Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Sports metaphors are everywhere in the workplace, but there’s no denying that the leadership and teamwork skills found in the sports setting teach important lessons. Follow these tips to promote a successful workplace that motivates team members and ultimately drives up productivity and profits.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2023

It dictates whether you should see family vehicles or more high-end sports cars, for example. While this takes some time and effort, it’s much easier than constantly looking for new customers, and should have a positive effect on your dealership’s bottom line. How To Lead Your Car Dealership To Success: Wrapping Up.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Not surprisingly, these archetypes reflect both top-down and bottom-up styles. Community Organizer & Volunteers: The Community Organizer & Volunteers pairing is based on volunteers’ bottom-up, autonomous, independent, decision-making ability and their desire to voice their opinions. The analysis is very balanced.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

With the end of the 2014 Sochi Winter Games on Sunday, many of us are now returning to our regular work routines and viewing habits, having a deeper appreciation for the world of sports and the power of the human spirit. But Junio did more than just give up his place to Morrison so he could compete on behalf of their country.

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Nathan Magnuson

JULY 10, 2017

After an initial silence, almost every person in the audience got up and found someone to talk to. Even so, I remember pacing in my cubical for several minutes before I could muster up the will to admit I’d been wrong. When I was growing up, my parents would occasionally apologize to us kids. We All Have Room to Grow.

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Women on Business

JUNE 15, 2012

Guest Post by Peggy Carlaw, founder of Impact Learning Systems (Learn more about Peggy at the bottom of this post). Many companies try to elicit additional sales through up-selling or cross-selling. For example, “Janna, you mentioned earlier that skiing is your favorite sport. But do you know just how good? In the U.S.,

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Tim Milburn

AUGUST 3, 2012

The following is a guest post (reprinted from his site) by Garret Kramer , the author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life. Read this post with an open mind, then go out and pick up his book. The bottom line is that the best coaches produce intuitive leaders who consistently come through in the big moment.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 20, 2011

sexual affairs, pornography, extreme sports and extreme business risks) or they self-medicate to numb the pain, which leads to substance abuse. The bottom line is that we are human beings, not machines. To feel better, achieve-aholics oftentimes seek illegitimate thrills (e.g.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 3, 2022

He then proceeded to proudly pile up the most recent crap in his life as if inviting me to wallow in it with him. ” As William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, and Mark Vicente put it in their book, What the Bleep Do We Know!? , “The bottom line, at least as far as science has gone up till now, is this: We create the world we perceive.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

They clearly saw that the pressures of the expectations game could do serious damage to the real game…it could destroy the sport….[they] they] have enforced a strict separation between the real market and the expectations market …exactly the opposite of the way we have managed it in business.”

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

Likewise, just because someone has failed in a previous position doesn’t mean that they might not end-up being a top performer for your company. I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2014

The world outside is gross – made up of stuff (mostly). Sports, Life and Leadership: A Game and a Few Lessons. You can also subscribe to updates via email using the section at the bottom of the page. I learned that there are two worlds – the one inside us and the one outside us. Excellence: Lessons From Anupam Kher.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post by Ben Fanning , the Burnout Specialist: Let me share with you what happened when I started my job at the largest sporting goods retailer in the world. Moreover, burnout is also showing up in the bottom line of the company and having a shocking impact. Encourage someone to step up and plan lunch out for a break.

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QAspire

APRIL 14, 2013

In such meetings, people often end up providing views, cite examples from the past, outline the lessons learned. Non-participation: Reflection is a highly collaborative sport. You can also subscribe to updates via email using the section at the bottom of the page. - – - – -. Photograph By: Tanmay Vora.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

As the old saying goes “you only get one chance to make a first impression,&# and often times it is the perception of appearance that determines whether or not you are even afforded the opportunity to get up to bat. The truth is most people when first meeting someone will quickly attempt to size them up. Clogston Hi, Mike.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 8, 2022

This is a challenging decision for most 17- to 18-year-old kids that I believe is made more difficult if the kid in question aspires to play a sport professionally. Bottom line? And, when we show up to initiate that process, we want strong managers and coaches with proven track records of turning those dreams into reality.

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

You may not work in the front office of a professional sports team. Stand Up for Each Other. Standing up for each other doesn’t mean a lack of accountability. It certainly wasn’t an easy ride – it took eight whole years before the team achieved a winning record. Now, the results speak for themselves.

