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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. Sales and marketing leaders become more mature in their thinking about the demand plan. The manufacturing organization is rarely an open bar, so to speak.

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Parents as Leadership Coaches

Let's Grow Leaders

Having my kids spread so far apart, I’ve had the joy of my son, Ben, now a college freshman, really mature into an inspiring leader across many contexts at school, the community, at church, and even working with the United Nations. Our children surprise us when we stop looking for perfection and see the leaders that they are becoming.

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If it’s Stupid, It’s not our Policy!

N2Growth Blog

Maturity: It is not our nature to follow children. With the exception of entertainment and sports where youth is over served, we defer to age, experience, and maturity in most facets of our life. The leader who emerges will be one who has not sacrificed their “maturity cred” by acting like a child when things got difficult.

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Transcending Skill (A Mastering Leadership Excerpt)

Lead Change Blog

Mastery in anything, from sports to the arts to leadership, requires well-practiced capability mediated by a highly mature interiority—a well-honed Outer Game arising on a highly evolved Inner Game. How mature is your inner game for the stage you are playing on, or aspire to play on? Both are essential. Leadership Process.

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Is It Ever Wise to Swear at Work?

Michael Lee Stallard

If the guys are big sports fans in your workplace, you might take the time to read up and follow the teams they like so you can connect on a topic they’re interested in. It doesn’t make women respected and it’s more likely to backfire by making women disliked.

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The Power of an Enemy

In the CEO Afterlife

As a kid in sports, I played my heart out, hated my opponents and cried when I lost. Admonished by my mother and father for unsportsmanlike behavior, I eventually matured and forged a stiff upper lip in defeat. The late French author Andre Maurois once said, “Business is a combination of sport and war.”

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Work Performance and the Perils of Comparison

N2Growth Blog

She no sooner finishes her sentence about “ you can learn how to play ,” when you hear Jimmy Page rips into his classic solo and you decide then and there that it’s time to take up sports – “ becasue there ain’t no way you’re going to be able to do what Jimmy’s doing in that song!