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What Makes a High-Performance Leader?

Great Leadership By Dan

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. Six months before they started filming, he couldn't play guitar, couldn't play piano and couldn't sing. We are not.

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Highlights – 27 March

Chartered Management Institute

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. An article in the Financial Times explores the trend of ‘Quit-Tok’, where people film their resignations and redundancy.

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Peter Berg: Become The Best Version Of Yourself

N2Growth Blog

Boxers need to be smart in their sport. And as Berg notes real boxers are honorable and take their sport and its craft seriously. This observation, I believe, is a good lesson for anyone, especially those in management. What you do can be one thing – like a sport – or many things – like hobbies. Let’s face it.

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3 Ways To Believe In Your Ability To Succeed.

Rich Gee Group

My family and I just watched the film, ‘ The Polar Express ‘ last night with Tom Hanks. Their ‘elite belief’ in a sport requires a mental focus and intensity that is different from the way that many others approach tasks. Well — Do You? It’s a wonderful movie — great story, wonderful animation, and the acting is top notch.

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Olympian Leadership Lessons in Peak Performance

The Practical Leader

Dawn Fraser, gold medal Australian swimmer at three Olympics declares, “ The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.” He never lost a race from 1957 – 1961 and broke the four minute mile 17 times during his career. Pursuing excellence demands change.

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Deep questions: What diving teaches us about uncertainty and risk

Chartered Management Institute

In a hazardous world, managers can learn from the world of scuba diving: train hard, because you’ll never get rid of risk Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content Gareth Lock, founder of The Human Diver. Want to learn more about what diving can teach managers about navigating risk? Additional reporting by David Waller.

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The UK’s Snap Election Reminds Us That Proposing a Change Forces People to Ask New Questions About You

Harvard Business Review

Until a couple of years ago I used CBSSports.com, America’s third-ranked sports site, for my sports news. The same thing can happen in an individual’s career, too, if they take on the wrong project. While that movie is often considered a classic, Dunaway now sees it as a career limiter.