Skip Prichard

MAY 11, 2020

Strategy is not a solo sport.’” – Dr. Max McKeown. If you don’t study your environment and look at your goals and metrics? If you don’t apply some classic, tried-and-true strategic management tools—like the ones he outlines at the end of The Strategy Book —then your strategy is, by default, “stay-the-course.”

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2011

Being Canadian, I’m sure it comes as little surprise that I’m not much of a baseball fan (growing up, hockey, football and soccer were the sports I preferred playing). When it comes to baseball heroes, few are as well-known and revered as Babe Ruth, or as he’s affectionately known by baseball fans “the Bambino”.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Every leader can become motivated to model positive behaviors that enhance the culture of integrity by practicing coaching skills that support diverse stakeholders and promote shared goals and values. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared The Top 5 Qualities of a Great Leader. Connect with Marina on LinkedIn.

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Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This includes empowering people to become high-performers, resolving conflict, crisis management and strategically achieving an organization’s goals and outcomes. By giving employees or team members the opportunity to engage in professional development, they’re able to see that there is room for career or role progression.

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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. the same courses that professional golfers played on the PGA Tour). What needs to be done, by when and why ?

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 5, 2022

O’Neil is the CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, a global sports and entertainment company that includes the Philadelphia 76errs (NBA) and the New Jersey Devils (NHL). I’ve had a rather charmed career, a blessed marriage, was making a confident walk through the world, and then I was stuck. You know what?

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 10, 2021

O’Neil is the CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, a global sports and entertainment company that includes the Philadelphia 76errs (NBA) and the New Jersey Devils (NHL). I’ve had a rather charmed career, a blessed marriage, was making a confident walk through the world, and then I was stuck. You know what?

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 28, 2021

O’Neil is the CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, a global sports and entertainment company that includes the Philadelphia 76errs (NBA) and the New Jersey Devils (NHL). I’ve had a rather charmed career, a blessed marriage, was making a confident walk through the world, and then I was stuck. You know what?

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 24, 2020

Mike has worked with a number of top companies and enjoyed a baseball career with the Kansas City Royals. “Commitment is about fully buying into the goals, values, culture, and people on the team.” While I was researching and writing this book I, of course, had no idea it would come out in the middle of a global pandemic.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 19, 2021

” This has obvious implications for our careers, whether it’s finding new work, gaining that promotion, or simply creating new things and being generally innovative. Of course, that is great when we know where we want to go, but when we need to create new paths, weak ties tend to come into their own. Creative ties.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

This principle applies to sales representatives if they want to be successful in their career. We focus on quarterly goals, the weekly conference calls, and the ever-looming concern over what this year’s bonus will be-all the while overlooking ideas that keep us on top of our game. Self-stagnation.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JANUARY 21, 2020

The goal should be to get back into the practice of setting and achieving goals, teaching and learning from peers, and experiencing success. Often times there are leadership opportunities at our churches, our child’s school or sports leagues, or at our favorite non-profits. It requires disciplined action and an open mind.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Cyril Bouquet: Very early on in my academic career, I was part of a research team that was looking into the possible genetic drivers of innovation. Typically, they are resolutely committed to the overarching goal, while remaining adaptable on the means to reach it. “Unorthodox thinking is required throughout the innovation process.”.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 11, 2011

But those are behaviors borne from his experiences, not traits of his career. True, Tristan West, one of the key characters in my novel Radiance , isn’t entirely likable. He’s angry, hard-drinking, self-centered and resentful, a real curmudgeon. So I started thinking: Why shouldn’t a PR guy be the hero of a novel?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Sad, but true; much of my life and career I have attempted to achieve perfection in everything I do. To make progress: Set a goal: Perhaps you’ve received some feedback recently that you know you want to take action on; start there. Describe what it will look like when you’ve reached that goal. I assume good intent!

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

I admired him and was pleased when later in his career he managed the Tigers to a World Series Championship as well. Of course we should acknowledge the past and learn lessons from it, but as a leader and as a highly functioning human being we must look, think and move forward. I always liked George “Sparky&# Anderson.

