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3 Strategies to Build Inclusive Teams

N2Growth Blog

If you’ve ever played a team sport like soccer or basketball, you quickly learn that while it is helpful to have an “all-star” player, the best teams leverage the talents of all their players on the field and elevate everyone’s game in order to consistently win. How are we going to work together to achieve our goals?

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Having an Old-fashioned Nervous Breakdown Might Be a Good Thing

Michael Lee Stallard

In recent years, we’ve trained leaders in the fields of education, healthcare and the armed services on how to cultivate cultures of connection that reduce the risk of burnout and suicide ideation that members of their organizations were already experiencing pre-pandemic. Do you take pride in having a “go-go-go” work ethic?

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Servant Leaders Outperform Because They Connect

Michael Lee Stallard

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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Why Networking Is Dead – Part Two.

Rich Gee Group

The glove is holding an old, wooden tennis racket and a bi-plane (like the one Snoopy flies) breaks through the strings of the racket, flys around your high school, comes to a soft landing on your football field and touches the goal post.&# Football field - What sports are you into? This story is a pneumonic. Laura 12.17.10

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Effectively Influencing Decision Makers: Ensuring That Your Knowledge Makes a Difference

Marshall Goldsmith

Many knowledge workers have years of education and experience in training for their positions, yet have almost no training in how to effectively influence decision makers. Be especially sensitive to the need to win trivial non-business arguments on things like restaurants, sports teams or cars. Nobody wins.

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Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

Deming Institute

I achieved my goal by not my aim. That happens a lot, we honestly translate aims to goals. And then we do stupid things in the name of the goal get it the way of the aim. We forget the aim sometimes and put the goal in its place. Mike Tveite, Achieving goals but failing to achieve the aim.

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Are We Responsible for Bad Leadership?

Persuasive Powerhouse

Complacency has it’s price, up to and including some morally and ethically reprehensible leaders who have been elected to public office. Large corporations have HR departments that trained to help and also many have anonymous phone lines where you can report companies’ ethical violators, workplace abuse.