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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. Section IV: Tactics. Great leaders tend to be tactical geniuses and display a strong bias to action. Leaders who operate behind a veil of secrecy are only setting themselves up for a rude awakening.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

If we look around and see that people are disengaged, that leaders are driving toward tactical outcomes and short-term wins, and that organizations are blindly driving ahead. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them?

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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Vision vs. Mission | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Just like an algebraic formula, business also functions according to rules governing order of operations. A goal is a specific target and the objectives are the attainment components/benchmarks/hurdles which will lead you toward achieving said goal. Tactics: the methods and means by which you assail the objectives.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. They should be incorporated into integrated solutions that eliminate redundancies, and build in tactical leverage points. It must be actionable through tactical implementation. Timing : It must be detailed and deliverable on a schedule.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. It doesn’t need to be complicated; in one company, a marketing department saved 20 percent after simply benchmarking the money they were spending on external agencies. They’re going to make ads and do whatever it is they do.

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business Review

Organizational politics refers to a variety of activities associated with the use of influence tactics to improve personal or organizational interests. At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. Get benchmark information from surveys and specialist experts.