N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Many times it is simply because companies have been doing the same things, in the same ways, and for the same reasons for so long, that they struggle with the concept of change. Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Who wouldn’t want a meaningful career and better balance between work and home? For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. We worry and wonder: What would a career change do to our bank accounts? But Steve, Amanda, and Brandon all left those jobs and made a mid-career transition.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

People who have bad attitudes have more career turnover. It’s also a reminder that leadership, ultimately, is a spiritual practice (whether or not one chooses to put it in religious terms). People who possess a negative outlook on life are four times more likely to suffer a stroke, heart attack, or be diagnosed with cancer.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Knowledge of leadership theories and skills may be formally gained by enrolling in leadership seminars, workshops, and conferences. Life-long learning is important in becoming a good leader for each day brings new experiences that put your knowledge, skills, and attitude to a test. Thanks for this guiding article.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy). He had a successful career in ministry and was in good churches, but he felt God calling him to this assignment. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. He lives everyday in a dangerous environment.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Everyone aspires to have purpose or meaning in their career but how do you actually do that? Here are principles you can follow to find a career — and a specific job —­ you don’t just enjoy, but love. “Join industry groups, go to conferences, volunteer for a nonprofit,” advises Dillon.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Then he had to believe that not only was it important enough to try, but also — through a series of trials and errors — actually possible to sustain over the long-term. In 2004, Hickox was a certified public accountant in Texas and at a crossroads in her career. This was also true for Michelle Hickox.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Where they differ is in their long-term professional path. Or more correctly, their paths: in our experience at Ziba, we’ve seen two distinct career paths among creative professionals, each stemming from its own set of motivations, and demanding its own approach to management. In practice, it often means defining a new position.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. Articulate roles in terms that engage women.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. I’ve come a long way since then.”. Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. There are imbalances.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

We’re meeting in this conference room because my office is piled floor to ceiling with files. After a time, the selfless behavior that made them successful in their early careers ends up impairing their long-term productivity, effectiveness, and well-being. It’s been ten days since I last saw my son awake.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

The average outside equity financing round, from the beginning of the roadshow to when the money is wired, takes six months. Relationship fundraising, as opposed to transactional fundraising, may be time-consuming, but it’s the key to getting funded and building a set of core advisers and investors who will back you for the long term.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

In the long-term, for Target this means that I'm a more engaged leader without an unmanageable tension between my wife and my work.". His wife is a finance director at another company. We were able to come up with two week-long vacations, but planned well in advance, and then two long weekends.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

. “It’s probably a frustration you haven’t had for a while — and if you’re a relatively new manager, you might not have ever experienced this before,” says Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job.

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