N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

In the stress of making bottom line goals, you may be missing an opportunity to achieve more than you have. Posted in Uncategorized 2 Responses to “No Better Time&# Eleonor Moore: July 10, 2010 at 7:50 pm My employer is actively working to create cross-communication and cross-functional thinking through “Stewardship&#.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 25, 2010

So before the stress of your daily fire drill causes you to get angry with your team; before you cuss at the driver in the Hummer that cut in front of you; before you lash out at your teenager for doing “something stupid” – take a breath. Mary Jo Asmus : August 25, 2010 at 6:03 pm Tanmay, thanks for the story.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Thought-full Thursday: Giving and Taking » Infectious Optimism November 10th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Last week, I was experiencing pain in both of my ears. Posted in Uncategorized 11 Responses to “Infectious Optimism&# Bret Simmons : November 10, 2010 at 11:25 am Love that story (except for the ear infection) MJ.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

» Thought-full Thursday: Appreciative Leadership September 9th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Every Thursday, we provide you with a thoughtful way to coach yourself – something all leaders need to do. Darren Steve Barry : September 9, 2010 at 11:53 am Can’t tell you how much I agree with this quote and post. Good reminder!

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe I Heard It Through the Grapevine by Kevin Eikenberry on September 13, 2010 in Communication , Leadership , Leadership Communication Whitfield and Strong wrote it. Marvin Gaye sang it (and made it famous).

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

By continuing your own development, you’ll have a better idea of what matters. So, find a mentor, hire a coach, take a 360, read some self-development or leadership books. Which is another thing that I’m surprised I haven’t lost it yet because going to the gym is a huge stress reliever for me.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. As you'll note in the post above I stressed that the best leaders proactively seek out game changers with speaks to persistence. I visited his church on numerous occasions. Thanks for sharing Wally.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

This was a great reason why I started Stress Release Reminders, because I LOVE helping others live a healthy, more positive life. How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? Most people spend 1/3 of their work day there, & it is important to stay true to what is most important in your life.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Thought-full Thursday: The Space Where Freedom Resides » Take a Look at Your Calendar September 15th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus This week’s blogging break led me to reprise some older posts. Ann McKenzie: September 17, 2010 at 9:58 am I couldn’t agree more with you. This is one from March 2009. Great post.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio Landscape Architects + Botanical Gardens = Team Building Excellence Monday, October 11th, 2010 Posted by: mike Joy Kuebler Landscape Architects (JKLA) is a team that Team Building & Leadership Facilitation Experts, like me dream of. Developing skills in effective listening & communication.

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Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The famous MIT Media Lab has developed a compact device, pictured above, to track and quantify these all-important employee interactions. They were exchanging tips and techniques to get better at their jobs. The conversations, it turns out, were not a problem. What looked like mere socializing was actually problem solving.

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Roundtable Talk

JANUARY 25, 2011

His speech and book marked the beginning of my realization that the workplace is essentially stuck in the industrial age and bears no resemblance to how we need to operate in the knowledge economy. Nobody feels guilty, overworked, or stressed-out. But, as a manager, I was pretty stumped about what do to about it.

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Roundtable Talk

JANUARY 12, 2011

She came from the municipal government where she had worked in a department that, according to her, operated at a brutally slow pace (hence, why she wanted to get out). Case in point: I once hired someone who was a terrific person into our highly entrepreneurial fast-paced consulting firm.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 4, 2010

The Golden Rule of Interviewing: Past behaviour predicts future → Fast Friday words of wisdom with a King St West philosopher Posted on June 4, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment As the self-proclaimed centre of the universe, Toronto has always struck me as being full of people happy to give you unsolicited advice.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Jay Woo , CAA South Central Ontario’s Chief Operating Officer offered up this piece of advice: “Stay connected to your front line.” ← Lessons from the Trenches: Leading on a Rollercoaster Top Quotes from the Art of Management 2010 → Like Be the first to like this post. Skip to content Home Welcome! Bookmark the permalink.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I thing that we need to understand accurately what makes a person have charisma before developing it and this is where many people struggle, which is why they think charisma is something you’re born with. We need a good operational definition of charisma. Carlos Saldivia October 11, 2010 at 12:35 pm ABSOLUTELY NOT!

