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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.

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Highlights – 27 March

Chartered Management Institute

Article: Highlights – 27 March Wednesday 27 March 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Why the trend of ‘Quit-Tok’ is a viral wake-up call for managers. An article in the Financial Times explores the trend of ‘Quit-Tok’, where people film their resignations and redundancy.

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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. This observation, I believe, is a good lesson for anyone, especially those in management. What you do can be one thing – like a sport – or many things – like hobbies. Let’s face it.

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Great Leaders Attract Great Talent

Great Leadership By Dan

Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. You’re great at focusing the journey and laying a course, especially when winds are uncertain.

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The Great Leadership Learning Matrix

Great Leadership By Dan

However, for a manager, being unskilled in leadership and not wanting do do anything about it is a recipe for failure. These managers are often stuck in their own comfort zone, over rely on a few key strengths and will justify their behavior by saying things like "hey, that's just the way I am". That's not always a bad thing.

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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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Olympic Spirit, Human Spirit, and Extraordinary Leadership

The Practical Leader

Chris Brasher, a British athlete, sports journalist and co-founder of the London Marathon once observed, “There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul that must be preserved.” Just over a decade later Redford established the Sundance Film Festival. What a powerful combination!

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