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In Adversity, What Type of Movie Do You Put Your TEAM In?

Great Results Team Building

Sports are a great training ground to mentally adapt to bad calls, or turnovers, or difficult people. If you are constantly seeing yourself as the character in a horror film, you will see everything (referees and others) as the reason that you were “killed off.” Adversity will be a constant in your life.

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What Makes a High-Performance Leader?

Great Leadership By Dan

I have grown up around high-performance sport. High-performance in the context of sport covers a process that goes like this. It is the same in every sport where high-performance is the ticket to the dance. Six months before they started filming, he couldn't play guitar, couldn't play piano and couldn't sing.

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The Status of Women in Media Is Not Good

Women on Business

Only 11% of sports editors in 2011 were women. Furthermore, just 10% of sports columnists and 7% of sports reporters in 2011 were women. Just 18% of all directors, executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers, and editors working at the top 250 domestic grossing films in 2011 were women. Just 21.7%

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Peter Berg: Become The Best Version Of Yourself

N2Growth Blog

Boxers need to be smart in their sport. And as Berg notes real boxers are honorable and take their sport and its craft seriously. Working in a demanding career – be it film-making, engineering or finance – requires great concentration of time as well as energy. Berg gets a rush from boxing. Let’s face it.

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Excellence in Motorized Adventure

Chris Brady

I''m not sure if the driving, filming, or creative course are my favorite part of this, [[ This is a content summary only. Excellence is beautiful in any genre, and what could be more illustrative of the concept than motorsports? Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Highlights – 27 March

Chartered Management Institute

An article in the Financial Times explores the trend of ‘Quit-Tok’, where people film their resignations and redundancy. And finally, don’t miss your chance to hear Gillette CEO Gary Coombe sharing his sports marketing wisdom in this year’s Maclaren Memorial Lecture. Not any more. Many of these clips go viral on social media.

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Great Leaders Attract Great Talent

Great Leadership By Dan

Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. It can be a long, strange trip indeed – and your success depends on attracting the right talent.