N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Identifying Organizational Needs: Assessing Challenges and Goals Assessing the challenges and goals of an organization is a critical first step in providing effective leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions. Assessing the leadership team’s and employees’ readiness to embrace new ideas and behaviors is vital.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Embracing this model allows businesses to tap into a global talent pool, which can drive innovation and growth. Nevertheless, businesses that solve these challenges can benefit from increased flexibility, reduced operational costs, greater productivity, and an improved ability to scale.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

Like many of the CEOs whom I coach, he was anxious in this pandemic and had a hard time thinking of any other question other than, “How do I cut costs?” The complexity of our current crisis is clearly overwhelming many leaders, who haven’t adjusted to asking new questions that befit the new environment. How can we do it better?”

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

Like many of the CEOs whom I coach, he was anxious in this pandemic and had a hard time thinking of any other question other than, “How do I cut costs?” The complexity of our current crisis is clearly overwhelming many leaders, who haven’t adjusted to asking new questions that befit the new environment. How can we do it better?”

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2012

Turn Innovation Inward. Innovation continues to be a hot topic, and rightly so. Few things can change the course of a project, career, company, category, or industry like successful efforts in innovation. The Practice of Leadership is in need of a Makeover – an Extreme One.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 26, 2023

Years ago I discovered a way to increase creativity and innovation when money is tight. They had found a way to accomplish the same need for one-fourth of the cost. No, but the use of creativity and innovation can often be avoided if there is enough money in the budget. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The total cost of India’s successful Moon mission was $75M whereas cost of making movies like Interstellar is reported to be $165M. Keep it Small “Another best practice for keeping failure as small as possible is the design of smart pilots to test new ideas before the full-scale launch of an innovation.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2022

What’s NUMBER ONE LOW-COST ACTION we can take to improve our customer’s experience?”. They ask a good question, but they weren’t prepared to hear feedback that made them uncomfortable or challenged their pet project. If we could do one thing differently next time to help this project (or person) succeed , what would that be?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 13, 2019

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interactions, conflict, argument, debate.” — Margaret Heffernan. The cost of conflict avoidance is huge and directly hits the company’s bottom line. Business reasons — Project related stress, aggressive timelines, etc., That is what many of us do when we try to avoid conflict.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Iger truly embraces innovation. What follows are 20 leadership lessons from the book but stripped of the stories that brought them to life. It’s not about perfectionism at all costs. True authority and true leadership come from knowing who you are and not pretending to be anything else. Be decent to people.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Agility, innovation, disruption, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment, and above all else a bias toward action will lead to the creation of change.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

Lady GaGa) , with the implication that leadership is an intuitive skill. Great leadership is certainly associated with strong instincts and intuition, but intuition and instincts are shaped by training and more importantly, greatly augmented through experience. Failure is an essential part of the innovation process.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2024

In the face of rapidly advancing innovation, many organizations are grappling with the growing skills gap. This gap is projected to lead to a talent shortage of 85 million workers by 2030. With disengaged workers costing organizations more than $8.8 With disengaged workers costing organizations more than $8.8

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QAspire

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Invisible Cost of “Toxic” Leadership Many organizations today are plagued by so-called leaders who don’t carry a leadership mindset. Their title may read “Project Leader” and they may be managing a few people, but that does not make them real leaders.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

This is where business coaching and leadership development emerges as not just a support system, but a critical investment in the future of your company. It’s a journey where coaches, with their expertise and experience, help you navigate the complexities of business decisions, strategy formulation, and personal leadership development.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 15, 2017

It seems so simple but in today’s high-pressure, competitive global economy, the message sometimes gets drowned out by discussion of the business case and/or lost in the context of the larger need of the organization to innovate, win and standout in the marketplace. Worline and Jane E. Winning Well Reflection.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

By Tim Kippley: Jeff Bezos, one of the planet’s greatest innovators, once said that: “You need a culture that high-fives small and innovative ideas and senior executives [that] encourage ideas.” ” The Value of Innovation at Geneca. I have long felt that companies can’t survive without innovating.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 2, 2013

