N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It is the genuine nature of their subtle & quiet charisma/presence, and not the decibel level of their rhetoric that draws you in. Over the years I have come to believe that “ having class &# is synonymous with demonstrating a penchant for humility over bravado.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action. Taking action always begings with one simple act – making a decision. Do you have great vision? Are you a master of strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Mistake #3 : People often think of "leadership" in terms of personality characteristics, usually as something they call charisma. Since few people have great charisma, this leads logically to the conclusion that few people can provide leadership, which gets us into increasing trouble. That's not leadership, I explained.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. They listen as well as they speak.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Undoubtedly, it would operate according to data rather than intuition and make only evidence-based recommendations. This makes emotional labor a key quality in managers. In short, the perfect robot manager would be utterly predictable – and completely boring.

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Mark Sanborn

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I instantly connected with their gregariousness, love of life, and desire to learn and grow their business, but it wasn’t until some years later that I visited their operation and my suspicions were confirmed. . Wikipedia defines excellence as “a talent or quality which is unusually good and so surpasses ordinary standards.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Beyond equity, you have two things to rely on: vision and personal charisma. Greg Gianforte, the founder of RightNow, told me years ago that one of the best decisions he made was to build his engineering operation in Montana. Quality of life is high. I’d like to see if you could convince me. The answer, in most cases, is no.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

Both – some people are born with innate qualities that predispose them to being leaders, and other people while not naturally gifted with leadership ability can acquire it. If those three qualities are present, everything else can be developed. So, what’s the answer?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? It contains what I believe to be the necessary qualities a leader must possess to be successful.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In sales, where charisma and extroversion can be advantages, some people attribute success more to inborn personality traits than to skills that can be coached or taught. It requires directing and managing salespeople using the right metrics, operating cadence, and performance management process. Yet the fact that companies in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

This pattern of behavior, which stands in stark contrast to the humanistic nature of his vision for positive change, undermines his leadership qualities and has led one New York Times opinion columnist to describe Musk as the “Donald Trump of Silicon Valley.”

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

Of course, in business management, we all learned the double-edged sword quality of management by celebrity. One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. Star power is real. But we were taught the downside of this as well - the lack of broad expertise and the danger of myopia.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

In a communal system built around shared consciousness, what starts to happen is that people with charisma start to lead and cultural norms kick in. But the real heroes are operating with automobiles and roads and whole systems of support without which they couldn’t be heroic. What we see out here now is, again, those heroic stories.

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