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Key Takeaways: Strategic planning (and alignment) is critical for any organization that wishes to achieve its mission. An effective planning process provides opportunity for critical team/organizational alignment. I have facilitated over 25 strategic planning processes in the past five years. Over h...
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Talent isn’t enough. It helps, but talent alone will not make you a winner or a champion. No matter what yo...
Leadership in professional sports is one of the most daunting tasks for a coach. Very rarely is it the Xs and Os that lead a team to succeed or fail; generally it is the overall vision of the coach and the buy-in of the players. No one has navigated these waters better than Bill Belichick. In a leag...
The final buzzer marks the end of a basketball game. It is a simple noise with profound meaning; the score is final, the winner and loser are declared and competition is over until the next game. Some final buzzers are more significant and memorable than others. On April 2nd, Coach Mike Krzyzewski, ...
Key Takeaways Leadership is both an art and a science. While it’s easy for leaders to focus on developing themselves through the art, familiarity with the science aspects of leadership research can greatly inform its practice. There are three essential and three enabling conditions that research sh...
Do you know a leader who demands perfection? Are you that leader who demands it from your team? Perfection implies there is no room for improvement; things can’t get any better or there is nothing more to be learned. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t seen many things that don’t have room for imp...
Jen Knox Shanahan, MFA Jen Knox Shanahan is the academic programs manager for the Fisher Leadership Initiative. Prior to joining the Leadership Initiative team, she directed the Writers-in-Communities outreach program, which comprised of a team of instructors who taught college readiness, creativity...
Klodiana Lanaj Klodiana Lanaj is a professor and the Martin L. Schaffel Professor in the Management Department of the Warrington College of Business at University of Florida. She received a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Michigan State University in 2013. Prior to graduate school, Klodiana wo...
Psychological safety is nothing new. It is a concept that has been examined in organizational psychology for decades. More than 50 years ago, Edgar H. Schein and Warren G. Bennis examined group dynamics for organizational transformation, highlighting the importance of an individual’s sense of safety...
Teamwork is where leadership is born! Leadership is cultivated from many essential life skills and characteristics that will help guide you through life’s greatest and toughest transitions. The journey of a collegiate and professional football player manifests many transitions. Some transitions prov...
