Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Potential – Interference = Performance I FIRST encountered this equation in the context of peak performance in the sports world. Most endeavors struggle with a number of challenges — technical, social, and political. The interference could come externally but often comes internally in an athlete — freezing up or choking on the spot.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 1, 2022

Things were even worse for volunteering, which fell by over 10%, and political participation fell by nearly 20%. The data shows that being 1.8km closer to the local exchange, and therefore having higher broadband speed, prompted a decline in the likelihood of joining civic organizations of around 5%.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Scully by contrast was a city kid, a bit more polished but as polite and courteous and still enthralled with the game he loved as a child. While Scully would typically travel with the Dodgers, he did broadcast other sporting events such as golf or football (as well as baseball) for CBS Sports.

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 4, 2012

In politics, be wary of the extreme conservative or liberal. In sports, be wary of the player who swings for the fences or the one who waits to be walked. I’ve always said, keep your eyes on people who live at the ends of any spectrum. In school, stand back and watch the student who [.].

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Leading in Context

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Recent headlines have described more severe sanctions than people have seen in the past, in response to ethics problems in sports, politics, business and beyond. Today I want to explore how those trends help explain what we are seeing in ethics cases in the news.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 12, 2020

Major sporting events, political rallies, conventions, and meetings are being canceled. The sky is falling. The stock market is in total upheaval. Schools are closing. Airlines are cutting flights. Hotels and cruise ships are virtually empty. And as a sure sign of the apocalypse, Ireland has canceled their annual St.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

What we’re experiencing today is too much form over substance – leaders lacking in foundation, but replete with social/political savvy. In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 7, 2016

And as timing would have it, I’ve recently been helping both of my children process through disappointing losses on the college political front and the baseball field. In order to win well the next time, it’s so important to not show up as bad sports. If you’re not losing some of the time, you’re not.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

Then we have 8 minutes of weather, 10 minutes of sports news, and finally, a positive “human interest” story to send us off with a smile. Promotions are earned for performance, not engaging in politics. But the stories that really boost ratings and pique interest begin with, “BREAKING NEWS! Leader Behaves Badly.”

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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. as team's defensive coordinator.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 21, 2022

The researchers argue that house prices have often reflected the availability of amenities, such as sports venues, parks, good schools, and restaurants. This personality shift also matters politically, as openness is typically associated with more liberal values and support for liberal parties. ” Greater openness.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 18, 2021

It’s estimated that there are around 26 million refugees globally who have been uprooted due to various crises, including drought, civil war, and political persecution. New research from the MIT Governance Lab illustrates how sport can shift opinions about such refugees. ” Dampening nationalism.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Should they do their best to ingratiate themselves with members of the in-group and exhibit the behaviors and norms of that group, or should they instead spend what political capital they have to stand up for their out-group? Managing this dilemma can be extremely challenging for those outside of the core in-group of an organization or team.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

It can happen with any kind of team – a work team, sports team, political team, or volunteer team… in any kind of setting – business, government, school, non-profit. Did you ever watch in dismay as a good team began to make a series of bad decisions? Things seem to be humming along, and then, bam!

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 16, 2019

An even better distinction comes in the differences between transactional and transformational leadership – a term brought to prominence by James McGregor Burns in the political sphere and then adopted in business. If the above is true, why then do we never discuss confidence in business?

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 1, 2020

For some men, the traditional model of masculinity steers men away from talking about emotional topics (except to rant about sports or politics). However, many men don’t feel equipped to play any role in inclusion and equity.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 2, 2018

We can look around today and see the poor LX that many workplaces have – pro sports teams, businesses, municipal departments, non-profit organizations, and even political organizations. Just a casual perusal of many of these mentioned gives cause to ponder what a great LX can do for any of those organizations.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

What we’re experiencing today is too much form over substance – leaders lacking in foundation, but replete with social/political savvy. In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Other elements come into play as well in shaping how we approach situations and people, things as simple as what sports teams we root for or which political party we support. If ignored or met with intolerance or indifference, these dissimilarities can be divisive, even lethal for career or business success.

