Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In this heartfelt episode, Tim Lupinacci, CEO and Chair of Baker Donaldson Law Firm shares his leadership journey and how you can invest in continuous learning and personal growth. 07:21 – CEO Confessions: What’s it like for a CEO of a big law firm to admit dealing with imposter syndrome?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Even though the world looks nothing like it did 30 years ago, organizations still cling to strategies and methodologies developed in the 20th century. Here are five outdated practices that organizations need to kick to the curb immediately: 1. They end up focusing on themselves instead of the people and organization they are leading.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2023

Sixty-six percent (66%) of job seekers consider a company’s culture and values an essential factor in choosing a career opportunity. The CEO is in a position to ensure that a company’s culture is strong, healthy, and nurturing. They give your team a purpose and can help them align with your organization’s goals.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Inherent in the definition of career is the opportunity to progress. More than ever, people are seeking mentors, “branding” themselves and carefully managing their careers in order to dash up that quintessential corporate ladder. So what is wrong with managing your career? It was an epidemic within Kraft.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2018

“Management isn’t doing—it’s seeing that it gets done.” Belker, The First-Time Manager. Tons of information is accessible on the internet on mistakes that first-time managers make. Enough literature is available on developing new skills by new managers. The boss can also coach the new manager.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In this compact, complete guide, Whitney Johnson dives more deeply than ever into the S Curve of Learning so that you can envision how growth happens and direct yourself and others in your organization to create a culture that fosters it. Covey has made it his life’s work to understand trust in leadership and organizations.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The titles listed below—published in 2023—capture many of the key themes and trends organizations are wrestling with. More modest endeavors, whether launching a small business, organizing a conference, or just finishing a work project on time, also commonly fail. These titles address how it can be done and how others are doing it.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 20, 2021

Accomplished leadership and executive coaches Bill Berman and George Bradt have discovered over the past 30 years that: People lose their ability to influence others and impact the organizations they work at because they are not focused on the most essential, mission-critical business and cultural priorities of the organization.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But often, these top-tier executives don’t know where to go to achieve this critical perspective and guidance at this stage in their careers. When you’re at the top leading organizations, is there still room to grow? Executive coaching doesn’t only serve executives and their organizations.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2013

Management is your day job; leadership is your career. That is a variation on a comment I heard recently from an executive who was speaking about the responsibilities that senior managers have to lead their organizations through change. Management is a disciplinary process while leadership is an aspirational intention.

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HR Digest

JUNE 30, 2022

The pandemic appears to have taken a toll on everyone – from the average worker to the overpaid CEO. A Deloitte poll indicated that burnout is high in upper management as over 70% of C-suite respondents admitted that they will quit their current job for one that focuses on well-being. Skewed Work-Life Balance.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

1:1s are arguably one of the most critical meeting types for the success of team members, managers, coaches, teams, and organizations. The best managers recognize that 1:1s are not an add-on to their role as a manager. Conducting 1:1s successfully are foundational to being a manager. Watkins Michael D.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Several years ago I was invited to coach a competitive healthcare executive who wanted to be the best healthcare CEO in the region. However, Bob’s career advancement strategy had not panned out as he had hoped. For example, although he’d achieved the CEO role, his compensation was less than he believed he deserved.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up, or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter, and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. Transform your organization with speed and efficiency using this insightful new resource.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep. times more likely to trust their leaders. “Our

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

15 percent of Millennials, also referred to Generation Y, are already managers. By understanding how millennials operate and managing them properly, you can retain them and set them up for leadership success. In a new study I worked on with American Express, we found that managers have a negative view of millennials.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Impact, growth, and performance of the organizations they lead. Second, they must become a trusted consigliere to the CEO. “What makes a great CHRO, great?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

For the last 20 years, and all around the world, we CEOs have invested untold millions into the question: “What does it take to have an engaged workplace culture?” They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. How to Be a Soul-Sucking CEO.

