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Long Training+Research LTR is a human performance firm providing management assessment and management development services.

Dr. Stephen Long is the founder & president of Long Training+Research specializing in human performance, leadership effectiveness, talent optimization, and strategy ex*****on. He has unlocked the potential of exceptional leaders, champion athletes, fighter pilots, military special operations personnel, elite producers, and corporate executives. The author of four books and over a dozen articles, he earned his PhD from the University of Kansas where he was honored as the Most Outstanding Doctoral Student while serving as the Director of the KU Peak Performance Clinic. He then served as the Head of Performance Psychology in the Human Performance Lab at the US Air Force Academy. A University of Utah independent study identified Dr. Long as one of North America’s top applied performance psychologists.

15/10/2026

Factors such as performance appraisals, private inducements, and internal competition prevent employees from concentrating their efforts on learning, growth, and innovation.

14/10/2026

In the classic HBR article, Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance, by Michael C. Mankins and Richard Steele, the researchers reported that companies, on average, deliver only 63% of the financial performance their strategies promise. *****on

13/10/2026

Counter-Intuitive Thinking, when first presented, goes against the prevailing attitudes and initial gut reactions. However, by definition, people who perform at high levels are not normal. In essence, they’re oddballs and nonconformists, but it’s their willingness to challenge conventional thinking that leads to excellence.

08/10/2026

The ability to bounce back is an unintended consequence of a crisis.

07/10/2026

The reality of staying the course is that by spending every hour and dollar on one thing, we sacrifice a preferable future opportunity to spend that hour and dollar on something else. For every hour, every ounce of effort we spend there cannot be spent here.

06/10/2026

Many people experience the Fear of the Unknown. We assign familiar triggers to predictable events, but we have no idea why unpredictable events occur, increasing our resistance to change.

Last Saturday, two important parts of my life met on the same football field. For the first time, the University of Dela...
01/10/2026

Last Saturday, two important parts of my life met on the same football field. For the first time, the University of Delaware and the University of Virginia played one another—two programs that profoundly shaped how I came to understand leadership and human performance.

The game brought me back to a question that followed me from coaching to Kansas, the Air Force Academy, and eventually business: Why was our most productive player never our most talented player? Never. That question led to another discovery: Variability between potential and performance has a cost. Reducing it creates value.

My new article tells the story of that journey—and where it led. https://lnkd.in/dB-CPnBm

01/10/2026

Just as there are “social brakes” for aggression and violence, we have the responsibility to check our frustration before it escalates to poor judgment.

30/09/2026

Frustration occurs whenever highly motivated individuals encounter a barrier that prevents them from achieving a highly desired goal. The barrier may be physical, psychological, or symbolic.

29/09/2026

Much of what we currently know is considered useless due to the unprecedented pace of change, rendering traditional experience and knowledge ineffective. It sets the stage for leaders' difficulties in dealing with rapidly evolving situations.

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