N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2018

Success in managing difficult life challenges. Leaders with a high EQ are willing to defer immediate results for long-term success. Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the ability to identify, use, understand and manage emotions in an effective and positive way. And, in many organisations around the world, it is on the rise!

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

Among the various congratulatory wishes, renowned leadership expert, best-selling author, and award-winning leadership speaker Jim Kouzes posed an interesting question to me – looking back at the journey that has lead to me such accolades and recognition, “what would you say are the 3 to 5 lessons you’ve learned along the way?”

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2023

Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) implementation can be a transformative journey for organizations, enabling them to achieve operational excellence and drive sustainable growth. However, to ensure a successful EOS implementation, organizations need to have effective strategies in place.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 27, 2017

After comparing our two experiences, we realized how similar our adventures were to how change affects employees. Achieving meaningful change takes significant strategy and effort, and an investment in time. To generate lift and sustain change, engage in the following disciplines which are designed to ensure your success.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

If there’s one attribute organizations and leaders everywhere share in common, it’s the pursuit to achieve success in their collective efforts. Granted, there is quite a large variance in terms of how each organization chooses to define what success would look like for them.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 11, 2021

I vision cast is a long way from a vision achieved, and big talk with small results ends in failure. They’ve helped you grow, develop and achieve new results. The long terms goals get achieved task by task until they are simply achieved goals. Leaders don’t just a better story.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Since writing about the nature of success and failure , I’ve had a number of colleagues express interest in discussing the process of experimentation with me, given my background in the sciences field.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Despite rosy predictions espoused by some leaders about how quickly we could return to the daily lives we were used to, weeks extended to months and entire seasons as the virus extended its reach across the globe and into communities throughout the entire U.S. Back when the first positive cases of Covid-19 were identified in the U.S.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Consider these similarities: They are physically isolated for a long period of time from family, friends, and the majority of their work colleagues. They’ve also been interested in how cultures of connection reduce the risk of negative outcomes that arise when people become disconnected and isolated from one another.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

What’s been interesting about this process is how in many of these conversations, there was much interest to discuss the point made in the book about the importance of leaders fostering a sense of community in their organizations.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In many ways, that’s probably the most interesting aspect about the Olympics – of how it not only draws us in on sporting events we otherwise wouldn’t follow, but how it also binds us together through that sense of camaraderie and kinship.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 28, 2014

As we approach the end of the first month of this new year, many of us are now well under way in implementing our plans and strategies to achieve the goals we’ve mapped out for the next 11 months.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 28, 2012

Specifically, how real innovation occurs not through capturing lightning in a bottle, but through copying existing works in order to understand how disparate elements can be reassembled to create a new work or product. A good example of this can be seen in looking at the story of how Picasso became a world-renowned painter.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 28, 2012

Specifically, how real innovation occurs not through capturing lightning in a bottle, but through copying existing works in order to understand how disparate elements can be reassembled to create a new work or product. A good example of this can be seen in looking at the story of how Picasso became a world-renowned painter.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 3, 2017

Of course, as much as we might be eager to set our sights ahead into 2017 and envision all the possibilities and goals we might achieve, it’s worth taking the time to look back on the year that was and what we learned along the way. It’s an encouraging sign, and certainly a great way to begin a new year.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 29, 2013

In my previous piece, I wrote about how we can ascertain what success really looks like beyond simply attempting to duplicate the efforts or accomplishments of those we admire. Given how much this piece resonated with my readers, I’d like to follow this up by addressing the other side of this equation.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

That if we really want to achieve the kind of successes and achievements of those organizations and leaders we admire, we need our employees to care about our vision as much as we do. These 10 leadership insights proved to be most popular based on the total number of social shares the respective pieces had.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place? Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Anne Perschel of Germane Coaching and Consulting provided Leadership Manifesto – Why You Need One and How to Get Started. Bill Treasurer of Giant Leap Consulting provided How to Choose a Great Mentor. Dana Theus of InPower Coaching contributed How Long Should You Stay At Your Job? I hope that’s the case.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

If you’re like the majority of the Western world, you’re probably motivated by greater and greater personal financial success, the yardstick most leaders use to assess their value. But our individual success is not what we care most about. Here are 3 reasons why: 1. What fuels you to push forward when the pressure is on?

