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What Makes a High-Performance Leader?

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The reason they do this is high-performance leaders understand that their number one goal is to create more high-performance leaders so they can move up to their next position and create more value. I have grown up around high-performance sport. High-performance in the context of sport covers a process that goes like this.

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Great Leaders Attract Great Talent

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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.

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Don’t Tolerate Dysfunctional Teams

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Although it can be innate “wired” behavior, it is often likely that it is “acquired” behavior , learned through watching the dynamics in the family , school, sports, or the community. They do not have a common purpose or shared values and goals. Self-Serving Team Members Where do we learn to be selfish? every day.

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Turning a Vision into Reality

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Kennedy proclaimed, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”1 Every sport has a means of calculating success or levels of success. Football has the aptly named goal line. Golf counts strokes.

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Leading with Trust

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The co-head of investment banking at Goldman Sachs said, “The goal is for our analysts to want to be here for a career. SAS also minimizes the use of contractors and simply hires the people they need. This is a marathon, not a sprint.” Just investing in colleagues increases trust and productivity.

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The Great Leadership Learning Matrix

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Eager beavers need to take it one step at a time, and prioritize their learning and development goals around the critical few that will having the biggest and most immediate return-on-investment. They can also be gullible - being an easy target for the latest fads or silver bullets promising to make them great leaders in 10 easy steps.

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Why Burnout Should Alarm Executive Leaders

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Guest Post by Ben Fanning , the Burnout Specialist: Let me share with you what happened when I started my job at the largest sporting goods retailer in the world. You’re responsible for the cumulative goals of your team, and you’re under pressure to deliver. What are their big goals both professionally and personally?

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