N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career. On with the interview.

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Career Advancement

MARCH 20, 2017

“Leadership is intentional influence.” A strong influencer is able to create partnerships across all business units, thereby developing a wider base of support and cooperation. Successful influencers cultivate alliances with people across the company who are in positions of leadership or who have strong social capital.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Chris Edmonds : When I consult with executives on crafting a high performance, values-aligned culture, one of the first things I do is to examine the effectiveness of their leadership team. Whatever that team is called - an executive team, a leadership team, a management team, etc. Most leadership teams I observe are not teams at all.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 7, 2019

For example, do team members understand that the quality of connection can affect the level of cooperation and collaboration? Tom values people by getting to know all his employees’ names, their interests outside of work and their hopes for their careers. Do they know you are there for them and want to see them succeed?

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QAspire

JANUARY 15, 2013

Thought leadership is important for building careers and for building organizations. What is thought leadership? How does one build thought leadership in his/her area of work? In the following interview, Liz shares her ideas on how authentic thought leadership is established. - – - – -.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2013

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! Each of the leadership bloggers below were asked to submit their best (i.e., I'd say that's pretty darn efficient leadership development. Believe it or not, this is my number one leadership/management related post. What should I do?

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HR Digest

APRIL 13, 2024

This guide equips you with essential conflict resolution strategies to navigate disagreements, build stronger teams, and create a harmonious work environment. Importance of Conflict Resolution in the Workplace Learning how to resolve conflict at work is crucial for fostering a healthy, productive work environment. Employees spend 2.1

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 30, 2015

In a recent post and podcast , I proposed this draft purpose of leadership : “Effective leaders set high standards for performance and values, validate efforts and contributions, and ensure cooperative interaction and performance in a trusting, respectful work environment.” I’d love your feedback, as well.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This extract from Wellbeing at Work by Cary Cooper and Ian Hesketh is ©2019 and reproduced with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. Transformational leadership. One of the popular frameworks of leadership is that of transforming leadership. What is clear about trans- formational leadership is its congruence with wellbeing.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 9, 2016

Chris Edmonds : Why does your leadership team exist? What sucks is when the work environment is so competitive that people have to battle their peers to “win.” So much for wellbeing and cooperation. Those are impressive numbers, but getting leadership teams to evolve past their “old ways” is challenging. To get results.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2016

Are functions siloed or is there proactive communication and cooperation? You might well have seen the same dynamics in teams you’ve served on in your youth and in your career. How can you ensure an environment where your team and team members thrive, engage, produce, and have fun (God forbid)?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 4, 2015

Those are all very good things to have happening regularly in your work environment. Think about your own bosses, throughout your career. I don’t cooperate for our success. In that environment, I may contribute to the team’s failure at production and service. I withhold information. There is a better way.

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 20, 2011

One of them was Dr. Sherry Cooper , the Chief Economist at BMO Financial Group. As we head into a long weekend here in Canada, I thought this quote was fitting: “We MUST create a more family friendly environment for men and women. Anyway, an amazing group of women were honoured for their contributions. Happy leading!

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Other team members are not enthused about what they’ll experience in your team’s work environment. They must create a work environment that enables team members to apply their knowledge and skills in service to the team’s performance standards. Those team members don’t have to work hard to rally themselves. GREAT bosses spur TEAMWORK.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

I N TODAY'S competitive environment, where latecomers can copy almost any product or service, companies can no longer just be good at what they do. As P&G chairman William Cooper Proctor said in 1933, “This [synthetic detergent] may ruin the soap business. Corporate leaders need to absorb career risks….

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The Practical Leader

JULY 9, 2012

But more importantly, the games are an inspiring tribute to healthy competition, international cooperation, and the pursuit of exceptional performance. He never lost a race from 1957 – 1961 and broke the four minute mile 17 times during his career. ” Leadership, like athleticism, is multi-faceted.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 29, 2015

I recently spoke to leaders in two different organizations about the difficult dynamics in their work environment. Cooperative problem solving and team work is the norm. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Productivity is consistently high.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

One morning I attended a session that Ted holds each week with his leadership team and a select number of potential leaders. During the time the group discussed one chapter in a leadership book they were reading together. This occurs in work environments too. There were about 30 people in attendance. The opposite is also true.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2020

That’s not a likely career accomplishment from a United States army interrogator. These skills center around understanding why a person does something, tapping into their drives and ways of communicating, and getting cooperation. These skills work wonderfully to make a person feel safe and get cooperation. How did that happen?

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

Bill Walton, the Hall of Fame basketball player and television sportscaster who played for the great coach on two national championship teams, identified the essence of Wooden’s success when he stated, “[Coach Wooden] created an environment that people wanted to be a part of…&# To begin with, the environment included vision.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Since my compulsion is to look at most things from a leadership angle, here are a few lessons I've learned so far from the practice of yoga that seem to apply to the practice of leadership.   Leadership lesson learned? .    Leadership lesson learned?   Leadership lesson learned?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

In my new book, The Leadership Gap: What Comes Between You and Your Greatness , I illustrate what it takes to be a great leader. Much of it concerns how not to get stuck spinning your wheels with skills that may have been useful in the past but are no longer relevant to your life or leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 7, 2010

I respect that the players don’t let the animosity distract them from playing their best, no matter how hostile the environment. Cooperation – You won’t see any of the Duke players trying to outshine their team members. They work incredibly well together as a team and really look out for each other.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Developing political skill reduces stress and enhances performance, reputation, promotability, and career progression at work. A 2008 survey of 250 managers in the UK revealed that 90% of them believed that political skill is required to succeed and to improve one’s career prospects. Recent research does not support this idea.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Listen to Angelia Herrin, Editor for Special Projects and Research at HBR interview Dr. Terri Cooper, Principal and Chief Inclusion Officer of Deloitte Consulting, about the importance of building inclusive leaders throughout your organization. Terri Cooper, Deloitte Consulting. Terri Cooper, Deloitte Consulting.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Art summarizes, “For all of us, the need to help our firms navigate change while doing the same in our careers defines our level-up challenge.” David shares a better way to meet your leadership challenges.” Let’s Get Started.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

JULY 27, 2010

They set the stage early on by showing us what a loving relationship looks like and teaching us the core values essential to a fulfilling life – integrity, self-discipline, cooperation and responsibility. It’s heart-warming to see these same ideals reflected in three generations. What a legacy they are leaving this world.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Share this: 11 Comments Filed under Building Relationships , communication , Employee engagement , Information Age , Leadership Values Tagged as civility , communication , communication skills , Employee engagement , Leadership ← Breaking the Rules A Reflection on the Hardness of Change → Like Be the first to like this post.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

And despite the antisocial implications of the dark triad, recent research has highlighted a wide range of career-related benefits for these personality characteristics. In addition, dark triad traits tend to enhance competitiveness, if only by inhibiting cooperation and altruistic behaviors at work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

There is considerable evidence that leaders who disclose their authentic selves to followers can build not only trust, but generate greater cooperation and teamwork as well. Yet successful and strategic self-disclosure is a leadership competency that many leaders have yet to acquire.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The punishing, pressure-cooker work environment meant that Volkswagen engineers were apparently loath to say no or admit failure to superiors. An environment that rewards such conduct is a breeding ground for unprincipled behavior. His successor frequently berated poorly performing employees. billion in inflated profits.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

Performance assessment is a cooperative thing In order for a performance assessment to be effective, both the leader and the individual must participate. It is part of the leader’s job to create working environments that invite participation and interest. So, what to do? This is as it should be. A conversation. Simplistic?

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