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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

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If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. They are voracious learners always looking for better methods, different approaches, enhanced efficiencies, better technology and increased velocity. Want to find out? Section X: Results.

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

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In fact, if you're reading this text, just stop right now and benchmark your activity against your reflective thoughts – Is what you're doing, in alignment with your true priorities, or have you been sucked down into the weeds? The old "what if I only had 'x' number of hours to work in a week, what would I focus on?"

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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

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The three most critical items to focus on when conducting your planning are: Insure that personal accountability is present on any major benchmark, milestone or deliverable. In most cases your wins won’t put you out of business, but your losses most certainly can.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

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Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Every task should be assigned and managed according to a plan and in the light of day. Measurable : Any new ideas being adopted must lead to measurable objectives. Timing : It must be detailed and deliverable on a schedule.

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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

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Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. This has resulted in the share of overall employment in young firms falling from around half of the workforce in 1980 to just 39% by 2006. in 1985 to 5.3% by 2014. A different picture.

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Vision vs. Mission | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

A goal is a specific target and the objectives are the attainment components/benchmarks/hurdles which will lead you toward achieving said goal. An organization's purpose often changes over time as advances in technology, changes in customer demands/preferences, etc. impact the competitive arena.

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

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Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference.

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