Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 17, 2020

In this episode, you’ll meet Ellen Robinson, former General Manager for Denver Pepsi Cola and President of Ascent Sports (owners of the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche). She will help you look at your leadership through a different lens and give […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 26, 2013

His “sports ready” stance had withered to hunched and clenched. . ”I can’t” ”No one will help.” ” ”No options.” ” He’d stop trying to improve the situation and was looking to numb it. He still had an occassional “wish” for a miracle.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even good people may find that the knife in their back sports their own fingerprints. Bad things happen to good people. Karma doesn’t always show up in time. Even the most well-intentioned leaders do stupid stunts from time to time. My time in HR gave me a front row seat to such tragedies.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Civility at Work is a Team Sport. What do you do if you’re dealing with a co-worker who is completely uncivil? I mean down-right mean, their momma should have taught them better kind of uncivil? How can you address civility at work at a team level? Askingforafriend.

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General Leadership

OCTOBER 31, 2014

As any sports coach knows, a team’s results overshadow the individual. “When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.” ” Joe Paterno. We have all heard the homily “There is no “I” in “Team. ”

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 3, 2021

Any job, skill, or sport without a certain level of progression or improvement required can quickly become boring and stale, leaving those involved feeling apathetic. Development and progression are not only essential but often one of the main goals of a company. Challenging Your Employees If any company or group.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Source: Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life II. Garret Kramer on insight versus willpower: “Insight is infinitely more powerful than willpower. Actually, insight, or having a new idea and/or a change of heart, erases the need for strength or force of will of any kind.” This is the opposite of what they should do.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 1, 2020

David Meltzer is the Co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and formerly served as CEO of the renowned Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency, which was the inspiration for the movie Jerry Maguire. Connect with David: LinkedIn (Be sure to check out David’s weekly Friday LinkedIn broadcast).

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Fritz and our special guests: Hilary Knight – Professional Hockey Player, Olympic Silver Medalist, MVP of the Canadian Women’s Professional Hockey League, Four-time World Champion and Three-time All American in the Sport of Women’s Hockey. Hilary grew up in a skiing household with parents who never had ice skated.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What advice does Mark have for future stars–regardless of whether they’re going into sports, business, law, or non-profits? Certain leadership qualities, soft skills, and core values matter so much, they simply transcend context—and apply to sports, business, philanthropy, and just about anything else, according to Cuban.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

Sport executive Scott O’Neil on keeping what’s most important front and center: “What matters more than anything else to you? I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

According to Hardy, drug discovery is a team sport. Tech companies pay dearly for engineering talent; universities get into bidding wars for gifted professors, and NBA and other professional sports teams shell out hundreds of millions of dollars for star players. In their view, stars are worth their weight in gold.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 19, 2023

New Book Giveaway! Leave a comment on this guest post by Dr. Richard Safeer, Chief Medical Director of Employee Health and Well-Being at Johns Hopkins Medicine, to become eligible to win a complimentary… Continue reading →

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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. Let’s apply the team sport analogy further. Yet many times, companies struggle with sharing and aligning functional plans. Too often, managers put their heads down and focus only on their own departments.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 25, 2014

An aspiring Scuba instructor, it’s clear he’s got more confidence, competence and commitment than me for this sport. This week we’re Scuba diving and the roles are completely reversed. I’m mostly there to play with the fishes (and take great pics). I do whatever he says and follow his underwater hand signals no questions asked.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Communication is a team sport. 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. We encourage the leaders we work with to teach this technique to everyone on their team and empower them to use it.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2024

This compilation of wisdom and practical habits from Novak's life and from some of the most successful leaders in the world—CEOs from many industries, military and political leaders, sports greats, experts, and coaches—is your active-learning practice manual. But this is not merely a sports book.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2017

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. If you are a coach for a youth sports team, this is a great way to showcase your leadership skills. Kids learn a lot from your example.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 27, 2014

Basketball is a sport where the most talented teams don’t always win but those that create a culture of leadership almost always do. 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.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

These songs are played in sports arenas across the country. A Reel Leadership Article. There are classic stadium rock anthems everybody knows. Songs such as We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, or Another One Bites The Dust. The members of Queen were masters at crafting songs that have lasted through generations.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 10, 2022

Were you picked last for sports or business? A Reel Leadership Article. Have you ever felt like an underdog? Sometimes we feel like no one wants us. That’s how the football player Kurt Warner (Zachary Levi) felt. He knew he was good. He knew he could play. Yet, the teams in the NFL didn’t want him.

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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.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 7, 2020

One sport that constantly looks at stats is major league baseball. Stats fascinate me. The numbers tell a story. The stories they tell may be hidden deep within the numbers or examples but they are there. They have stats for everything. Some of the statistics baseball fans and announcers follow are: Batting Average At Bats […].

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you’re watching this episode when it originally airs, sports are front and center with the Super Bowl just around the corner. So in this spirit, we are discussing a very popular sports phrase: playing to win. And this week, we are turning the question around a bit and answering: Can we take the idea […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

27:25] Leadership Lessons from Ultra-Endurance Draw inspiration from endurance sports. Empowering Growth on Your Leadership Journey [12:28] Breaking the Cycle of Micromanagement Explore actionable ways to empower your team while staying clear on outcomes and avoiding bottlenecks on your leadership path. [16:20]

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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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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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. In the third grade, he learned to code in BASIC, and loved reading. But computers were for nerds. He saved a lot of quarters. Allan had a serious demeanor.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2016

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. The year was 1985 and Scully was deadheading to Pittsburgh as I recall to catch up with the Dodgers. So it was that he and I shared a flight from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

I’ve been a fan of New England sports teams since I was a kid. But when Tom Brady went to Tampa Bay, I started rooting for the Buccaneers. Low expectations – high performance:… Continue reading →

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to relive stress.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 23, 2023

” Missing the mark sucks, but if basketball players quit after every missed shot, we’d never have any sports highlights. “We Missed Our Objectives. How Can We Pivot?” “What’s our rebound strategy? How can we slam dunk it next time?”

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2017

My sports coach advised me not to train for three days after experiencing a sharp pain, and to go see him if the pain didn’t go away. The practice of restraint in endurance training is often the difference between an athlete who is still going at 60 and one who burns out or injures herself to the point of quitting the sport.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 31, 2024

Whether you’re a sports fan or not, there’s no denying there’s something special about watching the Olympics. No doubt a big draw is the immediacy of knowing who the winner will be. Instead of months, it only takes a matter of days to discover which athlete will end up rising. Click to continue reading

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 23, 2022

He achieved in sports; he achieved in the military; he achieved as an actor. I have been a longtime fan of President Ronald Reagan, and not because of his policies (this isn’t a political conversation). But rather I am a fan because Ronald Reagan was an achiever. He became a governor and a president of […].

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2023

The principles are relevant for individuals, community groups, sports teams, nations and even families. This may mean intentionally arranging your work calendar to prioritize attending a child’s concert or sporting event, making your spouse’s coffee in the morning or taking a turn to clean up the kitchen after a meal.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Parents work to give them an “early start” in music, sports, and reading, but for some reason wait until they are older to talk about leading. Parents are well positioned to be the first leadership developers of their children. And yet, many parents do not take a deliberate approach to growing leadership in their kids.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Success is a team sport, period. Remember, success is a team sport. Maybe it was your first customers who took a chance on your product. Maybe it was a mentor who gave you that critical piece of advice. Maybe your team was grinding it out late at night to make your vision a reality. Think about it.

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