N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help avoid conflicts. This is such a common problem for executives that I coach. May I also offer another suggestion?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Vision statements, as implied in the construction of the phraseology itself, put forth a statement of envisioned future. So hear's the big learning: never assume we're meaning the same thing when we use similar words, or risk constructing a Tower of Babel!

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

I'm in total agreement with you that personal brands constructed properly are both beneficial to the individual and add value to the corporate brand. link] mikemyatt Thanks for stopping by Mary.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

Poorly handled change management causes employees frustration, discomfort, disengagement, and a hasty search to reconnect with other more meaningful frameworks in their lives. Our minds fill in the blanks when information is lacking; new realities that employees begin to construct might be built on the wrong foundation.

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QAspire

JANUARY 28, 2010

Confined by constructs of an organization. When those assumptions are constructively challenged, new ideas emerge. When you constantly enable others succeed, you gain better understanding of human motivations and ways to constructively use them for better results. Limited job descriptions. Rigid ways of handling situations.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

In 2006, Disney bought Pixar to boost its struggling Walt Disney Animation Studios unit. In most companies the overwhelming majority of employees feel that senior management does not value their opinions and ideas. The artists and technologists rebelled and started acting disrespectfully to production managers. Not so at Pixar.

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QAspire

JULY 18, 2010

Team work plays a crucial role in success of any nature of project in any field, be it a manufacturing, construction, s/w or sports. I have had similar experiences in the past where a command and control management led to erosion of good team members. Your story consolidates that fact. Don’t Kill It!

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

As a result, we tend to extrapolate prior trends into future estimates in many domains, ranging from career and compensation expectations to global macroeconomic projections. Might our inability to understand the inherent nature of growth as unsustainable also be affecting our ability to navigate investing, economic, and career uncertainty?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. Entrepreneurs and managers can actively seek to build such experiences by living abroad and systematically comparing what they observe in other markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

They argue that “constructive internal reflection”— the term they coin for daydreaming and related “rest” states—is essential for learning, problem solving, and goal setting. Many of my clients focus intensively (or obsessively) on meetings and presentations they believe can make or break their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

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