Eric Jacobson

JUNE 3, 2024

“When you put learning at the center of everything you do, you'll grow your career, boost your leadership skills, enrich your relationships, and increase your joy and fulfillment in life,” explains David Novak , author (with Lari Bishop ) of the new book and practical guide, How Leaders Learn. They learn with purpose.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 23, 2012

I am not a sports fan, and when I am leading team building & leadership retreats for Corporate Teams the topic comes up. I have lead programs with professional and college level sports teams, and learned a great deal about the similarities and differences. Are you a sports fan? Plus the whole idea of Fandom freaks me out.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

There’s a reason that professional sports teams pay millions of dollars for a coaching team. I once worked with a company that decided to collapse its engineering organization by turning Engineering Managers into Managing Engineers, and oh, what a difference the word order makes.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

The Captain Class : The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams by Sam Walker The best leaders in sports history were not mesmerizing characters. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2016. Best Leadership Books of 2015. Best Leadership Books of 2014. They didn’t always make for great television.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There are rich leadership lessons to be learned from politics and sports. Given that I try to avoid politics in this blog, please allow me the indulgence of referencing a headline from my favorite sport to make a point about leadership: Chiefs' Romeo Crennel fires himself. Select and hire capable first-line managers.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

I had coached many groups of mid-level managers who were on the verge of success, but never an individual who was already very successful and needed to make a change to be blasted into the stratosphere. Since then I’ve worked with more than 150 CEOs and their management teams. I was intrigued by this challenge. What does it mean?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Skip Prichard’s book, The Book of Mistakes , provides a motivating and inspiring fable and journey to finding the secrets to creating a successful future. Full of wisdom, this is a book for everyone, and particularly valuable to anyone who wants to be a better leader. Know your inherent value.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Campaign , and author of the book Stop The Drama! The post Nice Teams Don’t Win in Sports or Business appeared first on Women on Business. That’s according to an insightful email message that I received this week on behalf of Dr. Robyn Odegaard, CEO of Champion Performance Development , founder of the Stop The Drama!

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 7, 2014

In her book My Life in Leadership , Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, CEO of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, and one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever met, wrote one of the best descriptions of listening and leadership I’ve ever read: “Listening is an art.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 15, 2020

Skip Prichard’s book, The Book of Mistakes , provides a motivating and inspiring fable and journey to finding the secrets to creating a successful future. Full of wisdom, this is a book for everyone, and particularly valuable to anyone who wants to be a better leader. Know your inherent value.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 1, 2014

The reason we don’t want to give it is because our leaders and managers have power over us, our paychecks, advancement, and job security. Dr. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. The more successful a person is the more power they have.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Whether you’re talking about governments, companies, sports teams, or families, accountability is what ensures that things run smoothly and that progress continues. Make accountability a team sport. She also serves as a senior facilitator for the Interpersonal and Group Dynamics Program at Yale University School of Management.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Be sure to read the definitive book on servant leadership. Covey Plus, you'll read keen advice from celebrated sports coaches, company CEO's, pastors and retired military leaders. You're sure to take lots of notes as you capture advice from this powerful book, where as John C. Maxwell Marshall Goldsmith Stephen M.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 14, 2014

Some people use anger as a management tool to some success. Dr. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. Marshall’s exciting new research on engagement will be published in his upcoming book Triggers (Crown, 2015).'

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 11, 2019

Skip Prichard’s new book, The Book of Mistakes , provides a motivating and inspiring fable and journey to finding the secrets to creating a successful future. Full of wisdom, this is a book for everyone, and particularly valuable to anyone who wants to be a better leader. Know your inherent value.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 13, 2012

However, through an interesting series of events – which he describes in the book – he discovered his true passion was helping others become masters of their sport. In the book he uses stories from sports to help people in any profession achieve much higher levels of performance. Can you become a ‘master’ product manager?

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Chartered Management Institute

JUNE 4, 2024

Often, when we think of coaching, we think of sport. So it is no surprise that a leading book on coaching was written by Timothy Gallwey, a successful tennis coach based in California. His first book, published in 1974, was The Inner Game of Tennis. The focus is on the individual and what is inside their head.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The book, Beyond Disruption , shows companies how to build a path beyond disruption, where economic growth and social good are not trade-offs that work against each other and divide us. E-sports : Reimagined gaming as an active, physical, in-person event and is now even an OLYMPIC sport. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

It is rife with struggles related to managing the emerging responsibilities of adult life. If ownership or management of a family enterprise is an expectation, the pressures only mount. One family professionally designed “family trading cards” similar to those popular in sports, creating experience across generations.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Potential – Interference = Performance I FIRST encountered this equation in the context of peak performance in the sports world. Her new book with co-author Tsun-Yan Hsieh is Positive Influence: The First and Last Mile of Leadership (World Scientific Publishing Company).

