N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 3, 2011

Perseverance is the act of persisting despite forces that keep you from achieving your goal. Your ability to persevere, to be that shining light who leads others through the swamp may be the only thing that will make the goal possible. Probably it would be hard for those born with short temper. I’m working on it.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 17, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. I am married, have two daughters, and a dog named Edgar the Leadership Pug who exemplifies the importance of relationships to great leadership. All Rights Reserved.

Leadership 169

Leadership Greenleaf Maslow Goleman 169

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Managing Rewards and Mobility. Spanish flu). Performance Appraisal.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 15, 2010

She made sure her staff knew her expectations in terms of the work outcomes. She separated herself from day to day operations: Instead of being intimately involved in all of the inner workings, she trusted her managers to do that and then to come to her with issues and barriers that required her assistance.

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How To Delegation Short-term Greenleaf 180

Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 13, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. It looks pretty much the same as you left it. I am married, have two daughters, and a dog named Edgar the Leadership Pug who exemplifies the importance of relationships to great leadership.

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Positioning Development Leadership Self-aware 222

Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 11, 2011

What is it about the term “public relations” that brings the pot of social ire to a boil? In short, they embrace “spin,” a word that every PR professional and every leader should strike from their vocabulary. He’s angry, hard-drinking, self-centered and resentful, a real curmudgeon. And what can leaders learn from that?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Managing Rewards and Mobility. Spanish flu). Money talks, honey.

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2015

M any leaders, after the financial crisis of 2008, tend to give special importance to their personal values in an attempt to lead better. The crisis was an eye opener for many leaders who were guilty of measuring success in monetary terms.

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Leadership Short-term Long-term Self-aware 120

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Many people focus on the long term objectives and how their work life should be, while not truly appreciating and internalizing exactly where they are right now. A very timely post post many of the new directions started this term at the MITA Brain Center! Ellen Weber : September 24, 2010 at 10:30 am Thanks Mary Jo!

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Greenleaf Long-term Maslow Short-term 180

Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 10, 2011

I’m also sorry to say that others – your manager in particular – may not notice your potential for greater things either. You can’t expect your manager to know what you want for your career over the long or short haul. What is your goal? You must now take matters into your own hands.

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Career Greenleaf Maslow Executive Coaching 186

Coaching Tip

MARCH 23, 2011

Here are four strategies to create enduring change: Identify crucial moments : Find what specific temptations distract you from your primary goal. Engage all six sources of influence: For example, change your environment and turn your enablers into allies in accomplishing your goal. Flash forward to the future. Put skin in the game.

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Influence Management Mentor Seminar 90

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms. Social Media is no different than anything else in life in that you get out of it what you put into it.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 382

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Also, providing snacks and taking frequent short breaks (every hour) will keep people alert and focused on the discussions. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. All Rights Reserved.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

August 8th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus As an executive coach for the last eight years, I’ve had some phenomenal clients put on a short list of “leaders to discard” even though they shouldn’t have been. In one notable situation, my client’s manager was fired while my client was on a path to being fired by that same manager.

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Executive Coaching Greenleaf Maslow Blog 202

QAspire

JULY 14, 2010

Best, Tanmay By Setu Vora, July 15, 2010 @ 12:26 pm Long term growth and cultivating people is ideal. Oftentimes, in the larger corporate culture of focussing on quarterly results, the priority becomes the immediate short- term strategy–leading to high risk growth. Excellent Post. Must read for all the leaders.

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Long-term Short-term Quality Blog 154

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

In those few short minutes, I felt like I was the only patient in the place. You have illustrated a situational management tool that is very effective. We seem to be in a continuous state of “change&# whether it’s implementing new systems or convincing management that budget reductions are now a fact of life.

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Emotional Intelligence Goleman Open-book Blog 201

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Supporting growth and development will positively affect the goals your organization is attempting to achieve. As leaders, there needs to be an ability to direct and focus staff towards the common goal. A leader not only controls the day to day business but it is their job to keep employees on track with company goals and missions.

