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How to Turn Your Team Around in Six Stages

Leading Blog

While many of the examples are from sport franchises—Colts, Eagles, Steelers—and the people they interviewed there, they also include turnaround stories of Domino’s pizza, Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark Broadway show, and the state of Michigan. A turnaround is really a change in culture—changing the culture of the team or organization.

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It’s Time for a Paradigm Shift

Lead Change Blog

Every day I am surprised to learn how many leaders out there don’t invest the time they should into the development of their people. He uses many examples of sports franchises that always win and some that always lose. 1:1s are an important part of the development of every employee. Development Programs.

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What You Can Learn from Ted Leonsis' Life List

Next Level Blog

  He told us that several years ago someone approached him about buying the Washington Capitals NHL franchise.    She asked him if he was really going to pass on the opportunity to check off items 40 (Own a sports franchise) and 41 (Win a world championship) on his list.    Do you have one? 

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

They’ve never franchised. Intuit develops financial and tax preparation software for small business, accountants and the general public. Intuit develops financial and tax preparation software for small business, accountants and the general public. Their goal is to make accounting, simple. and going public?

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It Never Ends. Even More Leadership Lessons from the Washington.

Next Level Blog

Rabid sports fans are known to disagree after all.  In any case, while there are many, many "don't do as I do" leadership lessons from the Chicago Bears, the one that is on my mind today is a failure to develop leadership depth on the team. You can argue about the intelligence of Shanahan making the substitution.

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Putting Customers at the Heart of Your Brand to Create Passionate Fans: What Microsoft Learned About Customer Engagement in the Sports Industry - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM Microsoft

Harvard Business Review

At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with businesses in an industry whose customers already self-identify as fans: sports. For billions of people around the world, sports are a matter of passion, touching lives by offering a depth of human engagement unparalleled in other activities. In sports, every second matters.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction? It makes me want to call myself something else as I fear non-sports related coaches and coaching is getting a bad name.

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