N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The arrogant CEO doesn’t value the input of line and staff management.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine how managing appearances can have a substantial impact on your personal brand and your success. You should manage appearances on creating a feeling of comfort and engendering confidence…not on trying to impress.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 14, 2014

In the 1987 movie Wall Street , Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, makes the statement that “Greed is Good”. In a Capitalist society, there are those that have great leadership abilities. Boris Johnson v Gordon Gekko: Guess who said it. . By Guest Author Henry B. And it sure is--for about 1% of American households.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Give me real leaders who possess courage, vision, and a bias toward action, and spare me the timidity of mediocre managers posing as leaders. 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.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. What do leadership teams most struggle with in the new environment? Strategic planning in business assumed an existing playing field and known actors.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Remember the character Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street? That is, out of 1,000 managers rated, he was dead last! His profit contribution was so vast that the CEO promoted him to the company’s management committee. This should have been the apex of Mike’s young career. by Marshall Goldsmith.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

In the movie Wall Street, Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his portrayal of the rude, larcenous wheeler-dealer Gordon Gekko. Mike's score for treating colleagues with respect was dismal; in fact, out of 1,000 managers rated, he was dead last! His profit contribution was so vast that the CEO promoted him into management.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Posted by Meredith Bell at 10:11 AM Labels: assumptions , beliefs , influence behavior , Personal Stories 6comments: Dov Gordon | The Alchemist Entrepreneur said. Dov Gordon October 3, 2010 9:16 AM Meredith Bell said. October 3, 2010 3:10 PM Dov Gordon | The Alchemist Entrepreneur said. Hi Meredith, Good story.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon Soup , an inspirational business fable, shares a recipe for success filled with the essential ingredients to build a winning team and create a culture of greatness. People are hungry for positive change and a fresh sense of purpose and passion.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Being able to discern and debate subjective positions with objectivity is an art form that must be present for effective leadership. Understanding and respecting other’s perceptions is such a critical part of being an effective leader that absent this ability I truly believe you cannot be effective in a leadership role.

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Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leadership is about taking risks… When Christine and her partners launched SCC, most of her banking friends didn’t understand why she was walking away from her “promising career&#. Know when to let go… You can’t be great at everything, including all aspects of leadership. There was so much more.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. A recipe for success for anyone in any position, Soup delivers the powerful message that the quality of your career, business, and team is determined by the quality of your relationships. Most managers and business leaders would agree that they feel a lot of pressure.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. A recipe for success for anyone in any position, Soup delivers the powerful message that the quality of your career, business, and team is determined by the quality of your relationships. Most managers and business leaders would agree that they feel a lot of pressure.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

The good news is that many of these folks manage to extract themselves from what might have otherwise been mind-numbing existences and to fly to dizzying heights of success simply by insisting on being themselves. For a deeper view on this, check out the book “Orbiting The Giant Hairball&# by Gordon McKenzie ( [link] ).

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

← Going green: start your own grassroots leadership revolution A lunch bag letdown of Olympic proportions → John Furlong and VANOC end on a high note: I laughed, I cried, I spent $10 bucks Posted on February 28, 2010 by LeaderTalker | 3 Comments The typical Canadian inferiority complex peaked mid-games only to be proven wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

In 2000 we started following the careers of MBA graduates from top U.S. Our study's overall finding is clear: The problem isn't only a late-career phenomenon by which women are denied the big promotion after having advanced steadily alongside men. As Gordon M. Rather, the entire pipeline is in peril.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

I later read that Gordon Moore had said that was as likely to be adhered to as the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit. (As As usual, and luckily for Stanford, Gordon was right.). Plus he had already contributed to the business literature with his best-selling book High Output Management (1983). Here is the last one that helped me.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

To celebrate the launch, my publisher is enabling us to extend, for the next week, a range of complementary Next Level leadership development opportunities for those who can pre-order copies of the book through Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Fresh insights from global executives on what it takes to succeed in a competitive marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The answers “I am not up to much” and “I have some time on my hands, actually” are not going to do much for your internal status and career. As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” Is my organization consistent with my strategy?

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