N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Today’s guest post by Kevin Eikenberry ( @kevineikenberry ) really resonates with me because it’s chalk full of leadership perspective. Kevin also hosts the Best of Leadership Blogs 2010 contest of which this blog is a nominee (if you haven’t voted yet, today is the last day for voting).

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While hubris can be a needed trait to call upon at times, to rely solely upon it as the foundation of your leadership style just doesn’t work. Thanks in advance for sharing… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] It was C.S. link] Ovidiu What a GREAT article!

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the value of loyalty as it relates to leadership. If relationships are the currency of leadership, it is important for leaders to note that loyalty serves as the cornerstone of any healthy relationship. Leadership and loyalty go hand-in-hand.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

For example, I’m a visionary leader. Context, fluidity, and other nuanced behaviors are positive traits to embrace so long as they don’t serve as an excuse for a lack of discipline. We all have certain God-given gifts. I see the big picture. Wishing you memorable quality time with your loved ones.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : I don’t specifically work in the area of strategy or leadership, but my work often affects those areas as what I do is help people change behavior. Mike Myatt : What’s been the most rewarding aspect of your work in the leadership field? My business has 3 primary aspects: I write, speak and coach.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Instinctively Reactive Leadership – Another Cost A few weeks back, I wrote about “ toxic leadership ” and how it is a huge cost to organizations. This week, I was led to think about another cost – “reactive leadership”. Leaders cannot be instinctively reactive.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I really appreciate Pete’s insights into the necessity of self-leadership and his honesty in admitting that this is his own area of struggle. His leadership is remarkable! And I agree 100% that leaders everywhere need to find ways to motivate people that go beyond money and benefits. Thanks so much for your comment Bridget.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The real question is: are you willing to invest the effort and make the sacrifices necessary to take on the responsibility of a leadership position? The authors propose three questions you should ask to assess your own leadership potential: How far do you want to go?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

In the end, leadership that adopts politically correct behavior and thinking places themselves and their organizations at great peril. A generic thought, ambivalence, attempting to fly under the radar, and mediocre performance will place you squarely in my cross hairs and may cost you your job. What say you?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

As always, I welcome your comments below – I be particularly interested in any examples of effective methods you’ve used to curtail gossip. Let me cut right to the chase – real leaders don’t participate in gossip, and likewise they don’t tolerate gossip from others. This post was mentioned on Twitter by Mike Henry Sr.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 26, 2010

While hubris can be a needed trait to call upon at times, to rely solely upon it as the foundation of your leadership style just doesn’t work. While arrogant people can and often do succeed in business, I believe that it comes at a great personal and professional cost. I think not.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices I love project management as a subject not only because it gets so much work done, but also because project management manifests how people operate. I have written before that Projects are a great opportunity to practice leadership. Thanks Tanmay.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Let me give you a great example…It is not at all uncommon for an executive to tell me that his/her business doesn’t really have any competition. Well actually, no it’s not. What I do vehemently dispute is the assertion that a particular nuance is reasonable justification for flawed business logic to prevail.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

In this example the hourly rate of a CEO who makes $750k is $375 dollars per hour. Therefore any items that don’t constitute $375 dollar an hour work that can be leveraged down to someone with a lower hourly rate provides positive arbitrage both in terms of cost savings and time recovered for higher and better use activities.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

A great example of this would be carving out time in your already too busy schedule to mentor someone in your organization with great potential. Lastly, I’ll leave you with this reminder – leadership is not about how many emails, memos and transmittals are sent under your signature – it’s about relationships, service, and engagement.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2010

Probably the greatest example of the power of brevity comes from what is widely considered to be the greatest speech in American history: “The Gettysburg Address.&# Contrast Lincoln’s brilliant example of the power of brevity with the keynote speech that day.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What a Leader Can Learn From 20 Cents Postage Due by Kevin Eikenberry on December 3, 2010 in Collaboration , Innovation , Leadership , Video I received a package in the mail this week. If so sorry about that.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Here’s an example…Even in this day and age, it is still not that uncommon to find large corporations and government agencies with IT silos built upon mainframe computing solutions. Reward talent, innovation, loyalty, attitude, creativity, work ethic, contribution, and leadership ability…not tenure.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 8, 2011

Some examples: I never load software anymore – in fact I don’t even use my CD/DVD player. As moving parts disappear (CD’s, Software, Wires, Hard Drives) do the systems, personnel, costs, support and focus also decline? With the advent of the App Store this week, I see it going away. I carry my laptop less and less.

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QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra Akshaya Patra Foundation in India is a shining example of how social entrepreneurship combined with power of innovation can make a HUGE difference. How do they achieve this sort of scale at such low cost? 600 (or ~$13).

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QAspire

AUGUST 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Leadership: Beware of These Nine I’s I wrote earlier about Nine I’s and Great Leadership. Ineffective : Leadership delivers performance. Tip : For a better understanding and correlation, read this post along with my earlier post Nine I’s and Great Leadership.

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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. .&# Why did American auto-makers lose their once dominant position to their European and Asian counterparts?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Let’s use an example of a common problem that most businesses face at some point in their lifecycle (if not at multiple points) which is needing to implement a certain application or toolset to automate an existing manual process. And what are your strategic goals?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

While I could cite many examples of what I just described, a particularly good one is the use of the phrase “social media.” Tools like email, instant messaging, texting, blogging and micro-blogging are all examples of shortening our communications to leverage speed and time to our advantage.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) suggests that replacement costs can be as high as 50% to 60% with overall costs ranging anywhere from 90% to 200%. Offer a scale—for example, are you feeling overwhelmed (9-10), rather bored (1-2) or moving along well (4-6)? Published 2010. 2 WHY do people quit, you wonder?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Let me offer just a few examples to help connect the dots: Recording artists that release too many CDs over too short of a time period hurt their own appeal. I’ll close today’s post with a prime example of personal branding overexposure that while a pet-peeve of mine, will certainly draw the ire of many.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Posted on August 31st, 2010 by admin in Leadership By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth “Who the * is in charge around here?&# In all but the rarest of circumstances, teams simply don’t function well in the absence of sound leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

The focus of these short-sighted bean counters incorrectly place cost savings ahead of the customer experience. The initial concept behind CRM was to integrate experience with management, which was a great idea, but in all practicality, rarely exists in most companies.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

moravecglobal Here's another example of disconnected leadership and the consequences for, in this case, students, faculty and taxpayers. My suspicion is that your choices have made you an effective leader and one well regarded by your team. Best wishes for continued success Marlyn.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

A specific example of this would be that while a company’s business plan may not change for a number of years, the company’s business model consistently evolve, or may even need to be reengineered to insure the execution of its business plan.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand. Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 30, 2010

Make commitments carefully and keep them at all costs. Covey « Credit comes later Leadership and persistence » Like Be the first to like this post. This focus has come primarily from reading The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. He discusses the concept of building a trust account, which is similar to a bank account.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 25, 2011

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The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 7, 2010

And, this business problem is probably costing you more than you first realize when you consider the salaries of the involved employees, the value of work that is not being done, the cost of poor decision quality, the impact of poor information flow, etc. For example, “I yelled at you because you yelled at me.”

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? Take Google, for example. Interestingly enough, I think your example of Google is a great one. link] Mark Vickers Do you have any data to support this?

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