Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

Power is a dynamic present in all of our relationships and it’s one we need to properly manage to help our relationships develop to their fullest potential. Families, sports teams, businesses, and organizations of all kinds have a history that is communicated through story. The way we use power is what determines its value.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 11, 2020

Practical Strategy with Dr. Max McKeown. Strategy is not a solo sport.’” – Dr. Max McKeown. He’s the author of several books including The Strategy Book. And he has one of the most straightforward definitions for one of the most complex topics out there: strategy. Strategy needs to make things happen.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

It was the result of hard work and one of the “best demonstrations of team chemistry in sports history.” In Gold Medal Strategies , Craig illustrates that the principles that got them there in 1980 can be applied to any team. We needed to manage through ego and conflict. They beat the unbeatable Russian team.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Whether you’re talking about governments, companies, sports teams, or families, accountability is what ensures that things run smoothly and that progress continues. Here are three strategies for taking a different approach to accountability that will allow you to capture the upsides of strong accountability while sidestepping the pitfalls.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 20, 2016

How often have you heard people say, “Our strategy is to become the biggest and the best?” This is not strategy. Strategy is not the what. Strategy is the how – how will you become the biggest and the best? Of course, within the realm of the definition, there are good strategies and bad ones. Or Can You?

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 18, 2010

During this conversation Larry shares the strategies that have made his teams successful through the years. What struck me the first time I listened to this podcast is how beautifully these principles apply to product management, to leadership and to life in general. As Larry says: “these strategies work!&#

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 23, 2016

You would never see a sign-up sheet asking you to be part of a team for an undetermined sport (they will decide if it is baseball, football or soccer at a later time). By having a solid vision statement, there will be something for the employees to align with, acting like the rules of a sports team. Create the Right Environment.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. He offers clear-headed lessons for the entire life cycle of an enterprise, from bootstrapping a startup to going public to managing large companies to selling a business. And the relevance of his message doesn't end in the boardroom.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

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. Leadership gets the team going and management keeps it going. It is no different with leadership.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2023

E-sports : Reimagined gaming as an active, physical, in-person event and is now even an OLYMPIC sport. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne are professors of strategy at INSEAD and co-directors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute in Fontainebleau, France. Industry worth $1B+ with an estimated 175M+ fans around the world.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Potential – Interference = Performance I FIRST encountered this equation in the context of peak performance in the sports world. The insightful +influence warrior identifies the key pressure points and then designs influence strategies that relieve that pressure in order to align others to the outcomes. Ill-preparedness.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Construction companies need reliable financial reporting to track expenses, recognize revenue, and manage cash flow. Experience The best construction accounting firms have vast experience managing these clients’ unique financial management needs. A general bookkeeper or inexperienced CPA must address this.

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LDRLB

MARCH 18, 2013

Every now and then you need to wake up and smell your real world strategy. Real world strategy is a living thing. Overconfidence in strategic planning has led to financial crisis, botched and illegal wars, and missed opportunities in business, politics, sports, and life. The real world is global, not local.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Effective pattern recognition is a key learning strategy component for any executive leader. Keep Them in the Loop : Pattern recognition should be a team sport. Here are five building blocks for winning with pattern recognition. The hook of a hit song by Matchbox Twenty year ago was the lyric, “Let’s see how far we’ve come.”

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 21, 2020

Great leaders recognize that business success is a team sport and they cannot do it all for themselves. When team members understand these aspects, they are able to take ownership for the activities they are responsible for and ensure that the outcomes are aligned with the business strategy, which can be very inspiring for them.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Some of these strategies are wise. Some of these strategies are foolish. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. Lead Through Anything provides simple, tested and actionable strategies to help you continually level-up your impact as an individual, manager, and leader.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Much like the coach of a sports team, a leadership team coach will challenge executives to pursue their full potential. To execute organizational strategy, the performance of the leadership team is crucial. To execute organizational strategy, the performance of the leadership team is crucial. What to look for in a Team Coach?

