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5 Leadership Lessons: Leading Any Team to Success

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Fistitude is a fable about a basketball team at a small private high school that is struggling through a rough season. The coach must take a leave and it is up to the interim coach to try to turn things around. Through Fistitude —each finger representing a success attitude—author Sean Glaze presents five lessons to build leaders and teamwork. Glaze illustrates that leadership is taking personal responsibility for what happens, holding yourself accountable and setting an example for others.

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Being Smart is Not Enough

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Being smart has become a commodity. It's permission to play, says Patrick Lencioni. He writes in The Advantage : In this world of ubiquitous information and nanosecond technology exchange, it’s harder than it has ever been in history to maintain a competitive advantage based on intelligence or knowledge….I have become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has e

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Keep Calm and Carry On

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Stuart and Mary Manley are proprietors of one of the most beautiful secondhand bookstores anywhere— Barter Books —in the northeast corner of Northumberland, England. After being forgotten for more than 70 years, they rediscovered, in a box of old books bought at auction, a rare original of the now famous WWII poster Keep Calm and Carry On. Produced more than 70 years ago, this poster was one of three propaganda posters produced by the British government in the spring of 1939 in the build up to W

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The Four Disciplines of Organizational Health

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Patrick Lencioni believes that the single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health. Unfortunately most leaders prefer to deal with the data-driven world of organizational intelligence. The problem is, without good organizational health, organizational intelligence is attenuated. In The Advantage , Lencioni explains that “ an organization is healthy when it’s whole , consistent and complete, when its management, operations, strategy and culture fit together and make sen