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 22, 2019

Skip Prichard’s book, The Book of Mistakes , provides a motivating and inspiring fable and journey to finding the secrets to creating a successful future. Full of wisdom, this is a book for everyone, and particularly valuable to anyone who wants to be a better leader. Know your inherent value.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 28, 2014

A pioneer in the use of customized, 360 degree feedback (confidential feedback from direct reports, peers and managers) as a leadership development tool, I’ve spent the last 30 years using feedback to help people change for the better. If there is one thing I know, it’s how to respond to feedback. Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50 Video Blog'

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 6, 2024

“Too often, we don’t find out what’s truly on others’ hearts and minds because we don’t know how to ask the right questions in the right ways,” explains Jeff Wetzler , author of the new book, ASK. As you’ll see through the book, people don’t always give you the whole story right up front. Wetzler : Absolutely.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. Ankersen’s insight was this: soccer is one of the world’s unfairest sports. Take, for example, Rasmus Ankersen.

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 27, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011 Team Sports - How They Help Teens I remember a conversation I had at a dinner party a few years ago. I said, "Well, for one thing, involvement in team sports can make a big difference in setting people up success." What does team sports have to do with anything?" And what would that be?"

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I have grown up around high-performance sport. High-performance in the context of sport covers a process that goes like this. It is the same in every sport where high-performance is the ticket to the dance. Leadership gets the team going and management keeps it going. It is no different with leadership. We are not.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 23, 2009

In his book HALFTIME: Moving from Success to Significance , author Bob Buford explores three stages of life: The first half: On average, the first 40 years of your life. In his book HALFTIME: Moving from Success to Significance , author Bob Buford explores three stages of life: The first half: On average, the first 40 years of your life.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The newest book from New York Times bestselling author Patrick Lencioni is, The 6 Types of Working Genius : A Better Way To Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, And Your Team. The book provides a fast way to help people identify the type of work that brings them joy and energy and avoid work that leads to frustration and burnout.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

She recognized that it was keeping her from really enjoying her family, giving herself a rest and doing things she loves like reading good books. So, in an effort to make her best-case scenario actionable, I asked her if it would make a difference if she could get that three hours a night of email management down to one.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 16, 2019

Whilst leading the organisation does often come with a title – like CEO or Managing Director – leading a group of people does not. In high performance sport, confidence is a topic on everyone’s agenda, because the sports world knows what business has been slow to pick up on – that confidence is the secret to performance.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 22, 2023

The new book, Bridgebuilders , should be on the reading list of every public official, CEO, and civic leader. That is because throughout the book, authors William D. You will discover more than one hundred specific strategies and tips , proven by some of the world’s best managers that Eggers and Kettl share in their book.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 18, 2019

The book, Fit at Last: Look and Feel Better Once and for All , co-authored by Ken Blanchard and Tim Kearin traces business author Blanchard's weight-loss journey with fitness expert Kearin, and how finally at the age of 73, Ken dropped over thirty pounds in the course of a single year. Then the fitness revolution began.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 27, 2024

Article: Highlights – 27 March Wednesday 27 March 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Why the trend of ‘Quit-Tok’ is a viral wake-up call for managers. Ann Francke astutely highlights why managers need to be paying attention, far beyond any dopamine or distraction.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

Then we have 8 minutes of weather, 10 minutes of sports news, and finally, a positive “human interest” story to send us off with a smile. Lance Witt in his book, Replenish , compares front stage leadership posers to what is going on “backstage” where character, the soul, and the real personality are seen. Leader Behaves Badly.”

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Published by Michael Lee Stallard on October 28, 2010 02:58 pm under connection culture , employee engagement , knowledge flow A participant in a recent session Jason Pankau and I were teaching on Connection Cultures and employee engagement shared that she connects with her sons by talking about sports. Military Gamification in Everything?

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2019

Just as it’s beholden on mavericks to understand how best to operate in a world that may not share their unique perspective, so to is it beholden on managers to adapt their style to get the best out of these free thinkers. Managing a team of mavericks. “It’s one of the big reasons why I’m on the team.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

From analyzing the regulatory environment and building the right team to deciding which risks to take and managing and mitigating these risks by devising effective strategies, an entrepreneur is responsible for playing many roles all at once. However, the most important duty associated with entrepreneurship is leadership.

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