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A successful basketball coach was telling me about the difference between making plays and running plays, and how the best players do both. Sports teams have set plays – we’ve all heard the term “playbook” – and they practice them. These are about scoring. For the play to work during a game…
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Team Leadership A basketball coach recently described one of the girls on her team as a “False Leader”. As it was a new term to...
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My daughter and her 8th grade classmates had the courage to be outrageous last week by respectfully and successfully challenging their administrators on a point of principle. As is the tradition, teachers and students were asked to vote on which three classmates…
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At today’s Varsity Sports Award ceremony at my daughters’ high school, I was heartened to see the next generation of leaders and reassured that, at least in a small corner of England, affirmative life lessons are being taught and learned. This is a sports program that is about more than simply winning. It is a…
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Career Advice We inherently like spending time with people who think like us, and maybe even act and look like us. It’s easy,...
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Year: 2011 I wasn’t sure what to expect from the YouTube video link that my daughter recently forwarded to me (“we watched this...
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Month: March 2011 Sometimes, it is not clear whether a company is referring to a women’s initiative such as forming a women’s...
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Creating New Business Compensation is a tricky topic in banking these days. It is unpopular (and many have argued even unjust)...
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promotion This is a continuation of my earlier article on how to make it to the top of the tree in an investment bank. As I...
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promotion Making Managing Director is in part an art, and definitely not a science. There is no set formula for achieving this...
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promotion There is no guarantee that having embarked on the journey toward “MD-ship” that one will make it. That having been...
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promotion It doesn’t feel very good to find out you didn’t get promoted, whatever the seniority level. It’s natural to wonder,...
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