N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® framework was the product of over 50 years of pioneering research in leadership development and organizational behavior. One challenge with those discoveries is that many provided conflicting results regarding who leaders were, what they did and what the most effective style of leadership was.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Apple engineer rebuilds an ancient Greek mechanism — the oldest known computer – known as The Antikythera Mechanism. Watch: Get Shareaholic Tagged as: Antikythera Mechanism , Computer , Legos { 0 comments… add one now } Leave a Comment Previous post: Developing The CEO Within You. Out Of LEGO. Unported License.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In twenty plus years of management work and leadership coaching, I’ve been in the room for a few really great offsites and a lot of really awful ones. Here, in my humble opinion, are three things that every leadership offsite agenda has to have: Context: You absolutely have to answer the question, “Why are we here and why does it matter?”

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    I love those articles because they’re great opportunities for data mining on leadership.  The article, “G.E.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I rarely encounter this issue in my work with CEOs and potential CEOs because people at the top of huge organizations don't often have self-confidence problems. They are looking for the "right answers" - similar to the ones in engineering school. Even CEOs are guessing. A: Thank you for this great question.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 12, 2010

In contrast to the seedy and classless drama engineered by James and Gilbert, this weekend marked the passing of Bob Sheppard. That’s one definition of leadership. Once again, classless. Unless you’re a New York Yankees fan or a long time lover of baseball, you may not have heard of him.  It’s definitely a definition of class.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Lindquist, in his 30's, is the President and CEO of Zane Benefits, Inc. He was promoted to Director of Sales in 2009 and took over as President in 2011. Today, he kindly answered questions about leadership, mentors, his book, and Millennials in the workplace. Q&A with Rick Lindquist, President and CEO of Zane Benefits, Inc.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Last month, I wrote a post on What We Can Learn About Leadership from the Chilean Miners. And, as was the case with the astronauts, the miners could not have made it safely home without the efforts, talents and leadership of thousands of others. There are leadership lessons to learn from the rescuers as well.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 8, 2011

Engineering, design, materials, and service just got better. When I was growing up, cars broke down frequently — there were repair shops all over the place fixing almost every part on a car. Nowadays, it’s rare to have to fix your car (maintenance excluded – I have Hondas/Acuras). Establish A Contract With Your Team.

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Project management skills particular to social media ; such as search engine optimization (SEO), blogger influencer outreach, media buying and more. Social media center of excellence leadership skills ; including cross-functional team coordination, policy development and management, and governance, among others. . IBM 2012 CEO study.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Posted on August 20th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth My question is this: Is your intellect an asset or liability? All one has to do is watch a very bright person defend their position to understand what I’m driving at with today’s post.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 5, 2011

For years the engineers at Lab126 tried to create a workable and reader-friendly color Kindle, according to three former employees. Although the decision to design and build its own hardware is a high-stakes bet, it’s equally true that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had no choice but to enter the tablet business.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

In 2001, Page and Brin hired their first CEO, Eric Schmidt, who had a Ph.D. in computer science and twenty years of management experience in tech companies; most recently, he had been the CEO of Novell. Through the period of March of 2002 to March of 2011, my small executive coaching company, Signature, Inc.,

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

In case you haven't heard of Elon Musk, he's a cofounder of PayPal , the CEO of Tesla Motors and the CEO of SpaceX.   When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology. Click Here.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? The third under appreciated area is the call for statistical leadership. Deming referred several times to the need to have a senior statistical leader reporting to the CEO. And that was a sincere concern of his.

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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. My engagements with CEOs often focus on helping them to embrace change through disruptive innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis. Interestingly enough, I think your example of Google is a great one. Even their advertising model is simplistically brilliant.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2011

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Monday, January 17th, 2011 Posted by: mike Is experience enough? All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale. The reason for this should be obvious…The perception is that a customer service professional is providing information and helping them meet their needs. A sales person is trying to sell them something.

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Women's Leadership Exchange

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I wrote a blog at the end of August when Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO. With the news that Steve Jobs is stepping down as APPLE CEO, journalists and business bloggers, like me, are commenting in droves about the magic he created at APPLE. Second, he is a perfectionist when it comes to both engineering and design.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I want to be clear that I’m not advocating for form over substance, extreme self-indulgence, narcissism, or masking insecurity by the trappings you surround yourself with.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Yet, the question as I talked with women in the Purdue leadership program is still the age old one of how to balance it all; career, family, community, and time for oneself.

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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. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 16, 2010

You can find it by searching on Dan Pink in this blog's search engine. Take A Look Leadership Lessons Podcast Leadership Lessons Podcasts : Scott Eblin, executive coach, speaker and author of The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, 2nd Edition , talks with top business and organizational leaders.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 2, 2011

Engine Charlie's statement has never been more true as we witness the decline of the American automotive industry over the fifty years since his death. . Like Engine Charlie, most auto industry executives had summer homes in northern lower Michigan.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

August 15th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Yet another Fortune CEO has fallen due to ethics violations. Hewlett-Packard, a company that started out as an example of moral leadership with “The HP Way” in 1939, has proven itself vulnerable to an unscrupulous CEO when Mark Hurd recently resigned. There are 5.5 million employers, 1.5

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Women entrepreneurs, coders, social networkers and computer engineers alike can find particular pride and inspiration of these 5 women below. is the Editior-In-Chief, CEO and President of the Huffington Post, one of the most influential and popular online news outlets, recently acquired. Her advice?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. But let’s go further on education.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This is simply due to the fact that more people want to hear what a high profile CEO or entrepreneur has to say. I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Leadership is more complicated.    Technology, globalism, competition, structural shifts in the economy, generational expectations and so many other factors have merged together to make the practice of leadership - influencing people to work together on common goals - a lot more complicated than it was ten years ago. 

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. What keeps you from gifting your kindness? Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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