Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

I N BUSINESS, as in sports, the aspect that distinguishes the best teams from the mediocre teams comes down to collaboration. Let’s apply the team sport analogy further. Learn more at www.gregspira.ca. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2023 curated just for you. Greg Harden spent over 30 years building them at the University of Michigan and gained national recognition when 60 Minutes Sports profiled him as "Michigan's Secret Weapon." Champions aren't born. They're built.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

F1 racing has historically been a male-dominated sport, but that is changing rapidly. Currently, no rules prevent women from competing in the sport, but the current grid of drivers is exclusively male. The sport has recognized the importance of engaging with fans and providing them with an unforgettable experience.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

T HE leadership question is top of mind for many people here in the United States and throughout the world. 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.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

While not all leaders will develop their talents and abilities to the same level, all successful leaders more or less begin with the same foundation. Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia.

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Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s explore why leadership development is important, as well as the benefits and challenges of effective leadership development. Immersing yourself in leadership opportunities won’t just make you a better leader, it will also encourage others to do the same.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department. Developing as a leader is a difficult endeavor. (If This simple model for leadership development works! It’s a tricky situation.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Welcome to the October 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival. 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! Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership submitted 10 Ways to Keep Cool and Composed.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For those of you who watched the Super Bowl this weekend, did you gain any leadership takeaways? It seems that sports frequently provides an opportunity for leadership analogies! Follow Anne on Twitter at @bizshrink. Jennifer V.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Potential – Interference = Performance I FIRST encountered this equation in the context of peak performance in the sports world. However, in high-stakes situations, our doubts, self-talk, low awareness, ill-preparedness, and instinct-led execution can make or break our attempts. Instinct-led execution.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 16, 2014

Nobody has told you that you need to spend time and effort developing others in your organization. You have too many other things to pay attention to, and besides, isn’t developing leaders the job of human resources? There are lots of reasons to spend time developing leaders in your organization.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

The decision to become an entrepreneur comes with many responsibilities, challenges, and positive or negative financial consequences, depending on how well your planning and execution did. However, the most important duty associated with entrepreneurship is leadership. This strategy can be implemented by storytelling.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Whether you’re talking about governments, companies, sports teams, or families, accountability is what ensures that things run smoothly and that progress continues. At worst, it can result in people developing a “that’s not my job” mentality, which can seriously undermine morale, capacity, and results. Make accountability a team sport.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 28, 2014

A pioneer in the use of customized, 360 degree feedback (confidential feedback from direct reports, peers and managers) as a leadership development tool, I’ve spent the last 30 years using feedback to help people change for the better. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The N2Growth Leaders25 Awards are considered to be the Oscars of professional excellence for Board and C-level executives. Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. “Great CHROs are worth their weight in gold. “What makes a great CHRO, great?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 13, 2010

Showing your humanity by admitting them and apologizing can help you develop better relationships with your followers Create an action plan and ask someone – mentor, friend, coach – to hold you accountable; meet with them regularly to discuss your progress and challenges. Developing Positive Leadership Habits (aspire-cs.com) [.]

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® Model has been a viable tool organizations have relied upon to build leaders and drive behavior change for over 50 years. But are there certain sizes or types of organizations where the Situational Leadership ® methodology seems to work more effectively than others? The short answer to that question is no.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In The Unlocked Leader veteran executive leadership coach Hortense le Gentil explains how superhero leaders can become effective human leaders. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. That a certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to pay for inventing the future.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

M ICHAEL LOMBARDI has been an American football executive for decades. He is also a media analyst writing for Bill Simmon’s The Ringer , where he also hosts his top-ten sports podcast, GM Street. So let’s look at some of the leadership lessons to be found here. Leadership. Quarterbacks have to inspire.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Pull up a tall glass of warm apple cider (with a shot of something that has a kick if you’d like) and grab some donuts while you learn from the top leadership readers on the net and consider some autumn fun. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership announces a penalty in Individual Development Plans are Worthless….if

