N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year?

Business Model 361

Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Despite maturity, confidence, and by all external accounts, success, I still really, really want to be liked. Authentic Leadership I was recently at the Pa. Governor’s Conference for Women. All other childhood aspirations have gone by the wayside–marrying Shaun Cassidy, winning Wimbledon, living on a horse ranch.

Press Release 180

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 180

Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Simon Sinek @simonsinek / Author and consultant on inspiring leadership / In a nutshell: Know WHY you’re doing what you’re doing “Share one’s passion and purpose as you inspire others” “Hire people who believe what you believe – and they will work for that belief. “Screw ups recalibrate confidence creep.” Happy leading!

Management 48

Management Simon COO Blog 48

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

So how do you know when your skills have matured to the point that you’ve become an excellent communicator? Great communicators can tailor a message such that they can speak to 10 people in a conference room or 1,000 people in an auditorium and have them feel as if you were speaking directly to each one of them as an individual.

Tips 417

Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 417

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

It took almost a decade after the term was coined for Rutgers psychologist Daniel Goleman to establish the importance of emotional intelligence to business leadership. My research, along with other recent studies, clearly shows that emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Goleman Skills Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. Focus only on creating the best content or product, and you can lose because of untapped user connections — a phenomenon I call the “content trap.”

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11