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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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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. Working in a demanding career – be it film-making, engineering or finance – requires great concentration of time as well as energy. Berg gets a rush from boxing. Let’s face it.

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Highlights – 27 March

Chartered Management Institute

An article in the Financial Times explores the trend of ‘Quit-Tok’, where people film their resignations and redundancy. And finally, don’t miss your chance to hear Gillette CEO Gary Coombe sharing his sports marketing wisdom in this year’s Maclaren Memorial Lecture. Not any more. Many of these clips go viral on social media.

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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.

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28 Facial Hair & Beard Types: Leaders Who Rock Them

Miles Anthony Smith

28 Popular Beard & Facial Hair Types and Leaders Sporting Them ​There are so many variations of beard types, it is hard to keep track of them all. French Fork (or Ducktail) Brad Pitt and Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) have sported the forktail and wear it well. Salvador Dali I don't know anyone famous who can sport this.at

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Improvement Deficiency Syndrome

Chris Brady

It has destroyed friendships, ruined marriages, and derailed careers.  Dave from the other Florida coast near where I dream of Jeanie was filmed. Don't take this lightly. Already, hundreds of thousands of people around the world have been identified as having symptoms of IDS. Thanks for all you say, write and do.

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