Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 10, 2011

Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. She doesn’t exist, and career rewards for your great work don’t just appear.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2020

From ancient times to today’s boardrooms, overly controlling leaders who act to serve their own needs can create toxic work environments where decision making, creativity and engagement grinds to a halt. In our early careers a certain amount of ego is essential to drive success. What are the enduring qualities of great leadership?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2019

These primary environments could represent one’s dorm room, home, place of work, government, sports team, nature, and especially one’s body and mind. Stagnation is a situation in which people may need to follow too many steps, get someone else’s permission, or deal with minutia that stifles creativity, independent thought, or action.”

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If the guys are big sports fans in your workplace, you might take the time to read up and follow the teams they like so you can connect on a topic they’re interested in. He is the author of Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity (Thomas Nelson). Photo source: freedigitalphotos.net.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Other elements come into play as well in shaping how we approach situations and people, things as simple as what sports teams we root for or which political party we support. If ignored or met with intolerance or indifference, these dissimilarities can be divisive, even lethal for career or business success.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 27, 2016

During the first week of baseball season in April, young superstar and reigning MVP Bryce Harper sported a ballcap with the following saying: MAKE BASEBALL FUN AGAIN. Harper’s youthful zeal and love for a game that is diminishing in popularity may seem like a trite attitude for playing a sport. Motivation.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Evaluate the creativity, reasonability and effectiveness of the compensation programs in existence. He began his career at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Times are tight for everyone right now, and it’s understandable you may be looking for a side hustle to fit around your full time career. If you have a creative eye, there is no reason you can’t put your skills to good use in making a bit of money. Your blog could be on any topic of your choice, from travel to beauty to sports.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall. A culture of continuous learning will bolster organizational creativity and innovation.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2020

If you want to build a successful business or career, stop keeping your eye on the big prize. But when you think creatively instead of analytically—and you begin to start to think in terms of the little victory—the everything changes. He decided to think creatively instead of analytically. He took a chance on creativity.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Entrepreneurship isn’t so much a career as it is a way of life. You’ve probably heard that learning a second language is a great way to advance your career; it undoubtedly is, especially for people who want to garner a competitive edge over their colleagues or peers. Get some extra training.

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Career Advancement

APRIL 20, 2020

By staying healthy and lowering your stress level, you’ll think more clearly and have more energy, meaning you’ll do things more efficiently , think more creatively, and come up with better solutions to the challenges you face. Play sports with your kids. Get your body moving, and your mind and health will both benefit.

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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. Traditionally we’ve long thought that weak ties were crucial to things like creativity and innovation. Creative ties. Does this matter?

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Sports teams with momentum go on inexplicable winning streaks while opponents can’t seem to string two wins together no matter how hard they try or how ‘talented’ their roster. Early in my career, I swam in four years of red ink at Jacobs Suchard ’s Canadian subsidiary. Gamblers in the rush of a hot-streak believe in the force.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 20, 2014

It takes intelligence, creativity and a winning spirit to profit from your losses. That’s a sports reference. I could never be a sports coach. Do people really worry that much , I thought. When I began reading, I realized I was one of the target audience. Carnegie shared that anyone can profit from their gains.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Do the most creative among us think differently? 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. In a relentlessly fast-paced context, restorative breaks are critical to both creativity and productivity. Think Different.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Over the years when I ask this question, I hear people share their experiences in all kinds of settings: work, community, sports, religious, high school, and once even a “gang” of school-age kids who built a tree house. I don’t mean that I was a good sport about it–that I’d played my best and had nothing to be ashamed of.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 20, 2018

Great coaches value imagination and creativity above a code of conduct or strategic system. Garret Kramer , author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life , is the founder and managing partner of Inner Sports, LLC. Great coaches burn to win and can't stand to lose.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2015

With football season well underway as well as the upcoming World Series (along with many other sports), it’s a great month for sports analogies! Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Is it a Myth? of Burgis Successful Solutions submitted Believe You are Creative? Let’s Get Started.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 24, 2021

Micromanagement kills the motivation of your team members, reduces their creativity, and stifles innovation. I’ve learned over and over in my career that people not only need honest feedback about their performance, they deserve it. Anyone can set the bar low and reach it.

