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Progress Comes Incrementally Then Suddenly

Next Level Blog

After a few months of regular yoga classes, my balance and strength had improved dramatically from the year before when I was having a hard time walking around the block or getting up the stairs. I was making progress every class; I just couldn’t see it. My first attempts were in yoga teacher training in the summer of 2013.

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2013 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2013 that you might have missed: Ariens CEO outlines Seven Skills of a Lean Leader. Leadership: Turn Mistakes into Lesson by @LollyDaskal. From @philvanhooser > Do you know one of the most common leadership pitfalls ? Learning to make the tough call —a leadership lesson by @johnbaldoni.

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Grassroots Leadership by the Rising Middle Class

Coaching Tip

The business world has been buzzing about the rising "global middle class" for at least a decade. A 2012 report by the European Union Institute for Security Studies, using a broader definition of middle class, predicted that the number of people in that category would grow from 1.8 Source: The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2013.

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Back To School Leadership

Lead Change Blog

“Great leadership is only found in the world of business,” my seatmate on a recent flight pompously boasted, “Certainly not in the government, churches or education where we desperately need it.”. The HPU story is nothing short of a leadership tour de force. HPU was named a 2013 Green College in The Princeton Review. He was not.

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Leadership and Basketball: March Madness

Coaching Tip

All the years he coached, he sent a card to every professor for each kid he had on the team and was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. Source: The New York Times Magazine, March 3, 2013. John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership. Related articles.

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End Well on a Low Note

Lead Change Blog

But, there’s a world class leadership lesson to be learned from a former Cubbie who knows how to end well on a low note. Arrieta played for the team starting in 2013, and as the saying goes, “Baseball is family.” Point out what made a difference in your own life and leadership, even if it was hard.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Ask

Marshall Goldsmith

Did you know that of all the classes I’ve taught 95 percent of members believe they are in the top half of their group? Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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