An Iconic Figure With Portugal leading Turkiye by a score of 2-0 at 54:56 in the first round of the UEFA Tournament, the team’s most famous player Cristiano Ronaldo received a pass and broke into the clear. The only thing standing between him and a certain score was Türkiye goalie Altay Bayindir. For an elite […]
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5 Career and Life-Changing Lessons From Some Of Today’s Most Successful Leaders
Jerry Seinfeld on “The Right Way” I’ve written it before – Right now I feel Jerry Seinfeld is producing the best leadership content out there. As an example, check out this exchange in his 2017 with Harvard Business Review: “You and Larry David wrote Seinfeld together, without a traditional writers’ room, and burnout was one […]
5 Surprising (Or Not So Surprising) Things Top Leaders In Their Industries Are Always Thinking
We often can’t do what record-breaking performers do. But we can learn how their mind works and think like they think. Olympic Swimmer Regan Smith On Tuesday night, June 18th, three-time Olympic medalist Regan Smith lowered herself into the pool and got into position to swim the women’s 100-meter backstroke. The objective was to qualify […]
The Price of Success: 10 Costs the Boston Celtics Paid to Win the NBA Championship No One is Talking About… Except Jaylen Brown
On Monday evening, the Boston Celtics won their 13th NBA Championship in convincing style with a 106-88 victory over the Dallas Mavericks. Afterwards, series Most Valuable Player Jaylen Brown said the following 128-word, 41-second speech in the postgame news conference. It is a masterclass on what is required to win championships at the highest level. […]
5 Lessons On Leading At The Highest Level Possible
Remaining In Leadership Fred Smith, the legendary CEO of FedEx, said, “Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves—and by which they are willing to be judged.” Smith certainly would be an authority on how to continually stay out in front as he stepped down as […]
3 Tennis (and Life) Lessons from Roger Federer’s Dartmouth Commencement Speech
College commencement addresses can be one of the best sources of leadership content you will find. Two of the most famous are Navy Seal Admiral William McRaven “Make Your Bed” speech to the University of Texas Class of 2014 and Steve Jobs’s message to Stanford’s Class of 2005. Recently, I also wrote 20 Leadership Quotes […]
4 Areas Leaders Need To Get Better When Not Meeting Expectations
This past Sunday evening, the Boston Celtics defeated the Dallas Mavericks 105-98 to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals. But it was what was said by Mavs forward P.J. Washington afterwards in a post-game interview which caught my attention. He said in this article from The Athletic, “They’re just better. At the end of […]