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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.” This negative energy brings down sports teams, companies, political campaigns, armies, and even societies and nations. They beat the unbeatable Russian team. But team goalie Jim Craig says is was not a miracle.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 18, 2015

Guest post by Bernie Bulkin, author of Crash Course The central competency of any corporate (or charity or political or sports) leader is the ability to build a great team. What are the key elements? And while sometimes … Continue reading → Team Building motivation teams teamwork'

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Picture the sourpuss who snarls and bites because he’s motivated by malice, the malcontent who sees arguing as a competitive sport, or the family spitfire who delights in disrupting holiday dinners with her dissenting opinions. Some cross patches live to annoy. Big pains you know where. ” ~Fran Lebowitz, author.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2013

While it’s all too easy to make clients, work or business the topic of conversation when you are socializing with your colleagues, you will have much more to talk about if you stay well informed about events or activities such as sports, current events, places to vacation or. Just one big caveat: Avoid politics.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Being antagonistic just for the sport of it isn’t. Thomas Paine, political activity. Additionally, there’s also a “Promoter of Justice” whose role is to argue in favor of the facts. Purposefully poking meaningful holes in a position or idea is priceless. By design, there was a contrarian on nearly every team I lead.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

For all types of political, intellectual, and emotional reasons there are normally far fewer sponsors and promoters than one would hope for, regardless of the scope and promise of the change. The principle can be used in science, economics, quality control, sports, and management to name a few. Change and The Pareto Principle.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

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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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This allows the team to leverage the specific strengths of each member without the frustrating overlap and weird politics that inevitably arise when this understanding is missing.”. Using a fighting analogy, creating and managing a high performing team is not a genteel activity; it’s a contact sport. Be Patient.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

At that time most people still assumed that coaching was done primarily in sports not business. Executive coaching gives individuals a distinct advantage in a competitive ever-changing environment by helping them increase their influence and effectiveness as leaders; enhance their political savvy. Bonnie Marcus , M.Ed.,

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Courage: When someone steps forward to lead the others, they will put their personal reputation and political future on the line. 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. Their previous cooperation will have paid this forward.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 6, 2014

As an alternative, it’s best to pull the person aside and have an honest, polite conversation. 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 makes people react defensively, not cooperatively.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 13, 2022

Political and social unrest, a global pandemic, a massive shift to remote work, record levels of low trust in institutions, supply chain bottlenecks, the Great Resignation, rising inflation, and now war in Ukraine, are just a few of the challenges affecting us in one way or another.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 18, 2013

We can find examples of effective teamwork in all types of environments – sports, military, and even historically in politics (e.g. All three of these are important. All three are aspects of teamwork. But they are not the same! Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet). All high performance teams have common characteristics.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In politics, change is packaged as a clever, memorable slogan. Nicole Carroll, Editor-in-Chief for USA TODAY, closed her year with a series of uplifting stories captured by reporters covering everything from Sports to the Supreme Court, from Life to Science. Ken Byler of Higher Ground Consulting Group contributed Leadership and Change.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 2, 2012

We see it in advertising, sports, medicine, religion, politics, and of course, in commercial products and services. In the world in which we live, where there is a problem, there is a solution, or at least the promise of one. The problem/solution relationship is pervasive in all walks of life. Everything is done with a purpose in mind.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I got to know many leaders in politics, the military, business, sports, and entertainment over the 30-plus years that I led the Washington Speakers Bureau, a company I co-founded and built. But in order to lead others, people also have to lead themselves, a quality that is often tested during periods of adversity.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Given the number of conflicts we’re seeing between various parties in sports, business and political circles, it’s not hard to imagine that the next thing most of us would dread is having to negotiate a deal. There’s a common saying that the one thing we fear the most is speaking in public.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Political correctness, often embodied in ‘legal correctness,’ is choking America, especially businesses. Contrast this with virtually all other American airlines, whose people sport grim looks and often act irritably with customers. Are we becoming a society where any minority group can veto anything it deems offensive?

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