[Editor's Note: This piece is adapted from Max's book The Truth About Innovation.]. It’s still not going to cost as much as one expensive movie script.”. He adopted a style that was playful and bold, holding informal staff lunches – not to grill them on numbers and projects but to liberate creativity. What if it does fail?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

Welcome to the June Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Chip Bell shared The Secret Sauce of Leadership Communications. Communication. Who is Mary Follett? What happened?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Welcome to the December Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, motivation, productivity, and more. Jeff writes: “Relationship building and expertise are both needed to gain influence in leadership roles.

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QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra Akshaya Patra Foundation in India is a shining example of how social entrepreneurship combined with power of innovation can make a HUGE difference. How do they achieve this sort of scale at such low cost? 600 (or ~$13).

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training , Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company. Dimension Time Cost Operator. Dimension Time Cost Operator.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 25, 2019

With all the emphasis on leadership development, I always find it interesting so many companies continue to struggle with being able to retain their best people. employees who voluntarily leave, generally do so out of some type of perceived disconnect with leadership. They are built to change and innovate.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2024

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports on a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European leaders whose careers derailed, “the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.” Improvement or project management teams are usually cross-functional.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 14, 2023

Moreover, seniors in these towns also serve as mentors and establish areas for new leaders and innovative concepts. “They have the time to volunteer, and they’re often influential people in the community who have a repository of knowledge about the town and can lend their advice and reputations to local projects.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

We bring you a list of books that women entrepreneurs must read to find the right balance between leadership and ownership of self. The same goes for women in leadership roles. Leadership qualities are not gender-based but rather on your personality traits, strengths, and superior intellect. by Ryan Holiday.

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Mills Scofield

JULY 27, 2014

What was once considered one of the most contaminated and environmentally dangerous locations on earth, was reopened to the public as a pristine wildlife refuge in one-sixth the time and less than one-sixth the cost of original clean-up estimates. Now I know the definitions and variations of leadership abound.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 18, 2022

What is also sadly evident for any seasoned observer of the sector is that the pace of change remains incredibly slow, and while digital tools have enabled many sectors to do more with less, healthcare remains largely beholden to Baumol’s cost disease. Fostering innovation. Digital care.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 25, 2019

With all the emphasis on leadership development, I always find it interesting so many companies continue to struggle with being able to retain their best people. employees who voluntarily leave, generally do so out of some type of perceived disconnect with leadership. They are built to change and innovate.

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QAspire

AUGUST 2, 2012

In a business setting, the cost of having such leaders is invisible, but often huge. Over time, this builds culture where people don’t own things up, pass the buck, blame others and cruise along the status-quo – exactly opposite of what we need in an initiative-led and innovation-oriented business environment.

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Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 1, 2018

My new book Ignite Your Leadership Expertise is available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Consider this scenario: Your team comes up with an innovative solution to solve a complex problem in a new way. You’re well past the point of no return when you finally come to the realization that the project has been a mistake all along.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Reprinted with permission from the book, Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership by Mark Brown, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. Packaging designers developed a six-sided box that allowed them to ship nine filtration systems in a container versus six in a square box, further reducing the costs of production. Serving Others.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 4, 2010

One new leadership expert available each day – when you want to hear them most. Yes, I am one of the experts, as is Guy Harris, my teammate and co-author for the upcoming book From Bud to Boss – the Secrets of a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership. This is an opportunity to learn from top experts at no cost.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As a leadership coach, I constantly hear people complaining—sometimes with good reason. Demonstrate for your boss that inclusion is the secret to innovation and creativity. Starting with small projects, try to persuade your boss to let you go at things on your own. Challenge them to become a co-creator on your projects.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 16, 2018

A Reel Leadership Article Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly return in the 20th Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Ant-Man And The Wasp. There are leadership lessons in Ant-Man And The Wasp you’ll not want to miss. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Ant-Man And The Wasp. Leadership starts with a passion.

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