N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

It’s important to remember leadership is a people business, and people are messy. Leadership has little to do with how neat and tidy things are, but everything to do with how successful you are at scaling effectiveness. Bottom line – check your motivations. Efficient process can enable effective resource utilization.

Efficiency 230

Efficiency Long-term Bottom-up Mentor 230

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Leadership for Tomorrow. His advice to adopt a mindset of growth, focus on what fulfills you, and embrace new modes of leadership is exactly what many people are looking for during this time of transition and change. The new style of leadership is premised on trust , and the practice of management is now more art than science.

Altman 136

Altman Team Succession Leadership 136

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Perhaps you are familiar with the Situational Leadership ® Model but could use a quick refresher to refine your understanding. Or perhaps you have never heard of the Situational Leadership ® Model but are interested in learning whatever you can about viable methodologies with proven track records for developing leaders.

Situational Leadership 52

Situational Leadership Examples Leadership Leadership Styles 52

QAspire

MARCH 25, 2014

I have been exploring the topic of critical thinking with respect to HR, Talent Acquisition, Leadership Development, Communication and Training via series of posts at Pearson’s TalentLens Blog ( @ThinKritical on Twitter). Here is a round up of all posts (with excerpts) written on this important topic so far.

Leadership Development 185

Leadership Development Development Leadership Training 185

QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. Dr. Anne Perschel from Germane Insights shares “ The Secret Ingredient of Great Leadership ”.

Leadership Development 185

Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 185

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2012

It’s important to remember leadership is a people business, and people are messy. Leadership has little to do with how neat and tidy things are, but everything to do with how successful you are at scaling effectiveness. Bottom line – check your motivations. Efficient process can enable effective resource utilization.

Efficiency 420

Efficiency Long-term Bottom-up Mentor 420

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It is not your responsibility to change their values, but it is up to you to insulate yourself from those whose values are inconsistent with your own. We approached the par 3 17th hole and Bill set up his tee shot. He cursed up a storm while placing another ball on the tee. 2) Observe the decisions and behaviors of others.

Blanchard 187

Blanchard Bottom-up Consultative Learning-by-Doing 187

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 8, 2018

When you add up the hours spent on the job, commuting and doing additional work at home on our laptops and smartphones, many of us are devoting more hours to work than we ever have. People in task-oriented jobs, including physicians, lawyers and engineers, are vulnerable to loneliness.

Stress 207

Stress Report Engineering Bottom-up 207

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. and cybersecurity are the people, policies, and processes that make up the culture and collective mindset of a business organization. His new book is Tech Debt 2.0™:

Bottom-up 100

Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 100

Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

The most important job for startups is to focus on their (probably one) product and to subsequently scale up. Optimizing innovation makes up the majority of what established organizations already do today. The bad news for established organizations is that innovation for them is much more difficult than it is for startups.

Innovation 225

Innovation Organization Bottom-up Open-book 225

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2014

A slightly abbreviated version of this post was recently published in Smartblog on Leadership : True confession time. Sales reps were trained in their products and how to sell them, scientists went to conferences, engineers were offered continued training to keep their skills up to date, and new managers were trained how to manage.

Training 230

Training Development Budgeting Learning Curve 230

Lead from Within

APRIL 4, 2017

If you ever doubt the power of leadership, take a look at the organizations around you—those that are successful and those that are failing (or have failed). Sometimes external forces are a factor, but more often than not some aspect of leadership is at the core of the company’s outcome. Leadership: Claim Your Calling.

Organization 166

Organization Strategic Planning Bottom-up Planning 166

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 10, 2018

Good examples of startup focus before success include Google with their search engine, Facebook with friends networking, and Apple with personal computers. For larger and mature companies, the hard part seems to be giving up the familiar space that isn’t working so well anymore, so that you can focus on a new segment or opportunity.

Maturity 159

Maturity Tips Entrepreneur Bottom-up 159

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

Indeed, women software engineers significantly differ from men in terms of personality traits, which are related to higher job performance, ethics, and creativity. This kind of servant leadership also plays a crucial role in supporting the kind of innovations that will be so important in the years ahead. Supporting innovation.

Ries 116

Ries Software Emotional Intelligence Ethics 116

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The first part is coming up with the big idea. They are built to be performance engines. A well-run performance engine is the master of many challenges. It delivers bottom-line results each and every quarter. Innovation requires experimentation: the performance engine demands efficiency. Thomas Edison.

Innovation 91

Innovation Execution Govindarajan Engineering 91

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

Books 80

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 80

HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This theory, practiced by industrialists like Henry Ford, led to unprecedented innovations in human engineering, with the creation of the assembly line, and a formula for optimizing performance in the workplace. Employers can provide a tailwind with the right set of training, which will create an agile workforce, and help the bottom line.

