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Workplace Gossip | N2Growth Blog

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Let me cut right to the chase – real leaders don’t participate in gossip, and likewise they don’t tolerate gossip from others. While the emotional distress associated with gossip can be dealt with fairly easily, the political discord that can erupt in an organization can be nothing short of disastrous.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

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He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. Where levels of responsibility and consequences for success or failure fall differently on various participants. In my case. I work with a small group of leaders. There view of me is, "I am the leader of the leaders."

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Leadership Basics | N2Growth Blog

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So, in today’s post I’ve compiled a short list of 5 things you thought you already knew about leadership, but may not be putting into practice. Most articles speak on team work but when dealing with concept of leadership they speak only in terms of individual , But yours for the first time is thought provoking.

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Social Media Demystified

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As a leader how can you make good decisions, set the vision and model behavior for something you don’t understand or participate in? Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms.

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Family Matters | N2Growth Blog

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We may be able to in the short run, but not when our final stories are written. Thanks for a wonderful 2010. While participating in meaningful work and helping others is important to me, serving my family is what I dedicate my life to. I don't think we can separate the two. Thanks for leading well…I'm following.

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Culture Trumps Strategy – Not | N2Growth Blog

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Therein lies my caution…I’m fearful that people who don’t have the experience or intuition to read between the lines of a short quote, or a 140 character Tweet, might be misled by the simplicity of the appeal. I think not, and I’ll explain why. This is why I took the time to author today’s post.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

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There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. I fired him from my team realizing he would never understand how to relate to a client on their terms. He had never actually delivered anything to client, he had only written white papers for the firm.

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