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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The truth is that even leaders who don’t fail make bad decisions from time-to-time. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision. You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Nothing will test your metal as CEO more than your ability to make decisions.

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Saving your Team from the Three Decision Traps

Lead Change Blog

Conversations have consequences. These pitfalls are not simply hidden but deviously veiled in the guise of wisdom, truth, and common sense. Discussions lead to decisions that shape the future for individuals, families, companies, and nations. Too often these decisions are derailed by faulty logic and false constraints.

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To Hear the Truth, You Have to Listen

N2Growth Blog

Thoreau wrote: “It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.” Truth be told, most of us are poor listeners. They understand the need to work hard to increase their chance of hearing the truth. They listen where the rubber meets the road and the truth most often resides.

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Great Leaders Leverage Great Messaging | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They rest in the comfort that doing and saying the right things will ultimately put them in a favorable position, and if not, they are comfortable in assuming any negative consequences that may come as a result of right thinking and decisioning.

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5 Questions to Ask When You Can’t Let It Go

Let's Grow Leaders

” I love it when curriculum design becomes blog post fodder. Now the truth is, there was more to this story as I unraveled the layers… a solid dance of knowing when to hold-em, fold-em, walk away and run. We must do _ because _ and if we don’t , the consequences will be _. your boss.

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‘You Can’t Handle the Truth!’

Lead Change Blog

The line by Jack Nicholson’s character echoes what we’ve found is a common blind spot among today’s leaders: An openness to hearing the truth. It’s clear that truth telling is not a core competency for today’s organizations, based on our research and studies like the Edelman Trust Barometer. Of course, truth is not absolute.

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Make It, Don't Fake It

Leading Blog

Now a product of modern American culture that rolls all too easily off the tongue, its mere existence tells you it’s okay to lie, from twisting the truth just a little to flagrantly deceiving others for personal gain. We can’t be surprised by this in a culture that encourages selective truth, self-promotion, and short-cuts.