N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

He is the Senior Pastor at CrossPoint Church , one of the fastest growing churches in the country, is the author of the bestselling book Plan B , and is one of the the most candid, insightful and humble leaders you’ll ever have the opportunity to listen to – we all have a lot to learn from Pete Wilson.

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JANUARY 6, 2011

It means you’re not teaching, mentoring, communicating, or leading. " Saying no doesn't imply that your "team is not aligned and your talent is not performing up to par," or that "it means you’re not teaching, mentoring, communicating, or leading."

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths. On with the exam… Section I: Character.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Sure, in some cases I coach and mentor, but most of my clients simply view me as their closest personal advisor. I don’t really care whether the client is aided by mentoring, teaching, coaching, consulting or a mix of all the above – I just care that they receive real results. It’s just that simple.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Great CEOs not only view their interactions with team members as coaching and mentoring opportunities, but also as learning opportunities for themselves. I suggest a book titled. An executive team that actually embraces the concept of collaboration will substantially out perform a silo-centric executive team focused on empire building.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

He reads 100 books each year that are NOT related to his work, he maintains work-life balance as evidenced by the fact that at age 50 he still goes rock climbing at least three times a week, and what really impressed me was his humility. Smart leaders leverage influencers by involving them in modeling, mentoring and coaching.

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JUNE 14, 2010

How did the brick and mortar book stores let Amazon get the jump on them? Does anyone on your executive team have a coach or mentor? How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay? Why did American auto-makers lose their once dominant position to their European and Asian counterparts? Has your business embraced social media?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

However, humility can also effectively (and less painfully) be learned through coaching and mentoring. The benefits of humility are most often learned through painful life experiences.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

The methodology laid out in her book 'Fierce Conversations' is SUPERB! Sarah [link] mikemyatt Hi Sarah: Thanks for the comment and mentioning Susan Scott's Book. Love your articel and the suggestions within it. May I also offer another suggestion? I am a particular fan of Susan Scott's approach to conflict.

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OCTOBER 20, 2010

My book, The Three-Dimensional Leader supports a lot of these points by explaining how leaders need to see what they are tasked to achieve in terms of my MRC concepts of mission, resources and context. With good mentoring, that new leader will be effective. Not one should miss.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. Even more impressive is that some of the most successful leaders throughout history were known to read one book every single day.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

If the point of departure is truly causing organizational/performance disruption, and it is not your issue, then you must either coach/mentor that person through the challenge or get rid of them. Keeping a "bad apple" can in fact spoil the entire barrel.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It is precisely the dispensing of one-size fits all advice that has allowed the ranks of consultants, coaches, mentors and other professional advisers to swell to historical proportions. After all, if you can apply someone else’s theory in a vacuum it lowers the barrier to entry doesn’t it?

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

My dear friend and mentor, Cheryl Smith. Tuition, uniforms, books, supplies. But as you can imagine, that would easily require a book. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. He trained for and completed his first triathlon and has his sights firmly set on doing an ironman.

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MAY 17, 2010

The number of books, blogs, tweets, videos, webcasts, podcasts, etc., There is an unmistakable element of wisdom borne of experience that they gladly share as they ‘mentor’ growth. Was it when I wrote my first book on the subject or the third? being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. In the fall he came out with a book setting out his new and improved worldview, The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting. The book is not the world’s most coherent.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Daniel Senor and Saul Singer offer additional explanations in their book, Start-Up Nation. They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing. But is all of that changing?

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