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Advice: Manage Well by Leading Better

N2Growth Blog

By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Management is your day job; leadership is your career. Management is a disciplinary process while leadership is an aspirational intention. One could say the same forMicrosoft when Bill Gates viewed himself as the visionary and Steve Ballmer was the operator.

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Our Stewardship Responsibility

Leading Blog

We were not a Christian business,” writes Robinson, “but rather a business where the owners and leadership aspired to apply and live out biblical principles.” These six principles, based on Truett Cathy’s leadership, have guided every decision at Chick-fil-A and help to keep it uniquely different. Six Legacy Principles.

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“I Quit”: Why Employees Quit and How to Retain Them

HR Digest

The most skilled and experienced employees are in constant pursuit of a good career. Sometimes the real cost of fully replacing an employee may run north of $40,000, including advertising, recruitment fees, the time it takes to train a replacement, and not to mention the lost productivity in between. No career growth.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

When does product promotion become false advertising? Employees and managers in the autonomy stage are ready for mature leadership. Those in the ideological stage may have charisma but are best avoided when top leadership responsibilities are assigned. When does online data harvesting become invasion of privacy?

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Sophie Wade: Leadership is in the midst of a major makeover. Another factor relates to the fundamental essence of the employer-employee relationship that is evolving as empathy becomes a key characteristic of new leadership. The consequence is a more flexible and fluid concept of leadership.

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The Power of an Enemy

In the CEO Afterlife

For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars. Years ago, I worked on Pillsbury’s Refrigerated Fresh Dough advertising as a Leo Burnett Account Executive. It’s not as if RIM were operating in a non-competitive environment.

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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. Well actually, no it’s not. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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