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Leadership Lessons From the Kansas Prairie

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 26

I love a good sports story. Athletes in pursuit of a goal make good examples of discipline and sacrifice in action. Even better is a sports story that focuses more on character development than just wins and losses. Such is the case with Joe Drape's "Our Boys, A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen."READ»

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Character Lessons From Two Docs

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 19

Character is easy to define, but hard to quantify. This lesson struck home as I was reading the memoir of one doctor and later listening to an interview with another. They are Doc Watson and Doc Simon.READ»

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Replacing a Missing Star

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 44

Sometimes if you scratch beneath the surface of a good team, you may find that team performance depends upon the efforts of one or two high achievers. That may be okay for the short term but what happens when one or two of those ...READ»

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Don't Wing Your Next Crisis

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 29

Oil spills. Terrorist attacks. Pandemic influenza. Hurricanes. Each of these events can disrupt your business significantly. It is therefore important to develop what a 2009 report from the IBM Business Values Institute calls ...READ»

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Get Straight With Yourself

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 24

Among the points he discussed in "My Journey: A Political Life" is the fact that Tony Blair drank more than was usual as a means of coping with the pressure of being Prime Minister. The pressures of holding a top job are immense. One of the ways that leaders deal (aside from self-medication) is walling themselves off from their feelings. But those leaders who are self-aware do themselves and their followers a service by being honest.READ»

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Behaving Better for the Good of All

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 44

"Which corporate leaders do you admire?" was a question posed to me during a break during a leadership workshop I was conducting. In years past I would have rattled off a list of the "usual suspects" of familiar names with folks ...READ»

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Tenacity and Gratitude: Virtues Only Exist When You Exercise Them

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 36

In an interview on NPR's "Here & Now," actor Henry Winkler revealed two principles that guide his life: tenacity and gratitude. As an actor, Winkler has known his share of ups and downs. Not only should gratitude and tenacity hold actors in good stead, they are principles for anyone in the workforce to remember.READ»

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Urgency With a Purpose

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 32

"I want to make sure people understand that the responsibility for this company to be successful is not just with the C.E.O. It's them." That was Ed Whitacre last year revealing to Bill Vlasic of The New York Times his philosophy for ...READ»

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The Triple A Approach to Instilling Confidence

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 32

"The players need me now when we are losing more than they do when we are winning." That was a sentiment expressed recently by Jim Leyland, manager of the Detroit Tigers, and shared with the team's broadcast television ...READ»

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Judging Talent by What You See, Hear, and Understand

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 20

Rich Cho is one of a new breed of general managers in the NBA. With a background in engineering as well as law, Cho is regarded an executive who can balance the need for talent on the basketball court with a need to balance the books. And Cho's talent assessment technique is applicable outside the world of professional sports.READ»

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What Executives Can Learn From Fastball Pitchers

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 45

What happens when your greatest gift becomes a source of your greatest liability?READ»

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Management Lessons from Leave It to Beaver

BY John Baldoni
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It was my grandmother who introduced me to the Beaver. While I cannot recall the specifics of a single episode from the times I watched with her, I do recall a black and white image of a toothy kid with a winsome smile who ...READ»

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Royal Encounter: A Lesson in How to Make People Feel Special

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 25

It is not often that we look to royalty for insight into how to demonstrate leadership in the modern age. So in our age of egalitarianism Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain stands as an exception. To overlook her ability to ...READ»

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Put Employees First: A Conversation with Vineet Nayar

BY John Baldoni
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When Vineet Nayar became CEO of HCL Technologies in 2005, the company was in trouble. The IT firm was profitable but it was losing ground to major competitors and risked slipping into irrelevance. Some CEOs might have been ...READ»

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President as COO: In Your Face Execution

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 35

“He’ll sit [in the Oval Office], and he’ll say, ‘Do this! Do that!’ And nothing will happen. Poor Ike—it won’t be a bit like the Army. He’ll find it very frustrating.” That sentiment expressed by Harry ...READ»

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How to Improve Your Next Disaster Response

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 33

Conflate, v. a: to bring together, fuse; b: to confuse The federal government’s response, under the direction of the Obama Administration, to the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf has been to conflate the spill at ...READ»

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The Art of Getting Together for a Meal

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 33

What are you doing for lunch? That question resonated with me after I read a delightful piece by Geraldine Fabrikant in The New York Times about five friends who have been having lunch together in New York City for twenty-five years.READ»

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Blown Call: A Lesson in Graciousness

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 19

When you make a mistake, it's best to own up to it sooner than later. And that is exactly what umpire Jim Joyce did when he returned to the clubhouse and watched the replay of his disputed call at first base for what would have ...READ»

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Leadership Lesson: David Brandon at Michigan

BY John Baldoni
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Leaders do not always get to choose the issues they will face. Sometimes they need to put out the fire before they can move forward. Case in point is David Brandon, newly appointed athletic director for the ...READ»

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Re-Engineering a Leader's Value

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 41

Just as companies seek to re-engineer the value propositions of their products, managers should consider doing the same. Companies do it by adjusting the features, benefits and pricing of their offerings; managers do it by ...READ»

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How to motivate employees: What do we know?

BY Ray Williams
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Motivating people to do their best work, consistently, has been an enduring challenge for executives and managers. Even understanding what constitutes human motivation has been a centuries old puzzle, addressed as far back as Aristotle. Now brain science is giving us some new insights into motivation.READ»

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Video: How to Bounce Back From Adversity

BY John Baldoni
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How a leader bounces back from adversity requires resilience. The resiliency of a leader is important to leading up. John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership development consultant, executive coach, author, and ...READ»

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How to motivate employees: What do we know?

BY Ray Williams
Relevancy Score: 35

How many management articles, books, speeches and workshops have pleaded plaintively, "How do I get employees to do what I want Motivating people to do their best work, consistently, has been an enduring challenge for executives and managers. Even understanding what constitutes human motivation has been a centuries old puzzle, addressed as far back as Aristotle.READ»

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Video: When Things Get Tough, Loosen Up

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 95

Tough times call for tough actions. So, ease up on your team. That's right, dispel tension and help your people focus on work, not distractions. John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership development consultant, ...READ»

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Act with the Big Picture in Mind

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 56

Putting your ideas into action is the mark of a successful manager in the middle.READ»

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