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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# In fact, more likely is the case that the opportunity will completely evaporate if you wait too long to seize it.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation.

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To Create Change, Leadership Is More Important Than Authority

Harvard Business Review

Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010. In the former case, it was believed that illness was caused by an imbalance of humors and in the latter, the threat of online video seemed too distant to justify forsaking short-term profits. While today the insights of Semmelweis and Antioco seem obvious, they did not at the time.