Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

“Only you , as a senior leader, have the power to direct your company to continuous and sustainable success,” says Scott K. Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue,” he adds. And why the relationship that executives and leaders have with the sales organization is among the most important elements of growth leadership.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Leadership is about hope. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. It leads to short-term thinking.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2019

Guest post from Tabitha Laser: What is leadership? Since joining the workforce more than 25 years ago, and serving as a leader for numerous organizations, it’s apparent that leadership means very different things to different people. This is the first in a series of leadership books she calls “The Deadly Practices.”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Hollywood has the Oscars, Television the Emmys, publishing has the Pulitzer prizes, and leadership development has its own annual awards. There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Best-in-class organizations require best-in-class leaders because nothing impacts a company’s trajectory more than the people in executive positions. Executive search firms serve companies looking to place executive, board, and C-suite positions, by identifying top-tier candidates who are well aligned to t the role.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

R OBERT IGER has worked for the same company for forty-five years: twenty-two of them at ABC, and another twenty-three at Disney, after Disney acquired ABC in 1995—the last fourteen of those years, as the CEO of Disney. These priorities have guided the company through all of the growth and acquisitions since he was named CEO.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 12, 2024

Figuring out how to inject energy and passion back into the workplace and work will be key. While a lot of attention remains on whether companies should adopt hybrid, in-office, or remote-first cultures, the main challenge leaders should focus on is creating a ‘stay’ culture. Nearly half of job listings now display compensation ranges.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Welcome to the April 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. ” Follow David on Twitter at @ThoughtPartner.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 3, 2024

In their paper, Workplace Wellbeing and Firm Performance , they report, “We find that wellbeing is associated with firm profitability and that companies with the highest levels of wellbeing also subsequently outperform standard benchmarks in the stock market. percentage-point increase in Return-on-Assets. Are you having fun?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 26, 2018

Guest post from Sander Flaum: Back in 2001, when I was asked to lead a forum in leadership at what is now the Fordham Gabelli Graduate School of Business, the concept was to bring noted leaders (business and otherwise) into a classroom where they could share their experiences and insights with MBA students. But wait, there’s more!

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership. Maxwell (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) In Leadershift , John C. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Simply put, I believe that entrepreneurial is a mindset—a way of thinking—and leadership is a way of acting. Entrepreneurial leadership, then, describes the way such a leader behaves. As founding dean and professor at the Yale school of management, he taught a course on entrepreneurial leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. Various studies show that the failure rate of executives coming into new companies is 30 to 40 percent after 18 months. In a hiring market like the one we’re currently experiencing, finding a true game-changing leader is extremely challenging.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2019. In Sailing True North , Admiral Stavridis offers a much more intimate, human accounting: the lessons of leadership and character contained in the lives and careers of history's most significant naval commanders. It’s not your marketing campaign.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2019

In reflecting on my 18 years as a professional resource in strategy, culture and leadership, I want to share 10 exceptional strategies executives can follow and implement to help survive the challenges of growing a healthy and sustainable organization: Have a good partner. Be methodical, slow and purposeful when hiring your leadership team.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

Welcome to the August Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, creativity and inspiration, development, productivity, team building, and more. All companies and entrepreneurs have to send invoices sometimes. Communication.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 18, 2022

It’s human nature to take what’s working for granted and to concentrate your time and energy on fixing what’s broken. Sales are significantly up in your market month over month. Participants in our leadership development programs tell us our I.N.S.P.I.R.E. It has to be measurable. I love this.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 19, 2018

MFG of South Dakota is a subsidiary of the Molded Fiber Glass Companies (MFG), a leader in the field of reinforced plastics and composites, serving diverse markets with a variety of composite material systems and processes. The company was to close by February 15, 2018. In fact, that’s only the beginning of the story.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2020

Leadership is not something just reserved for the top bastion of an organization. It exists everywhere, and right now we are witnessing some great leadership and also some really poor leadership. There are plenty of examples of companies adapting to this change. Restaurants have moved into the takeaway market.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Many companies hold back from training their workforce due to the fear of wasting investments in candidates who will leave the company soon enough and take the investments with them. This will only leave companies more exposed and vulnerable to falling behind on the times. According to Statista , there were 8.79

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Leadership Development Carnival, sponsored by Weaving Influence and the Lead Change Group , is a monthly publication of thought leadership from some of the brightest minds in the field of leadership. Check out Top Gun Rules and follow Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership. Team Building. Follow Henry on Twitter.

