Tag: deliberate practice
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Deliberate Practice – Competitive mindset essential for long-term success
One of the patterns that threaten many family businesses is a waning sense of urgency and competitive fire in future generations. It’s human nature. The founders fought for their survival in the early years…
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Deliberate Practice – How to Conduct a Great Family Meeting
One of my greatest joys coaching families is to see a whole family come together around a table and talk about the family business. You can see all of the hopes, dreams and history…
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Deliberate Practice – Get Real by Getting Feedback
One of the greatest disservices you can do to yourself and your team is to not be honest with yourself about how others perceive you. I know how frightening it can be to put…
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Get Full Access to Our Family Business Deliberate Practices™
I have been working with family businesses for over 15 years and spent 50 years living in close proximity to my family business, Walsh Bros. Office Equipment. I’ve developed the Family Business Deliberate Practices™…
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Make Your Practice Plan
By now you understand theat practice is the key to high levels of results. What is your practice plan? Let me make a few suggestions of typical business structures that could be good practice…
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Identify the Deliberate Practices for Your Team
Now that we know about deliberate practice, the question becomes what should I be practicing in the deliberate practice sort of way? Only you and your team know what would be a stretch past…
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Bill Shover’s Routine
Bill Shover, my Little League baseball coach, had a practice plan that was regimented and the same every time. As I look back now, I can see it was deliberate practice. We warmed up,…
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Never Stop Practicing
In his book, Mastery, George Leonard shares one of my all time favorite quotes. Leonard says the Buddhist masters had a saying, “Before enlightenment you chop wood and carry water.” The beauty of this…
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Phelps, Nash and Horowitz III
Valdimir Horowitz was one of the greatest piano players of all time, and was quoted as saying, “If I stop practicing for a day, I notice it. Two days, my wife notices it. Three…
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Phelps, Nash and Horowitz II
Two time NBA All-Star, Steve Nash, is another example of the power of practice. Nash has one of the most reliable and smooth jump shots in the history of the NBA. Upon further investigation…
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Phelps, Nash and Horowitz
These three men are great examples of practice at work. Most of us know about Michael Phelps, the Olympic gold medalist. His coach appeared on Good Morning America and reported that Michael practiced 365 days…
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Let’s Better Understand Deliberate Practice
Let’s talk about regular practice versus deliberate practice. Let me describe my two different practices in golf and see if you can discern the difference. In regular practice, I hit a large bucket of…
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