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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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Neil Armstrong and Future NASA Missions

Building Personal Strength

The other five members of my adviser team had gathered in front of a small black-and-white television set, which was powered by a small generator. We were watching a live broadcast of the fuzzy image of Neil Armstrong in a bulky space suit step slowly down to the lunar surface.

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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 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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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Randy Conley , Leading with Trust , picked Five Leadership Lessons From the Life of Neil Armstrong. This past year saw the passing of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon and a true American hero. In one of his most widely read and tweeted posts, Randy shares five leadership lessons from the life and career of Armstrong.".

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The Flawed Art of Lance Armstrong's Confession

Harvard Business Review

After more than a decade of vehement denials , Lance Armstrong finally came clean last night in an interview with Oprah Winfrey about his use of performance enhancing drugs. CNN host Piers Morgan took it one step further, posting on Twitter that Armstrong was a "sniveling, lying, cheating little wretch.I hope he now just disappears.".

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Retain Talent Through a Concrete Corporate Culture

Coaching Tip

Visual storytelling is a powerful tool. Armstrong is a principal at Kahler Slater, a global architecture, design, and consulting enterprise specializing in Total Experience Design™. By Barbara T. Who says corporate culture isn’t concrete? Not America’s best workplaces. . So, you see, corporate culture can be, and is, quite concrete.

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