Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 5, 2021

As a result, a company leadership really needs to care about the success of their employees. In this leadership training video, Rick reveals four leadership skills to drive employee engagement. It is a matter of trust, and leadership engagement. However, it is doable with leadership training. The payoff is big.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Do you want to know what executives in world-class companies think about leadership and why they hire consultants and coaches? Jim offers powerful insight into what created his leadership philosophies and practices. If you're an org looking for leadership, culture, experience, and transformation, connect with Jim. But they do.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Ed Stack, the chief executive of Dick’s Sporting Goods, decided after the Parkland school shooting to pull assault rifles and high-capacity magazines from all of his company’s stores. The controversial choice hurt revenues. He is the author of “It’s How We Play the Game: Build a Business. Take a Stand.

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Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

All too often, companies that strive for first mover advantage bleed their products—or their entire organization—to death. Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis’s seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. Good luck finding any of those products today.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Leadership What constitutes a ‘good’ leader is hard to define, but it boils down to something like initiative, commitment, and the ability to rally others in support of a common goal. In fact, team sports is an often overlooked way of demonstrating teamwork.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 29, 2020

For a simple comparison, consider this sports team analogy. In team sports, measuring vital, non-point metrics and de-emphasizing individual metrics is not a new concept. As an example, we recently worked with a healthcare company that contains product/service lines of business (LOB’s).

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Rick Conlow

APRIL 6, 2021

Furthermore, you miss the time that will increase their productivity and improve their results. Supports effective performance management and productivity. Just like an athlete gets better with consistent sports coaching over many practices, coaching through one-on-ones is a process you must do over time.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Strengths help people, teams and cultures become more self-aware and productive. Having worked with numerous high level sports’ teams I know coaches would rather have this information than not have it at all. Apply strengths to personal potential, liabilities and ‘right fit’ leadership opportunities.

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Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Their autonomy in crafting new product lines underscores the “go faster alone” principle, with Knudstorp’s decisive leadership exemplifying how swift, individual actions can lay the groundwork for broader collective success.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 9, 2022

You could focus on a specific skill, becoming a subject matter expert, or becoming known for your charitable work, community leadership, or sporting prowess. Networking and personal branding are not merely about having your managers know that you exist, but are about marketing yourself as a product.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 10, 2020

It is one of the reasons for poorer employee engagement, customer service and productivity throughout the world. Leadership is a dynamic partnership in which coaching can significantly empower employees. A study by the Personnel Management Association found that training alone increased productivity by 22.4%. Does Coaching Work?

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

Leadership is a high contact sport. Employee turnover causes lower morale and employee productivity. Furthermore, this ends up in low morale, sagging productivity, poorer customer service and rising costs. It is killing employee engagement, teamwork, customer service and productivity. No one is perfect.

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Peter Stark

MARCH 30, 2020

With their newfound free time and lack of sports, most kids are probably climbing the walls by now. You will sleep better tonight and have an even more productive day tomorrow. Review your productivity at the end of each day. It is ok to work in your PJs, but it is also important to have a schedule and be productive.

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Rick Conlow

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

To be the best you can be in customer service, sales, leadership, sports, or any other endeavor, you need to change, too. To manage yourself to increase your effectiveness you must be willing to change some habits to increase productivity. That’s when he performed an appendectomy with local anesthesia — on himself!

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Macs keep their names with each successive upgrade, analysts noted, while iPhones sport sequential numbers and letters to indicate improvements. Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Join the conversation. Join the conversation. Weatherhead, Jr.

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Women in Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2022

Before joining Women In Consulting, I had a sense of being frustrated by the lack of serious business conversation among the friends I’d made from my kids’ schools and sports programs and other activities. And those people had primarily been men in my life as an employee.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The customers are moving away from the company's products. If you've ever tried to defuse a tense situation with humor or a sports reference, you might have been irrelevant. Dan, a CIO, needs the teams to work faster. If they can recapture the customers, the company will succeed. Layoffs loom. Dan demands the teams start more work.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star. “Take a football player.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

Leadership is a high contact sport. Employee turnover causes lower morale and employee productivity. Furthermore, this ends up in low morale, sagging productivity, poorer customer service and rising costs. It is killing employee engagement, teamwork, customer service and productivity. No one is perfect.

