Mike Cardus

JANUARY 23, 2012

I am not a sports fan, and when I am leading team building & leadership retreats for Corporate Teams the topic comes up. I have lead programs with professional and college level sports teams, and learned a great deal about the similarities and differences. Are you a sports fan? Plus the whole idea of Fandom freaks me out.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 17, 2020

In this episode, you’ll meet Ellen Robinson, former General Manager for Denver Pepsi Cola and President of Ascent Sports (owners of the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche). She will help you look at your leadership through a different lens and give […].

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 18, 2014

Are there any leadership or management lessons to be gleaned from fantasy football? May a few, but read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out Why You Shouldn’t Lead Your Real Team Like You Manage Your Fantasy Football Team. fantasy football fantasy sports leadership management'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Piracy poses a growing challenge to all sorts of digital media and entertainment companies, but it’s particularly acute for companies that own the rights to sports broadcasts, because efforts to shut down pirated broadcasts often take longer than the broadcasts actually last.

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Curious Cat

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Sports provides visible examples of the futility of accurate performance appraisal. We have athletes who thousands of people devote a huge amount of time to dissecting their strengths and weaknesses and those evaluations are constantly shown to be wrong. Teams are constantly paying free agents tens of millions that completely flop.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There are rich leadership lessons to be learned from politics and sports. Given that I try to avoid politics in this blog, please allow me the indulgence of referencing a headline from my favorite sport to make a point about leadership: Chiefs' Romeo Crennel fires himself. Select and hire capable first-line managers.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

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. Since then I’ve worked with more than 150 CEOs and their management teams. I was intrigued by this challenge. What does it mean?

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The post Nice Teams Don’t Win in Sports or Business appeared first on Women on Business. In other words, being a good leader and developing a strong team in business doesn’t mean you can’t learn lessons from team-building in other areas of life.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

It was the result of hard work and one of the “best demonstrations of team chemistry in sports history.” We needed to manage through ego and conflict. This negative energy brings down sports teams, companies, political campaigns, armies, and even societies and nations. They beat the unbeatable Russian team.

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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. Dr. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. The more successful a person is the more power they have.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 24, 2021

As a manager you may have never thought of it this way, but there are times when you cheat your employees. Here are four common ways manager’s cheat their team members: 1. Here are four common ways manager’s cheat their team members: 1. Solving their problems.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 7, 2014

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. . • Eliminate any striving to impress the other person with how smart or funny you are. Your only aim is to let the other person feel that he or she is accomplishing that.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 14, 2014

Some people use anger as a management tool to some success. Dr. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. Trying to prove how smart we are is just one of the bad habits that leads us to speak without thinking. It can get people’s attention.

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Chartered Management Institute

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Post the Olympics it seems many from the sporting world are being sought out by organisations to inspire their people.but how about their value in relation to leadership and overall organisational performance ? You are not watching this post, click to start watching read more

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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. Make accountability a team sport. She also serves as a senior facilitator for the Interpersonal and Group Dynamics Program at Yale University School of Management.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 28, 2014

A pioneer in the use of customized, 360 degree feedback (confidential feedback from direct reports, peers and managers) as a leadership development tool, I’ve spent the last 30 years using feedback to help people change for the better. If there is one thing I know, it’s how to respond to feedback.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 16, 2020

Managing Through COVID-19: Going Remote. These things were unimaginable 10 days ago: All major college and professional sporting events have been cancelled or postponed. If this has always been important to you as a manager, that’s great. Go back one week. We lived in a very different world just seven days ago.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2021

To that end, this article aims to suggest a number of potential hobbies that could help you to control your stress and keep it at manageable levels. One of the most relaxing and meditative sports out there, archery is all about careful control and accuracy, making it one of the best sports you could possibly engage with for stress relief.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. He offers clear-headed lessons for the entire life cycle of an enterprise, from bootstrapping a startup to going public to managing large companies to selling a business. And the relevance of his message doesn't end in the boardroom.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Whether you are a community leader, a sports coach or the CEO of a large organization, there are character traits that must be utilized to manage effectively. Solid leadership skills are vital for those who work with and motivate others.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I have grown up around high-performance sport. High-performance in the context of sport covers a process that goes like this. It is the same in every sport where high-performance is the ticket to the dance. Leadership gets the team going and management keeps it going. It is no different with leadership.

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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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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Potential – Interference = Performance I FIRST encountered this equation in the context of peak performance in the sports world. The interference could come externally but often comes internally in an athlete — freezing up or choking on the spot.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 8, 2022

This is a challenging decision for most 17- to 18-year-old kids that I believe is made more difficult if the kid in question aspires to play a sport professionally. As the Bersin Report reveals, right alongside meaningful work, the e mployee experience is defined by strong management. A Focus on Management Development.

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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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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 9, 2022

Every year, for those who follow sports, there ae key dates on the calendar that fans of college football or basketball get excited about. Athletes across the country choose a school and are celebrated on sports talk radio… They are applauded on ESPN for their choice of a new place to work… It is very exciting.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

” “I just finished a big project, and my manager didn’t even acknowledge it before she dumped the next one in my lap.” Make employee appreciation a team sport The larger and more disbursed your team is, the more help you’re going to need. It doesn’t have to be a big formal process.

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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. Managers should strive to highlight the possibilities for the group when this is achieved. Sporting success. Building an underdog narrative. The underdog identity.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 14, 2013

While you might hear these statements from any manager, they all have one thing in common: the lack of specificity. Organizations need good managers and exceptional leaders (at all levels of your business). Test your management strategies. How are you managing your team? That’s why most managers don’t risk doing it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In contrast, managers who haven’t learned this secret focus on the numbers and frantically swivel their team’s focus back and forth between twenty-seven different measurements – most of which don’t directly affect results. Managers who don’t understand the difference between a score and what it represents will beat people up with the number.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2019

Just as it’s beholden on mavericks to understand how best to operate in a world that may not share their unique perspective, so to is it beholden on managers to adapt their style to get the best out of these free thinkers. Managing a team of mavericks. “It’s one of the big reasons why I’m on the team.

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Change Starts Here

JULY 29, 2013

In this episode, she tells the story of how they implemented a custom change management approach at the sports TV network. Listen to hear how she decided to develop a custom change management approach, what the approach entails, and how they implemented it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2023

With accurate player-availability predictions for all active players, AI-powered decision-making is dramatically improved around three dimensions: 1) Risk management: If a productive wide-receiver is likely to get hurt, for example, a team might invest more in talented backups, to minimize drop-off in team performance during injury.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 14, 2013

This advice is commonly touted in a variety of high pressure situations: life, school, sports, business deals. When I facilitate workshops on leadership with students and experienced managers I invite them to share the best leadership advice they’ve ever received. But does it have a place in leadership? This invitation [.].

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Legendary former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once quipped that football wasn’t a matter of life and death, it was more important than that. Louis have developed a model to help sporting institutions and public health officials understand the risks associated with re-opening stadia.

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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. I have been talking about the Hawthorne studies a lot lately and a mention of it will pop up in some research I am doing on new approaches to talent management systems.

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