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Shut-up & Listen | N2Growth Blog

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Even solid world class institutions like the University of California Berkeley under the leadership of Chancellor Birgeneau & Provost Breslauer are firing employees, staff, faculty and part-time lecturers through “Operational Excellence (OE) initiative”: last year 600 were fired, this year 300.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design.

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Love and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

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In fact, if you examine failed leaders as a class you’ll find that a lack of love, misplaced love, or misguided love were a contributing cause of said failures, if not the root cause. In the text that follows I’ll examine the softer sides of leadership – love, compassion, humility, kindness and empathy. I admire this.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

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And, emotional intelligence has been linked to successful leadership (just did a paper on this for a university class). Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. In fact, emotional intelligence is viewed by some as a better predictor of success than the old hallmark, IQ. The good news?

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Humility and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Over the years I have come to believe that “ having class &# is synonymous with demonstrating a penchant for humility over bravado. In today’ post I’ll share my thoughts on the value of learning to become a humble leader… It’s been said that life is a long lesson in humility.

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Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

N2Growth Blog

This weekend I had the honor of attending his graduation from EOD school where he was recognized as the Honor Graduate in his class (see above picture). As many of you know, my son is an active duty officer in the US Air Force. I hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend as well.

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Preparing business students for managerial roles

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However, those subjects were covered in only 13% and 10% of required classes, respectively, in a study of 373 business schools, said DePaul professor Erich Dierdorff, one of the study's researchers. Columbia also requires students to take a class on determining their leadership style, teamwork and "self-awareness" during their first year.