Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

One of my mentors in business (frequent guest contributor Bruce Rhoades) would often talk about the power of business experiments. Gold’s new book, How We Succeed: Making Good Things Happen Through the Power of Smart Experiments. Steven’s extensive entrepreneurial, consulting, and academic experience informs every page of this book.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ask a colleague, friend, coach or mentor to hold you accountable this year and help you stay on track with your own personal navigation system. Related posts: Mentorship and success go hand in hand “A mentor is someone who allows you to see the. Here’s my suggestion: find a “GPS Buddy”.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

When she tried to get back on the job market after 7 years, Aguilera says “a headhunter said that there was nothing he could do for me.” Cathy Curtis—who pilots her own investment advisory firm specializing in the finances of women out of the San Francisco Bay Area—made the personal choice to “go it alone” and become her “own boss”.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Be an Advocate for Yourself A recent Catalyst study demonstrates that mentoring does not help. Self-Promotion is a Must Have Skill Self-promotion is a must have skill in today’s marketplace. You’ll Never Know Until You Ask Is No really NO or is it an opportunity?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

We can spend time being thoughtful and finding those coming u behind us to mentor, to dialogue with and also to listen to. It’s interesting that as a species we not only can think, we can think about what we are thinking. This is our time to reach out to our men, to our colleagues, to those junior to us and talk about what we have learned.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

The women certainly get increased access to career, organizational and market navigation insights as well as active advocacy of an influential member of leadership. As an executive coach, I often see highly skilled, talented women plateau in an organization largely due to lack of mentoring.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Author or editor of 29 books. Liz Wiseman – Author of the best-selling books: Rookie Smarts and Multipliers. Author of several New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling books. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Author of three books on nation building.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

The information they gain through questioning and listening lays the groundwork for reflection, making decisions and/or mentoring. Jettisoned employees are finding that their hard won knowledge, skills and capabilities earned while being loyal are no longer valuable in the employment market place.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

I believe great leaders will mentor and coach subordinates for the purpose of identifying and developing other great leaders. While there is an element of truth in that statement if this is what you aspire to as a leader it constitutes a complete under-utilization of leadership responsibility.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Ultimately the best way to insure your staff has influence is to model the correct behaviors and to make sure that you mentor them in said behaviors as well. link] #30Thursday Post Number Nine (Yes it’s fine!) | Musings on Marketing and Other Morsels [.] Thanks for stopping by David. link] Charles Hey Mike, you hit it right on.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

He is the Senior Pastor at CrossPoint Church , one of the fastest growing churches in the country, is the author of the bestselling book Plan B , and is one of the the most candid, insightful and humble leaders you’ll ever have the opportunity to listen to – we all have a lot to learn from Pete Wilson.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths. On with the exam… Section I: Character. Section IV: Tactics.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

She is also bringing authors from around the world together to contribute to her upcoming book Two Degrees of Separation. Â She has been published in leading industry magazines and ghost authored a number of chapters for books published by Linkage, Inc and Pearson Education. Please join me in welcoming Tanya Maslach of Elevati, Inc.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 5, 2011

Perhaps it will open up a door for mentoring or coaching or other resources for you. You never know until you ask. In 2010, make this a resolution. Ask for what you want and need. “No” No” is not always a definitive “no”.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

A great example of this would be carving out time in your already too busy schedule to mentor someone in your organization with great potential. Clearly this endeavor will take time, and may not yield immediate results, but the payoff organizationally, relationally, culturally, and in terms of future contribution can be huge.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

He is still a mentor and advisor to me. We talked about the behavior patterns in my book “ Don’t Bring It to Work ” and especially the one that is all too familiar to women, the pleaser. Then her mind, darting back to the past and then into the present talked about this man who was there at exactly at the perfect time for her. “He

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

It means you’re not teaching, mentoring, communicating, or leading. " Saying no doesn't imply that your "team is not aligned and your talent is not performing up to par," or that "it means you’re not teaching, mentoring, communicating, or leading."

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

I might only add and you know that young or immature leaders simply need tools, mentoring, and info to become great leaders. The truth is that all of us need mentoring, discipling and coaching to reach our full potential. I enjoy reading your thoughts here. Gaby pastortom2022 Totally agree! Great post Mike.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Read your leading-edge industry publications, Forbes , other finance journals, and popular business books. At any given time, you should have read at least two books on the best seller list. Get a mentor.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Not Customer Focused : Leaders not attuned to the needs of the market will fail. My book, The Three-Dimensional Leader supports a lot of these points by explaining how leaders need to see what they are tasked to achieve in terms of my MRC concepts of mission, resources and context. Not one should miss.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 28, 2011

Read an uplifting or educational book or blog post (you have access to them on your phones, Kindles, etc.) Kevin :) Susan Young: Funny - I just added this to m Poul Andreassen: I should add this book in my s Poul Andreassen: Helpful lessons on leadership Kevin Eikenberry: You are welcome Valerie!Kevi Refocus your efforts.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

This book provides a practical guide for capturing valuable knowledge, skills, and experience so it can be shared among employees of all the generations in the workplace. Some knowledge transfer methods to consider are mentoring, social networks, Communities of Practice, After Action Reviews, and storytelling programs.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

The methodology laid out in her book 'Fierce Conversations' is SUPERB! Sarah [link] mikemyatt Hi Sarah: Thanks for the comment and mentioning Susan Scott's Book. Love your articel and the suggestions within it. May I also offer another suggestion? I am a particular fan of Susan Scott's approach to conflict.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

– Martha Beck Not long ago, my career had been dedicated to sales, mentoring, coaching and leading an exceptional sales force. Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

However, humility can also effectively (and less painfully) be learned through coaching and mentoring. The benefits of humility are most often learned through painful life experiences.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It is precisely the dispensing of one-size fits all advice that has allowed the ranks of consultants, coaches, mentors and other professional advisers to swell to historical proportions. I am not referring to things like accounting best practices but to business strategy, marketing approaches, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria. He was now a man.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He must live independently, and go back to the village, find another boy, and become a mentor himself. When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If the point of departure is truly causing organizational/performance disruption, and it is not your issue, then you must either coach/mentor that person through the challenge or get rid of them. Keeping a "bad apple" can in fact spoil the entire barrel.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

My dear friend and mentor, Cheryl Smith. Tuition, uniforms, books, supplies. But as you can imagine, that would easily require a book. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. He trained for and completed his first triathlon and has his sights firmly set on doing an ironman. My CEO, Rex Hammond.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bob Lutz in his recent book Car Guys vs. Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The result, he says, was inferior cars and a decline in the firm. Strategic judgment.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

In a study in partnership with American Express for my new book , we found that while managers have a negative view of Gen Y, employees from this generation generally have a positive view of their managers. Employees feel that their managers have experience (59%), wisdom (41%) and are willing to mentor them (33%).

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

One of my mentors once cautioned me about treating people as furniture saying that “individuals are not inantimate objects to simply be moved around and discarded, but that people require a constant investment of time and money to develop to their full potential.&# then you are likely just paying lip service to the value of talent.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 10, 2010

Special edition magazines fill the shelves, newspapers feature full inserts, marketers have plastered signs with advertisements featuring local heroes, and television adds have been running all spring. Just what is all the fuss about? It's called "The Beautiful Game," and as such, can be quite wonderful.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Kelly and Bryan MacDonald), on how C-level jobs are evolving, and in my upcoming book on communication with Michael Slind[link]. The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. So are technical skills.

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