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Why Sports Builds Leadership

Lead on Purpose

Leadership is a personal trait that often proves elusive to many people, however is intimately related to personal success. Leaders also foster social change, and most of our cultural, social and economic progress is the result of leadership. So, too, does the way to impart leadership to an eager young mind.

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Higher-ed CIOs embrace academia’s AI challenges

CIO

So students should learn about how to use the technology, and how to manage teams that use the tools — especially engineering teams. Building a team is becoming much more complicated because the inherent tendency among technical individuals to work alone is enhanced by AI,” says Lev Gonick, CIO of Arizona State University.

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SRE as a team sport

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In this interview at Google Cloud Next in London this past November, Tracy Ferrell and Phil Beevers were expertly guided by Yaniv Aknin through their views about the principles of SRE, along with a range of insights about team building, staff development, and other practical aspects of the work.

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Angela Engel Champions the Perficient Brand By Building Client Relationships

Perficient

Within the last couple of years, we have grown our presence in Latin America, and we’re engaged on a weekly basis with the leadership team to receive different resources for our projects. I went to Nagpur for the first time last year to meet our teams. Building camaraderie is one of the best parts of my job.

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3 Strategies to Build Inclusive Teams

N2Growth Blog

If you’ve ever played a team sport like soccer or basketball, you quickly learn that while it is helpful to have an “all-star” player, the best teams leverage the talents of all their players on the field and elevate everyone’s game in order to consistently win.

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Team Building 101: Techniques to Improve Your Team’s Productivity

Women on Business

In today’s increasingly cynical climate, it’s easy to think that enterprise-wide team-building exercises are useless. And with good reason: many companies have made the mistake in confusing team-building with team competing. Competition can unfortunately, bring out the worst in people.

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Leadership and Teamwork

Lead on Purpose

Sports metaphors are everywhere in the workplace, but there’s no denying that the leadership and teamwork skills found in the sports setting teach important lessons. Perhaps it’s a little more time off, more responsibility, more rewarding work, or the chance to work collaboratively on a new project.