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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

Potential – Interference = Performance I FIRST encountered this equation in the context of peak performance in the sports world. The equation also applies to our individual capacity for positive influence (+influence). The interference could come externally but often comes internally in an athlete — freezing up or choking on the spot.

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Why Sports Builds Leadership

Lead on Purpose

Leadership is a personal trait that often proves elusive to many people, however is intimately related to personal success. Leaders also foster social change, and most of our cultural, social and economic progress is the result of leadership. So, too, does the way to impart leadership to an eager young mind.

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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Leading Blog

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. Furlong held senior global leadership roles at TD Securities, retiring in 2012 as vice chair.

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How Leadership Team Coaching Benefits More Than Executives

N2Growth Blog

For that, executives can partner with an experienced leadership team coach. One Stanford study demonstrated that while about 75% of CEOs say they don’t receive any leadership advice, almost 100% of CEOs want this advice and welcome coaching. What is leadership performance coaching? What does a good leadership coach do?

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Tom Ryan’s Philosophy: Becoming Elite in Life and Leadership

Skip Prichard

“The greatest force in the world is positive influence.” His journey is compellingly told his book Chosen Suffering: Becoming Elite in Life and Leadership. It doesn’t matter whether you follow, or even enjoy, the sport of wrestling. Wrestling is more than a sport for Ryan. Leadership. Initiative.

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How Negative Thinking Creates Positive Solutions

Leadership Freak

Shooting down ideas is sport to corporate teams. What happens when new ideas come before teams? People explain why they won’t work! Don’t you hate people who explain why something won’t work? … Continue reading →

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Winning Teams Know to Trust Their Team Members

Leading Blog

I N BUSINESS, as in sports, the aspect that distinguishes the best teams from the mediocre teams comes down to collaboration. Let’s apply the team sport analogy further. An alternative choice is to pass the puck to another player who is in a better position and can make a coordinated play. Doing so creates agility.

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