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Could Your Next CEO Come from Any Department?

Modern Servant Leader

How do you view each department in your organization? Do you value operations, maintenance, customer service , engineering, information technology , sales , finance, marketing , accounting – all departments, equally? Therefore, your organization is best served by looking across the entire company for future leaders.

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Leveraging Down for CEOs | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

One of the first things you need to understand as a CEO is what your time is worth relative to others in the organization. The most productive, high-performance organizations have the ability to deliver fairly complex solutions, and complete difficult tasks at the lowest levels within their organization.

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Vision and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. Vision is the core of culture, and without it organizations will never move beyond mediocrity – if they get that far. I'd add that a good vision isn't just the leader or the organization. Vision is often misunderstood.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Focus on driving-down the most complex tasks to the lowest levels of the organization, and then leverage with talent, capital and technology while avoiding the creation of margin eroding dependencies. Related Post: Keeping it Simple Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Collins Excellent – Simple, Scalable and Succinct Advice.

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Who's In Charge?

N2Growth Blog

I’m always amazed at the number of organizations that charge sub-par leaders with mission critical tasks and then wonder why they failed to meet their objectives. Furthermore, in well run organizations you can determine which initiatives are most important to the enterprise by examining which leaders are tasked to what initiatives.

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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

link] Arthur Rasco I would like to nominate Dr. Kara Gibson who is serving in Haiti right now with international relief organization Samaritan's Purse. Here in Owasso, OK there is an organization called Owasso Community Resources. link] Dan Collins Mike, Leaders inspire us by their example. but you’ll not find that here.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leaders who leverage social media successfully for their organizations can bring about great change. Organizations can use social media to connect more effectively with customers (both internal and external), improve service and responsiveness, and monitor perceptions of their brand. Adjustments or adjournment. It was a game changer!

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