The Practical Leader

JULY 9, 2012

Later this month, the 2012 Summer Olympic Games get underway in London, England. Dawn Fraser, gold medal Australian swimmer at three Olympics declares, “ The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.” Pursuing excellence demands change.

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Tim Milburn

JUNE 21, 2012

If you don’t know the history of Mr. Stallone, here’s a brief snapshot: After getting no career traction as an actor in his 20s, Stallone attacked his 30s like any 5’3 man should…He wrote a movie where he was an all-American hero with unbelievable success in sports.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

Local crime increases after public sporting events. Obama was re-elected in 2012 with the help of voter prediction. The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills. This learning process discovers and builds on insightful gems such as: Early retirement decreases your life expectancy.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer Leadership BS is a compendium of human nature. Best Leadership Books of 2012. Blog Post ). It describes well the hypocrisy in all of us. We don’t always meet our own standards. We don’t always reward what we say we value. Blog Post ).

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Buy the sports car you always wanted, go to that exotic locale you always imagined yourself visiting, learn to play the guitar or the piano. This is great advice for everyone who wants a fulfilling career. Older people offer other valuable advice: “Follow your dreams.” Life is good. Marshall@MarshallGoldsmith.com.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I had an informal logistics meeting with some of the association members before the event when Jamie, the young woman who directed me to my preparation room, talked to me about her career. Jamie was seeking to gain control of her self and her power first, and find her career path second. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

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. One family professionally designed “family trading cards” similar to those popular in sports, creating experience across generations.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

These are the people who have great careers in front of them. 2 “Leadership is a Contact Sport”, H. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has just been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read. Most requests for coaching involve behavioral change. References. Gandossy and M.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Class-based bias, just like gender- and racial-based biases, can seep into workplace systems and artificially hinder the career success of those groups. For example, what are elite sports? What are working-class sports? Sports isn’t the only culture difference that class is expressed through.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

In the world of sports, things might have looked bad a couple of months ago. That was when sports radio personalities Boomer Esiason and Mike Francesa harshly criticized NY Mets player Daniel Murphy for missing the first two games of the 2014 season, because he was on paternity leave. The entertainment industry is following suit.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. In high school, students who would ultimately enter finance were much more likely to take leadership positions in varsity sports and student clubs like community service, student government, and student publications.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Many hold deeply satisfying careers themselves. But they know, at least subconsciously, that 42 years after the Title IX legislation sent American women in droves onto the sports field and then directly to dominance in higher education, only 4.6% And yet the basic truth is that business is not yet really a co-ed sport.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

These assertions are based on a diverse set of fields, including psychology, sports, arts, and leadership. Famed guitarist Greg Allman has said that he suffered from stage fright throughout his career. Myth 1: Performing at the top means consistent peak performance. Reality: Top performers experience variability in their performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

They each sported the obligatory hallmarks of business success: expensive Italian suits, carefully manicured hairstyles and company-issued smartphones resting on dark leather compendiums. adults involved in start-ups hit a record 13% in 2012 , the White House proclaimed that " entrepreneurs are the engine of our economy " [PDF].

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In In 2012, the New York Times published a round-table debate about it. But some Olympians change citizenship when their nationality hampers their ability to practice their sport at the highest level. After a falling-out with Korean sports authorities, Ahn looked at both the U.S.

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Tim Milburn

JUNE 27, 2012

NOTE: This is a guest post by Garret Kramer, Author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life. © 2012 Garret Kramer, author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life. I found this article to be very challenging to my own thinking and current paradigms. Author Bio.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Take a look at this: the brutal reflections of Jake Cornelius , a Stanford and Cambridge graduate, currently training with the US Rowing Team in preparation for the 2012 Olympics , and a member of the 2007 Boat Race winning Cambridge crew. Worse yet, it is something he is keenly aware of.

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Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Jeremy Lin has captured the attention of the sports world in dramatic fashion. Well…actually, the back-up part ended on February 4, 2012. After beating the Los Angeles Lakers, a game in which he put up a career-high 38 points, Kobe Bryant had this to say, “Players playing that well don’t usually come out of nowhere.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Participation in a varsity or intramural sport was required every semester. I was proud and happy to graduate and began my career as an Army officer. They were challenging and sometimes interesting, even though I used very little of what I learned in my career. Copyright 2012. My courses at West Point changed that.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

“Our instructors were teaching better, and our students were learning better,” Webb noted in The Red Circle , his 2012 SEAL memoir. I’ve seen it happen, and careers ended when it did. “This can’t be faked, do it right and your team will respect you and follow you.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In 2012, he won gold in the coxless four at the London Olympics with teammates Tom James , Andrew Triggs Hodge , and Pete Reed. But success didn’t come easy — earlier in his career, he battled nerves and asthma, even blacking out in the water (twice). And I think that’s as true in business as it is in sport.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

But we all get off course sometimes and that does not make us any less amazing - we''re like Ferrari sport cars parked in our garages. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. In his email to me he wrote, “These last four days have truly been the most productive and rewarding of my entire career as a musician.”

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

But we all get off course sometimes and that does not make us any less amazing - we're like Ferrari sport cars parked in our garages. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. In his email to me he wrote, “These last four days have truly been the most productive and rewarding of my entire career as a musician.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Fast forward to 2012: President Obama cried at a meeting with his campaign staff. Reactions to our political leaders, sports heroes, and other role models crying are mixed. the day after he won the election. Speaker of the house John Boehner cried on 60 minutes , and is a notorious crier.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

In 2012 Echoing Green invested in 28-year-old Marquis Taylor as one of our Open Society Black Male Achievement Fellows. Marquis created an organization called Coaching For Change to engage young Black men as entrepreneurs pursuing business opportunities related to basketball, football, and other sports. Do we understand why?

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