Leadership lessons Tim Tebow, John Fox and the Denver Broncos
Who’d a thunk it? After starting the season with one win and four losses, the Denver Broncos’ football team ended up making the playoffs and winning their first game in the playoffs. Head coach John Fox seems to be both a courageous and strategically mindful leader. Fox replaced Kyle Orton, a statistically accurate quarterback, with the unproven and inaccurate passing quarterback Tim Tebow—to the rapturous joy of some fans and the chagrin of others. Tebow brought energy and leadership that helped turn the season around.
There’s an old adage in sports: “Play your strengths and …
An antidote is defined as a remedy that counteracts poison. And fear can be one of the most potent emotional poisons to your success. Fear of selling is likely your greatest obstacle in selling more effectively (whether you’re selling yourself, ideas, products or services).
The good news though, is you can develop a powerful antidote to fear. The antidote to fear of selling is …
Tim Tebow, a true Fearless Leader™
Is emotional intelligence part of his success?
Tim Tebow’s six comeback wins in recent weeks for the Denver Broncos have been so incredibly improbable that some say it’s divine intervention (some seriously, others tongue in cheek). Not since the 1972 Pittsburgh Steelers Franco Harris “immaculate reception,” dubbed the greatest play in NFL history by NFL Films, have people so strongly suggested that divine intervention played a role in a football game’s outcome. (Click here to view a video of the famous play.)
Let’s set aside divine intervention for this article and examine the intangible Fearless Leader™ qualities that make Tebow a great leader. Cathy Greenberg, Ph.D., a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, and I have defined a Fearless Leader™…
Tunnel vision for athletic focus and entrepreneurial success
The athletic focus of Jeremy Bloom, a three-time world-champion freestyle skier, NFL football player and now a successful entrepreneur is tunnel vision. Bloom shares how used his athletic focus to block out distractions in becoming a world-champion athlete now successful entrepreneur with two successful companies.
Different situations require a different types of focus. Tunnel vision , used by Jeremy Bloom to become a world-champion freestyle skier is the perfect type of athletic focus for that type of event. Soft eyes with a broad view is the best focus when you need to take in a broader scope, or a lot of movement.
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What do you think of how Jeremy focuses? When is it a good focusing technique and when isn’t it? Look forward to your comments …
Jeremy Bloom, a three-time world-champion freestyle skier, two-time Olympian, and now successful entrepreneur shares the mindset that helped him develop wold-class mental toughness (resilience) and also, courage and confidence.
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Yes, this sounds like an infomercial you might see at 2 o’clock in the morning, but the technique below will greatly strengthen confidence in almost everyone and build massive confidence in some … all in 30 days or less. Begin with a 10 day commitment. It’s been successful with elite athletes, kids in high school, executives in business, almost everyone who has completed it. It can work for you too! Here’s how …
