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Band Parents?—?The Ideal Ad Hoc Team Model?

Harmonious Workplaces

Like sports, the work challenges the mind, body, and spirit, and it forms strong social skills and connections imperative to performing well. They serve in project management roles, accounting roles, training and development roles, logistics roles, health and safety roles, and even roles in culinary procurement and sanitization.

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Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It.

Markovitz Consulting

In my consulting work, I’ve seen business unit managers unable to achieve the market share goals mandated by the CEO because they couldn’t get the IT support for new product development software; Finance and HR support to hire the necessary material scientists; and Operations support to rapidly qualify new suppliers.

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Architecting Your Future

Chad Barr

Other passions of mine include: the development of web strategies and digital content for us and our clients, playing the guitar, spending precious time with my family (did I tell you about my grandkids yet?) and my most recent passion, playing the hottest and fastest growing sport in the US – Pickle Ball. More on that soon.

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The Greatest Leadership Myth Ever-Busted!

Rick Conlow

Free people up to use and develop their talents to the fullest. Most importantly, he pulled his racially divided nation together through the power of sport. In addition, go here for our RealTime Learning & Training leadership and personal development website. This is achieved through trust, openness, and ownership.

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25 Team Leadership Quotes that Inspire Greatness

Rick Conlow

The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” “Talent is extremely important. “Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.” Max De Pree. Lewis B Ergen. Michael Jordan.

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HBCUs and the NFL Draft: The Data and the Story

UPD Consulting

A historical look at the role of Black athletes and HBCUs in the sport, specifically through the lens of the NFL Draft, provides us with many rich stories about the development of football as we currently know it as well as the larger American society it operates within.

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The Paths of Consultancy

Tom Spencer

Through sheer desire (and a strong talent for analytics), he achieved a top spot in an industry with no room for the gangly and physically lacking among us. By accepting graduates from a broad range of majors consultancy is a field full of a diverse range of talent. But he knew that he wanted to be involved in the sport.