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Developing the Resilience to Persevere and Excel

Michael Lee Stallard

One of the most interesting examples of resilience today comes from the world of sports where Kirk Cousins, a Washington Redskins quarterback who has been consistently underestimated, is helping lead the turnaround of a team that has had only one winning season over the last seven years. Kirk Cousins becomes a free agent in March.

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Three Ways Students Can Improve Their College Leadership Game

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But with competitive career stakes down the road, students need to continually be looking for leadership opportunities on campus. During their first year, students are encouraged to declare majors for study, and explore future career potential in certain fields. Develop employer-desired skills. Military Careers.

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What Can Leaders Learn From Tim Tebow

Tim Milburn

Leadership Matters – Team sports require leadership. Business, ministry, government and academia are all TEAM SPORTS. © 2012 Mark Miller, co-author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life. He began his Chick-fil-A career in 1977 working as an hourly team member. Tim provided leadership for the Broncos.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

The solution is machine learning —computers automatically discovering patterns and developing new knowledge by furiously feeding on modern society's greatest and most potent unnatural resource : data. Local crime increases after public sporting events. Obama was re-elected in 2012 with the help of voter prediction.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

From Everybody Matters which helps us to look at those we lead as family to Becoming Steve Jobs that looks at the development of a leader as a life-long process, the following books help us to do just that. Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer Leadership BS is a compendium of human nature.

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How to Enhance Involvement by Younger Generations in the Family Enterprise

Leading Blog

Those in the emerging adult stage (ages 18 to 28) are in a critical time for ownership development. Some may want to pursue a career separate from the family enterprise, while some who join the family business may feel an extra level of intensity around performance expectations. This entails: 1. Becoming a learning family.

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Coaching for Behavioral Change

Marshall Goldsmith

Our most successful coaching clients are executives who are committed to being great role models for leadership development and for living their company’s values. We have published research on leadership development that involved input from over 86,000 respondents. 7) Develop an ongoing follow-up process. I was wrong.