N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” It means you’re not teaching, mentoring, communicating, or leading.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

A great example of this would be carving out time in your already too busy schedule to mentor someone in your organization with great potential. Clearly this endeavor will take time, and may not yield immediate results, but the payoff organizationally, relationally, culturally, and in terms of future contribution can be huge.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

I believe great leaders will mentor and coach subordinates for the purpose of identifying and developing other great leaders. Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. 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. myself that.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

All great leaders develop a sense of their blind-spots and weaknesses as they mature. I really appreciate Pete’s insights into the necessity of self-leadership and his honesty in admitting that this is his own area of struggle.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Thanks in advance for sharing… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] 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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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Where there is disagreement there is an inherent potential for growth and development. Thanks for taking the simple and taking it deeper than most of us pastors have time to develop. Thanks again.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Does anyone on your executive team have a coach or mentor? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming? How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay? Has your business embraced social media?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. I have always found that rapport is quickly developed when you listen, care, and attempt to help people succeed.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. 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. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

With good mentoring, that new leader will be effective. I am a firm believer that even when certain traits are not present they can be acquired, developed and refined so long as one thing is present – the desire to do so. Inexperienced, yes — ineffective…that remains to be seen.

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QAspire

AUGUST 26, 2010

To ensure that this training translates into meaningful actions, it is crucial to have a ‘leadership development program’ that continuously organizes trainings, inducts new people/aspiring leaders, conduct brainstorming and discussion sessions, seek feedbacks from people periodically to maintain the momentum and mature over a period of time.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now.

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QAspire

JUNE 29, 2010

to which participant responded - “I am not here to win the first spot, I am here to enjoy the process of being with such great mentors and learning the music. Career Related , Self Growth | Tanmay June 30, 2010 6 Comments By Jay Chhaya, June 30, 2010 @ 8:58 am Very important point raised here by Tanmay and a very serious one as well.

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QAspire

JANUARY 26, 2010

Be it your project, your people, your career or your family – thinking before doing is crucial. Idea is to allocate some part of your day to active thinking on your subject, your project, your career and your priorities in life. As one of my mentors say - “Man who lives without thinking is a two-legged animal.”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

My dear friend and mentor, Cheryl Smith. He was on the creative planning team for catalyst, works with leadership development of Chick-Fil-A, and is quarterbacking many projects for well known leaders. He had a successful career in ministry and was in good churches, but he felt God calling him to this assignment.

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Steve Farber

MAY 17, 2012

I graduated college in 2006 and was fortunate to land in Delaware [Ohio] (only 30 minutes from my hometown) right out of school. In July 2009, my mentor and good friend was killed in a plane crash. M of my professional career. At his funeral, his wife and parents approached me and subsequently put in motion the first OS!M

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

How many times during the course of your career have you witnessed executives and entrepreneurs who desperately need help, but either don’t recognize it, or worse yet, make it virtually impossible for someone to help them? For sometime now believing in the power of mentor-ship. It paramount and necessary.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

One of my mentors once cautioned me about treating people as furniture saying that “individuals are not inantimate objects to simply be moved around and discarded, but that people require a constant investment of time and money to develop to their full potential.&# Don’t hype…stop complaining…fix the problem.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Leaders get too caught up in trivial things and don’t pay enough attention to leadership development. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Smart leaders leverage influencers by involving them in modeling, mentoring and coaching. Play offense - Try desperately not to be on defense.

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N2Growth Blog

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. Who are your strongest leaders and how are you developing them to handle more responsibility? Are all your resources properly aligned and connected?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works. Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What happened in 2006? And Bill Gates announced he was shifting his priorities from software development to social impact by moving full time to his foundation. Civic Ventures had recently released its first survey of baby boomers and found at least half were interested in “ encore careers ” helping others. In the broader U.S.

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QAspire

JULY 12, 2010

How you can be a Mentor like Obi Wan By Tanmay , July 13, 2010 @ 8:31 am @Deborah Fike - I have strongly believed in the fact ‘that which gets sponsored/scheduled’ gets done. So, so true. And that should be followed up with give apparent authority (and hopefully the team member can gain implied authority). Ditto with improvement.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 12, 2011

According to the American Psychological Association, a woman’s leadership style is more like mentoring and coaching, while a man’s style is centered around command and control. Some of the respondents also mention women’s family responsibilities and their shortage of experience as detriments to a successful career. 2006, March 22).

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QAspire

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I am very proud to be a part of a wonderful community of leadership bloggers and am grateful to Dan McCarthy (for his insights and for hosting Leadership Development Carnival), to Mary Jo Asmus , Becky Robinson (be sure to check out her new blog ) and Wally Bock.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

People spend more time thinking about their investments or even where to go on holiday," says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You'll Love. Regardless of where you are in your career, there are principles you can follow to ensure you make the right decision. And yet, most people do it poorly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Webb, who served in the Navy from 1993 to 2006 and radically redesigned the SEAL training course curriculum, graciously shared his insight about what works – and what fails – when effecting a training transformation. I’ve seen it happen, and careers ended when it did. The post-9/11 environment demanded it.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

In today’s competitive world, top executives increasingly understand that sustaining peak performance requires a commitment to developing leaders throughout the organization. Leaders need to develop other leaders. Habits that have taken 40 years to develop will not go away in a week.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Okay, let me see if I understand this…a good coach doesn’t necessarily need any experience, but if they’re a really good listener, can restate what their client tells them, and ask a few good questions, then they can miraculously lead a client to the ah-ha moment that transforms their life and their career.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

To retain high-potential employees, the conventional wisdom is deceptively simple: Identify, develop , and nurture them. As the former head of executive development at GE used to tell me, "There's a difference between doing it and really doing it." How well does your company retain and develop its top talent?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Since Jeff Howe first coined the term in a 2006 Wired article , "crowdsourcing" has garnered extensive media buzz and investment dollars. During that experience, I''ve developed my own views and insights into what makes crowdsourcing work best. And of course, our uTest experience has honed those views.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Are we as an industry fulfilling the mission of developing great leaders capable of handling great challenges and accomplishing great things, or are the majority of those entering our ranks just here to make a quick buck? If you Google &# leadership development&# more than 4 million search results are returned.

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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. Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. The man was in the mood for a monologue, which I have organized by topic.

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