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Experience to Lead

MARCH 29, 2021

Guy Krueger’s kids sometimes wake up in the middle of the night screaming in pain. He was USA Archery’s High-Performance Manager and an Assistant Head Coach from 2012-2016, after achieving the highest levels in the sport as an athlete. Olympic team to another sport that they decided needed another coaching spot on the team.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Not shocking if you have a commute that requires you to leave before the kids are up or maybe you work afternoons to accommodate your spouses work schedule so that a babysitter is not required. It’s amazing to see the faces light up when you ask them about something they love. It was simply awesome! The idea was simple.

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Rich Gee Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

You need to present a extremely positive persona to management – this is the time where they might be looking at cutting the bottom 10%. Ask questions, read industry journals/blogs, and keep up on the business news. This may be a sports cliche, but right now, it rings true. Focus on what you do best. It’s that simple.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Bottom line…personal responsibility and accountability have always been the ultimate leadership “hot potato&# in that everyone wants to be in charge, but few are willing to take ownership of the never-ending obligations that go along with the privilege of leadership. What say you??? 2 Tweets Who’s In Charge?

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Women on Business

AUGUST 12, 2011

Maybe those are the reasons why it is so difficult for women to make it all the way up political or corporate leadership ladders? Leaders must be tough enough to make difficult, bottom-line decisions that serve the overall needs of the organization. Biologically females are more sensitive, emotional, and self-critical than men.

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Lead by Adventure

AUGUST 13, 2015

Ever since my mid-20s when I worked in a retail store called Eastern Mountain Sports and went through some phenomenal training, I am sold out on quality customer care and training. We had stopped in a 7-Eleven to gas up and get a snack for my son. They did not, he said, so he proceeded to ring them up again.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Every workplace is plagued with manipulative people who use emotion to create conflict in order to cover-up for their lack of substance. Keep it up. Keep up the good work Dale.

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Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This year, many, if not most, employers will wake up to the realization that what they have done in the past will not work going forward. Some companies, particularly start-ups, will not even consider hiring an employee full-time, before s/he has completed at least six months as a contractor.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

 Kris has a great post reminding you that the consequences of procrastinating these conversations are always worse than the interaction itself and urges you to pick up the phone and make that uncomfortable call today.  Check it out for some eye opening results.    Seth Godin's Blog : Do You Need a Permit? .

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Surely, the newfound margin will drop to the bottom line – it will not. Giving up something of value for the sake of other considerations is the essence of sacrifice. If you want chicken, salad, pizza, or wraps, get out of the line-up to the counter and go elsewhere. After all, the fixed overheads are already in place.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 21, 2010

They know that by identifying less than helpful behavior and improving themselves, they will make the biggest impact on their organization and the bottom line. Developing staff is as important as the bottom line. For it to end up in The Leadership Museum, would be to rob me of some of my most significant learnings.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Here’s the bottom line: by warming up the temperature in your life and in your workplace, you’ll ensure the best for yourself and your employees. Do they have a favorite sports team that did well (or bombed) over the weekend that you could celebrate or commiserate with them during a couple of minutes on Monday morning?

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 25, 2010

During a recent review of a sales team for a national company, we identified that the bottom sales "performers" produced less than 20 percent of that of top performers. What are your lowest performers costing your bottom line? What are your lowest performers costing your bottom line? We see this all the time. 

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 10, 2010

  We often will sample assess a sales team's high and low performers in order to show the "spread" between the top and bottom performers.    The difference between the top and bottom performers was almost one million dollars in the last quarter reviewed. A million dollars in one quarter! . 

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 7, 2010

 Given this special occasion, I thought I would change things up a bit with my weekly Fab Five blog picks and feature five posts that I especially enjoyed from the Leadership Development Carnival.  Enjoy and be sure to check out all the other great posts that were included in the carnival!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction? Coaching is about delivering what the client needs - it is not about a cute set of questions you picked-up during a certification class.

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Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2014

The good news is that, culturally, failure is not as shameful as it once might have been — it’s become almost commonplace for an individual to lose his job, to see her business go belly-up, or to file for bankruptcy (either in business or personally). In today’s fast-paced world, new technologies change industries overnight.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « Possibility Maximizer: The Leadership Quarterly | Main | Possibility Maximizer: TED Talks » August 23, 2010 The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week Every Monday I like to round up five blog posts that I found to be especially good reading over the past week. 

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 25, 2011

How do you have the confidence to wake up in the morning and charge into work, filled with optimism and eagerness to compete? It's not because you are reminding yourself of the screw-ups you have created and the failures you have endured. I go up to the plate thinking I can hit this guy. But look closely at yourself. Mark asked.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

  It was picked up by a bunch of Redskins fan sites and led to my five minutes of fame in an interview with DC’s Fox TV affiliate.   He publicly owned up to accountability for the team’s lackluster performance at the end of last year. Rabid sports fans are known to disagree after all. 

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