N2Growth Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

The point I ask you to ponder is this: Leadership teams often espouse the need for change and innovation, but rarely apply this thinking to themselves – why? Leadership teams who view themselves as a protected class are leadership teams not living-up to their obligations and responsibilities. Thoughts?

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

About Michael Find out about Michaels latest book, Fired Up or Burned Out. Trackback URI | Subscribe to the comments through RSS Feed Leave a reply Subscribe to RSS feed Michael Lee Stallard is President of E Pluribus Partners. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

About Michael Find out about Michaels latest book, Fired Up or Burned Out. Trackback URI | Subscribe to the comments through RSS Feed Leave a reply Subscribe to RSS feed Michael Lee Stallard is President of E Pluribus Partners. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MAY 21, 2012

In the long run, the accumulative effect significantly impacts the bottom-line. One day the tree service showed up while my son was mowing the lawn. If your team is responsible for product development, innovation and creativity need to be core values. If integrity or ethics are important, it needs to be listed.

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Customer Loyalty Long-term Chemicals Bottom-up 226

Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 20, 2010

A few common methods include: The number of people reporting up through the organization The quantity or amount of product or services produced The “bottom line&# or income produced by the company The number of links, references or accolades to the leader or the organization Other methods that focus on things and not people.

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Leadership Bottom-up Long-term Taylorism 170

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Tenure Inhibits Change and Cripples Innovation : Organizations that favor tenure also tend to be prone to majoring in the minors. All of these traits preclude the advancement of change initiatives and cripple innovation. You see tenure is not synonymous with loyalty, but rather is more often a measure of compliance and survival.

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Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 419

Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 28, 2010

My brother and I grew up in a neighborhood of boys near Rockford, Illinois. The bottom line here is that if you are a leader you would be wise to make certain women are well-represented throughout your organization. About Michael Find out about Michaels latest book, Fired Up or Burned Out. why is everyone smiling?

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Sports McCarthy Bottom-up Godin 347

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Alternatively, half of the children of parents in the bottom tier work also work in occupations of similar stature. Moving on up. For instance, the Wings platform operates in London and aims to provide an ethical alternative to the various food delivery apps in existence today.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

No longer is there paying lip service to personal and professional growth –it’s a sound retention and innovation strategy. Other ‘strategies’ that were once cosmetic, including diversity and inclusion, have been revealed to be both good for the bottom line and for human betterment.

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Altman Team Succession Leadership 140

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The primary motivation for this was to make a positive contribution to society, but there was also a strong belief that speaking up helped to express corporate values. The bottom layer is one of economic survival, as the organization has to be in good financial health in order to do good for society. An overwhelming 77.5%

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Cooper Long-term Politics Energy 104

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

You should know from the outset that I fundamentally disagree with the concept of CEO term limits, and quite frankly I cannot really come up with a valid reason for supporting such a regressive concept. Any such argument in my opinion is rooted either in flawed business logic or politically correct rhetoric (usually one in the same).

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium. The best leaders are focused on leading change and innovation to keep their organizations fresh, dynamic and growing. Bottom line – leaders who build a static business doom themselves to failure. Successful leaders focus on customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Blog Meyer Short-term Learning-by-Doing 420

HR Digest

APRIL 8, 2024

Despite feeling like followers rather than doers, however, there are many different types of power in a workspace that allow for each employee to showcase their authority in innovative ways. Yet power in the workplace does not travel only from the top down—many forms of power at work travel from the bottom up as well.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Here, I’d like to bring up an often overlooked portion of our population when it comes to recruiting talent. As a leader you must learn to build bridges leading from old habits and comfort zones to the more fertile grounds of disruptive innovation. In my latest book Hacking Leadership I write on hacking the talent gap.

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Disruptive Innovation Belief Systems Bottom-up Tactics 133

Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 2, 2017

innovation); and. When cholesterol builds up, it clogs the flow of blood, which leads to a heart attack. When knowledge traps build up in a team, department or organization, it results in poor decision-making, which in time contributes to managerial failure (the organizational equivalent of a heart attack).

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Construction Banking Bottom-up Film 150

HR Digest

MARCH 29, 2024

If an interviewer asks you about a recent conflict and how you overcame it, they’re not necessarily looking for an innovative approach right off the bat. So when you’re looking up the best behavioral interview questions the internet has to offer, consider why each question is being asked and respond with that reasoning as your guide.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Nowhere is this exchange more evident than in the data annotation industry, where people from around the world help to prepare and tidy up the data used by the tech giants to train the algorithms upon which their fortunes increasingly rest. Ethical data. The hidden bedrock of AI. Moving people out of poverty.