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QAspire

JULY 27, 2010

A very easy example for understanding and implementing the “Quality&# term. While reading I recalled one of your tweet “Quality is never a short-term goal. It is a long-term differentiators&#. Yes, quality is a long term goal that requires discipline over a period of time. Thanks a lot!

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Quality Long-term Loyalty Compliance 141

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 27, 2010

Yet only a few short months after his accident, he was appearing on television and telling the world what a lucky many he was. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. All Rights Reserved.

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Greenleaf Maslow Blog Goleman 177

Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

You don’t have to be in or near the field of change management long before you hear a daunting statistic: 70% of change initiatives fail. It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. Isn’t that closer to a failure rate, in the truest sense of the term?

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Before you make productivity decisions you must have: Clear goals. The starting point for making decisions that lead to higher productivity is a clear goal. If you are clear on your short and long term goals, and consider them in your thinking, you make more effective and productive decisions. A clear why.

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Productivity Products Workshop Goal 188

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 25, 2010

Life, as they say, is too short. The intimidation, the fear of not living up to someone else’s expectations, and the need to find a mentor who would understand me as well as my goals. Consider what you want others to remember about you when you leave this earth.

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Self-aware Mentor Blog Greenleaf 182

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. These issues are referred to as strategic alignment and employee engagement.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Is this what we call chemistry in common terms? The manager let that person go due to business reasons. Mary Jo Asmus : September 21, 2010 at 9:07 pm Hi Corrie, You’ve said so much about an important leadership journey in such a short space. My other point was that a person works in a place for a long time whole heartedly.

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BPM Chemicals Emotional Intelligence Blog 185

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I will use your questions in a excercise with my management team. He seems to think he’s untouchable because of a hiring freeze and we are short in this department as it is… I would like to inspire him but can’t figure out how. to infuse (breath, life, etc.) by breathing (usually fol. by into ). to breathe into or upon.

How To 222

How To Definition Blog Follow-up 222

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 17, 2010

October 17th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus One of my clients, a mid-level leader in a large organization, is working to get better at leadership by setting some stretch goals. Would you like a longer term “partner&# , mentor, or MasterMind group with regular meetings to provide support over the long haul? It’s hard work.

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Delegation Learning-by-Doing Blog Mentor 154

Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 23, 2010

Stereotypical, slick-talking, used car sales people Well-spoken financial manager The guy everyone loves who sells his wares on the golf course Whether you have positive thoughts and feelings about salespeople or decidedly un-positive, the purpose of this article is not to suggest or defend any of these images or thoughts. Not at all.

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Workshop Influence Leadership Development Blog 194

CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

Fiedler developed the Least Preferred Coworker Scale as a way to determine which managers would be the best fit for a leadership assignment. PATH-GOAL THEORY OF LEADERSHIP. The Path-Goal Theory of Leadership was developed in the mid-’70s by Martin G. Evans and Robert J. AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP THEORY.

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Leadership Contingency Theory Leadership Styles Proposal 131

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

As an idea, strategic intent is about setting a bold and ambitious goal, out of all proportion to a firm's current resources and capabilities. By developing very different capabilities than Xerox's, Canon created a new recipe for success, and in the process short-circuited Xerox's ability to retaliate quickly.

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Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

For far too long, managing risk has been seen as an esoteric business function — designed to control losses and adhere to compliance standards. Many of these failures were either fueled by or lost in the byzantine maze that is the modern enterprise, which often breeds a combustible mix of indifference and short-termism.

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Risk Management Ethics Management Agility 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

When your business is facing declining sales, a potential buy-out, or even certain closure, how do you manage people who are likely panicking about their future? The short answer is yes: Even when it’s clear that a company’s in trouble, there are ways to help team members stay focused, deliver results, and weather the storm.

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Management Edmondson Crisis Uncertainty 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". More and more, we realize, the crucial first step is to tackle our deeply embedded intellectual frameworks.

Marketing 11

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. As professors of Organizational Behavior and Strategic Management, we take a different – and perhaps more radical – stance.

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Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8