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It’s Not About the Bike: A Lesson from Lance Armstrong

Leading Blog

Lance Armstrong once wrote: “I believed I had a responsibility to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking and honorable. The chance for extrinsic rewards like money and power loom larger. No longer driven by intrinsic rewards, our focus turns to extrinsic values and rewards like money, power, and fame.

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Conduct your OWN performance Review

Career Advancement

Ask yourself how you leveraged your successes, advises Sharon Armstrong in The Essential Performance Review Handbook. Make sure your goals are SMART—“strategic and specific, measurable, attainable, results-based, and time-bound”—emphasize Anne Conzemius and Jan O’Neill in The Power of SMART Goals. Examining your leveraging of success.

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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! Each of the leadership bloggers below were asked to submit their best (i.e., I'd say that's pretty darn efficient leadership development. Believe it or not, this is my number one leadership/management related post.

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The November, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the November, 2012 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For you reading pleasure, this month's Carnival offers up a Fall harvest of posts from some of the best leadership bloggers from around the world. Think of it as leadership graffiti. (-: Bon appétit! Google's Blogger was not being very cooperative.

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LeadershipNow 140: August 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2012 that you might have missed: @profkjmoore: Who Can Teach Leadership? FSonnenberg: Counterfeit Leadership vs. REAL leadership. Five Leadership Lessons From The Life of Neil Armstrong by @RandyConley. HarvardBiz. nicolerawski. For fun: Very, very close calls.

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The 7 Most Crucial Words JFK Used About His Moonshot

Skip Prichard

Commander Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins returned safely from what seemed like an impossible trip. Neil Armstrong. It’s not just getting there but having the staying power to make it all the way through. It mattered to the astronauts, their families and an anxious nation. The date was July 24 th.

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To be a Good Teammate, Accept No Excuses

Great Results Team Building

9) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon. The second list is a collection of quotes to help you emphasize, both to yourself and to those your team, the dangerous negative power of excuses. We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine.