N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Leaders need to understand that being authentically humble humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence & loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. While hubris can be a needed trait to call upon at times, to rely solely upon it as the foundation of your leadership style just doesn’t work.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2020

50% are forced to cease operations within 5 years of starting up. Collaboration boosts everything from operational efficiency and effectiveness through to the working environment and company culture. Good team-building tasks inevitably make people smile, laugh, and bond. Ensure Strong Leadership.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Make sure everyone has access to the latest technology (and maybe even some resources on how to make it work for them). Make sure that team members get a say in how the company operates, and make sure they know how their work is going to be used. Encourage team bonding activities. Create a safe space. Communicate always.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

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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HR Digest

MARCH 6, 2020

But there are other ways to tighten the belt and do operational budgeting. Adopt digital technologies such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), voice-first solutions, social media, and others that can help turn routine HR processes such as payrolling, attendance tracking, etc. Retain Talent.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2020

It is easy to establish a business, but to make it succeed and run its operations smoothly requires ample hard work. Advancement in technology has transformed modes of communication and enabled humans to use several mechanisms to transmit information. Team Bonding. A team that bonds well deliver better results.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

Bond, Ed.D., More than a decade ago, I learned a set of simple principles that describe how the human operating system works, what’s behind our experience of life in the moment. Guest post from Cheryl A. SPHR: Every organization has its share of leaders, technical geniuses or future leaders who lack social skills and self-awareness.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

Let me cut right to the chase – real leaders don’t participate in gossip, and likewise they don’t tolerate gossip from others. When you take part in gossip you do none of these things. In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best?

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

To achieve " connected leadership " you must: Map your world -- Analyze stakeholders as precisely as your customers, understand trends and discontinuitites, and quantify the value at stake from external relationships. Today, technology is making all business activity more transparent.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

I can''t put into words my respect, admiration and thankfulness for Matt, his leadership, elegance, eloquence, professionalism and humility. A successful DoD senior-acquisition program manager and test leader, Matt has earned documented success in the areas of test and evaluation, assessment, technology development and flight operations.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Build bonds to strengthen trust. How could I refuse? My family was against it and it was risky.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. But customer service and leadership training that only enhances rather than transforms capabilities and skills doesn’t buy very much.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Based on four years of global quantitative research, the book explores the tectonic shifts in consumer sentiment that have come about due to extreme technological immersion. “Leadership in this digitally distracted world demands a new kind of leader. This lack of trust extends into the world of technology, as well.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2023

There were also tensions observed between the traditional concept of the manager as the fount of all knowledge, as few managers had any real expertise in operating in the new remote environment. It’s classic servant leadership. It’s an approach supported by research from St.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Even operational efficiency was unaffected. TEKCO followed a traditional approach to an IT implementation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. Indeed, Ukraine’s troubles offered an opportunity to build the leadership capacity of my management team.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Technology : Providers of mobile banking and cash transfer solutions are doing particularly well in the economy due to the country’s multi-currency exchange regime and low availability of U.S. Years of economic mismanagement.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Incentives or other extrinsic rewards—individual bonus schemes, promises of nice offices and titles, and other tangible benefits— create transactional relationships , not deep bonds to an employer. He or she must believe in and articulate a “higher ambition,” as we call it at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

My clients hire me not solely on the basis of what I can personally do for them in a vacuum, but rather what the collective influence of my network and resources can accomplish for them when I operate outside of my own personal bubble. Thanks for sharing Una. Thanks again for stopping by Sami. [.]

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time. Don’t breach trust - you work far too hard to create a trust bond with your followers, so don’t blow it by not following through on your commitments.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. This ethos helps to continually open up the field of play at Rite-Solutions to new products, technologies, and directions. The Newport, R.I.-based For my whole career I did it wrong," says co-founder and CEO Lavoie.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

With something like the Riker’s Island social impact bond (which finances behavioral therapy for 16-to-18-year-old jail inmates in New York), the fact that Bloomberg Philanthropies provides a guarantee to that bond is very, very smart because it does two things. Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

Global leadership is much more complicated than leading people like you," says Mansour Javidan, the Director of the Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird School of Global Management and author of " Making It Overseas." You can also use technology to begin "experiencing" the new culture while still at home. What the Experts Say.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 7, 2024

And very important to me: he emphasizes the importance of not just adopting new technologies, but also valuing and empowering people within these digital spaces. “The Metaverse is all about promoting virtual collaboration, making sure there are plenty of opportunities for the team to bond and feel part of the community.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

What are the essential ingredients of inclusive leadership? Truly inclusive leadership entails not just talking with your people, but also letting them do much of the talking. The prime mover behind the book project was Natalie Corridan-Gregg, who today serves as a director of technology analysis at EMC.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Thanks again for stopping by… sage9 I suppose I am in agreement with you – In fact that is probably what I do when strategically building culture through brand leadership – again –Thanks for this post! When an organization trusts its leadership good things tend to happen. I think not, and I’ll explain why.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

American corporations operated in a very different environment in the postwar period. Second, due to developments in financial technology that weakened their ability to profit from lending, the large commercial banks turned toward fee-for-service activities, morphing increasingly into quasi-investment banks.

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