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Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Welcome to the November issue of the Strategy Execution Newsletter from Six Disciplines. In this month's issue, we're focusing on managing processes. Think about it: all professions (sports, music, art, entertainment, education, architecture, to name just a few.) THE "BEST OF PROCESS MANAGEMENT" - FROM THE SIX DISCIPLINES BLOG.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

From analyzing the regulatory environment and building the right team to deciding which risks to take and managing and mitigating these risks by devising effective strategies, an entrepreneur is responsible for playing many roles all at once. This strategy can be implemented by storytelling.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In contrast, managers who haven’t learned this secret focus on the numbers and frantically swivel their team’s focus back and forth between twenty-seven different measurements – most of which don’t directly affect results. Managers who don’t understand the difference between a score and what it represents will beat people up with the number.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 14, 2013

While you might hear these statements from any manager, they all have one thing in common: the lack of specificity. Organizations need good managers and exceptional leaders (at all levels of your business). Test your management strategies. How are you managing your team? Management isn’t just about goals.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 16, 2020

Managing Through COVID-19: Going Remote. These things were unimaginable 10 days ago: All major college and professional sporting events have been cancelled or postponed. If this has always been important to you as a manager, that’s great. Go back one week. We lived in a very different world just seven days ago.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 27, 2014

Every coach, player and student manager is considered a leader and they understand that they compete as a leadership team against another team of leaders. Basketball is a sport where the most talented teams don’t always win but those that create a culture of leadership almost always do. Follow me on Twitter @brianlayer.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 19, 2010

So take five, enjoy the inspirational quotes and reflect on the questions that follow. “A Winning Strategy is a lifelong, unconscious formula for achieving success. “A A Winning Strategy is a lifelong, unconscious formula for achieving success. You did not design this Winning Strategy, it designed you. Who can you ask?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2021

To that end, this article aims to suggest a number of potential hobbies that could help you to control your stress and keep it at manageable levels. One of the most relaxing and meditative sports out there, archery is all about careful control and accuracy, making it one of the best sports you could possibly engage with for stress relief.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Legendary former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once quipped that football wasn’t a matter of life and death, it was more important than that. Louis have developed a model to help sporting institutions and public health officials understand the risks associated with re-opening stadia. Reducing the risk.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith sent me a link to his wonderful article (co-authored by Howard Morgan) from Strategy + Business called, Leadership is a Contact Sport. I have been talking about the Hawthorne studies a lot lately and a mention of it will pop up in some research I am doing on new approaches to talent management systems.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

the concept of a generation is fairly subjective, the strategies discussed here are likely to apply to many but not all Millennials and certainly many but not all of those who may be considered members of a different generation due to their birth year.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Their wins came in representing their nation and sport. Other athletes enter the game with the weight of huge expectations in the forms of world records or past Olympic medals; or perhaps, this is their last chance and they finally made it to the world’s greatest sporting stage. It all comes down to their short-lived event.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2019

That is not to say that it is not possible, however, as there are a few highly effective strategies to try. Sport/exercise classes. This can be a challenge particularly when you are a smaller business that may not be able to offer the same wages that they could command at one of the bigger brands in your industry. Flexible Working.

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Brigette Hyacinth

OCTOBER 22, 2020

When we left the meeting he told me, “You are a good sport.” I knew I needed to start planning my exit strategy. In spite of how good a job is, once you don’t have a manager that has your back, you will be miserable in that job. “ The corporate world is full of managers and lacks leaders. Managers pull people down.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 6, 2012

author, coach, and Olympic sports psychology consultant, said many things during our conversation but one most gripped me. “I I’ve been mulling over Jenson’s strategy. Peter Jenson, Ph.D., I let them stew in their failure for a while.” Peter Jenson Ph.D. A team Jenson worked with suffered a disappointing loss. Resist the [.].

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

You can spend all the time in the world on strategy sessions, competitive plans, innovation , and product development, but it all falls apart if you don’t have the right talent. There’s a way to design an evidence-based, data-driven hiring strategy to boost your competitive edge. Hire the Best. Don’t Make these Hiring Mistakes.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Whether they’re developed in-house or brought in by outside strategy firms, many strategy methodologies are of little value if they don’t keep up with the times. Clearly, it’s time to reconsider how your organization goes about developing and executing strategy at all levels.

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LDRLB

MARCH 18, 2013

Every now and then you need to wake up and smell your real world strategy. Real world strategy is a living thing. Overconfidence in strategic planning has led to financial crisis, botched and illegal wars, and missed opportunities in business, politics, sports, and life. It favoured head office ahead of the rest of the world.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 8, 2018

Back in 1987, when I was hired by Jack Kent Cooke at the ripe young age of 27 to be the COO of a cable TV company, he wasted very little time to initiate me into the world of executive management. At the time Cooke was a very successful serial entrepreneur, in the media and sports arenas. Which one will you be?”.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall. In 2016, Jenkins-Scott founded JJS Advising, focusing on leadership development and organizational strategy.

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