N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

Digital transformation starts at a strategic level with leadership being committed to change. Advisory Services Focused on Leadership Training & Organization. N2Growth’s Founder and Chairman, Mike Myatt, has a diverse background of professional leadership in the banking industry, law, internet strategy, and advertising.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, a trailblazer in the realm of gender balance and inclusive leadership, shares profound insights in an exclusive interview with The HR Digest. The HR Digest: As a pioneer in gender balance advocacy, what are some of the most significant breakthroughs you’ve witnessed in achieving gender parity in leadership roles?

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

After spending a good part of my life in leadership roles and the past 20 years coaching, educating and writing for leaders, the death of my father, Dr. Jack Eblin , 10 days ago has me considering those questions anew. All of that is just a partial recitation of my dad’s leadership resume. How do you measure the success of a leader?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The purpose of servant leadership, according to Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Human Resources Officer at Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., In an interview with The HR Digest, Wilson-Thompson talks about her personal leadership style and the power of harnessing the digital transformation of COVID-19 era.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. So BDAI is pretty useful for management to be able to see where we are and where we might be headed. He named that moment, the Singularity. Will there be a moment when the Singularity arrives in the C-suite?

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Building Personal Strength

APRIL 4, 2011

2005 photo by Derek Jensen But in a way, paying for gas is less painful than it used to be. Back then I'd occasionally contract as an adjunct trainer for the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). Three of the participants happened to be brand managers from Mobil. And, oh yeah - the price of gas. Their problem?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Just as the courageous, skillful sea captain of long ago took up a compass, charted a course, and led others across the unknown, so must today’s captains of business and industry. Discover how industry leaders get ahead and stay there and apply the same skills and strategies to your business and personal lives.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2011

A pure fact of transformational leadership is that you can accomplish only a small portion of the requisite forward movement on your own. Discover how industry leaders get ahead and stay there and apply the same skills and strategies to your business and personal lives. The key is to establish true transformational leadership.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 15, 2012

In his address to Stanford Graduates in 2005, Steve Jobs said; "And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition". When we have an intuitive response to something it is often our personal values that are being touched upon.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. They can do so with the help of a new business strategy: ‘Healthcare Performance Management’ (HPM).

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

That’s why change management efforts commonly fail. To make change really happen, it doesn’t need to be managed, but empowered. That’s the difference between authority and leadership. That’s the difference between authority and leadership. And that’s why change always requires leadership rather than authority.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. This product-centric mindset is not entirely new. Customers" Have Become "Users".

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.” Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. All told, they slashed carbon pollution from electricity by 20% from 2005-2011, led by Washington, which saw a 46% reduction during that period. Low-carbon leadership isn’t just confined to the coasts.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Consider Southwest Airlines, which shook up the airline industry with its low-cost, high-customer service approach to air travel. That’s why leaders of large healthcare companies are looking over their shoulder and thinking, “What is that small startup that is going to shake up our industry? Who is that David to our Goliath?”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

When Jobs returned in 1998 he restructured his team with senior managers who possessed a rich mix of strong discovery- and delivery-driven skills, and as a result the company churned out hit after hit, from the iMac and iTunes to the iPad, iPhone, and iPad. Apple's innovative future hinges on these critical senior-leadership skills.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

However, when management teams do the same in their businesses, great harm can occur, for self-awareness is the first building block of successful growth strategies. Yet, our research at Bain reveals, it is the rare management team that passes our three tests of true self-awareness. No real harm done. What is our core?

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I can say this with confidence, because my decision to jump into Social Media headfirst back in 2005 has played an important role in my personal development as a leader -nearly as important as the direct leadership experience itself. And that’s what great leadership is all about. Popularity: 7% [ ?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Being honest and never dissembling is very consistent with the bland axioms of a “feel good” leadership discourse, but as in the case of sports, it is also remarkably inconsistent with what actually goes on in the real world. There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. My takeaways?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

A key factor is intense resistance in some political circles to government actions that suggest industrial policy or planning – an aversion that was confirmed during the George H.W. China’s growing clout and leadership in international standards bodies is a testament to the success of this education effort.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

In response, more and more employers are providing Employee Assistance Programs (74% in 2012, up from 46% in 2005) and wellness programs (63% in 2012, up from 47% in 2005). In 2008, TURCK, a leading manufacturer in industrial automation with 500 employees in the U.S.,

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

Marshall’s awareness that Hitler was building a huge military industrial complex led him to warn of the Nazi threat and America’s vulnerability. became] an authority on Chinese civilization, history, and language. and was] the only American officer who could examine Chinese witnesses without the aid of interpreters.” on July 5th, 2010 [.]

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

To understand why they’re absent from any discussions of gun safety, you have to both grasp how the gun industry works — and go back about a decade to a landmark piece of legislation. It’s worth remembering Peter Drucker’s famous distinction: “management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Why is there is a cottage industry of executive search firms focusing on “reverse board searches,” where they proactively work to place executives on outside corporate boards? This question was at the heart of a recent study we conducted that is forthcoming at the Academy of Management Journal. increased by over $300,000.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

And so they just grabbed defeat from the greatest victory in the computer industry. Xerox could have owned the entire computer industry today." When Jobs returned and restructured his senior management team with more discovery-driven capacity, Apple's innovation engine ignited again. No wonder Tesler left PARC and joined Apple.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The short answer is intentional leadership. It turns out that academia, like most professions and industries, values the status quo. . In fall 2021, HPU ’ s freshman class was larger than the entire student body was in 2005 and will have access to 62 majors and 64 minors. . Leadership by Being Engaged.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leaders Can Be Human Too: In Praise of Touchy-Feely by Starbucker on February 14, 2010 My first executive leadership opportunity came very early for me – at age 27. Leadership is fundamentally a relationship with followers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. In our view, Brian’s work is an excellent demonstration of strategic leadership. But Brian’s accomplishment challenges conventional definitions of strategic leadership.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 7, 2016

This means more than consigning “people development” to high-potential leadership development programs , executive coaching , or once-a-year retreats. Two out of every five new CEOs fail in the first 18 months (HBR, January 2005). Source: Robert Kegan: An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. That’s because soccer players today work closer than ever before. They must launch new products, for instance, at shorter intervals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

In September 2005, Alphahealth*, a large American healthcare company acquired the British company Pharmateam*. Management proudly announced the deal as part of its strategy of foreign expansion. Although aware of consolidation pressures in the industry, the announcement came out of the blue. Pharmateam was an ideal target.

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