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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While optimism is generally a great quality for a CEO to possess, there is a point at which unbridled optimism can disconnect a person from reality. If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat.

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No Better Time

Persuasive Powerhouse

Some thoughts about what you can do to make relationship-building at work a priority: Make building and sustaining high-quality relationships a priority: What will it take to put “building relationships” at the top of your “to-do” list? The CFO owns a couple. The improvement of the economy is slower than most would like.

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A New Era Begins: Our Strategic Partnership with Zenger Folkman

The Practical Leader

As I’ve gotten to know Joe Folkman and others at Zenger Folkman over the past few months, I’ve been very impressed by the high quality and high values team he, Jack, and Bob Sherwin (he was CFO at Zenger Miller) have put together. In 2010 and 2011 they joined the ranks of the Top 20 Leadership Training Companies.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways. Million; not big, but interesting. This is the tie that binds us and we live it every day.

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"I'd Like My Life Back" -- a lesson for CEOs in building an organization that listens to warnings

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Dave Yarin: It was April 2010, and a Fortune 500 CEO would utter one of the most ill advised yet memorable lines in corporate history. Before the 2010 disaster, Hayward was described as "unassuming and modest." NPR.org – "Before Gulf Spill, BP CEO Tony Hayward Won Praise" – by Jim Zarroli – June 17, 2010 2.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

health care costs too much, the quality is uneven, and too many people can’t get the care they need. In that brutal environment, a handful of private Indian hospitals, led by compassionate doctors, have found innovative ways to drive down health care costs to unimaginable levels while maintaining high quality.

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Ideas Plus Influence

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Ideas Plus Influence by Starbucker on December 2, 2010 (This is Part 1 in a two-part blog series which I’ve worked on with a colleague, Denise Lee Yohn. Popularity: 3% [ ? It could be your best decision in a while!

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