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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. When an organization stops learning they begin dying. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. ” As Walter Friedman documents in Birth of a Salesman , sales wasn’t seen as a function that required specialized training or education until well into the 20 th century.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Having been trained by one of the best companies in the world on Leadership Development, (GE), in one of the best action learning environments in the world (a high performance culture), I frown on textbook practitioners. I agree that it's also extremely difficult to advise someone if you have not walked in their shoes.

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