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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year? I have witnessed disruption occur at every level of corporate maturation and I believe it's important to note that disruption isn't necessarily reserved for the privileged or mature entity.

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The Homecoming Queen Grows Up (kinda)

Women on Business

Despite maturity, confidence, and by all external accounts, success, I still really, really want to be liked. Governor’s Conference for Women. Wesley December 24th, 2010 at 5:00 pm Susan: I am impressed by the wisdom of your words — also a function of of your age and life experience! Why does this one refuse to fade?

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Top Quotes from the Art of Management 2010 | RoundtableTalk

Roundtable Talk

The more mature you get, the better you get at managing ego.” “In Share this: This entry was posted in Brain candy , Leadership and tagged Art of Management 2010 Best Quotes , inspiring ideas , leadership lessons , Malcolm Gladwell , Simon Sinek. LeaderTalker | November 22, 2010 at 10:55 AM | Hi Kneale… great highlights from you.

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10 Communication Tips for Leaders

N2Growth Blog

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.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

Knowing that mature firms must become more venturesome to continue growing, business gurus routinely advise them to embrace failure. And no sector is complete without its own conference. FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco. Risk-taking, they say, must be rewarded, even when it does not succeed.

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Interview with Sarah Piampiano: From Investment Banker to Professional Triathlete

The Idolbuster

I continued to race as an amateur for all of 2010 and 2011, but at the end of 2011 I quit my job and began competing professionally full-time. On the way to the church I was on a conference call with a client because the call “couldn’t be rescheduled”. At the end of 2010 I went to them and explained what I was trying to do.

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How Emotional Intelligence Became a Key Leadership Skill

Harvard Business Review

Still, it is sign that the field is reaching a certain level of maturity that we are beginning to see some counterarguments. Collectively they form an impressive and growing body of evidence suggesting the integrated nature of our rational and emotional selves and the impossibility and inadvisability of separating the two at work.