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HR Digest

MARCH 12, 2020

Are you seeking career growth in human resources? Here we have listed top careers for HR professionals to help you carve a niche in the industry you desire. If you want to follow a career in human resources, there are many options open to you. Careers for HR Professionals . Training and Development Manager.

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HR Digest

JUNE 30, 2022

The pandemic appears to have taken a toll on everyone – from the average worker to the overpaid CEO. A Deloitte poll indicated that burnout is high in upper management as over 70% of C-suite respondents admitted that they will quit their current job for one that focuses on well-being. Skewed Work-Life Balance.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

These world-class subject matter experts include members of advising boards, CEOs, and senior executives who are pioneers in their industries and make waves in their spaces. This sort of coaching benefits not only the executives themselves but also their organizations as a whole. Executive leaders are masters of their craft.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The Key to Business and Career Success. It takes effective leadership with the right tone at the top and leaders who will nurture the right culture to build the organization needed to become the preferred provider to your markets. These leaders never micro-manage. The CEO is responsible for tone and culture.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Here's the complete 8/28 press release: New PDI Ninth House Pulse on Leaders research pinpoints personality traits that can both help and hinder one’s advancement through leadership levels, and uncovers stark differences between key traits for business unit leaders and CEOs. senior vice president, PDI Ninth House.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Making the point that culture renovation begins at the top he replays the appointment of Satya Nadella as CEO of Microsoft after Steve Balmer in 2014. If a senior leader wanted to tap the energy and creativity of someone lower down in the organization, she or he needed to invite that person’s boss, and so on. Meetings were formal.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 1, 2021

The book is, The CEO Test , written by Adam Bryant and Kevin Sharer. You’ll learn what truly matters to be a successful leader and you’ll discover a clear roadmap for succeeding in these seven critical challenges – the CEO test : Can you develop a simple plan for your strategy? Today brings a must-read book for leaders at all levels.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 1, 2014

This post recently appeared in SmartBlog on Leadership : There’s a LOT of advice out there on leadership and management – almost as much as you’ll find on dating, careers, and how to raise your kids. However, I’d recommend running away as far as you can from the following pearls of leadership & management wisdom: 1.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

The Leap to Leader : How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership by Adam Bryant The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity. The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest jump of your career. Middle manager."

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

As part of my new book, The Future Leader , I interviewed more than 140 CEOs around the world and asked them each to define leadership. Consider these two definitions from CEOs I interviewed. Judy Marks is the CEO of Otis Elevator and leads a team of over 70,000 employees around the world. What Makes a Great Leader?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

Rethinking Managing and Leading in Real-Time by @ArtPetty. Slack CEO’s Rise: From Games to a Workplace Communications Heavyweight via @StanfordGSB. Seth Godin Hates Being Organized by @danshipper Don’t ask: am I organized enough? Organizational Change: Only the People Can Save the Organization by @BobQuinnUofM.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

Think of any top performing CEO and you’ll find that to the one, they possess an uncanny ability to focus on highest and best use activities. While most executives that have reached the C-suite level understand the importance of scaling via delegation, far too many CEOs struggle with the effective implementation of the concept.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Robust supply chain leadership ensures effective oversight and management of the end-to-end supply chain processes, from procurement to delivery. Moreover, strong leadership in supply chain management ensures cost efficiency. To begin, it is crucial to clearly define the specific requirements and qualifications needed for the role.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 11, 2021

That’s why I decided immediately to share the news with my team and our organization’s employees. When I first became a manager, I didn’t consider sharing personal stories. During the course of my career, I learned that sharing the personal is often important. Skip Prichard is the CEO of OCLC, Inc.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Jenn Lim , CEO of Delivering Happiness and Wall Street Journal -bestselling author of Beyond Happiness , will tell you that four-day workweeks can provide a sense of flexibility and autonomy that is crucial to happiness and career satisfaction. So, it may not work for every organization. Not every email is urgent!

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Many CEOs, the top leaders of companies, often focus on short-term goals because that’s how they’re rewarded in their jobs. What they found was that younger executives, who have more years left in their careers, are more patient when it comes to waiting for investments to pay off. This takes time and patience.

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