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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. Notes : GOALS Haiti just won Beyond Sport’s award for Best New Project. Without the temptation of the internet and fewer gadgets, there seems to be more hours in the day. In the U.S., 2 Degrees of Separation?

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How to be Remarkable

Rajesh Setty

Think about the old adage – “if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” In this case, your core skills are the hammer and you now have to find the nail in their journey. It is important that you move the needle using your CORE SKILLS. ” That adage has positive use cases too.

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Is There a CEO Afterlife? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Former CEO of sports apparel maker Russell Corporation, Jack Ward puts his time and money into helping inner-city kids. Warren Staley (Cargill) supports Habitat for Humanity with a hammer, a saw and a wallet.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

 Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail.  Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail.

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How to Coach, According to 5 Great Sports Coaches

Harvard Business Review

Business is not a sport. But insensitive, hammer-like shots that are delivered in the name of honesty and openness usually do the greatest damage to people. But great coaching is just as important to success in the office as on the field. Over the years, HBR has interviewed some of the world’s top athletic coaches.

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Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

Deming Institute

You will often see such stroies about successful sports teams and how their season long slogan helped them succeed. Of course, every other sports team that lost also had such a slogan and didn’t succeed. Some of these fall into just a silly example of you used a slogan and had success and think there is causation.

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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. We take a look at ourselves and see so many areas for improvement that we are tempted to attack them all at once. Resist this temptation. Focus is the key. Take immediate action. Where the fins hit the water is when we take action toward their fulfillment.

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