N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Your wisdom rings through the article, Mike! Taking action always begings with one simple act – making a decision. Do you have great vision? Are you a master of strategy? Let me make this as clear as I can – procrastination is the beginning of walking the plank.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes, those concrete instructions and processes will not work. The culture can emerge from the leader’s own personal charisma or ethos. How do leaders build effective cultures? If so, how?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. They listen as well as they speak.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes those concrete instructions and processes will not work. The culture can emerge from the leader’s own personal charisma or ethos. How do leaders build effective cultures? If so, how?

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Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 60

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

We think of building teams that operate on this plane as an art, or even magic. My feature article in HBR's April Spotlight on teams describes in detail the new science of building great teams. Like many people, I've encountered teams that are "clicking." Getting the smartest people, for example. We can summarize those points here.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Founders tend to use their personal charisma and technical smarts to rally their teams, and that can work while a business is small. But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Undoubtedly, it would operate according to data rather than intuition and make only evidence-based recommendations. They may lack charisma and have no remarkable vision for the future, yet they are probably the best people to help execute the company vision and ensure that staff stays engaged and productive.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In sales, where charisma and extroversion can be advantages, some people attribute success more to inborn personality traits than to skills that can be coached or taught. It requires directing and managing salespeople using the right metrics, operating cadence, and performance management process. Yet the fact that companies in the U.S.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

These are: Model the way As the leader, you need to model the behavior, values, and operating processes for all the stakeholders. The Leadership Challenge From their research, Kouzes and Posner identified five common factors in taking approaches to leadership. Your coworkers take their cues from you. What is our organization bad at?

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CO2

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

These are: Model the way As the leader, you need to model the behavior, values, and operating processes for all the stakeholders. The Leadership Challenge From their research, Kouzes and Posner identified five common factors in taking approaches to leadership. Your coworkers take their cues from you. What is our organization bad at?

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Hamel Decentralization Charisma Skills 78

CO2

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

As the leader, you need to model the behavior, values, and operating processes for all the stakeholders. Gary Hamel provides examples of exactly the kinds of tough questions leaders and organizations must ask in his HBR article “ The Why, What, and How of Management Innovation” : What tough trade-offs do we never get right?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

John Paul Getty installed a coin-operated pay phone in his villa to avoid subsidizing his guests’ phone calls; at the time, he was the richest man in the world. Howard Hughes spent most of his later life in complete isolation rather than have to engage with the public and the resulting exposure to the germs he so feared.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

A recent piece of research highlighted here on HBR focuses on the emerging gap in performance between the technical competences of leaders versus their leadership charisma or assertiveness. You have to understand the social system you’re working in first. But this is only part of the puzzle. People want to talk about their routines.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

As one senior manager noted, “he knew the operations and its numbers better than many business unit heads.” Despite her charisma and strategic acumen, I believe Fiorina ultimately failed in several ways. ” During Fiorina’s tenure, HP stock dropped 65%, while during the same period the S&P 500 dropped 15%.

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