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2024 Executive Coaching Trends: Shaping Leadership Excellence

N2Growth Blog

At N2Growth, we have conducted business remotely worldwide since our firm was founded in 2006, so we know what we’re talking about. It’s about creating a work environment where creativity and productivity thrive under the guidance of emotionally intelligent leaders. The world’s become a smaller place, digitally speaking.

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Teresa Amabile on the four components of creativity

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In one of her classic works, Creativity In Context: Update To The Social Psychology of Creativity (2006), Teresa Amabile suggests that creativity is influenced by four separate components: domain-relevant skills, creativity-relevant processes, task motivation, and the surrounding social environment.

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

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So what’s it going to be this year…a turkey, an extra paid day off, a cash bonus, stock/options/warrants, something creative or nothing at all? It is very typical that in this type of environment that the controversy shifts from company vs. employees, to employee vs. employee.

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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: In 2006, Disney bought Pixar to boost its struggling Walt Disney Animation Studios unit.

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Love and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

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It is emphathy that enables leaders to understand both their teams and their customers, and foster an atmosphere of greater creativity and problem-solving. Gwyn Teatro Mike , so many view kindness, empathy, compassion and love as elements foreign to business environments and strong leadership. Deb Costello I love this post!

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

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Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. Leaders who don’t deal with conflict will eventually watch their good talent walk out the door in search of a healthier and safer work environment.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

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Labeling something as Best Practices is not a substitute for wisdom, discernment, discretion, subject matter expertise, intellect, creativity or any of the other qualities I value in an advisor. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. But Apple does not manufacture them.

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