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Olympian Leadership Lessons in Peak Performance

The Practical Leader

. “It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication,” observed Herb Elliott, an Australian middle-distance runner.

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From The Hitman’s Bodyguard

Joseph Lalonde

His career as a protection agent was done regardless of the planning and care he’d put into the job. Moral failure, business failure, personal failure. Pam and I laughed through quite a bit of the film, along with the rest of the audience. He would transport high-value targets and deliver them safely to their destination.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. Cultivating this trust isn’t just a moral issue; it’s a practical one. That guy’s an idiot.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. Cultivating this trust isn’t just a moral issue; it’s a practical one. That guy’s an idiot.

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Too Many Men Are Silent Bystanders to Sexual Harassment

Harvard Business Review

Naval Academy professors who spend our days educating and championing women for careers of service as officers in the Navy and Marine Corps, we feel heartsick and angry about this. submarines were surreptitiously filmed in the bathroom. In the Navy, several of the first women to volunteer for service on U.S

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

Harvard Business Review

In the last week, film producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual harassment — which many have described as an open secret in Hollywood — have exploded onto the pages of the New York Times. They are driven by the cause — not ulterior motives such as career advancement, public recognition, or getting a date.

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