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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. They are voracious learners always looking for better methods, different approaches, enhanced efficiencies, better technology and increased velocity. On with the exam… Section I: Character. Section X: Results. Thank you for sharing this freely.

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The Traits of Advanced Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Increasingly, leaders want not just to run an organization effectively, but to change the surrounding system as well. Not just fix a problem, like a broken financial system, but change the culture. The difference is illustrated by a classic joke about old-time movie dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. He had a goal.

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What Happens After You’re Forced to Resign

Harvard Business Review

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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The Big Picture of Business – Developing The Talent for Business to Succeed

Strategy Driven

I see the leader from the big picture perspective and how he-she paints career panoramas by interconnecting the pieces. Push paper, systems, technology. System upholders. They are forced by circumstances to change (career obsolescence, down-sizing, marketplace factors). Science-Technology Provider.

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The Only Viable Strategy Is Adaptation

Harvard Business Review

So it was notable, to say the least, when Roger Martin recently wrote in Harvard Business Review that he thinks that all the talk about adaptive strategy is a cop-out. We’ve seen these changes in our own lifetimes, and even over the span of a single career. Technology cycles have begun to outplace planning cycles.