N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 17, 2017

In fact, the greatest managers and executives learn that skills to inspire and lead others do not naturally come from working as a subordinate. Rather, they come from testing out leadership skills in relationships with others. Mentoring teaches you to plan, to help others execute, and to be flexible --all traits of leadership.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

15 Key Lessons On Managing Change. Agility in Process Improvement Initiatives. Managing Process Changes and Disruption. This article also features my sketch note summarizing the ideas presented. Related Posts at QAspire. The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Seth Godin’s “What Matters Now” and a Few More Gems Seth Godin recently released a free eBook titled “What Matters Now” – it is a collaborative effort of 70 great thinkers who have presented brilliant ideas that will truly shake you up to think deep and wide as we approach 2010.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Comments One Response to “Project Management Best Practice 7 – Use of Administrative Support&# Alexandre Gauthier says: December 8, 2010 at 11:08 am A lot of team members in a project find it painstakingly difficult to feed information to other members of the team.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. Then there are the leadership, cultural, and intangible benefits that arise from the consistent practice of debriefing. Leadership must be observed and practiced in order to be mastered.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

In April 2010, Mars, one of the world’s largest privately owned businesses, embarked on a breakthrough initiative. While large consulting firms push expensive “war games” at the leadership level, Jessica ran cheap and quick local games based on local market dynamics.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. We learned to apply strict time limits and to manage the process so information moved into the debrief quickly. has a unique and powerful mix of leadership skills in both the military and business worlds. Pilots got a lot better. Murph joined the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It is not surprising that picking one strategic direction and then decisively pursuing that direction are hallmarks of good leadership, if not boilerplate management skills. The big mystery is why these obviously important skills are still rare enough to distinguish excellent leaders from average managers. Decisive By Nature.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Senior leaders must be ready to open up the flood gates so managers and employees closest to the client interface can surface these tensions and discuss them openly. The leadership of the change effort can’t end with the top team, the top 100 managers, or the top 1,000 managers. Hold everyone accountable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

John Shuttleworth, a member of BTFG’s Executive Management Team, is responsible for Platforms and Investments. The company, Australia’s largest wealth platform provider, is the wealth management arm of the Westpac Group (Australia’s second largest bank in terms of market capitalization). Designing the Intervention.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

If you were my manager and you watched my performance for an entire year, how accurate do you think your ratings of me would be on attributes such as my “promotability” or “potential?” ” How about more specific attributes such as my customer focus or my learning agility? This admission will challenge us.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

He quickly dismissed several key opportunities to reach out for feedback and guidance from leadership. While talented, Alex had come to be known behind closed doors by the moniker “DTM” – difficult to manage. Flexibility, adaptability and resilience are qualities of leadership that any organization ought to value.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

By definition, an insurgency consists of a small and less-powerful force seeking to overturn the leadership of a much larger and more powerful institution. It is a simple matter of the big and strong (but often too slow) being unable to manage, or even see, the small and weaker (but fast and agile) threat.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Leadership risk: Psychology has found that "for most people, the fear of losing $100 is more intense than the hope of gaining $150", and IT leaders are no exception. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing. This loss aversion prevents taking appropriate risks. Sunk costs don''t count.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. Healthy Heart's first implant occurred in September 2010.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. While leadership doesn’t require being perfect, it does require doing what is needed and necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Some years later, Mayer defined it in HBR this way: From a scientific (rather than a popular) standpoint, emotional intelligence is the ability to accurately perceive your own and others’ emotions; to understand the signals that emotions send about relationships; and to manage your own and others’ emotions. Empathy for others.

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