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Training Training Emotional Intelligence Leadership 52

Brimstone Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The costs to our productivity and our personal wellbeing of this involuntary attention are enormous. We may experience it playing sports or tending to a child, rock climbing, sailing, or driving in bad weather. This takes us utterly away from the present moment. On the other hand, we all know the feeling of voluntary attention.

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Peter Stark

MAY 1, 2022

In the business of sports, it’s common knowledge that you can’t consistently win without working as a united team. As a bridge building leader, recognize that people are going to fight this initiative initially, and it will take strong leadership to improve cross-departmental teamwork. Reward collaborative behaviors.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Leadership, or the lack thereof, is the top reason management people switch jobs (not money). By being larger you can reduce most or all of the following: Customers Employees Management abilities Product Owner. It’s very much like sports, the more the team wins, the greater the number of fans it has. The figure below shows this.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

School sports can have some valuable outputs: Learning teamwork A lifetime habit of fitness Giving non-academically-focused kids a chance to shine Offering leadership opportunities Valuing persistence, innovation and responsibility And yet, many schools act as if all they have is a trophy shortage.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In 1968, The Ohio State Buckeyes football team started one of the most cherished traditions in American sports. Although leaders are concerned with collective success, most organizations—from sports teams to universities to global companies—still focus on rewarding individual performance.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 21, 2020

Buyer’s journey mapping has grown in importance for professional services firms as more firm solutions have become productized. Our thought leadership and communication are not developed to “persuade”; its purpose is to educate. Differentiating a professional services firm is akin to professional sports.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

AlixPartners is headed up by an Executive Leadership team that consists of their CEO, General Counsel, Chiefs, Regional Leaders and Practice Leaders. Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness. Consumer Products. Although originally based in Detroit, New York and Chicago, the firm expanded rapidly into Europe and then Asia.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

These ideas are the seeds of innovation : the intellectual foundation for any new products and services that enable some organizations to gain a competitive advantage over others. There is therefore a higher cost and productivity loss when your disengaged employees are creative; but the benefits of engaging them are also higher.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This poses a deep challenge to companies organized by product and function rather than a customer-centric model like experience and value. At Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lauren Hobart was promoted from CMO to President, while at KFC, CMO Kevin Hochman became President and Chief Concept Officer.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Add in speeches, training programs, TV programs, online-products, coaches, yoga, and the like, self-help is a $10 billion industry per year , and that’s just in the U.S. These assertions are based on a diverse set of fields, including psychology, sports, arts, and leadership. It accounts for about 2.5% Sabina Nawaz.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

In addition to the “technical side” of project management, the author shares his ideas regarding effective stakeholder management, trust-based leadership, and effective decision-making as well as gives a variety of tools and techniques that can add value to your daily project management activities.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 11, 2016

IRI was kept intentionally small by its leadership, many of whom became founding principals at The Brattle Group, so that they could close their doors for a month at a time and take vacations together. . Product liability. Leadership skills? IRI) was founded. Then, in 1990, The Brattle Group was born. Practice Areas. Accounting.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly. Nina laughed.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2017

Ask any sports fan about their favorite team and they will usually spend half the time either cursing or extolling the manager. In this view, management thinking obsesses over the latest fad, and represents a kind of leadership version of the Pokémon craze. Nicholas Blechman for HBR.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

Consider that Amazon also offers free same-day delivery by 9 PM on more than 1 million items in select areas and free two-hour delivery on some products in select metro areas through its Prime Now option. Amazon will likely continue adding Prime benefits to the mix, potentially including the holy grail of entertainment: live sports.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The most common pursuit was a sport or a physical activity (38% of people). Only 11% admitted to being slightly less productive at work due to their new activity, while 52% reported being more productive. I wanted to learn if they saw any impact on their overall well-being, professionally or personally.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

McKinsey works relentlessly towards promoting gender diversity in the Gulf, and empowers their women in leadership. Some recent projects include issues such as global energy solutions and large international sporting events. The firm already has 6 offices in the Middle East – Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Riyadh, Cairo, and Manama.

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Henman Performance Executive

JUNE 4, 2013

I don’t see shopping as a sport, pastime, or pleasure. Yesterday I went to Nordstrom’s, which has traditionally offered both good products and distinctive service. Nordstrom’s Critical Condition. by Linda Henman on June 4, 2013. I’m not a shopaholic. In fact, I represent the antithesis of one—whatever that is. Not anymore.

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