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Thin Difference

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

When we think of a mentor, it’s easy to picture a wise looking sage who has advice about everything – a person who has an answer for any life situation, whether it be about career, dating, parenting, finances, or sports. Who can meet those requirements? The list of people who are ahead of them in every area of life is pretty small.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. " My goal is to use the tools to help people engage their world, not disengage. What if it was college kids fresh off of a NOLS course? I blame poor real world training.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Of course, there is always the problem of room temperature. Intimate conversation will be enhanced if ambient noise is minimal: Buzzing lights, furnaces, tapping on keyboards or traffic sounds can distract and keep your team from doing their best thinking.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Bosses on training courses or encouraging people to undertake learning is not enough – we all have that ‘what’s in it for me’ and being good or better at a job I do anyway does not always cut it. Kirk Baumann Director of Career Connections SIFE USA Blog: [link] Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 15, 2010

I teach coaching skills to groups of managers regularly; every individual executive client I have gets taught coaching skills in some way or another; and of course, I practice coaching myself (I call it “practice” on purpose).

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

We might have days, weeks, or even months, where we feel like we’ve lost our focus, take longer than necessary to achieve goals, or simply become disconnected from our work. However, it can become detrimental to your career if you don’t take action to dig yourself out of it, and make some sort of change.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

  And, of course, he hired a Super Bowl winning coach in Mike Shanahan to lead the team from the sidelines and a five time Pro Bowler in Donovan McNabb to lead the team on the field. Rabid sports fans are known to disagree after all.  He fired his lackey and hired a professional general manager.   Bench McNabb. 

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

We might have days, weeks, or even months, where we feel like we’ve lost our focus, take longer than necessary to achieve goals, or simply become disconnected from our work. However, it can become detrimental to your career if you don’t take action to dig yourself out of it, and make some sort of change.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

It has been a huge learning for me throughout my own life and career that presence is sometimes all that is needed. Many of the other gifts you mention are of course part of the whole notion of humility so I run the risk of being a bit redundant here. Thanks for the reminder. thank you for the kind words.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And of course you are right. You just may catch an ally, supporter, or friend (flies). Posted in Uncategorized 5 Responses to “Catching Flies&# Bret Simmons : November 3, 2010 at 10:26 am I hear what you are saying, MJ, I really do. I personally would rather eliminate the flies than catch them.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Of course, most people think they are managing with humility and openness but, at the end of the day, they guard their opinions and style fiercely. Sean Whitlock: October 10, 2010 at 4:56 pm Thanks for the great quote. Hopefully, with the knowledge of my closed-mindedness I can work towards this type of thinking.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 17, 2010

October 17th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus One of my clients, a mid-level leader in a large organization, is working to get better at leadership by setting some stretch goals. And of course, he has an executive coach to support him. It’s hard work. He has also asked a senior executive to be a mentor to him.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 11, 2010

Ask and keep track It’s a simple concept to respect others enough to ask them what they want and then to follow through and give it to them (within reason, of course). Ask them: What can I do to help you to be your best at work? What rewards motivate you? How can I contribute to your success? Keep track of the answers you get, by name.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 2, 2011

I recently spoke with one of the vice presidents of the company I work for and she said that the game changer in her career occurred when she started asking for feedback regularly. And of course we’re usually doubly blind: to that characteristic, and to the reality that we’re blind about it.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Mary Jo Asmus : November 10, 2010 at 7:24 pm Bret, of course you are right. It reminds me of the research that Gallup did (chronicled in the book How Full Is Your Bucket by Tom Rath) that identified the optimal mix of positive to negative comments as 5 to 1. How often we forget the impact our own attitude has on others.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

I immediately thought, “Of course!&# It truly makes a difference to be guided and impacted by someone who not only loves their career–but who is a great and compassionate leader as well. Many mentors and leaders do not see how deeply they impact the lives of those that look up to them.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Of course as we all know, such places are nothing more than transitional pit-stops between what we know and what we have yet to learn. While it may on the surface be an arrogant presumption, I think the arrogance comes after we’ve allowed ourselves to become comfortable with this notion.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

What makes time management difficult is that I might have a “to do” list together and a goal for that day, but depending on the needs of our customers I might not even touch that list. You also have latitude to decide if a request is appropriate to organizational goals. However, in my current position we are very customer driven.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

He went on to start two successful gaming companies, Matchbook, a sports betting exchange community, and Smartodds, which provides statistical research and sports modeling services. Ankersen’s insight was this: soccer is one of the world’s unfairest sports. Let’s consider a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

His book, The Signal and the Noise , explains the power of statistical modeling to improve our predictions about everything from the weather to sports to the stock market. Am I trying an online course? In Moneyball that on-base percentage is better than batting average looks like ‘OK, well, the goal is to score runs.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Of course, our leadership will be built automatically during this process. Thanks Patrick: November 26, 2010 at 4:27 am Hey Mary, I like your post so much and can learn a lot every time when I read them. The most important thing is for us that connect internal and external factors to inspire us together.

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