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Accelerate Your Growth through Agile HR Practices

HR Digest

The Agile Manifesto written by a collection of 17 bright minds in 2001 , gave rise to a collection of values to guide software development in an agile, adaptive manner. Similar to a team huddle before a rugby match or any other sport, it requires everyone to come together and define each role and goal for the overall team.

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Servant Leaders Outperform Because They Connect

Michael Lee Stallard

When Admiral Clark became the chief, first term re-enlistment didn’t meet the Navy’s goal of 38 percent. Within a matter of hours following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, aircraft carriers, Aegis destroyers, and cruisers were in position to protect America’s shores. Navy from 2000 until 2005.

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Why Every CEO Needs a Leadership Coach

Coaching Tip

When asked what was the best advice he ever received, Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google, recognized it was from John Doerr, who in 2001 said, "My advice to you is to have a coach." The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as I do. Schmidt initially resented the advice, because after all, he was a CEO.

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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 4: Don’t Close Your Ears to Experts

Strategy Driven

You’ve got very lofty goals,” Dick said. When we started Sports Illustrated , we didn’t make a profit for six years. In 2001, Ed earned Entrepreneur of the Year honors from Ernst & Young. He listened carefully as I told him about my idea for my magazine. Are you prepared to wait that long? 500 company.

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The Problem with Rewarding Individual Performers

Harvard Business Review

In 1968, The Ohio State Buckeyes football team started one of the most cherished traditions in American sports. But by 2001, the once-dominant Buckeyes had slipped into mediocrity. This is why sports fans can show up to a stadium and immediately share common purpose with 100,000 complete strangers.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star. Last fall, we joined Bunge and his employees for “sports hour,” a mandatory fitness class for all employees every Friday between 11 and noon. Everybody had to do the sports hour.

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Work-Life Balance Through Interval Training

Harvard Business Review

Before long, someone noted the analogy to high performance in sports, and used a phrase that piqued my curiosity: Corporate Athlete. Apparently, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz have already made quite a lot of the term corporate athlete, having coined it way back in a 2001 HBR article ( I was only 13 years late to the party! )