N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2015

Below are my top 60 favorite leadership quotes of all time. Leaders transform the quality of their lives’ by becoming aware of authentic choices, and living courageously towards a new more empowering future.” – Grant Wattie. The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. “The

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

A value that is meant for “them” but not lived-out in the behavior of and choices made by the leadership, will never become part of the organizational culture. Senior leaders of the company routinely showed up at these training sessions to show employees how important the values and brand were. This is for them , I don’t need it.”

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

You’ll see how Amazon’s core leadership principles helped it to scale. Leadership Tip: Have an open-minded willingness to learn. Amazon has fourteen leadership principles that outline what these values are and are essential to the Amazon leadership model and mindset. But it’s a dangerous mindset with sharp limitations.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

Before starting as CFO, I repeatedly scanned through my leadership qualities, considering how I would present myself to my new colleagues. After serving in a variety of leadership roles over the last two decades, I still have a lot to learn. In my experience, the myriad of leadership characteristics can be boiled down to the Qs.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. And when leadership skills are valued and encouraged in the performance evaluation process, employees are more likely to take ownership of their work, seek out new challenges, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Leadership. by John • October 30, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. Years ago I had the displeasure of consulting for a Canadian natural gas company. In a strategy seminar I asked the leadership team to tell me what business they were in. In the CEO Afterlife.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Lengel described Washington’s leadership during the extraordinarily cold winter of 1777–78 at Valley Forge as “sacrificial” and noted that “he took great care in seeing that his soldiers were well housed.” Mrs. Tuchman, as she liked to be called, had a sharp mind and passion for truth. The historian Edward G.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 29, 2022

Corrupt governments destroy entire countries’ quality of life. An average, dependable employee shows up for work every day at a start-up company that grows a thousandfold; he or she gets a few stock options and becomes incredibly wealthy. The world is full of injustice and inequality. Billions live in horrible poverty.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

To find out, it may be worthwhile to make some sharp distinctions between what Big Data driving AI can do, and what it cannot. Once the founders have departed, subsequent leaders, in order to maximize the quality of their decision-making, will always need to be aware of the identity that still pulses at the heart of their organizations.

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Thin Difference

APRIL 30, 2019

A recent tech company commercial advertised its virtual reality capabilities by showing people “sitting” courtside at an NBA game through their smartphone. She notes that most gatherings lack a sharp, bold, interesting, and compelling purpose. It’s a good group, and we enjoy each other’s company.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. However, the quality of the code the super-star writes could result in billions of people using Google as opposed to AltaVista and other search engines. I reached out to ask him more about his research and new book.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 29, 2014

Values speed over quality. In politics, what if Vice President Al Gore’s sharp intellect had been driven by on-center confidence and less by off-center arrogance, which made him come off as condescending in election debates with George Bush? Counterfeit: Hasty Makes decisions too quickly in the name of getting things done.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. When a company is content with being merely mediocre it may survive but it will never do extremely well. The company must have an emphasis on high standards, a desire to create and give value to customers, accountability to the employers and to your customers, and the drive to learn. Focus on excellence.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. Michael Fraccaro: That’s an interesting way to frame it.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

I know companies — strong organizations — centered on these values. Once a company starts to condone lying as a matter of course, it is headed for serious trouble. It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

We believe these same measures can be successfully adopted and adapted by other companies in pharma and other sectors that seek to avert, or reverse, innovation stagnation. To further align individuals around the success of the company instead specific programs, every employee at Roivant or one of its subsidiaries receives stock options.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Being sharp means being succinct. No one is equally expert at both. Rehearse your pitch.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

probably does have are three non-glamorous but crucial qualities: focus, discipline, and follow-up. These three qualities might not sound extraordinary, but they can truly set you apart. If you have those qualities, you’ll excel. The Benevolent Dictator gives you no-nonsense how-to advice and examples that have worked.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 3, 2013

He’s sharp, connected, and passionate about what he feels called to do. It’s a reflection on leadership from the perspective of where he sits, interacting with some of the more prominent Christian leaders of our day, but also with thousands of younger church leaders in our country. Catalyst is lead by an impressive guy.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The following are five candidates for the practical values having foremost importance: Integrity Accountability Diligence Perseverance Discipline I know companies -- strong organizations -- centered on these values. Once a company starts to condone lying as a matter of course, it is headed for serious trouble.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Everything is in flux, and we should enjoy the ride as we may change jobs, companies, and even types of work (contract work, employment, entrepreneurship, etc.). With the shifting world of work, many employers recognize that this skill set will be extremely beneficial in the workplace as companies grow and transition. Self-assuredness.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 20, 2009

This is one pretty sharp boss!) Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Quote of the Week The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. THE THEME: Viagra advertising slogans.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 30, 2011

It goes: “We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others are bright, some have weird names, but we have to learn to live in the same box.&# – Anonymous Here’s the link where the quote came from in case you want to read more: [link] Thank for coming by!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

In an effort to cover all the bases in an uncertain, changing world companies are trying to give themselves as many strategic and organizational options as possible. To find the answer to that question I attended a session on leadership at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Of course, they're doing it with the best of intentions.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Employees don't care as much about the company as you think they do. Leaders, rationally enough, appeal to the company's circumstances when making a case for change. But social science points to five sources of meaning for humans at work: the impact of the work on society, the customer, the company, the team, and "me."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

For nearly a decade, I worked at Catalyst , a nonprofit focused on helping women advance in the workplace, consulting with progressive companies who began investing in diversity initiatives in the ‘90s. I joined Pinterest as the company’s first Head of Diversity in January of 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. This means that companies won’t be able to compensate for lacking growth in Russia just by tapping another market.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Another day, another set of high-profile worries about how Google is going to persuade its best and brightest people from leaving the company to join newer outfits or launch companies of their own. He took aim at a high-profile target, a book by three McKinsey & Company consultants called The War for Talent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success. This process leaves companies vulnerable to competitors who develop new forms of technology that initially fail to serve the "best" customers well, but quickly improve.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Set up post-interaction NPS so you can tell if someone is still upset even after an issue is “solved,” start tracking the volume and quality of requests coming in along with metrics relating to revenue (i.e., Don’t use your customer team as a buffer between company and customer. Add a touch of process, carefully.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

These are the questions I get from would-be idea entrepreneurs — people who want to go public with a deeply-felt idea so as to influence how people think and behave and, as a result, create some kind of change in their company, discipline, or community. Communication Entrepreneurship Leadership' All-purpose tool. Personal trial.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

It is these tensions that now shape the most important considerations for advertisers, their agencies, and the media companies that convene audiences at scale. In the content arena, long-form, quality journalism depends on the highest-caliber talent in reporting and editing. Humans and Automation. Marketing strategies.

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Tim Milburn

MARCH 29, 2012

Perkins, Author of Leading at The Edge, Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition , Second Edition. To gain deeper insights into one of the most exciting and controversial chapters in the history of leadership under adversity, Dennis N.T. NOTE: This is a guest post by Dennis N.T.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. There is a scientist who tells me the blade is not sharp enough. How do you define design? Design can mean many different things.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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