Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

T HE leadership question is top of mind for many people here in the United States and throughout the world. No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 1, 2014

The reason we don’t want to give it is because our leaders and managers have power over us, our paychecks, advancement, and job security. The more successful a person is the more power they have. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011. The people around you will be thrilled!

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 7, 2014

In her book My Life in Leadership , Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, CEO of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, and one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever met, wrote one of the best descriptions of listening and leadership I’ve ever read: “Listening is an art. It is active and powerful.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

F1 racing has historically been a male-dominated sport, but that is changing rapidly. Currently, no rules prevent women from competing in the sport, but the current grid of drivers is exclusively male. The sport has recognized the importance of engaging with fans and providing them with an unforgettable experience.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Potential – Interference = Performance I FIRST encountered this equation in the context of peak performance in the sports world. While it seems that no one person alone has the power to impact the situation, each person can make an attempt to have +influence. They’re powerful but can also be misguided. Instinct-led execution.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

From analyzing the regulatory environment and building the right team to deciding which risks to take and managing and mitigating these risks by devising effective strategies, an entrepreneur is responsible for playing many roles all at once. However, the most important duty associated with entrepreneurship is leadership.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool with a lot to offer business and servant leaders. So, if you’re new to AI and want a great way to get started, we have 19 powerful, beginner AI prompts for business and servant leaders. Like any tool, AI can be used to great benefit for you and your stakeholders. We’d love to help.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 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. Experimentation Works : The Surprising Power of Business Experiments by Stefan H.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 8, 2020

What thoughts or feelings do you have when you think of power? Perhaps you picture an organizational chart where the boxes at the top are imbued with more power than those below. Or perhaps the word power conjures up feelings of nervousness, anxiety, or fear, based on negative experiences you’ve had in the past.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Whether you’re talking about governments, companies, sports teams, or families, accountability is what ensures that things run smoothly and that progress continues. The upshot of these limitations is that they undermine the power of accountability as a force for excellence, connection, and learning. Make accountability a team sport.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JUNE 15, 2017

Whether it’s an instrument, a sport, or how to be a more effective leader to be better requires purposeful practice. The post The Power of Deliberate Practice with Robert Pool appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning. The only way to progress is learning about what you are doing wrong and […].

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A high-performance leader is one who is intentional about their leadership. They are not a leader because their position entitles them to be; they see leadership as a verb, a skill to continue to develop and hone. I have grown up around high-performance sport. It is no different with leadership. That's the difference.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Ego Free Leadership : Ending the Unconscious Habits that Hijack Your Business by Brandon Black and Shayne Hughes “Anytime we know intellectually what to do, but our actual behavior is inconsistent or in contradiction, it is a sign we are being short-circuited by our egosystem. Uniquely human skills. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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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

JUNE 21, 2016

It’s a question that has perplexed me for many years: With the wealth of leadership wisdom available, why do we continue to struggle to lead well? The more time I spend with managers and leaders, the more I see three reasons aspiring leaders struggle: They don’t know how. 11 Ways Fear Cripples Your Leadership.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 27, 2024

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. Ann Francke astutely highlights why managers need to be paying attention, far beyond any dopamine or distraction.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Welcome to the October 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival. 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! Read over these outstanding leadership posts this month and I think you’ll agree each one is a home run!

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Reflections on Charismatic Leadership. Management scholars Jay Conger and Rabindra Kanungo introduced a framework for charismatic leadership, which I use to reflect on the case studies of Alexander the Great and General Charles de Gaulle. Printed by permission. . Jan-Benedict Steenkamp.

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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. This type of work is nuanced and requires leadership skills that are often overlooked in business school.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 10, 2019

Sports heroes mention their mentors at award ceremonies. Mentoring is indeed powerful. It also requires the support of top management. Successful business people thank their mentors at career milestone celebrations. Most leaders have been both a mentor and a mentee at some point in their careers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2013

Leadership is one of "those" important topics about which there is no shortage of information. But despite all that has been written or said concerning leadership, there are still some important areas that are all but ignored. Leadership always comes before management. Successful leadership is dictatorial in nature.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s something very powerful about sports metaphors. Bob Rathbun has worked with and around some of the greatest sports stars in history, and he makes a really good point during our interview in this episode of “Aim Higher.” For sports teams, that goes from GM to coaches to players. Winning Teams.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Be sure to read the definitive book on servant leadership. It's a curated collection of incredibly insightful and motivational perspectives on servant leadership via essays by 44 servant leaders. Covey Plus, you'll read keen advice from celebrated sports coaches, company CEO's, pastors and retired military leaders.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 20, 2020

Check out the definitive book on servant leadership. It's a curated collection of incredibly insightful and motivational perspectives on servant leadership via essays by 44 servant leaders. Covey Plus, you'll read keen advice from celebrated sports coaches, company CEO's, pastors and retired military leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2015

In our Chip Shots feature, our Leading Voices are invited to provide brief insights into a leadership dilemma. Mary Schaefer – I facilitated a series of 3-month leadership development programs that set up participants in teams of 6 from different functions in the company. Jon Mertz – Product management is a team sport.

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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.” Like a sports scorecard, competitive spirit demands measurement and accountability of performance. I ’m an extremely competitive person.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Culture of conflict avoidance is powerful way to destroy an institution in rapidly changing times by @LisaBodell. wallybock says, " Being a boss is a team sport.". FT: Zen and the art of management by By John Paul Rathbone. Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs from @jamesstrock. FT: Why are good managers so rare?

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith sent me a link to his wonderful article (co-authored by Howard Morgan) from Strategy + Business called, Leadership is a Contact Sport. Do you know the power of following up? Here are a couple of quotes from the article: "Leadership, it’s clear from this research, is a relationship.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 1, 2021

Check out the definitive book on servant leadership. It's a curated collection of incredibly insightful and motivational perspectives on servant leadership via essays by 44 servant leaders. Covey Plus, you'll read keen advice from celebrated sports coaches, company CEO's, pastors and retired military leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. In today’s post I’ll share 6 leadership characteristics that require zero talent or skill.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 4, 2016

Think of a team – at work, school, sports, neighborhood, wherever – where you genuinely contributed to the team’s goals and you were treated with trust, respect, and dignity in every interaction. They aren’t asked to manage people’s hearts; leaders are incented to drive results.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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. LFG has established itself as a powerful employer brand, and a company with a strong and stable culture.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Here are some of the qualities they share—if you see them in yourself, great, and if not, work on incorporating them into your leadership: They’re all about the people and less about the process. Many people treat conversation like a competitive sport you can win by talking the longest, making the cleverest point, or getting in the last word.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Still, our stalemate provides an important leadership lesson. Our Constitution limits and distributes power between the branches of government. Leadership is difficult in a representative government. The government shut down, like all human problems, is a leadership issue. Is this shutdown too stupid to be our policy?

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For those of you who watched the Super Bowl this weekend, did you gain any leadership takeaways? It seems that sports frequently provides an opportunity for leadership analogies! Dana Theus of In Power Consulting submitted Fearless Feedback.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

; 3) quietly confident that connecting the people they introduce will result in something great even if it’s not yet clear; and, perhaps most importantly 4) who understand the power of the ask. Let me share a brief story about a couple of normal (well, in their eyes) people and a kid to illustrate the Power of the Ask.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 26, 2019

Be sure to read the definitive book on servant leadership. A curated collection of incredibly insightful and motivational perspectives on servant leadership via essays by 44 servant leaders. Covey Plus, you'll read keen advice from celebrated sports coaches, company CEO's, pastors and retired military leaders.

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