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05Jun2022

What hockey players can learn from bad bosses

  • By Ian Bradley
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I’ve spent a great deal of my professional life doing two things-helping executives become better bosses and helping professional hockey players to reach their potential. Their respective roads to success are lined with many similar qualities- hard work, grit, dealing with pressure, teamwork- to name only a few. However, in one area – reacting to
10Nov2013

Getting Ahead versus Getting Along

  • By Ian Bradley
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As a psychologist involved in helping professional athletes as well as senior executives, I have found numerous similarities in the challenges facing both groups. One such similarity is the dialectical tension of two  opposing tendencies – individual achievement and team playing. As students of philosophy appreciate, a dialectic represents a systematic reasoning process that attempts
27Feb2010

Panic; Team Canada and Psychology

  • By Ian Bradley
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Like most Canadians, I was glued to the screen last night following Canada’s Olympic team on its march to gold against the team from Slovakia. Our national level of comfort was jolted by the Slovaks second goal to close the margin in the third period to a nail-biting 3-2 with minutes to play. Watching our
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