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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

With the iPod in 2001 and iPhone in 2007, they didn’t just create a successful product, they created a new category of product. Clients: You set the customer service benchmarks in your industry — develop comfortable relationships with clients. Competition: Grow as fast as possible and leave the competition in the dust.

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In fact, if you're reading this text, just stop right now and benchmark your activity against your reflective thoughts – Is what you're doing, in alignment with your true priorities, or have you been sucked down into the weeds? The old "what if I only had 'x' number of hours to work in a week, what would I focus on?"

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” In the end, leadership that adopts politically correct behavior and thinking places themselves and their organizations at great peril. Leadership is about telling the truth with courage, candor, honesty… and empathy.

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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The three most critical items to focus on when conducting your planning are: Insure that personal accountability is present on any major benchmark, milestone or deliverable. link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] In most cases your wins won’t put you out of business, but your losses most certainly can.

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The Performance and Potential Matrix (9 Box Grid) – an Update

Great Leadership By Dan

Note: this is an update to one of the very first posts I wrote in November 2007 and continues to be one of my most popular. You’ve probably found this post from an internet search – I hope it helps answer your questions and you’ll find Great Leadership to be a valuable resource for all things leadership development.

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along. Plan and Benchmark. Philosophy. The Big Picture.