N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” Great leaders help people get to a yes - in other words, they teach them how not to receive a no.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 10, 2010

A few days later he embarked on a related career path and he’s never been happier. Personal, professional, and organizational growth begins when you jettison ineffective attitudes, habits, policies, systems, products, or __ (fill in the blank). He didn’t have another job lined up. He just quit. You won’t grow until you let go.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe A Survey for Trainers, Consultants and Coaches by Kevin Eikenberry on December 20, 2010 in Personal Development , Surveys , Telesminars This announcement and opportunity is a bit more targeted than what I normally post here.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Tagged as: career success , leadership development , power , professional development , selling Cancel reply Leave a Comment Previous post: Three Ways to Effectively Show Your Gratitude Next post: When People Don’t Know.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

I find that it's rarely this bolt of lighting epiphany and rather a collective result of thinking systemically about solving a key problem. Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. Vision is often misunderstood.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Regardless of whether your firm embraces a meritocracy, a tenure based system, a highly sophisticated compensatory system, or some form of a benevolent dictatorship, bonuses are always an issue.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Taking from my own experience, I've been lucky to be successful (measured by quick progression up the career ladder, material comforts etc) and yet I'm still working on being professionally significant. I thank you for this opportunity to develop the meaning in real life and make sense of this world essential.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Texting, Tweeting and More – How Your POS System Can Handle New Technology Guest post by Shannon Suetos (learn more about Shannon at. Stimmler, contributing Women on Business writer. Who’s on the Bus? Post by Tanya Goodwin-Maslach, contributing Women On Business writer Regardless. How Far Will You Go for Networking? Post by Jane K.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In the 1940’s there was a beautiful actress, Hedy Lamarr (think Angelina Jolie ), who along with composer George Antheil received a patent for their invention of a classified communication system that was especially useful to submarines in World War II. Did you know that Catherine Litchfield Greene invented the cotton gin?

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This book identifies ten leadership truths that Jim and Barry have identified over their careers as the core of what leadership is about. While they have been researching, speaking and writing about leadership for nearly three decades, I believe this is their best work to date.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 17, 2011

Plus, through the contributions of Guy and I along with a growing list of other leadership, career development and HR thought leaders we’ll help you continue your path towards leadership confidence and success.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 14, 2011

Set both personal and career goals and set them in the organization context and with expectations in mind. Or you know someone who has recently been promoted, so pass it on. Or maybe you can send it to your boss, as a hint. A misunderstanding or misalignment of expectations is the fastest way to frustration and failure. Set your goals.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Systematic and Open to Possibility: The complexity of our organizations requires that you support some systemization within them. Systems drive efficiency and results. Relationship Oriented and Goal Oriented: Developing and sustaining high-quality workplace relationships is becoming more important.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 5, 2010

With leadership development being defined and implemented differently from business to business, it is often difficult to find or create measurement around LDP programs. Benjamin McCall presents Metrics of Leadership: 7 measurements for Leadership Development, at REThink HR. posted at TalentedApps. posted at Working Girl.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As an online instructor, she facilitates discussions about leadership and helps students apply their learning to their life and careers. She is a nominee for the second year in a row in the Best of Leadership Blogs event (H ave you voted yet ?). She is also a shining example of how a blog can relatively quickly change your life.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Now DC workers are seeing a change in leadership across different agencies which may mean a new boss along with new systems and priorities. Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. This does not have to be a time or money consuming activity.

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If you know a bit about his career goals, you can support that too. If you know what his goals are for your department, region or organization as a whole, you are in a much better position to help him achieve them, right? Setting the Stage for Help. In a new job you might want or need help and assistance.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Visit [link] to learn more about the leadership system. I am a firm believer that even when certain traits are not present they can be acquired, developed and refined so long as one thing is present – the desire to do so. Each person has innate strengths and weaknesses and the question is what will they do with them?

