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Leader Athletes: Training Long for the Long Run

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Why are so many leaders attracted to running long distance and other endurance sports? I’ve spent the last decade talking to swimmers, bikers, and runners in line at pre-triathlon and marathon port-a-pots asking that question.

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Leadership Is An Endurance Sport

Joseph Lalonde

Long runs require many hours of training and conditioning when you don’t feel like practicing. Every time I put on my running shoes , hop on my bike, or prepare to endure for a long time, I think of how it prepares me for leadership. Don’t stop working on becoming a better leader.

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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2024

Leading Blog

All In : How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams by Mike Michalowicz It’s never been harder building successful teams. With challenges of work-from-anywhere, flex-schedule and generational divides, business leaders bend over backwards searching for solutions that work. Glad We Met : The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings by Steven G.

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Pacing for Growth

Lead Change Blog

Whether you’re running a race or running a company, pacing is everything. So how can leaders find the right speed? Growth expert Alison Eyring, who is also a long-distance runner and triathlete, found the answer in endurance training and shared those findings in her book, Pacing for Growth.

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How To Unleash Your Full Potential

Eric Jacobson

Act on the lightning, don’t wait for thunder : A flash of opportunity is first glimpsed long before the unmistakable tipping point of evidence; if you wait to act until others validate your vision, it’s too late. To accomplish something great, author Matt Higgins says you need to toss your Plan B overboard and burn the boats.

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A Blind Long Jumper’s 10 Inspirational Leadership Insights

Experience to Lead

But it would be this very challenge that would give him the inspirational leadership stories that he would use to become a great leader. But it would be this very challenge that would give him the inspirational leadership stories that he would use to become a great leader. or “how do I become a great leader”? Paralympics.

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Building on Common Purpose for More Powerful and Effective Leadership

Women on Business

She explains: ← Leader Athletes: Training Long for the Long Run. NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE : How do you create teams that employees actually want to be a part of and are excited and motivated to participate in? We played while we worked, and we worked while we played. Common Purpose.

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