N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Here’s the thing…you really don’t need to work too hard to identify leaders within an organization – they are the ones taking on the greatest levels of responsibility and delivering on their commitments. They are the ones that put the needs of others, as well as the needs of the organization, ahead of their own.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

This phenomenon was described by two Cornell psychologists, David Dunning and Justin Kruger, who observed that for any given skill, incompetent people fail to recognize their own deficiencies and don’t recognize the skill in others. They compete for resources and believe there are winners and losers in the organization.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

You have a very unique niche in the world in that you help leaders, people who are already leading organizations, leading movements, really be seen by the external world as thought leaders, as credible sources. First, I kind of want to ask where this sort of impetus came from. How did that all come about? How did you get into all this mess?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Leaders equate risk with potential failure, so organizations have morphed into hierarchical, fixed systems to constrain variability within an acceptable range that has become progressively narrower. It also comes from not adequately considering the organization''s energy, skill, and policies to accomplish the project.

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