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Avoiding The 5 Mistakes That Can End Your Leadership Career (before it even gets started)

Terry Starbucker

That was the bomb that nearly killed my leadership career, just as it was just getting started. The year was 1991, and I was working for the Washington NFL football team, as an executive overseeing the planning for a new football stadium. And, he wanted to finance it privately, without taxpayer money. Let’s tell the boss.

Career 260
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Maybe You’re an Entrepreneur After All

Lead Change Blog

His company sponsored scores of future professionals in the sport when no one else would take the risk. Fortunately, leadership is all about influencing people and the future toward a greater good, and that has entrepreneurship written all over it. You don’t have to make it big in business to be an entrepreneur.

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Peter Berg: Become The Best Version Of Yourself

N2Growth Blog

Boxers need to be smart in their sport. Good boxers plan how to attack and counter-attack. 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.

Sports 150
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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. To be recognized on the 2020 Top CHRO List, the words leadership, team, succession, purpose, culture, governance, and diversity are not just buzzwords – they represent who a CHRO is, what they believe, and where they work every day.

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3 Ways To Successfully Attain Any Goal In Life.

Rich Gee Group

An example might be, “I want to own a BMW Z4 sports car&#. A better way to break up your steps would be to have three segmented goals (with sub-goals) that build up to your main goal, ownership of the Z4: Finance – a. When are the Finance and Research steps complete? Initiate the finance process. Warranties?

Goal 324
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High Performing Organizations

Coaching Tip

Despite the diverse range of industries--business, sports, technology, finance, education, and the arts--each of these successful institutions share a common bond: they are world-class industry leaders and have repeatedly outperformed their competition. "At People Defining a behavioral code for the organization.

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The 5 Mistakes That Nearly Killed My Career (And Can Save Yours)

Terry Starbucker

The year was 1991, and I was working for a certain pro football team in Washington, as an executive overseeing the planning for a new football stadium. And, he wanted to finance it privately, without taxpayer money. Mistake #2: I needed to write a great memo to present this plan, and I was always petrified of memos.

Career 321