Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2023 curated just for you. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. Are there mental structures for failure and success? Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 27, 2012

Anyone can practice leadership or sports, but not everyone will succeed. Not everyone has the same capacity for sports or leadership. In his book, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership , John Maxwell calls this the Law of the Lid: “The Lid represents the limit of our leadership abilities. That’s it.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2023 curated just for you. A top strategy professor and two highly successful CEOs found that, in companies that had successfully changed their culture, leaders had taken dramatic actions that embodied the new cultural values. Champions aren't born.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Welcome to the February 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Team Building. Communication. Connect with Marina on LinkedIn. Development.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Welcome to the August 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Practice these steps to improve your coaching, leadership, and parenting.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 27, 2014

Only the strongest teams will survive and while their defensive pressure, explosive running game or deep shooting might define their style, their success rests on five obsessions. These obsessions are common to champions and may very well help your team in your competitive endeavor. . The teams that do this best will move on.

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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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Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 12, 2017

If you are a sports fan, there is always lots of talk about the importance of offense and defense in the making of winning teams. Yet in organizational success, we much less frequently talk about offense and defense. Think about it this way. Leading defensively is focusing on the problems that inevitably arise […].

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 7, 2021

In fact, current economic challenges demand that our entire team communicates and works together at the highest efficiency. We can certainly understand that some teams have become rusty and have experienced challenges to their productivity levels along the way. The leadership advantage.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department. I had coached many groups of mid-level managers who were on the verge of success, but never an individual who was already very successful and needed to make a change to be blasted into the stratosphere. I was intrigued by this challenge.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2012

The notion of business as a combination of sport and war was attributed to Emile Herzog (1885-1967), a French author who used the pen name, Andre Maurois. The man who preceded me in the corner office lived by the credo that a company’s success wasn’t enough; the other guy had to fail. That may sound extreme. But hold on for a moment.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

While not all leaders will develop their talents and abilities to the same level, all successful leaders more or less begin with the same foundation. Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2017

T HE AMERICA'S CUP is the world’s oldest international sporting trophy, first contested in 1851 when the schooner America crossed the Atlantic and beat 15 British yachts. This year at the 35th America’s Cup in Bermuda, Team New Zealand beat the defending Oracle Team USA. Great Teams Serve Each Other. Great Teams Innovate.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Much of our leadership is given to ensure our customers have the best CX – customer experience – or if you are in the tech industry, the best UX – user experience. In other words, how many of your employees are having the best LX – Leadership Experience? That’s where Leadership Experience emerges.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2020

They provide a unique window on the impact overly controlling, self-centered leadership styles can have on others: “Regarding the letter you sent, the heart of your servant is ill, when my lord said: Don’t you know how to read a letter? What are the enduring qualities of great leadership?

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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. You say something – I get mad.

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General Leadership

OCTOBER 31, 2014

“When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.” We have all heard the homily “There is no “I” in “Team. ” As any sports coach knows, a team’s results overshadow the individual. Employee collaboration and contribution leads to increased success.

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Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Growing up playing sports, coaching my kids’ sports teams, and being a sports fan in general has taught me numerous lessons about life and leadership. However, the most important lesson I’ve learned about being part of a successful team, or leading one, is the need for trust.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2019

But there is another way a leader can manage accountability and that is by setting up their team to be accountable. On accountable teams when someone fails to meet expectations and aren’t doing something different to get those results, the team members step in. First there was a real and meaningful shared fate on the team.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2023

The use of underdog narratives is a popular leadership tactic that has been proven effective in motivating teams and organizations. Leaders in various industries, such as telecommunications and sports, often employ these narratives to create a compelling story of overcoming adversity and achieving success against the odds.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

He is also a media analyst writing for Bill Simmon’s The Ringer , where he also hosts his top-ten sports podcast, GM Street. As a three-time Super Bowl champion, Michel Lombardi provides lessons in organizational culture, team building, strategy, and character. So let’s look at some of the leadership lessons to be found here.

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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. Research from the University of South Florida shows how leaders can also cultivate this underdog spirit within their organizations to help give teams the confidence to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When I ask clients for examples of great teams, the responses invariably include sports teams. Some good lessons can be learned from sports, but it isn’t enough to use (or overuse) sports teams as role models. Start searching out non-sports role models. Who are your teamwork role models?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

In my 25 years of professional endeavors, the lessons I apply the most often…the tools I use to achieve success. all of these things I experienced and developed to one degree or another through sports. Managers, Coaches, and Captains: Even with the greatest strategy, teams can still flounder without the right leadership.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 15, 2023

Or to play for a professional sports team, write a novel, or perform with a well-regarded symphony or ballet company. Ambition should also be for the team—it’s the job of a great leader to make others shine. Don’t just accept a general statement from someone on your team that they’re “looking to do more.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 22, 2013

Guest post from Mark Miller : Have you ever been on a great team? As I think about my own experience, I realize I’ve been on scores, if not hundreds of teams; unfortunately, the majority have not lived up to their potential. The more I study the topic, the more it feels like there’s a global pandemic of underperforming teams.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2017

In most work environments, employees perform their tasks in a team structure. Everyone on the team has a specific area of expertise. But if you’ve worked in a team setting, whether that be in school, sports, or the modern workplace, you know this is easier said than done. How to Foster A Psychologically Safe Team.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

While not all leaders will develop their talents and abilities to the same level, all successful leaders more or less begin with the same foundation. Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 25, 2017

Chris Edmonds: Two key indicators of a healthy team are that they are productive (getting tasks done to standards, on budget and on time) and effective (working together with a minimum of drama.) A 2013 University of Phoenix survey revealed that nearly 7 in 10 American workers have served on dysfunctional teams. every day.

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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.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 16, 2015

What sports fan in the 1980s and 1990s wasn’t inspired by Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest basketball player ever? What can we learn from his success? What can we learn from his success? In the context of the Bulls, this meant playing as a team within the triangle offense that Jackson taught, not as an individual.

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 27, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011 Team Sports - How They Help Teens I remember a conversation I had at a dinner party a few years ago. I said, "Well, for one thing, involvement in team sports can make a big difference in setting people up success." What does team sports have to do with anything?"

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Leading Blog

MAY 19, 2020

I N The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership , we included 19 Rules for remote leaders to follow. The first rule was the foundation for everything else: “ Think about leadership first and location second. ” When teams work remotely, however, those spontaneous conversations can no longer happen organically.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Team bonding activities are one way to bring employees together on a personal level. Team bonding activities have also gained more popularity post-pandemic as employers are grappling to rebuild positive organization cultures. For example, Organizing team bonding activities in Singapore is now more than just fun.

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Leading Blog

MAY 9, 2023

Richard Norton Smith’s extraordinary biography of Gerald Ford, An Ordinary Man , pulls together multiple perspectives to give essential insights into Ford’s thinking and leadership. By stressing individual contacts over ideological mandates, Ford defines leadership in transactional terms, constituent service on a grand scale.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 5, 2019

Winning Team. Playing midfielder for the United States Women’s National Soccer Team for over twenty-three years, Kristine Lilly knows a thing or two about winning teams. It’s an invitation for all of us to build powerhouse teams. What makes a “powerhouse” team? Transform: How do you best align a team?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® Model has been a viable tool organizations have relied upon to build leaders and drive behavior change for over 50 years. a person or a team at varying levels of task-related ability and willingness to perform the task) The leader will always have a choice! For example: There will always be a task! (an

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