Trends 116

Trends Agility Bottom-up Attrition 116

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. For the full interview, see the video at the bottom of this post.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. For the full interview, see the video at the bottom of this post.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

After we ended our phone call and I hung-up the phone, I finally realized the cause for this problem. Here’s the bottom-line: if you encounter situations that frequently cause you to trip up in your relationships, take a close look at how you’re defining the situation. My wife was not the problem.

Tips 257

Tips Real Estate Emotional Intelligence Engineering 257

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy). Will I have unfettered access to other CXOs within your portfolio companies? . Thoughts?

Influence 304

Influence Due Diligence CIO Business Model 304

CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2013

They can mislead themselves and others in the process, and the results can be extremely damaging to their reputations and bottom lines. The board and CEO of his company were so hyperfocused on keeping inventory low for the sake of efficiency that they didn’t have enough engines available for all their private jets.

Engineering 88

Engineering Bottom-up Analysis Human Resources 88

Skip Prichard

JULY 17, 2022

got drowned out because managers and team members were just too busy keeping up. Today my definition of the Swirl is “an absorbing state of inertia in an organization” that causes people to experience a busy purposelessness in their jobs and keeps leaders up at night feeling ill-equipped to resolve the social Swirl around business decisions.

Maslow 115

Maslow Construction Resistance Environment 115

LDRLB

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Mike is America’s Top CEO Coach, recognized by Thinkers50 as a global authority on the topic of leadership, a Forbes leadership columnist, author of Leadership Matters , and CEO at N2growth. In my latest book Hacking Leadership I write on hacking the talent gap. Leadership myatt talent'

Disruptive Innovation 133

Disruptive Innovation Belief Systems Bottom-up Tactics 133

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 7, 2016

The Combustion Engine. Whether you are in the top half or the bottom half of the pay structure, there are similar levels of satisfaction. Set up a consistent rewards program for your people to earn free items of choice, such as travel, merchandise, and charitable donations. The Compass. The Printing Press. The Telephone.

Merchandising 150

Merchandising Motivation Hotels Short-term 150

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

When a new industry surfaces, the early adopters (first-movers) set-up shop, validate proof of concept, carve out their niche, and build very strong, if not in some cases, category dominant brands. To improve search engine rankings. Clearly this was the case for many of today’s most successful bloggers. To make money.

Blog 329

Blog Early Adopters Niche Marketing Magazine 329

Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2020

Until recently, very few CEOs, IT, or marketing professionals would have put ‘data optimization’ high on the list of agenda items that keep them up at night. Bottom line: Your products and services should be where your clients are. These days — and by my estimation — this notion has become a top priority for the majority of businesses.

Cost 74

Cost Comparison Fashion Bottom-up 74

The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 12, 2010

They usually focus on results and the bottom-line. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. They tend to be Dominant and Decisive. I – type individuals are outgoing and people-oriented.

FAQ 230

FAQ Hammer Engineering Tools 230

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. The bottom line in regard to today’s thoughts on business modeling can be summed up in the following three points: 1.)

Business Model 269

Business Model Blog Brand Depreciation 269

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

Books 50

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

Books 62

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 62

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

As the old saying goes “you only get one chance to make a first impression,&# and often times it is the perception of appearance that determines whether or not you are even afforded the opportunity to get up to bat. The truth is most people when first meeting someone will quickly attempt to size them up.

Blog 355

Blog Gordon Brand Media 355

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

You would think that an Ivy League institution like Cornell University would be a model of the best practices of leadership throughout its organization since Cornell and most universities believe they are growing the next generation of leaders for our country and our world. not necessarily and not always. That got everyone’s attention!

Leadership 64

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sure, a disclosure is immensely beneficial in terms of buttressing industrial safeguards, national and global security, and customer protection – not to mention mitigating the longer-term repercussions of an attack – but so too can disclosure exact lasting damage on a bottom line. Fighting back. About the Author.

Chief Technology Officer 78

Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 78

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Fear of criticism, fear of failure, fear of getting caught, or fear of speaking up. They’ll often use another L-word — leadership — in complete ignorance of how their loveless “bottom line” orientation is rooted in pessimism and fear. . It’s at the heart of leadership.

Airlines 53

Airlines P&L Collins Leadership 53

HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2019

Yes, because managers don't have time to take up multiple jobs or direct their subordinate on every move. They see a clear line of sight between their individual performance and the cumulative impact to the bottom line. You can’t give up after going halfway. Expect a good fight before they can give up.

Micromanagement 89

Micromanagement Cost Resistance Bottom-up 89

The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

Decisions are made often in a bottoms-up, organic fashion. Who can pass this up? You have struggle conform to any type of strategic planning process. You are unsure of your desired competitive position and/or social impact. The external environment of your business is constantly changing.

Strategic Planning 100

Strategic Planning Planning Fashion Consultative 100