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Power Ethics Venture Funding Quality 69

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I believe that it can actually be both, but that decision lies solely with the employer, and is not really up to the employee no matter how much they might feel it is. I personally dont feel bonuses work to promote a good work ethic. Is a year-end bonus a right of entitlement or a privilege to be earned? a 12 month project.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. No is not all it’s cracked-up to be…Still don’t believe me? It means your vision is not understood, your team is not aligned and your talent is not performing up to par.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Brand 385

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

Learn more about positive psychology and the Character >Connection>Thrive Chain on pages 116-130 of the free digital book download of Fired Up or Burned Out. About Michael Find out about Michaels latest book, Fired Up or Burned Out. If they could not outsource they discovered another way. Remember “smile or your fired”.

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Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

They treat people equitably and ethically and ensure that rules are fairly applied to all members of the team. Trust is the foundation for unleashing the creativity, innovation, and productivity of your team. Based on those appraisals, people form intentions about how they’re going to “show up” on the job. Am I feeling safe?

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Mission Statement Servant Leader Survey Motivation 99

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

The bottom line is that 90 percent of American employees are either not engaged or aligned with strategy. He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity. The bottom line is that 90 percent of American employees are either not engaged or aligned with strategy.

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Conference Bottom-up Software Long-term 261

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 6, 2010

The bottom line is that when it comes to human beings and organizations, trust and connection = life and flourishing whereas distrust and relational isolation = death and dysfunction. About Michael Find out about Michaels latest book, Fired Up or Burned Out. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

It has a huge impact on the bottom line. Leaders in the organization serve as role models through their ethical behavior and personal involvement in planning, communicating and developing others. The amazing thing is there are lots of innovative employees who have great ideas, but most of them go untapped. No excuses.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Left to its own devices, culture often bubbles up negatively, hurting the growth and success of the company. The bottom line is that you have to take responsibility to create the culture you want and not let your culture develop and evolve by chance. Culture is also what happens when no one pays attention, and then you pay the price.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 110

Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 5, 2010

Grossman presents Valuing meaningful work always plays better to the bottom line. In “Those Idiots Up At HQ,&# Leader Business examines the firing of General McChrystal from a personal perspective. Tom Magness presents Those Idiots Up At HQ posted at Leader Business. posted at HRmarketer.com Blog.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition, Corporate Executive Board research shows that 40 percent of engaged employees are not aligning their behavior with organizational goals, The bottom line is that only one out of ten employees are both engaged and aligned with strategy. Stars typically feel connected to the organization because they have power or influence.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It is a mindset that permeates organizations from top-down as well as bottom-up. That means doing things correctly the first time, without wasting counter-productive time in cleaning up mistakes. Research shows the by-product costs of poor quality are high for any business, up to 40 percent. Faster innovation.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

So employers and employees end up paying for treating the side effects as well as overpaying for new drugs with few advantages to offset risks of harms. Equating "innovative" with new molecules misses the point: to develop clinically superior new medicines. —How dare the new Germany agency undermine innovative research!

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Business Model Company Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Despite some early warnings, both the regulators and the company did not really follow up the case until it was too late. Research in the area of behavioral business ethics has demonstrated that most of the initial ethical transgressions in business go unnoticed, even for those committing the transgression.

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Compliance Company Self-aware Ethics 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santander has also been innovative when it comes to social media and mobile campaigns. To the general public, it has come to epitomize the dysfunction of Wall Street—the greed, risk and lack of ethics that drove profits over the last twenty years, but went relatively ignored until the recent collapse. Click here to cancel reply.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 60

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

I certainly have my opinions on the subject ( jump to my comments at the bottom of this post ) , but I wondered what other leadership experts believe is the most important leadership competency from their experience. There are many leadership pearls wrapped up in the complexity of all sorts of leadership books. Keep your promises.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Study Up – Make sure you take the time to study the details of your business or project plan for the year ahead. A good example of this is how a “good&# tendency to a “ hard charger &# can turn “bad&# if you end up going overboard, getting too impatient, and steamrolling over people. THEN , dive in.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

QAspire

JUNE 10, 2013

This week, they open up in a free-flow conversation with QAspire on the art of effective mentoring. How does one approach mentoring when working in a hyper-competitive business environment where speed and results take up precedence? In today’s time’s up work world, mentors can be impatient thus rendering the mentoring.

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Mentor Open-book Learning-by-Doing Books 194

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Followers were expected to keep their heads down, put in an honest days work, and only spoke up when asked. And there are other people who are great at following orders but cause teams to fail because of their reluctance to step up into leadership roles. Followers Get Things Done Better followership often begets better leadership.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

She hit her targets and deadlines, executed brilliantly on her assignments, and produced outstanding bottom-line results. Loyalty manifests in many different ways: trust that’s earned through repeated demonstration of a dedicated work ethic, commitment to a shared mission, and allegiance to the firm.

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Loyalty Bottom-up Short-term Bond 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

A recent survey on easing racial tensions at work by the Center for Talent Innovation found that “The workplace is one of few settings where we commonly interact across racial and ethnic lines.” I want us to stay civil and kind, but we have to be frank.” Do not tolerate incivility.

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