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Micromanagement Management Learning-by-Doing Sports 120

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Today, I am pleased to share again a guest post from Garret Kramer of InnerSports LLC about how to be a great coach: 14 Attributes of Great Coaches By Garret Kramer, Author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life There are many, many coaching manuals and books on the market today.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Great coaches value imagination and creativity above a code of conduct or strategic system. Garret Kramer , author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life , is the founder and managing partner of Inner Sports, LLC. Great coaches burn to win and can't stand to lose.

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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. Great coaches value imagination and creativity above a code of conduct or strategic system. © 2012 Garret Kramer, author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life.

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Decker Communication

APRIL 1, 2021

There is no greater dumpster fire in professional sports than the NY Jets. For their fans, of which I have the misfortune to be amongst, they have been less a sports team and more a seasonal source of indigestion and gloom. This is a headline that I never expected to see, much less write. It can actually be transformative.

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Decker Communication

APRIL 1, 2021

There is no greater dumpster fire in professional sports than the NY Jets. For their fans, of which I have the misfortune to be amongst, they have been less a sports team and more a seasonal source of indigestion and gloom. This is a headline that I never expected to see, much less write. It can actually be transformative.

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Organization Video Sports Benchmarking 52

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. When people embrace the fullest meaning of compassion as a process of “struggling with” others in creative conflict, they can transform lives, companies, and the world.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2018

Great coaches value imagination and creativity above a code of conduct or strategic system. Garret Kramer , author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life , is the founder and managing partner of Inner Sports, LLC. Great coaches burn to win and can't stand to lose.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 16, 2014

Great coaches value imagination and creativity above a code of conduct or strategic system. Garret Kramer , author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life , is the founder and managing partner of Inner Sports, LLC. Great coaches burn to win and can''t stand to lose.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

This can help executives build a network of contacts and develop relationships that will be valuable throughout their careers. Our Leadership Experiences immerse leaders in powerful metaphors from professional sports, songwriting and human space travel to bringing leadership lessons into sharp focus.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Their ‘elite belief’ in a sport requires a mental focus and intensity that is different from the way that many others approach tasks. This work by Rich Gee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 It’s a cool show. So to push themselves — they lie. Unported License.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared 6 of the Most In-Demand Skills for the Future Workplace. Be it in the field of sports, business, academics, and any other human venture. It means to stop denying or repressing your less-than-perfect parts and to boldly face reality, in all its starkness.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership IAS 334

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.

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Delegation Sports Motivation Long-term 279

Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 23, 2014

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who played his entire college career with Wooden, would later write, “Coach Wooden had a profound influence on me as an athlete, but even greater influence on me as a human being. He is responsible, in part, for the person I am today.” Maintaining the attitude that a life not lived for others is a life not lived.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 2, 2012

Today, I am pleased to share a guest post from Garret Kramer of InnerSports LLC about how to be a great coach: 14 Attributes of Great Coaches By Garret Kramer, Author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life There are many, many coaching manuals and books on the market today. Great coaches burn to win and can't stand to lose.

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Sports Belief Systems Comparison System 98

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 26, 2016

For those who may have missed this posting from awhile back, I am pleased to share again a guest post from Garret Kramer of InnerSports LLC about how to be a great coach: 14 Attributes of Great Coaches By Garret Kramer, Author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life There are many, many coaching manuals and books on the market today.

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Sports Belief Systems Comparison System 50

Frank Sonnenberg Online

AUGUST 20, 2019

Creativity. Additional Reading: What Can Sports Teach You About the Game of Life? Remain strong when days are tough. Build trust. Keep your promises. Live with honor. Make yourself proud. Always give 110%. It’s the extra 10% that everyone remembers. Don’t accept the status quo. Be a problem-solver. Make things better. Determination.

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Teamwork Sports Follow-up Blog 86

Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

Some of the writers pointed out that these were two different sports and couldn’t be compared. Whether it’s the style of play in a sport, or leadership style in the business world, men and women are clearly and obviously different. A lot of people said a lot of pretty dumb things. Can’t we all just get along?

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