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Learn and be curious. Constantly seek to improve yourself. Disconfirm your beliefs. This makes you a better leader and teammate. Be present. Daily meditation helps. Act like an owner. Hold yourself and others accountable and to the highest standards, even when doing so is uncomfortable. Teach by action. Appreciate the process and the mindset will follow. Develop empathy and compassion. Empathy for yourself, your teammates, and your competitors. It is difficult but empathy is where understanding begins. This makes you a better leader. Look beyond your domain for inspiration (Kobe, for example, studied Muhammad Ali and took tap dancing lessons).

 Eleven things I’ve learned in the past nearly 11 years (and across my career to date). Everyone has some level of impostor syndrome – thank it for coming and tell it to piss off. Assume good intent – for the most part people don’t set out to trip you up. We all want the same thing at the end of the day – success, beating the competition. The outcome matters not how you get there. Best thing I ever did (or try to do) is give up needing to be right. It is very freeing – try it! Don’t sweat the small stuff. Be passionate about what you are doing. If you aren’t pumped up when you jump out of bed in the morning, it might be time to find something new to do (or have a holiday) Always be in negative leave – life’s too short to not have holidays No one remembers you missing a meeting, but your kids, family, those important to you will remember you missing the important things in their life – cheering from the side line, clapping from the audience …. Be kind Back yourself – personally and ...