Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Guest post from Susanna Camp and Jonathan Littman As a leader, you shape the ideas, provide the direction, set the goals. Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. How do we know? We all know the conflicts that upend teams.

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Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2019

His goal is to “teach you how to be both the boss everyone wants to work for and the high achiever every CEO wants to hire—all without drama, stress, or endless hours in the office.”. This is the only guaranteed way to know that you are investing your minutes in alignment with your values and goals.” Play Favorites.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 22, 2023

Kettl share compelling and instructive stories about some of today’s most successful bridgebuilders—federal state, and local government leaders who transcend boundaries and partner across sectors, to achieve success and meet their goals. What are the three elements of innovation? Knock down barriers. Make data the language.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It’s commonly seen in a sporting context, but brands have also capitalized on it to help communicate their journey. Developed a shared understanding of the goals of the team – For underdogs to succeed, it’s vital that the whole team are both aware of the goals they have, and are then working together to help achieve them.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

As the most trusted mental coach in the world of sports, Trevor Moawad has worked with many of the most dominant athletes and the savviest coaches. When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. In B2B and B2C?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

an objective or a goal the leader needs to pursue through the behavior of others) There will always be a follower! (a They don’t manage change; they intentionally drive change! They not only empower their teams to think creatively and be innovative, but they also actively encourage and support it.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 4, 2018

In days gone by, sports coaches took a more hard-line, militaristic approach to leading. In sports, however, people have always been the largest source of competitive advantage, and companies would be wise to learn from the range of quality-tested ideas that have sprung from sports over the last few decades. “

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. A Virtual Learning Expedition is a live online experience that will bring senior managers to the next level.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

As a kid in sports, I played my heart out, hated my opponents and cried when I lost. The late French author Andre Maurois once said, “Business is a combination of sport and war.” Clearly define your goals. Like a sports scorecard, competitive spirit demands measurement and accountability of performance. Know the enemy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 16, 2017

As Christopher Bishop, head of Herman Miller’s Innovation lab has said, "The war for talent is over, talent has won." Leaders who fail to invest in skill development for team members implicitly enforce a rigid hierarchy that inhibits innovation. SAS also minimizes the use of contractors and simply hires the people they need.

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Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

There’s no time for poorly-managed conversations when running a business or an organization. If you’re someone who doesn’t take too kindly to “bossy” managers that push people around, the good news is that this doesn’t have to be your approach.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

It seems that sports frequently provides an opportunity for leadership analogies! Beth Miller of Executive Velocity submitted If You Aren’t Revisiting Your Employees’ Goals, How Are You Helping Them Grow? Beth writes, “Organizations often have to shift their goals due to the rapidly changing landscape.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

How do you manage your emotions? When you’re able to understand someone’s perspective of a situation you’re much more likely to achieve your team goals; working in harmony, reaching a mutual agreement, exploring new innovative ideas and so on. Self-regulation. Do you over-react or under-react? People skills.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

AubreyDaniels: Famous Sports Wisdom to Use at Work. HarvardBiz: Three Questions that Will Kill Innovation Try asking "What are you learning?" Stanford GSB: Why Failure Drives Innovation. donhornsby: Good leadership never forgets that its long-term goal is not to create follower but more leaders. by @profkjmoore.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 18, 2010

What struck me the first time I listened to this podcast is how beautifully these principles apply to product management, to leadership and to life in general. We need to look ahead and have goals for future success, and make choices right now that take us in that direction. This team was featured in the recent movie Forever Strong.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

If employees think the goal is to win at a team-building event, then they may feel more pressure to learn the rules which will help them win against their opponent instead of getting into the spirit of doing something together as a group with no ‘Win’ (or ‘Lose’) as the defining outcome. Build a House.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. In order to maximize our learning we have to be sensitive to and manage our emotions.” Because we have difficulty seeing ourselves and examining our own assumptions, “ learning is a team sport.”

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Engineering and creating sustainable advantage is the focus of the new paradigm for strategy management, detailing how the intersection of intelligence and innovation come together to deliver and sustain superior financial performance and value creation. Alignment: When it comes to strategy, alignment is a critical success factor.

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Strategic Planning Planning Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2015

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! Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks submitted How To Lead Virtual Teams. Here’s why, what they really need, and what you can do as a manager.” Let’s Get Started.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 11, 2011

Executive coaching has become as accepted (in Fortune 1000 businesses) as sports coaching is on the athletic field. The conundrum is this: executive coaching typically focuses on a thin layer of senior management. Developing goals that can lead an organization. Creating initiatives and projects that support the goals.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 11, 2020

Gone is the time you spent socializing with friends at a sporting event or volunteering alongside others in the community. Unless you are an “essential worker,” gone is the time you spent interacting with strangers, colleagues and friends as you commuted to work, ducked out to grab a meal or run an errand, and did your job. Katharine P.

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Curious Cat

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

It seems that if there were better ways to manage, people would adopt those methods. It isn’t done just because it feels uncomfortable to do something in a new way (whether it is a different way to shoot a free throw or a different way to manage). Plenty of better management practices exist. But it is hard to say when.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2016

With the latest edition of the Summer Olympic Games now well under way in Rio, there is naturally much interest in the outcomes of various sporting events. Within the leadership and management field, there is also much interest in discovering insights that can help us to better understand how to inspire the best in our employees.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. The way to avoid conflict is to help those around you achieve their objectives.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

The pressure on you to make bottom line goals is even greater than it has ever been. In the stress of making bottom line goals, you may be missing an opportunity to achieve more than you have. What shared interests can you learn about that you can combine to catalyze innovation for your organization? The CFO owns a couple.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The Big Red Machine had great players, but they also had a fabulous manager. I admired him and was pleased when later in his career he managed the Tigers to a World Series Championship as well. He was the first manager to win a World Series title in both the National and American Leagues. Sparky died yesterday at age 76.

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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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Experience to Lead

APRIL 18, 2022

Major changes to the workplace have emerged based on the increased attention to mindfulness, including corporate gym memberships and playing sports on company outings. Managing stress, maintaining focus and increasing job satisfaction are just some of the results of a positive self-care practice.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 27, 2023

The results of the survey indicated that many employees found it easier to balance their work with familial and social commitments: 60% of respondents reported an improved ability to balance paid work with care responsibilities, and 62% stated that it was easier to manage work alongside their social lives.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Perhaps it was a work team or a sports team or even Scouts or the military. How about the teams’ goals? Were the goals ever met or are you asking right now…what goals? The goal of this discussion is to learn others perspectives of team development. Was the team performing optimally? Was it a smooth running team?

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Today I would like to shift gears and take a look ahead at what the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogging community sees in store for us in 2011. License. .  Enjoy!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 22, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. I am married, have two daughters, and a dog named Edgar the Leadership Pug who exemplifies the importance of relationships to great leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. " My goal is to use the tools to help people engage their world, not disengage. I want to help us check in, and be more productive when we do. I Think Not.

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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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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The most important decision a leader can make with regard to any implementation, initiative, project, objective, goal, task, etc. And many young leaders lose focus on the team goal and focus on either being popular with their team or following the rules. is who they are going to put in charge? Great reminder Mike.

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