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. Leaders who operate behind a veil of secrecy are only setting themselves up for a rude awakening.

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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

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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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. That said, it will be how they choose to handle themselves, and how they treat others that will ultimately determine the amount of influence they have. Thanks for stopping by David.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

How did the brick and mortar book stores let Amazon get the jump on them? Does anyone on your executive team have a coach or mentor? How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay? Why did American auto-makers lose their once dominant position to their European and Asian counterparts? Has your business embraced social media?

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Yet this is exactly the challenge facing leaders of the finance function who are asked to help their organization improve the way that work is done. As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. At the center is the customer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

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. With good mentoring, that new leader will be effective. Not one should miss. Visit [link] to learn more about the leadership system.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 16, 2010

As a result, I put the book down and couldn't come back to it for days. To that point, I had been thinking I was a leader when actually I was operating only at the lower level of "performer." You mentor Tony. He mentors them. It stopped me dead in my tracks when I read it. " Ouch.

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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. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. As an example, Look at Apple!

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? 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.

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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

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.

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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. He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. Most African artisans do not bank because of the fees associated with operating current accounts.

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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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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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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The more partners, sympathizers, champions, allies, supporters, enablers, influencers, advisers, mentors, friends, and family you have helping you succeed, the faster you will achieve your goals. For sometime now believing in the power of mentor-ship. No single person can or should go it alone in today’s business world.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Great CEOs not only view their interactions with team members as coaching and mentoring opportunities, but also as learning opportunities for themselves. I suggest a book titled. link] mikemyatt Hi Joe: All great points and thanks for sharing the book recommendation as well. I agree with your first question "why?"

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. Even more impressive is that some of the most successful leaders throughout history were known to read one book every single day.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

He reads 100 books each year that are NOT related to his work, he maintains work-life balance as evidenced by the fact that at age 50 he still goes rock climbing at least three times a week, and what really impressed me was his humility. Smart leaders leverage influencers by involving them in modeling, mentoring and coaching.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. In fact, she literally wrote the book on it.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 For project purchases, such as printing, graphic production, video production and materials creation, consultants customarily mark up slightly, to cover bank financing and handling costs.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Sure, in some cases I coach and mentor, but most of my clients simply view me as their closest personal advisor. I don’t really care whether the client is aided by mentoring, teaching, coaching, consulting or a mix of all the above – I just care that they receive real results. It’s just that simple.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Daniel Senor and Saul Singer offer additional explanations in their book, Start-Up Nation. We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

On the other, they acknowledge that it’s all but impossible to operate above the political fray. Gail was in her fifth year at a large finance firm when she recognized a disconcerting pattern. Communication Book. Turn your mentor into a sponsor. Get yourself an agent. Further Reading. HBR Guide to Office Politics.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

The number of books, blogs, tweets, videos, webcasts, podcasts, etc., There is an unmistakable element of wisdom borne of experience that they gladly share as they ‘mentor’ growth. Was it when I wrote my first book on the subject or the third? being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions.

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