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John Wooden: What the Obituaries Missed

Michael Lee Stallard

I profiled Wooden as a role model who we can all learn from in my book Fired Up or Burned Out. In John Wooden’s honor, I’m posting the following excerpts from my book: Connection and the Legend So often in life, good things bloom from the seeds of hardship. He is responsible, in part, for the person I am today.”

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If the issue, circumstance, or situation is important enough, and there is enough at stake, people will do what is necessary to open lines of communication and close positional gaps.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

However this will rarely happen if lines of communication do not remain open. However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible.

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Great Leadership: a Lot of This and That

Persuasive Powerhouse

Collaboration is necessary to get buy in and cooperation. Systematic and Open to Possibility: The complexity of our organizations requires that you support some systemization within them. It is also important that your attention to being systematic be teamed with an ability to being open to possibility for new ways of doing things.

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3 Lessons from the Life and Leadership of Coach Wooden

Michael Lee Stallard

Because of Clarence’s courage and his coach’s resolve to stand up for what he believed in, the NAIB tournament was finally opened to African-American student-athletes. On June 5, 2010, Coach Wooden died. After you sign up, you will receive a welcome email with instructions to access a link to the pdf file of the book.

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Leadership Lessons from Yoga - Next Level Blog

Next Level Blog

Miller | December 15, 2010 at 04:06 PM Fabulous post Scott, I could not agree more on all counts. Danwa Posted by: Dawnamaclean | December 15, 2010 at 04:36 PM I started Yoga three years ago with a very inflexible body.   It just felt like the thing to do.    It just felt like the thing to do. 

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. It is not too difficult to get your crew all oaring together when these characteristics are firmly in place because they now know which direction to row.

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