N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In today’s post I’ll clearly explain the difference between vision and mission … As as a backdrop to answering today’s question, I want to share a simple organizational framework I developed several years ago to help executives gain a better understanding of leadership structure.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated, and that they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion. I’ve rarely come across students of military history that don’t have a great command of both strategic thinking and tactical implementation.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

This isn’t rocket science, rather it’s just plain-old, good leadership. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. It is actually the fiduciary obligation of a CEO to make the needed changes to protect shareholder value.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 26, 2010

While hubris can be a needed trait to call upon at times, to rely solely upon it as the foundation of your leadership style just doesn’t work. I think not. While arrogant people can and often do succeed in business, I believe that it comes at a great personal and professional cost.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Never sacrifice quality: Your products, services, leadership, management, culture, customer service, communication, etc. Continuity should flow from values to vision, mission to strategy, and objectives to tactics to process. must all reflect high standards of quality. Mixed messaging or practices has killed many a brand.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Experience and Expertise – A Few Thoughts When a kid learns how to play music, he develops “ability” to play music. Then a few more years of practice and he develops ability to play new songs without notes. To be able to think beyond tactics of work. He knows the basics.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 19, 2010

Liz was not someone considered to have “leadership potential” before John took over the division they worked in. It also allows us to see that those we have rejected for traits judged as negative may be prime candidates for development. What leadership traits are hiding behind the silence you see? Tactical and visionary?

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QAspire

AUGUST 8, 2010

Whether measuring a project or a business, here are a five steps to map your metrics with your business objectives: Know your goals : Identify what are your strategic, tactical and operational goals. A lot of business leaders. Understanding your business challenges and goals is the first most important step. Don’t Kill It!

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . We demonstrate that agile organizations possess both strategic and tactical agility. Same applies to the agility exhibited by Goldman Sachs in navigating the global financial crisis of 2008-09. Northern Command.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The vague question pops up out of nowhere in the middle of an employee evaluation and most of us haven’t had a chance to phrase our answers in a PC manner… Being specific is an excellent tactic, I think it gives the employee a specific situation to analyze and provide thoughts or suggestions on.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A simple change of tactic can bring you from “you have a problem with your piece of the product,&# to “I could be wrong, but it seems there’s a problem with the piece you worked on.&# Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

To implement change, you can either preach tactics to change, or you can drive change through a compelling purpose and value. (so You should know what "not do to" when implementing change. Ability to change, readiness to realignment and agility in mindset are the new competitive advantages. Don’t Kill It!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

This is a dead end tactic. Whether this developed from watching my father build his business, or just plain denial of my bank balance, I cannot say for sure. Many people come to me to make a drastic change in their careers. I am not a psychic, nor a fortune-teller, and I haven’t inherited a trust fund.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Instinctively Reactive Leadership – Another Cost A few weeks back, I wrote about “ toxic leadership ” and how it is a huge cost to organizations. This week, I was led to think about another cost – “reactive leadership”. Leaders cannot be instinctively reactive. Have a great day.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2010

John is probably one of the world’s best known and most respected authors and speakers on the subject of leadership. In fact, three of his books (The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Developing the Leader Within You , and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader) have sold more than one million copies each.

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The Recovering Engineer

APRIL 8, 2010

If you imagine at your emotional container like a bottle filled with a carbonated beverage and sealed with a stopper, you can develop a simple model for understanding what happens when you get angry so that you can attack the anger at it’s source rather than trying to control it after it happens. Well, anger is the same way.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. It must be actionable through tactical implementation.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Instead of beating yourself up or giving in, it is critical that you develop the ability to learn from setbacks. Regardless of where you are in your life and your career, I can promise you one thing; you will consistently be faced with challenges and obstacles along the way.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 14, 2010

Steinbrenner was a larger than life leader, who’s micro managing tactics repeatedly came under fire. Share this: This entry was posted in Leadership , Motivation , results and tagged death , George Steinbrenner , leadership lessons , New York Yankees. And what consequence do you need to follow through on today? Happy leading!

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Today, we’ll look at how to find and work with a leadership Mentor. Before we begin, I need to be clear: this is about finding a mentor who will help you with your LEADERSHIP. Start small with one specific (tactical) request to see if the relationship has potential. What do you want to gain from the experience? Happy leading!

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Roundtable Talk

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

25 of the worst leadership lines ever. The remaining candidates are resorting to high school bullying tactics and one candidate has even launched an eyebrow-raising Soprano’s-esque ad campaign. 25 of the worst leadership lines ever. RoundtableTalk Where ambitious leaders meet. Skip to content Home Welcome! ← Say what?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

While developing an understanding of great communication skills is easier than one might think, being able to appropriately draw upon said skills when the chips are down is not always as easy as one might hope for. Communicate more effectively. Classic business theory tells leaders to stay at arms length.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Thanks and I hope you enjoy the summit… Share and Enjoy: View Comments pinto philip Topic : Next Generation leadership -> How has leadership evolved with changing times , how has the styles changed , why is servant leadership more relevant in todays world. Sounds like an interesting event and line up.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Simon Sinek @simonsinek / Author and consultant on inspiring leadership / In a nutshell: Know WHY you’re doing what you’re doing “Share one’s passion and purpose as you inspire others” “Hire people who believe what you believe – and they will work for that belief. “Strategy is not a powerpoint. Entrepreneurialsm is everywhere.”

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Never confuse power with leadership. Be willing to change your tactics, but not your core principles. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric. Some of the nuggets that Jim did disseminate were as follows: Success that translates in hubris leads to failure. Double your ratio of questions to statements.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They didn’t want this book – they wanted a tactical book on sales and marketing. Mike Myatt: What’s been most rewarding to you in your work in the leadership field? My role is to share my applicable experiences and the dynamic processes I’ve developed to help people find their own ways of thinking differently.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Instead of a monolithic one-way interaction, business is now being conducted through constant and meaningful two-way conversations between organizations and constituents – at every stage of organizational development. And it’s a good thing, too. Still skeptical? Then take a look at the hard numbers.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 17, 2010

Given the death of that concept, organizations (for the most part) haven’t adjusted tactics. One of his observations is that most organizations still have processes in place that model the industrial age (ie: in exchange for you free will, we will provide you with a job for life). Mostly because we don’t know how to do it.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. Whether you’re a man or a woman, it’s time to start embracing your feminine side (and yes, many women have squelched their natural leadership style for far too long).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Developing political skill reduces stress and enhances performance, reputation, promotability, and career progression at work. A 2008 survey of 250 managers in the UK revealed that 90% of them believed that political skill is required to succeed and to improve one’s career prospects. Recent research does not support this idea.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Six Strategies for Boosting Morale by Kevin Eikenberry on November 1, 2010 in Leadership , Learning A participant from a workshop I led several years ago posed a question to me last week.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics. The team launched GHDonline in June 2008 with public communities in tuberculosis-infection control, drug-resistant tuberculosis, adherence and retention, and health information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

We’ll offer a few tactics we have used deliberately to counter the effects of three infamous cognitive biases. In his 2008 book “Outliers: the Story of Success,” Malcolm Gladwell shares a cultural theory of plane crashes. Companies like developing their own culture. Decision making Leadership Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

In 2008, RIM tried to match the new competitor. A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development." This simple tactic is seemingly backed up by the research. In short, strategic IT leadership in a high-speed world is about mixing fast and slow.

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