Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. Mental diversity strengthens teams.

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HR Digest

APRIL 21, 2023

The world of HR technology is rapidly evolving, and the future looks exciting. With advances in AI, machine learning, and data analytics, HR technology is poised to transform the way we work and manage our workforce. In this article, we will explore some of the most exciting trends in HR technology and their potential implications.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2021. In this book, General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk. Play Nice But Win is a riveting account of the three battles waged for Dell Technologies: one to launch it, one to keep it, and one to transform it.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, while I speak about Leadership and Workplace Culture, I realize that other topics are timely and meaningful based on an organization’s specific situation. And it is an article I will continue to update – Because at every event I get the opportunity to meet and see new speakers that might be a great fit for past clients of mine.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2024

Navigating Leadership in a Diverse Industrial Landscape The Twin Cities, encompassing Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota, showcase a diverse array of industries from healthcare to technology, setting a dynamic stage for both leadership development in Minneapolis-St.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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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. The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. And that feeds our approach in society at large. Blog Post ).

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

With that, they’ll recruit new board members who fill skill gaps, bring much-needed diverse perspectives to the table, and help the board and the organization ultimately arrive at their desired future state. They should also have diverse, representative directors who bring a valuable perspective. What Is Board Effectiveness?

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

Diversity is an overused word, but at Chevron it’s a perfect description of its corporate culture. The company’s 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report highlights how diversity and inclusion (D&I) feature so centrally in the company’s success story. Efforts to bring more diversity to the oil and gas industry are working.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2024

Navigating Leadership in a Diverse Industrial Landscape The Twin Cities, encompassing Minneapolis and St. Paul, showcase a diverse array of industries from healthcare to technology, setting a dynamic stage for both leadership development in Minneapolis-St. Paul and executive coaching in the Twin Cities.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

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. For example, N2Growth conducts leadership assessments for every finalist and ensures the validity of results with a candidate debrief. Here is what you can expect.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

While much needs to be done to neutralize our biases and unleash untapped talent – Nadia Rawlinson, Chief Purpose Officer of Slack, is already hard at work developing the one asset she feels will help ensure deep-level diversity and inclusion throughout the organization. It’s an ambitious and inspiring initiative.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 25, 2019

They point to shiny startups and the seemingly unstoppable progress of technology, and proclaim that our age is on track to solve all problems and cure all ills. An age with lots of talk of innovation, lots of resources for it, better conditions for it than ever – but also an age of shallow innovation and a lack of innovation leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 29, 2020

I recently had the privilege of speaking with Mehdi Tazi Chief Executive Officer at Beassur Marsh , a Morrocan based insurance brokerage during our global leadership tour. JH: In a recent international leadership survey, over 80% of CEOs answered that they do not have the talent to execute their current corporate strategy.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

She emphasizes the role of AI as an enhancer of human capability, dispelling the notion of technology replacing human skills. The HR Digest: In a 2021 interview, you mentioned evolving leadership approaches. Every leadership journey progresses from individual contributor, to manager, and then leader.

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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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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Technology, coupled with the shift to flexible work models, has transformed the workplace at rapid speed.

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2023

Women’s leadership programs have been a crucial topic in recent years, with much discourse over their effectiveness in the workplace. On one hand, women-focused programs provide the skills, community support and resources women need to succeed in leadership roles.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

10 things to do to keep “post-truth” from crippling your leadership. Effective leadership is an oscillating mix of head and heart: managing both facts and feelings as well as logic and emotion. 3) Encourage healthy debate and diversity of thought , opinion, and perspective. Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 14, 2020