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In most cases, when we talk about change, the focus is often on the process – of what steps we need to implement to ensure we achieve a successful outcome. And yet, what we fail to take into consideration is how using the power of storytelling can help us to ignite effective and sustainable change within our organization.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2016

Within the leadership and management field, there is also much interest in discovering insights that can help us to better understand how to inspire the best in our employees. Of course, the typical focus on lessons we can learn from the Olympics tend to be on teamwork, communication, building confidence and the like.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Specifically, how do we keep employees invested in the long-term goals of our organization? That exploration lead to a fascinating study done by researchers at the University of Chicago which looked at how a frequent-buyer reward card offered by a local coffee shop could motivate coffee drinkers to become repeat customers.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Understanding financials and setting goals is key to building sustainable, long-term growth. Ruth King has a passion for helping business achieve that lasting financial success. Her book, Profit or Wealth: Simple Rules for Sustainable Business Growth includes numerous helpful financial lessons for business owners.

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Leading Blog

MAY 19, 2017

B ILLIONAIRE investor Sam Zell has put down on paper an account of the principles that guide how he does business in Am I Being Too Subtle? My parents were very disciplined and very focused on work and achievement, and they led by example.” “My parents were very disciplined and very focused on work and achievement, and they led by example.”

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The Empowered Buisness

MAY 6, 2014

I have always thrived on achieving big goals. My downfall was using a “white knuckle” approach to achieving those goals. While I wished I had learned the lesson in a less traumatic way, there was a gift in that experience. While I wished I had learned the lesson in a less traumatic way, there was a gift in that experience.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JULY 17, 2019

Tired of hearing the term “VUCA” at work? In recent years, many organizations have started liberally using the term as a way to articulate or find a metaphor for describing the changing world in which we live, work, lead, and play. We might be tempted to choose one or the other, but even for the short term, we really need to do both.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Their answers fell into 3 categories: Physical health, mental health, and spiritual health. Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders. To do this, I reached out to leaders I admire and respect.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 25, 2014

Of how intermingling people of different cultures, beliefs and nationalities can allow us to tap into the diversity of thoughts, ideas, and perspectives that go with these unique demographic elements. In most cases, meraki is used to refer to how one prepares a meal, arranges a room, or sets an elegant table.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

While many of us have read about various organizations to understand how they’ve dealt with change, I’d like to share an experiment done with crows to highlight some key lessons we can glean from this research on how to embrace change.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

An important part of this development process includes helping people set–and achieve–meaningful goals for personal change. All too often, however, goals are not set in a way that helps ensure the follow-through needed to turn great plans into successful outcomes. Leaders need to develop other leaders. What goes wrong?

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Not so much in terms of how successful we were in attaining our objectives, but in how certain parties approached the collaboration process. This no doubt mirrors our own educational experiences, where we were somehow expected to know how to collaborate with different partners in order to achieve a successful result.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 27, 2016

After a long day of work, nothing is more satisfying than sitting on my couch with a bowl of cereal and watching other people battle for their dreams. This is not to say I can attribute all of my success to watching The Bachelorette. Success doesn’t come from doing everything you could be doing to reach success.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 24, 2015

His description of the big break in his career is not only a heartwarming and revealing look into the art of stand-up comedy, but it also shines a light on an important lesson for today’s leaders to embrace. Now granted, it may seem weird to pull a lesson on leadership from a comedian talking about laughter and comedy.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Dana writes, “When you have a tough work situation, finding ways to feel gratitude and appreciation can go a long way to turning the situation around, but is it really the best strategy? Here’s how effective leaders approach gratitude in tough situations.” Support does make a difference. Let’s Get Started.

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Experience to Lead

AUGUST 26, 2021

This month, we introduce you to Sandeep Khanna and VJ Posadas, two of WDHB’s leaders in Singapore, as we explore successful leadership qualities and rising industry trends in Asia-Pacific. Be Bold: The successful L&D leader is one who is bold and can take calculated risks. The same is true of successful L&D leaders.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Thirty Lessons I Learned About Leadership. Every situation, every experience, every lesson learned sheds more light on this enormously demanding duty. This chapter offers thirty lessons as a reflection of my leadership experience. Some lessons were immediate while the value of some I realized only with time.

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