N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Coaching is a collaborative process focused on individual development and improvement. 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.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 25, 2013

As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays. In the text below I’ll share why I believe all business executives can learn valuable leadership lessons from those in uniform.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. 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. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

September 11th, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Great Recession, the COVID pandemic, and polarized politics have created our own existential worries. Like Jim Collins accomplished in Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t , Peters and Waterman developed a methodology for their study. Feel familiar?

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Skip Prichard

MAY 17, 2021

Leadership experts Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren , in The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership , argue that leaders must balance between analytic logic and intuition. The first job of all leadership is to protect people.”–Lewis, The first job of all leadership is to protect people.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In this post, I will briefly expand these ideas and then focus on a specific emotion from a communication and leadership point of view: Anxiety. Social mastery needs some elaboration: It has to do with competency in terms of being able to anticipate others’ behavior, reacting appropriately to this behavior and the ability to influence others.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Leaders schooled in rational, left-brained thinking need to adapt to changing political, social and technological forces. Real leadership combines both logic and emotion, both short and long-term thinking. The Leadership Lab points out the dangers of over-reliance on analysis and extrapolation based on historic data.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Brooks differentiated the terms this way in an article in The Atlantic : “Optimism is the belief that things will turn out all right; hope makes no such assumption but is a conviction that one can act to make things better in some way.” In terms of the pandemic, there is a realistic basis to be optimistic.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

If you can’t handle others’ disapproval, then leadership probably isn’t for you. While it might help in the short-term, the pursuit of approval is a guarantee of long-term failure. In life, but especially in leadership positions, we all face fears. Prepare to be Hated. Conquer Your Fears.

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HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

In this article, we’ll present 10 polite ways to write a layoff email to employees – each of these layoff letter templates will help you ensure that when they do happen, the redundancy feel fair and the company and the affected workforce are set up for success. Research shows that bad layoffs rarely help the leaders accomplish their goals.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

Craig was polite to whomever gave opinions, but became riveted when he got facts. From this leadership, we developed a culture of fact-based decision making. As Craig’s CFO and CAO, I always appreciated this leadership style. As Craig’s CFO and CAO, I always appreciated this leadership style.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 20, 2016

There’s a leadership crisis in American politics and business—a crisis that extends around the world. We find the training and managing of leadership is broken. Today, the model of “Change Leadership” versus “Bigness Leadership” is an approach built for these turbulent times by Google, Walt Disney Company and others.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” Too often, innovation leadership Is posed as a test of “guts”—are you willing to make the big bets? Flat but with Strong Leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest. Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. .” Professor Huggy Rao, Stanford Graduate School of Business .

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. He’ll ask CEOs at board meetings, ‘ What was our long-term strategy again? ’

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While hubris can be a needed trait to call upon at times, to rely solely upon it as the foundation of your leadership style just doesn’t work. It was C.S. Contrary to popular folklore, it’s important to note that nice guys & gals don’t finish last.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 20, 2023

In Shaping Cities In An Urban Age , Suketu Mehta describes the dual lives most cities have that mix the formal plans and policies that guide the development of a city and the informal, spontaneous results that emerge from the individual actions of the city’s inhabitants. By 2050, it is estimated that an extra 2.5

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 11, 2020

The first and most superficial level is Political. We make a “politically correct” change to show that we’ll “get with the program.” This issue starts with a look at balancing the head of management and the heart of leadership. ” Most learning and development efforts don’t work. .”

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They know that for deep purpose to take hold, both their daily actions and long-term strategic plans must be consistent with the overarching purpose. Based on my research, I have found that when leaders practice deep purpose, their long-term financial performance actually improves in comparison with their convenient-purpose counterparts.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2023

I was thinking about a couple of years ago if you’re listening in real time, the political leaders in the United States were negotiating and that might be a generous characterization, but they were negotiating a large infrastructure bill. But the short answer to the question is, we just don’t value maintenance.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 7, 2013

This is a skill that can be developed and a process that can be implemented into your organization, team and leadership. In order for the organization to thrive and last, long term plans must be made to address an often ambiguous future. Organization-Development Consulting & Coaching Process Schedule. SESSION CONTENT.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The environment is growing more complex all of the time, providers are dealing with a variety of conflicting priorities – resulting in lack of access and systems that reward short visits, but may only pay providers for good outcomes. Employees will be engaged and productive if they feel the company and their leadership care about them.

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Experience to Lead

MARCH 17, 2022

When organizations are considering where to invest their budgets, learning and development initiatives have undergone much scrutiny. The impact of learning programs is more subtle and long – term than other investments, which calls for a robust and comprehensive set of metrics for assessment.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2019

As a consumer of consulting services for more years than I care to admit, I have developed a well defined view of a typical engagement. Over the years myself and my teams developed a set of running jokes when we knew a new engagement was imminent. Scott expected nothing short of full cooperation from Susan and her team.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 28, 2017

As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays. In the text below I’ll share why I believe all business executives can learn valuable leadership lessons from those in uniform.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays. While this coming weekend simply signifies a long awaited prelude to summer for some, it is much more than that for me.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2008

Developing your stars is critical to an organization’s success. Help them to develop by shaping their careers and responsibilities in the direction they’d like to go. Instead, the opportunity to accelerate a top employee’s development may take the form of redefining or expanding a current role.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

More than 20 years ago I coined the term “ next” practices in an effort to focus people forward in their thinking. Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize a SaaS, ASP or cloud-based solution, or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Leading Blog

JULY 24, 2013

But it has been capitalized on by marketing agents, politics and religion for the best part of two millennia.". Tom Asacker reveals the role of belief in leadership in The Business of Belief. But belief is at the heart of making your leadership work. This is where, I believe leadership comes in. That''s leadership.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

They had just finished the first week of a high-profile leadership development program in one of the world’s largest companies and week two was scheduled to start at 7:30 am the next morning. They were polite but understandably restless. Of course they said yes. Now is a great time to get started.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 22, 2016

Political season is upon us. As I watch debate after debate, I find myself asking one simple question: What happened to civility in leadership? Politeness. But is there anything on this list of fragile short-term gains that we couldn’t also achieve in the long-run, and in a more lasting manner? Personal comfort.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

It’s the final installment of my five-week series outlining my 25 timeless (and time tested) leadership lessons that just plain work. Develop a Zen-Like Mantra. “It is Solved by Walking” Take the Leadership Litmus Test. I had always considered “statesman” a political term. Trust the Facts.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

In the masculine model of success, power and prestige take precedence, compassion, and long term consequences are secondary. Related posts: The Positive Side of Workplace Politics Post by Jane K. Authentic Leadership I was recently at the Pa. Bold Leadership There are so many words to describe leadership and almost.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

More than 20 years ago I coined the term “ next” practices in an effort to focus people forward in their thinking. Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize a SaaS, ASP or cloud-based solution, or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 1, 2011

This one is from May 2009 and I chose it because I don’t’ expect office politics has gone away since then do you? ==. How often have you said something like, “ I hate office politics”? But, politics in organizational life doesn’t always have to be a weapon. Bad Office politics = Self-promotion over the greater good.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Organizations preoccupied with short-term, bottom line thinking often view their employees as little more than resources to be hired, fired, and manipulated as the need arises. Strong leadership inspires strong loyalty. Jeremy Kingsley is a professional speaker and the President of OneLife Leadership.

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