Significant job losses announced yesterday in two major High Street brands are an indicator of what leadership challenges lie ahead, in organisations, local or global. Measuring leadership effectiveness. That often requires some form of organisational change and consequential leadership responses. Your transformation zone.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This is a basic truth I learned early on in my business career, and it has sustained me throughout a succession of leadership roles — right up to my present work as an executive coach. Leaders of today have a bigger challenge, given the diversity of modern-day teams. Achieving now is about accomplishing things that you want to do.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Foster true diversity and inclusion. Great collaboration requires diverse viewpoints, and it’s easier for majority voices to dominate in online settings. Leaders need to make sure everyone is included—that diversity is genuinely built into the collaborative process and not a matter of token representation. The Leadership Gap.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Biggest Leadership Challenge. That’s part of leadership. Today’s environment is serving up heaping helpings of all of the “normal” leadership challenges, and adding a number of side dishes that were completely unexpected. All of these are good, but they aren’t my #1 pick for a leadership issue. ” – Tammi Spayde.

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HR Digest

JUNE 18, 2023

With the digital and technological transitions , and shift in workforce demographics there is a space which will greatly impact the future of HR jobs. HR trends and predictions for future HR and Technology One of the biggest trends that will change the future of HR is AI.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In an article last year, a colleague and I pondered the ongoing shortage of male nurses and how this is contributing to the talent shortage in health systems around the world. Nursing is an example of a profession that, while growing in terms of opportunities available, is one that is not traditionally practiced by men.

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QAspire

JUNE 26, 2023

My own journey into self-directed learning of technology, music and drawing (amongst other things) is an outcome of a constant attitude of curiosity. Connessione (Maintaining a Big Picture Perspective) Da Vinci studied the interconnectedness of all things and worked to understand the relationship between diverse and discrete phenomena.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® Model has been a viable tool organizations have relied upon to build leaders and drive behavior change for over 50 years. But are there certain sizes or types of organizations where the Situational Leadership ® methodology seems to work more effectively than others? The short answer to that question is no.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Leadership for Tomorrow. His advice to adopt a mindset of growth, focus on what fulfills you, and embrace new modes of leadership is exactly what many people are looking for during this time of transition and change. The new style of leadership is premised on trust , and the practice of management is now more art than science.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Donna Morris, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Walmart, discusses the world’s largest retailer’s priorities when selecting future leadership pipeline, and why companies who hire a diverse talent do better than others. One specific area where we hope to inspire other companies is diversity and inclusion.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 18, 2021

Among the popular reactions to the problems is forced diversity. President Kennedy introduced the concept of Affirmative Action in 1961 as a way to force diversity and end discrimination in all areas of society. And we can’t fix diversity by decrees and platitudes. It is a profile.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 2, 2014

Some say hackers broke into to the Target organization through the system of one of their suppliers, a seemingly innocuous HVAC company. What if the board does not have technology expertise? Or if their technology expertise is antiquated? There is also international expertise and diversity both in terms of gender and ethnicity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2015

Guest post from Ted Bagley: All organizations worry about leadership, from the mom and pop community businesses to the giant global entities both domestic and international. Good leadership is defined as proper training, rewarding, assisting, coaching and respecting those who “carry the load”.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A 360-degree appraisal system provides an elaborate set of criteria to evaluate an employee. Edwards and Ewen’s 1996 book 360° Feedback: The Powerful New Model for Employee Assessment & Performance Improvement is one of the earliest discussions of the 360-degree feedback systems but the multi-rater concept goes as far back as WWII.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

In your one-on-one meetings, leave technology and distractions behind. Non-stealing in leadership involves not stealing (but instead giving) opportunities, knowledge, and acknowledgment to team members. Ethics are the foundation for strong leadership and collaboration. Ethics are universal and add value to our work and life.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

I have no doubt that our diversity initiatives have made an indelible impact on our culture here at Neustar. ” This amount of change could paralyze a company at worst and create chaos at best, but thanks to a proper change management system, we’ve thrived. Our employees embraced our values and so too did our executive leadership.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

AUGUST 28, 2023

There have been, and will forever be, aspects and elements of leadership that remain consistent. Few would argue that surrounding this modest core of timeless stability, the forces of leadership are in a continual state of flux. Organizations are embracing diversity, striving for equity and mandating inclusion like never before.

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