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Building Personal Strength

JUNE 17, 2010

It was loud, chaotic and stressful. This meant that I was involved in some kind of combat operation several times a week—air-mobile assaults, search-and-destroy missions, night ambushes, and so forth. Copyright 2010. I decided I needed a closer look, so I climbed the tower myself. I’ve faced some interesting dangers in my life.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

They break under stress. Why do relatively few companies prove resilient and withstand stress? And why are even fewer "anti-fragile" — that is, they get stronger when stressed? Anti-fragile systems love randomness and uncertainty; going beyond resilience or robustness, they get stronger with stress and volatility.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 20, 2010

He’s harried, stressed, and run down. Posted in Uncategorized 8 Responses to “Help Them to Think&# John Howard Hatfield : December 20, 2010 at 2:30 pm Mary Jo, I used a story telling technique throughout my entire career that parallels your thoughts very much. Better to develop and enable others to think for themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

To find out, I surveyed senior consultants in 2010 at a top-five global executive-search firm. One consultant predicted that firms in 2020 will seek the “same [attributes as in 2010] but with an even greater appreciation for the intangibles of leadership and [for experience] having led a business through tough times.”.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

And though it’s not easy, this means reining in your hard-to-handle employees while still developing their talents. This behavior consumes your time, disturbs day-to-day operations, and alienates other team members. billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy. Dustin S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. Ensuring readiness for Games-time (in Olympic-speak) now involves strategic pre-emption through stress-testing and scenario planning.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

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. And I say “we” because I’ve been as guilty of this as anybody.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. I’ve seen several (entrepreneur) CEOs who suffer from this Jekyl/Hyde personality, most likely due to the extreme stresses of starting/running a self-funded business. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

It has been our responsibility to lead the consortium of IT partners involved in designing, building, and operating the massive, mission critical IT infrastructure and solutions that support the Games. Your aim should always be to rehearse a new system to the point where going live is the least stressful part of the project.).

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Companies need to develop strategies for managing this important resource as water stress becomes the norm in many regions of the world. Here are a few highlights from the 2010 CDP WD report, which went out to 302 of the world's largest companies. 89 percent have developed specific water policies, strategies and plans.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. The unprecedented loss of highly-skilled, senior workers is compounding challenges posed by aging infrastructure, rising power demand, and climate stress.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Virtually everyone who''s made money from the App Store or competed against a Salesforce.com or SurveyMonkey viscerally understands the huge differences between "pretty good" developers and those best described as "terrific." " Acqu-hiring " has become both a buzzword and a best practice for a reason. Is this perception unfair or inaccurate?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

and transplanting it somewhere else, particularly in a developing country. based Hotel Tonight , a last-minute online-booking service founded in 2010. A close look reveals that the digital businesses copied by Rocket Internet over the years — Groupon, Amazon, eBay, eHarmony — stress local features.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? I began Englishnization in 2010. points in October 2010 to 737.3 What do you do? Hire interpreters? My company, Rakuten, Inc. I made the announcement in English.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Get out in the field – engage with your teammates, roll up your sleeves, talk to customers – especially if there’s distance between you and your actual operations. I see this quite a bit and it is challenging when operating in a system where you only see parts of the larger picture. SURESHKUMAR.S

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

developers has long been to help humans be more productive. and by 2010 was acquired by Apple and launched as part of the iPhone operating system in October 2011. often referred to as the ability of computers to think like humans, has been a main goal of many computer and cognitive scientists for the last sixty to eighty years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2014

Another endorsed “willingness to learn and adapt to changing environments,” and a third urged “adaptability, the ability to operate in multi-cultural environments and the openness to learn.” We talked to the 32 consultants in 2010, but the findings are consistent with everything we hear today. About the Research.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

Most companies focus on thirty-somethings as high-potential talent to be developed and accelerated with job mobility and stretch assignments – acting as if careers are made (or not) before the age of 40. After the stress of the mid-life years, the data shows that happiness levels rise in the early 50s. New mental skills emerge.

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