Lead on Purpose

JULY 19, 2010

Champions: Usually associated with sports, the word champions identifies the ultimate winners. These are the people who have worked smart and hard to achieve a goal. — The Product Management Perspective: Recently I’ve received some great feedback from co-workers and customers. You receive power from eating.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 18, 2010

When Admiral Clark became the chief, first term re-enlistment didn’t meet the Navy’s goal of 38 percent. So far I’ve seen good examples not only in the military but also in business, the social sector organizations, families, rock bands and sports teams. Retired CNO Admiral Vern Clark was formerly the chief of the U.S.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 17, 2010

You connect with people in a mutually productive and pleasurable way. You plant the seed of your capabilities, service, or product but you don’t overtly go for the kill. Football field - What sports are you into? Goal post - What goals are you shooting for this year? You concentrate on the other person.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 7, 2021

In the office, we have constant opportunities to cross paths with people by accident or proximity that lead to all kinds of productive conversations. Overwhelmingly, the people mentioned three factors that distinguish a member of the team from a true teammate: Productivity. Being an engaged, productive teammate is internally driven.

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How To Learning-by-Doing Long-term Career 115

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Influencing up is similar to selling products or services to customers. Great salespeople take responsibility for achieving results, refusing to blame their customers for not buying their products. An effective salesperson would never say to a customer, 'You need to buy this product, because if you don't, I won't achieve my objectives!'

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Influence Ethics Cost-Benefit Analysis Guidelines 135

Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 5, 2011

In many ways, influencing ultimate decision makers is similar to selling products or services to external customers. No one is impressed with salespeople who blame their customers for not buying their products. Be especially sensitive to the need to win trivial non-business arguments on things like restaurants, sports teams or cars.

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Influence Drucker Guidelines Ethics 139

Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. I achieved my goal by not my aim. That happens a lot, we honestly translate aims to goals. Thomas Johnson (in the forward to the book).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Sports competition, for example, allows people to experience the exhilaration and excitement that come from the sweet tension of the game. In business settings, competition in the marketplace can promote those values we all read about in our economic textbooks: excellence in efficiency, innovation, service, and production.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Complacency has it’s price, up to and including some morally and ethically reprehensible leaders who have been elected to public office. I agree it is hard to confront your boss and it is even harder to go over your boss but it can hurt the organization and its productivity. We might simply vote without doing our homework first.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

DECEMBER 9, 2009

You need to set ambitious goals and then do whatever it takes to reach them. Team sports is great for this. I agree that parents need to find avenues for preparing their kids for adult life through activities like sports. I think the best we can do for our children is, to help them set goals grounded in reality.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. “Take a football player.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. They will represent the products more consistently. Previously, working in the call center was a solo sport. Every high performer needs both. The same is true for any team or organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Are they leaving goals — and wins — on the table? Being honest and never dissembling is very consistent with the bland axioms of a “feel good” leadership discourse, but as in the case of sports, it is also remarkably inconsistent with what actually goes on in the real world. Ethics Leadership Managing yourself'

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Tim Milburn

JUNE 27, 2012

NOTE: This is a guest post by Garret Kramer, Author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life. Keep goal-setting to a bare minimum, if instituted at all. Goal-setting narrows focus, which, contrary to popular opinion, limits opportunities and shrinks the perceptual field (awareness). Author Bio. Just Starting Out!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Generosity is more typically an afterthought, a by-product, a "nice-to-have" quality. What comes across is a strong work ethic, great communication skills, and a willingness and ability to collaborate. Here are 8 concrete ways to be generous at work: Show a strong work ethic: Make your boss' life easier or better.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. In-N-Out Burger.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 2, 2012

Welcome to today's guest post (and some new ways of thinking about teams) by Garret Kramer , author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life. Keep goal-setting to a bare minimum, if instituted at all. Free will is the number one ingredient to productive behaviors and performances.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

I am able to maintain a long term focus if I'm engaged in a worthwhile goal. I have formed at least one, major productive habit in the last year. Most of the sports or activities I have enjoyed are individual ones. I have goals that are written down. I build the drama in my mind for the accomplishment of my goals.

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Learning-by-Doing Follow-up Commitment Long-term 59

Women on Business

AUGUST 12, 2011

A few of the most important and valuable leadership traits are: honesty, intelligence, work ethic, decisiveness, ambition, compassion, and creativeness. At the same time, this kind of leadership style might not be very beneficial in traditional male settings such as military or organized sports.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Your organizations work ethic should be solution- and positive-results-oriented. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. 15 Inspiring Biographies For Leaders 20 New Words Every Leader Should Know Reach Communications & Leadership Expert David Gro.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 11, 2010

"Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. A big thank you to that group for this valuable list. 15 Inspiring Biographies For Leaders 20 New Words Every Leader Should Know Reach Communications & Leadership Expert David Gro. Honor The Legacy Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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