HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

There are many human resources books , but they often focus on specific industries or companies. They cover recruiting, hiring, managing employees, motivating workers, developing talent, managing diversity, and much more. Instead, an engaged workforce results when the focus is on developing, motivating, and empowering employees.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, who held servant leadership principles (though many believe the company no longer reflects the values of it’s founder), understood this concept: The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. Therefore, any leader must be open to new ideas from anywhere.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Okay, so you founded the company, but does that mean you should also be the chief executive? Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? As the founder, can you, or should you, attempt to grow with the company? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

“My job as a leader is to make sure that everybody in the company has great opportunities and they feel they are having meaningful impact to the good of society.” “You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good its people. ” –Jim Collins, Good to Great. ” –Bill Gates.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

link] Dan Collins Academics like to debate. link] Dan Collins Buzzwords are definitely not trite. As you pointed out in your comment toning down the serious nature of discourse can also lighten the mood and be more effective in doing so. Thanks for sharng Sami. The best argument in the world will always lose to a two by four.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Marva Collins showed that children who were previously labeled “learning disabled&# were actually victims of the label they were given by teachers who didn’t know how to teach to them. Collins worked with were predicted to fail, but instead she believed in and discovered their potential. The children that Ms.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

The truth is that great companies are those which can thrive and prosper in the absence of sophistication. If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll share two a few tips on deciding which tasks, and to whom, the art of delegation should apply… As a CEO it is critical to develop a keen understanding of your value to the enterprise, and to further develop an awareness of activities that are dilutive to said value.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. Mission Share and Enjoy: View Comments Oarabile Thats a gud advice Mike and keep the good work up and empower you generation Mark Oakes Good post, Mike Ah… the 'Vision' Thing … the underpinning of great things to come.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Lindquist : Professional will, which is defined in Jim Collins’ famous book, Good to Great. First, you must do whatever must be done to produce the best long-term results for the company, regardless of how difficult it may be. How important have mentors been to your career? It’s a simple concept. Good advice. Lindquist : Huge.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] If your practices for promotion and your ability to assess and develop leadership capability as people move through your structure (especially "up the ladder") you are likely to keep making the same mistake. What say you???

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Should the traits mentioned above be more formally cultivated in leadership development programs? And there’s no professional development without personal development… In this case, I suspect those leaders who find it difficult to express their compassion publicly could do so with some developmental work.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” Great leaders help people get to a yes - in other words, they teach them how not to receive a no.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

Motivating pop culture piece designed to foster better, more successful companies. I started out my career by aspiring to be like Dick Clark. These are some of the principles that I developed myself but do credit being inspired by Dick Clark. First-ever article on Dick Clark, as a business case study.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

But professional development – improving yourself at work beyond meeting your specific performance goals – is too often left to the rote box-checking of annual performance reviews. Professional development takes three main forms: learning, connecting, and creating. Who else has influence?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

link] Dan Collins Mike, You must have been sitting in on our meetings here. You pointed out great potential outcomes, but the trick for many companies is creating the necessary paradigm shift in thinking that will allow these outcomes to become reality. It took my personal church from a 100 to hundreds and headed to thousands.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Alexa Rank : 251,748 Google Page Rank : 5 PostRank Leadership Score : 18 Number of Posts in last 30 days : 30 TwitterGrader Score : 100 All Things Workplace : This blog offers opinions and general information on leadership and leadership development by Steve Roesler. I'm honored to be in such tremendous company!

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So why is it not more common?

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So why is it not more common?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The first is a young salesman in our company. He was on the creative planning team for catalyst, works with leadership development of Chick-Fil-A, and is quarterbacking many projects for well known leaders. He had a successful career in ministry and was in good churches, but he felt God calling him to this assignment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

The ones who succeed — whether it''s disrupting an established way of doing business as Vineet Nayar has done with his company or bringing a mindset change to a small community like Maria Madison has done in Concord, Massachusetts — share the following methods: They play many roles. Career planning Entrepreneurship Leadership'

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 18, 2010

Many of you will have heard of Jim Collins. Share this: 7 Comments Filed under Building Relationships , Employee engagement , Leading Teams , Self Knowledge , Uncategorized Tagged as Character-based Leadership , humility , Jim Collins , Leadership , Level 5 leadership , Uriah Heep ← Come Back Common Sense…We Need You!

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 27, 2010

That’s an oft quoted managerism that speaks to the importance of (in Jim Collins’ words) getting the right people on your bus. Too many interviewers spend the first 30 minutes of a 60 minute interview giving the candidate the “overview” of the role and the company. Lesson #4 – Shut up. Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 19, 2010

Overnight sensations are overrated… in an industry where bands implode after their one big hit, Rush’s slow and steady ascent has brought a global allegiance of followers and a forty year career. Leadership lesson: Careers don’t happen overnight either. So what’s your career mission and how are you pursuing it today?

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Amazon was the fastest company to reach $100 billion in sales ever. It is one of most successful companies in the world. Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. Jeff Bezos.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

The use of 360s also enhances coaching and development interventions by closing the “blind-spots” between leaders’ self-views and other people’s views on them. As for engagement, it is arguably the best source of data to evaluate leaders’ effectiveness — other than actual team performance data.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I have live video above, and in the text that follows I’ll share my opinions on the best and the worst of WBF Day 1… Jim Collins kicked-off the day with everything you would expect from him. Leaders get too caught up in trivial things and don’t pay enough attention to leadership development.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

As Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world, and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S., I had a lot of success early in my career. It has raised the visibility of our company and given me the opportunity to shape how people perceive us.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

link] Dan Collins Mike, I would particularly like someone to address the popularity of "politically correct" leadership. Jonathan Heng Hi Mike- Consider these topics: - Legacies of Leadership – How the impact of effective leadership inspires the organization to a higher standard (ie. Let me expand. Thanks for sharing Dan.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Study some of the most interesting and diverse group of companies such as Google, Twinings, Dropbox and even Wimbledon and you end up with fascinating stories, case studies, and research useful to every brand. A Successful Career is a Marathon. Ideas to Grow Your Brand. Lidell, Buchanan.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If you don’t engage those who hold dissenting opinions and viewpoints in candid and open discussions you will struggle in developing to your true intellectual potential. Joe Mascia [link] Dan Collins Mike How do I offer a dissenting opinion to this piece? Great stuff Mike! Perhaps by entering the absurd.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap.and Others Don't. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap.and Others Don't. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

He speaks passionately of a new initiative he is spearheading, taking on the looming threats from Silicon Valley, and rethinking his company’s business model completely. But the impulse to simply run faster to escape friction is obviously of no use for the long haul of life-long career.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2015

His career is marked by consistently helping individuals and teams and his company do better. Social engineering was developed in response to racial inequities in the justice system. Civil rights pioneer, the late Charles Hamilton Houston, developed this theory due to his lifelong commitment to burying the remnants of racism.

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