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High Performing Organizations

Coaching Tip

Despite the diverse range of industries--business, sports, technology, finance, education, and the arts--each of these successful institutions share a common bond: they are world-class industry leaders and have repeatedly outperformed their competition. "At

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Leadership – No Talent Required | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia. A leader who fails to understand this will never create the trust bond necessary to lead effectively. It requires zero talent to be present mentally and physically.

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Leaders Travel Light

Chris Brady

Light is the load of tight friendships, deep bonds, and heart-felt trust. Here are some areas to consider when seeking to increase your leadership ability by traveling light: 1. Relationships - heavy is the burden of broken and un-repaired relationships. Light is the load of commitments to God-given principles and worthy goals.

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20 Ingredients of a Marriage Made in Heaven

Frank Sonnenberg Online

When you break a promise , no matter how small, you violate the bond of trust. Be a good sport. Marriage is not a competitive sport. Finances are a key source of stress in a marriage. Trust is built through a series of successful experiences. If each encounter is positive, the relationship will flourish. Never keep score.

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Build Your Team Like an Executive

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to building management strength, these executives are similar to professional sports coaches. At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond.

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Leaving La Contea

Chris Brady

  But there is something special aboutgetting to know someone, learning their background, building a bond.   Architecture strikes me the same way.   At La Contea (meaning, ‘The Countryside’), our villa perched high on the side of a Tuscanhill quite near the Umbrian border, we had the collision of both.

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Collaboration Is a Team Sport, and You Need to Warm Up

Harvard Business Review

True trust and empathy starts to happen when there is the even a slight emotional bond, not just a professional one. Don't segregate engineering from marketing, HR from finance, and so on. I'm not saying you have to turn your workplace into one giant therapy session. Mix up disciplines.

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