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Omar L. Harris
- Oct 13, 2020
- 4 min
Leadership Lessons from the 2020 NBA Finals
What can we learn about leadership from the 2020 NBA Finals? Quite a lot it seems...
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Omar L. Harris
- Aug 30, 2020
- 5 min
5 Servant Leadership Principles NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is Successfully Leveraging
Adam Silver has truly stepped up as a remarkable leader during the twin crises of social injustice and COVID-19.
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Omar L. Harris
- Aug 28, 2020
- 4 min
Regaining Trust in the Wake of a Toxic Leader
How will a Biden administration repair the damage done by the toxic leadership brand of Donald J. Trump?
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Omar L. Harris
- May 23, 2020
- 6 min
Leadership Lessons from The Last Dance documentary
I'm sure I'm not alone in being grateful to ESPN and Netflix for accelerating the launch of The Last Dance documentary to make up for the...
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Omar L. Harris
- Apr 20, 2020
- 5 min
Leadership Lessons From My Mother
Everything happens for a reason. Of all of your expressions, Mom, I think this one was definitely your favorite. You used it nearly every...
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Omar L. Harris
- Apr 16, 2020
- 4 min
Why Improving Employee Engagement is Personal
I was a twenty-five year old professional with an MBA in a fast-track management development program with an exciting pharmaceutical...
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Omar L. Harris
- Apr 6, 2020
- 3 min
3 Leadership Lessons from #StayHome and #SocialDistancing
My business, like many of yours, is coming up on the first full month since we implemented #socialdistancing, #stayhome, and #quarantine...
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Omar L. Harris
- Mar 31, 2020
- 5 min
Don't Let Team Storming Derail Your Crisis Management Plans
Fact: Every team confronts four stages of development that are non-linear: forming, storming, norming, and performing. The key factor in...
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Omar L. Harris
- Mar 26, 2020
- 7 min
COVID Crisis Leadership Lessons From I Am Legend
In the midst of all this #socialdistancing and #covid_19 hysteria, I decided to go back in the film archives and do a leadership lessons...
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Omar L. Harris
- Mar 19, 2020
- 4 min
3 Useful Practices to Maintain Control During a Crisis
I've been reading a ton of theoretical articles on crisis management these days as we get deeper into this unprescedented COVID-19...
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Omar L. Harris
- Mar 18, 2020
- 3 min
Servant Leadership During the Corona Virus Crisis
Leadership is often defined by how one responds during a crisis. A leader's values, principles, and priorities are fully on display for...
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Omar L. Harris
- Nov 15, 2019
- 4 min
3 Steps to Improving Personal Effectiveness
I am quite passionate about the power of teams to transform business outcomes. Still, teams are only as good as the individuals that...
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Omar L. Harris
- Oct 11, 2019
- 5 min
Leadership Lessons from Joker
Please note: this article contains spoilers. Batman's rogue's gallery is known throughout the comic book world to be one of the most...
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Omar L. Harris
- Oct 8, 2019
- 3 min
PQ is the new EQ
Emotional intelligence, also known as EQ became a business buzzword recently but the actual concept of emotional intelligence was coined...
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Omar L. Harris
- Sep 7, 2019
- 7 min
Interviewed By My 22-Year-Old Self!
I've been participating in quite a few podcasts lately related to career development and how to carve a successful path and I've thus...
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Omar L. Harris
- Jul 26, 2019
- 4 min
Leadership Lessons from The Lion King (2019)
Please note: this article contains spoilers for the 2 people in the world who have never seen the Lion King :). Disney wants all the...
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Omar L. Harris
- Jul 10, 2019
- 5 min
Leadership Lessons from Spider Man: Far From Home
Please note: this article contains spoilers. The end is upon us. Not the end of Marvel's incredible run of great movies, however....
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Omar L. Harris
- Jul 1, 2019
- 3 min
Cultivating a Culture of High Performance
I spent some time recently in one of my favorite places on earth. Napa Valley in Northern California sits between two mountain ranges -...
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Omar L. Harris
- Jun 14, 2019
- 4 min
Level 5 Leadership Lessons from NBA MVP Kawhi Leonard
The Toronto Rapters are NBA Champions. Say it with me, the perennial Eastern Conference pretender to the throne are now sitting on top of...
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