Five Habits of Top Athletes

How can we apply this scenario to a business situation? The same techniques that athletes use to perform under pressure allow business leaders to excel in the workplace. Here are five top practices that will improve your health and performance both at the office. 

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Ways I Gain Influence with My Team

Influence is the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself. Leadership is influence. Influence is earned. Every day I must earn the influence I have as a leader. You simply can not lead without it. And in order to have influence you must first have their trust. 

So how do you gain influence with those you lead?

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Coffee: Fuel for the Modern World

Every day the world consumes 300 tons of coffee. That is enough coffee for every man woman and child on the planet. The love of coffee is nothing new however most people don't know the benefits of such an incredible addition. Here is a list of 5 reasons coffee is the fuel for the modern world and why you should be drinking it. 

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The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly of Leading Millennials

Regardless of how you feel about this generation, ("kid's these days") they are here and you will have to deal with them. 75,000,000 millennials are preparing to join the workforce and are coming through school now. This is the good, the bad, and the ugly leading this Generation. 

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5 Leadership Lessons from the Man that Created Nike

Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his dad to start a small shoe company that would sell shoes to his kind of people, runners. After years of ups and downs, getting sued, and unable to generate profit, Phil Knight turned his small family run company into an empire. Here are 5 leadership lessons from his journey. 

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