership and not wanting do do anything about it is a recipe for failure. These managers are often stuck in their own comfort zone, over rely on a few key strengths and will justify their behavior by saying things like "hey, that's just the way I am". That's not always a bad thing.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 9, 2013

As a parent and as a former coach of my son’s youth sports teams, I was filled with shock, horror, and disgust as I learned about the conduct of former Rutgers men’s basketball coach Mike Rice this past April. As you can probably imagine, the most skeptical responses I receive are usually from the bosses and managers themselves.

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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.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Potential – Interference = Performance I FIRST encountered this equation in the context of peak performance in the sports world. The interference could come externally but often comes internally in an athlete — freezing up or choking on the spot.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

F1 racing has historically been a male-dominated sport, but that is changing rapidly. Currently, no rules prevent women from competing in the sport, but the current grid of drivers is exclusively male. The sport has recognized the importance of engaging with fans and providing them with an unforgettable experience.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2013

Leadership always comes before management. Without this kind of leadership, effective management won''t exist; because managers don''t have the knowledge of what is important, what the expectations are, or what the leader''s definition of success is, to name just a few examples. There are more of them than there are of you.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

It was the confluence of several things – a funeral, a business trip, a management meeting, and a conference – that created a perfect learning environment. Occasionally, however, this higher level reflection can happen, and this past week was one of those times for me. The work must be for a cause greater than ourselves.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 24, 2021

As a manager you may have never thought of it this way, but there are times when you cheat your employees. Here are four common ways manager’s cheat their team members: 1. Here are four common ways manager’s cheat their team members: 1. Solving their problems.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 21, 2020

Great leaders recognize that business success is a team sport and they cannot do it all for themselves. Conversely, delegation occurs when a manager assigns a task to a team members. “We need to get rid of rules – real and imagined – and encourage independent thinking.”. Howard Behar, Starbucks. feel valued and recognized.

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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. As a result, confidence in our leaders and the institutions they lead has diminished, sometimes to the point of no return.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2024

These professional risk-takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. Chapter by chapter, Novak and his all-star roster of leaders share how they've climbed to the highest levels in their fields.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team. Rather in most instances, I believe HR should be a compliance, training and risk management function.

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