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Career Advancement

MARCH 8, 2021

“Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself.” – Denis Waitley. Through active leadership , you can support your direct reports through these transitions. They might be people in your company, such as leaders in other departments or your boss’s boss.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Offices should be designed to maximize energy and interactions , not for isolation and status. Unfortunately, in most companies experience is the winning argument. Mostly, though, they do it because they care so much about the company. Leadership requires passion. Smart creatives thrive on interacting with each other.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 22, 2014

People in countries, organizations and companies tend to behave in similar ways. The culture of a company can have a major effect on the value—in terms of products and services—that a company provides to its customers. Increase leadership capabilities at all levels of the company. Create empowerment and authority.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). revenue increase for companies with high engagement levels. The problem is leadership on autopilot. The problem is leadership on autopilot. Rethinking Leadership.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Ego Free Leadership : Ending the Unconscious Habits that Hijack Your Business by Brandon Black and Shayne Hughes “Anytime we know intellectually what to do, but our actual behavior is inconsistent or in contradiction, it is a sign we are being short-circuited by our egosystem. It’s typically not the player with the highest market value.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

Welcome to the August 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Anne Perschel of Germane Coaching and Consulting provided Emotionally Intelligent Leadership – Unexpected ROI at Apex Corporation. Anne writes, “Apex Corporation began the journey to emotionally intelligent leadership fifteen years ago.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 31, 2024

Taking the fun out of gaming, announcements about Microsoft layoff plans are now making the rounds, with the company narrowing down on their Xbox, ZeniMax, and Activision Blizzard employees this time. Blizzard president Mike Ybarra also chose to leave the company recently.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution. They say business leaders tend to “underestimate Africa’s size and potential as a market, and overestimate the challenges of doing business there.”. Africa is the next growth market.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The global talent shortage is at a 16-year high , and many of the world’s best executive candidates might not be sitting on the job market. Executive search is typically more in-depth, and your executive search partner will go to great lengths to understand what your perfect-fit leadership hire looks like.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The researchers surveyed 40 leaders of large companies from across Europe. ” Values-based leadership. In other words, there is no future for companies if the earth itself has no future. This then underpins long-term and sustainable relationships with employees within the company and other stakeholders outside the company.

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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2022

There are two types of risk – competitive risk, which involves head-to-head competition, and market risk, which creates a new field of play. With market risk, you are playing where no one else is playing. Updated: Visual Leadership Pack of 60+ HD Sketchnotes. Play to your Distinctive Strengths. Be discovery driven.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The publication date of this post, December 1, 2020, marks the 20 th anniversary of our leadership development company, The Eblin Group. And, by the way, that guy is now Senior Vice President and Treasurer of his Fortune 500 company. When the group’s energy is high, yours is high. It was a connection.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

In an in-depth conversation with The HR Digest, Lisa Chang, the Global Chief People Officer at The Coca-Cola Company, reflects on pivotal moments that shaped her career trajectory. The HR Digest: In a 2021 interview, you mentioned evolving leadership approaches. This is critical as employees tend to mirror rewarded behaviors.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 8, 2020

I’ve observed companies panicking and doing anything they can to manage short-term cash—and destroying hard-earned relationships at lightning speed. Companies are making bad decisions for good reason. They will also remember the companies that took advantage of the crisis by gouging on price.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

The achievement of current goals and objectives free up the time & create the resources to move on to bigger and better things…Trying to do too many things at once will impede progress, dilute effort & energy, add to chaos and lead to burn-out. Bottom line…success equals focus.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

It doesn’t matter what your company peddles. Increasing shareholder value, company market share, or worker productivity just doesn’t jazz the average worker. There is often a vast disconnect between what is important to a company’s executive body and what is important to front-line workers. A Solution in Four Words.

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