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A high-performance leader is one who is intentional about their leadership. They are not a leader because their position entitles them to be; they see leadership as a verb, a skill to continue to develop and hone. I have grown up around high-performance sport. It is no different with leadership.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 6, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

The solution is not balance, says sports executive Scott O’Neil in Be Where Your Feet Are. Live Your Leadership Constitution “Committing in writing to life and a way of living matters. Whether we have family rules or values, whether we have a morning mantra or a leadership constitution, we need guideposts in our lives.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 5, 2010

So pour yourself a glass of eggnog, settle into the season and open the presents at her site, Get Your Leadership Big On ! Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

» Leadership Development Carnival Early Bird Edition is Up November 7th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Don’t walk. Instead fly on over to Dan McCarthy’s Leadership Development Carnival for this month’s Early Bird Edition at his Great Leadership site. Don’t run.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

Cross-Cultural Leadership: How to Avoid Making People Lose Face by Aad Boot @LeadershipWatch. Culture Leadership Charge - Insights into a Healthy Work Culture by @scedmonds. Starting the journey - The AI revolution and the leadership challenge via @PeopleMatters2. The Decline of Teamwork in Sports by @patricklencioni.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. Clearly the difference possessed by all great leaders is that they refine, develop and build from their foundation – they don’t ignore it or take it for granted.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Professional sports are not even immune to this as players are electing to sit out the abbreviated seasons as a result of the fear that their team will not be able to keep them safe. As a leader, it is up to you to adapt your leadership style to help guide employees through their new life and work reality.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 30, 2012

In my blog of two weeks ago, entitled The Leadership Love-In [link] I reiterated the never ending need for better leadership. I also extended kudos to a handful of passionate leadership bloggers who I consider to be experts in their field (links listed below). Leadership Bloggers I follow: Mike Myatt at [link].

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Mastery in anything, from sports to the arts to leadership, requires well-practiced capability mediated by a highly mature interiority—a well-honed Outer Game arising on a highly evolved Inner Game. Masterful leadership is Conscious Competence. Great leadership transcends skill, capability, and competence.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 28, 2010

It’s unfortunate that some executives want to cover up or deny their own learning. Suggestions for C-suite executives Be open about your own learning and development. Don’t think for a second that leaders throughout the organization don’t notice the absence of discussion about c-suite development and learning.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Dan has scored a touchdown this month, including some of the most popular leadership bloggers out there. I’m grateful and humbled that he included on of my own, “ On Being a Coach “ I’ll be hosting next month’s Leadership Development Carnival on October 3.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s something very powerful about sports metaphors. Bob Rathbun has worked with and around some of the greatest sports stars in history, and he makes a really good point during our interview in this episode of “Aim Higher.” For sports teams, that goes from GM to coaches to players. Winning Teams.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 8, 2018

Back in 1987, when I was hired by Jack Kent Cooke at the ripe young age of 27 to be the COO of a cable TV company, he wasted very little time to initiate me into the world of executive management. At the time Cooke was a very successful serial entrepreneur, in the media and sports arenas. Which one will you be?”.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 11, 2021

The more leadership responsibility you accumulate, the more fear you’ll have to negotiate. It’s a common debate in the sports world whether coaches make crucial in-game decisions based on the best likelihood to win the game or to avoid criticism from the media afterwards. We all experience fear. Fear of the Unknown.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Do Women Bring More Happiness to Families, Greater Effectiveness to Organizations? She follows sports, not out of a love for it, but because it gives her a language to connect with her boys. why is everyone smiling?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

What Personal Characteristics Do You Need To Become an Executive? wallybock says, " Being a boss is a team sport.". Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs from @jamesstrock. Mentoring as Part of the Leadership Role by @gfeiste. A Leadership''s Judgment by @LollyDaskal. Are You Effectively Engaging Your Team?

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