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 16, 2010

a Guest Post from Steve Roesler by Kevin Eikenberry on November 23, 2010 in Guest Posts , Leadership , Leadership Blogs , Learning Steve Roesler is an award-winning writer and speaker on leadership, management, and career management topics and can be followed online at the popular All Things Workplace website.

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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

In my career so far, I have (broadly) seen two kinds of organizations. It is important to realize that it is virtually impossible to develop a process/approach that will foresee all possible issues organization will face. Peter Senge has done some amazing work on organization development and systems thinking.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the greatest basketball players in history who played his entire college career with Wooden, would later write, “Coach Wooden had a profound influence on me as an athlete, but even greater influence on me as a human being. Wooden taught and lived out the character values he wanted his players to adopt.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Reply Leanne Hoagland-Smith October 8, 2010 at 9:42 am Agree your reading should be one of your professional development or mental development goals depending upon your own goal driven action plan. Reading a variety is fundamental to being a well rounded individual. You can’t talk about this too much.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

What key actions will help me to align myself to those values and belief system? Spread awareness of your quality beliefs and systems by designing e-bulletins or newsletters. Set up a reward and recognition system to promote right behaviors with respect to quality of products/services delivered to customers.

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QAspire

AUGUST 1, 2010

He delivered some simple yet powerful messages on excellence while narrating the tale of his life and career. While all these things were known and read somewhere, a lecture like this with successful people helps a great deal in reinforcing them to your belief system. Anupam talked about excellence – as he sees it.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. But manufacturing?

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QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2011

Unwanted complexity, bureaucratic structures, complex systems, increased time on unproductive activities, rework and time spent on things that may not contribute directly in delivering value. Somewhere, in this process of constant realignment and improvement, ‘waste’ is introduced.

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QAspire

AUGUST 29, 2010

Isn’t it better to take a more detached view of work; to see that you are only part of a bigger system? Then, seek to fully play your part in improving that system for the benefit of your customers? If I identify myself with my job and then lose that job through redundancy, what happens to my identity?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Most companies can claim an element of success in some aspect of CRM proficiency such as sales force automation, database marketing, development of a knowledgebase, etc., Or if they do-more times than not, it’s impersonal and relies on a rating system-not the feedback itself.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Second, implementing systems that provide feedback, to those involved in a business process, on the impacts of their efforts on intended results. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Another study by Buffer of 1,900 remote workers around the world found that 90% intend to work remotely for the rest of their lives and 94% recommend off-site careers. IBM had 40 percent of its workforce working from home in 2009. And when asked to name the biggest struggle while working remotely, 21% said loneliness.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

But to enable them for better performance, to make them effective, a system needs to be created. A system comprising of interconnected processes that act as a tool people use to execute their work. In my view, when we create a system, it automatically addresses process, information flow and work flow.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

September 20th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Every now and then, I have the pleasure of seeing how my education and early career as a bench biologist can have some connection with the work I am now doing. Most people, including myself would always associate these chemicals with the brain and nervous system.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 21, 2010

Developing staff is as important as the bottom line. Their organizations don’t balk at allocating resources to develop a pipeline of leaders. Ideally companies would use the best selection systems to source and promote the best leaders. So you would still get feedback, just in a different (and I believe) better way.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

I admired him and was pleased when later in his career he managed the Tigers to a World Series Championship as well. The Big Red Machine had great players, but they also had a fabulous manager. I always liked George “Sparky&# Anderson. He was the first manager to win a World Series title in both the National and American Leagues.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

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. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Then we look for tools and systems to manage those relationships and expand our capacity for more relationships, and they can add an additional layer of complexity. One of the things I look most forward to is watching Chris continue to develop and refine his thoughts as the medium advances and matures. link] davidburkus Good post.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 11, 2010

Her level of frustration has been rising as surveys show that some of the employees complain that she plays favorites and they express concern that they have been left out of the reward system. Personally, I preferred to be recognized for my actions and results, not the time I put in which was irrelevant to me.

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