winning – Nathan Magnuson

7.5 New Year’s Leadership Resolutions

This year has just about come to a close. The Type As among us are probably wrapping up their goals and planning for the new year (if they aren’t finished already). The rest will catch up. Maybe. I saw a great post from Mark Miller last week on New Year’s…

The Day an Exec Showed Me Up

October 28, 2013 Character Influence Leadership

Several years ago when I was in graduate school, I invested a summer at a major restaurant franchise with the hopes of landing a corporate role after I graduated. I worked with an incredible operator who went out of his way to help me build my network with the corporate…

Leadership Profile: Jack Welch

October 7, 2013 Courage Culture Influence Inspiration Leadership Leadership Profiles

I first heard Jack Welch speak at the Leadercast Seminar in 2013. Even though he was over a decade into retirement and in his upper 70s, Welch’s rich enthusiasm for business and leadership took the audience (and the moderator) by storm. In raising General Electric’s value by over 4000% in…

Coach Bill Snyder’s 16 Goals for Success

December 24, 2012 Core Values Inspiration Leadership Personal Effectiveness

I’m a sucker for leadership philosophies embraced by successful athletics coaches. Whether it’s Coack K on teamwork or Coach Burton on developing high school kids, I always come away with something powerful and enriching. I think the reason is that athletics provides one of the greatest leadership development opportunities out…

Core Values as Habits

September 3, 2012 Core Values Leadership Personal Effectiveness

It was years ago that the late Green Bay Packers football coach echoed these words as part of his famous “What It Takes to be Number One” speech: “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do…