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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

Potential – Interference = Performance I FIRST encountered this equation in the context of peak performance in the sports world. The equation also applies to our individual capacity for positive influence (+influence). The interference could come externally but often comes internally in an athlete — freezing up or choking on the spot.

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Winning Teams Know to Trust Their Team Members

Leading Blog

I N BUSINESS, as in sports, the aspect that distinguishes the best teams from the mediocre teams comes down to collaboration. Let’s apply the team sport analogy further. An alternative choice is to pass the puck to another player who is in a better position and can make a coordinated play. Doing so creates agility.

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2018

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2018. The Power of a Positive Team : Proven Principles and Practices that Make Great Teams Great by Jon Gordon. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases this month. Born to Build by Jim Clifton and Sangeeta Badal. What Happens Now?

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Tom Ryan’s Philosophy: Becoming Elite in Life and Leadership

Skip Prichard

. “The greatest force in the world is positive influence.” His journey is compellingly told his book Chosen Suffering: Becoming Elite in Life and Leadership. It doesn’t matter whether you follow, or even enjoy, the sport of wrestling. Wrestling is more than a sport for Ryan. It’s a metaphor for life.

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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Leading Blog

Making the Necessary Course Correction Although it won’t happen overnight, these key steps will promote the needed paradigm shift to develop positive dimensions of character: 1. Their new book, with co-author Gerald Seijts, is The Character Compass: Transforming Leadership for the 21st Century (Routledge, Oct.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

Respond: Respond positively when receiving input. Follow-up: Follow up regularly and stakeholders will notice the positive actions you’re taking based their input. Marshall’s exciting new research on engagement will be published in his upcoming book Triggers (Crown, 2015).' Change: Change isn’t an academic exercise.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Ask

Marshall Goldsmith

Most of them boil down to the fact that it focuses on failures of the past not positive actions for the future. Feedback can reinforce our feelings of failure, and our reactions to this are rarely positive. Marshall’s exciting new research on engagement will be published in his upcoming book Triggers (Crown, 2015).'

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