Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There’s strong evidence to support that strategic thinking is one of the most important executive competencies. It was twice as important as communication (the second most important behavior) and almost 50 times more important than hands-on tactical behaviors. Becoming More Strategic: 3 Tips for Any Executives.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

A survey of executives found that women view leaders as those who share their knowledge and connect with their colleagues to help the team and the business. No path to success is free from pitfalls as any entrepreneur or executive will tell you. Leading From the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for Women”. by Ryan Holiday.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

To help leaders break free from the obsolete traditions holding our workplaces back, Jim and Rich share five blind spots keeping your people on the bench and suggest tactics that will help align work with modern day society. Dana Theus of InPower Coaching submitted Want An Executive Job? Team Building. Creativity/Inspiration.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 241

QAspire

JANUARY 15, 2013

Thought leadership is important for building careers and for building organizations. That is, they are doing the thinking that intrigues, inspires and incites others to take the necessary tactical action, such as the three examples given above. They innovate conversations rather than offer up cookie-cutter tactics.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2013

demands for greater productivity, more innovation, and doing more with less have made leading at the frontline more challenging than ever. Many are being asked to execute tactically but think strategically. So focusing on preparing high-potential frontline leaders early in their careers for higher-level positions makes sense.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 1, 2015

Four key character habits lead to specific positive business outcomes: Integrity leads to Confidence in Management , Compassion leads to Collaboration , Forgiveness leads to Innovation , and Responsibility leads to a Culture of Accountability. Leadership Tactics for Career Women. What are your unique leadership strengths?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Fact : bright, talented executives with a bias to action will often take on more than they should. Fact : bright, talented executives with a bias to action will often take on more than they should. This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

I believe the same characteristics that are present in the heart of a warrior are also present in the most successful executives and entrepreneurs. I’ve rarely come across students of military history that don’t have a great command of both strategic thinking and tactical implementation. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. It’s important to understand that vision statements are design oriented, while mission statements are execution oriented.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

An Overview on the Importance of Change : While there is little debate that the successful implementation of change can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of doing so can send a company (or an individual’s career) into a death spiral. It must be actionable through focused tactical implementation.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 3, 2013

Risk averse, they may either procrastinate when faced with difficult decisions or make decisions that may yield tactical benefits but be unviable in the long term. Shift Perspective to Get Innovation Right. Books Career Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Leadership Memes Personal Coaching Self-Awareness Skills What is Work life'

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Delegating is an art, and the best leaders are those who give their teams the freedom to innovate and the structure to work together at peak performance. Never in the history of the world have these tactics caused anyone to do better work. But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists.

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How To Delegation Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing 157

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. The fact is that business is not a static endeavor.

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Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 305

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Section IV: Tactics. Great leaders tend to be tactical geniuses and display a strong bias to action. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. We demonstrate that agile organizations possess both strategic and tactical agility. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change. Northern Command.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Unless you are a very large enterprise it is unlikely that you have the time, money, staffing, or external professional relationships to execute a brand management strategy such as the one outlined above. Continuity should flow from values to vision, mission to strategy, and objectives to tactics to process. Be very, very smart.

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Brand Blog How To Public Relations 271

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fear based motivations don’t instill loyalty, create trust, build morale, inspire creativity, attract talent, or drive innovation. Lack of Interaction : Along the lines of number one above, if executives, management, and staff don’t proactively seek your advice and input then you have a respect problem.

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Loyalty Blog Leadership Brand 417

Mills Scofield

MARCH 28, 2013

One of the powerful aspects of the book is Dorie’s ability to go from very specific, tactical details on how to network and reach out to others (e.g., She continues with a ‘how to’ plan that is so easy to follow and execute on our own. when to call, how to find out nicknames, etc.)

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. I’ve seen many an executive or consultant attempt to identify leaders with interviews, tests, evaluations, etc., Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. link] ATIG We must rethink the leadership tactic !!!!

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 26, 2010

Often I find my executive coaching clients shy away from confidence because they fear that it equates to arrogance – and, understandably, don't want to be seen in that way! While arrogant people can and often do succeed in business, I believe that it comes at a great personal and professional cost. I Think Not.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From Sun Tzu to Julius Caesar, the ancient Israelites to Zelensky, there’s a bold and highly effective tactic seen throughout history—when leaders want to motivate their troops for success, they destroy all opportunities for retreat, and go all-in on the mission. These titles address how it can be done and how others are doing it.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As a result, innovation and ingenuity is more important than ever before. Building a Career in Operations Management. Operations managers have a tough and challenging role, particularly in 2021. As we move towards a ‘new normal’, businesses are facing unexpected obstacles.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Then we have to deconstruct our abilities in each area, map a tactical plan to get better and measure our progress. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Those professionals that have self respect, and demonstrate a true respect for others regardless of their station in life, are much more likely to be successful over the long-term than those that use the tactics of disrespect to humiliate and intimidate. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 17, 2010

To be able to think beyond tactics of work. To innovate and experiment. Ability to execute that knowledge does. But to execute that knowledge well requires one to have implicit skills mentioned above.(You To be able to relate our work with a larger context. To be able to foresee things before they happen (pro-activity).

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams. Team building basics are often overlooked by ineffective leaders or unproductive companies.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

That’s what they have done for most of their careers. (2%). Faster innovation. The mentor becomes a role model, offering insights about their own life-career. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it. Customer retention.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Well, it depends on what you want and need out of your relationships and career. We can choose to look at failures, at least in our daily lives, as life practice, learning, a pilot project, as experimentation, or even a legitimate part of any innovation process. The phrase, “No pain, no gain,” has it’s roots in this very premise.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Guest post from Dee Ann Turner: During my tenured career at one organization, I had the “best of the best” leadership development opportunities. I attended multiple executive education courses at the top business schools in the United States. It was single most effective leadership development activity of my entire career.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Do you really want to financially incentivize your executives to make hiring decisions that place a greater value upon diversity mandates than qualifications? Have a great Thanksgiving Sir. LeRoyD Amen!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Have you ever said to yourself, How in the world did [insert name of powerful business executive] get to where he is? That executive who made it big probably doesn’t have more powerful brain cells than you… but what he (or she!) He’s not any smarter than I am! Well, chances are you’re right.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. After all, if the client or the company’s executive suite can’t trust you, why should they?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Regardless of where you are in your life and your career, I can promise you one thing; you will consistently be faced with challenges and obstacles along the way. link] mikemyatt Bingo – plan, execute, assess, and adjust. My question is this: have you taken the time to do the necessary planning? Great post, Joe M. I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. After all, if the client or the company’s executive suite can’t trust you, why should they?

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. What are the steps that you have taken during your career to become a more strategic thinker?

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