N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2013

'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Hello is one of those words where a change in pitch changes definition. It can be a warm invitation to a new relationship or a cold indication that you’re too busy to talk. When you begin a leadership position, you only get one opportunity to say hello and most leaders, overwhelmed with their new responsibilities, say hello in the wrong pitch: “Nice to meet you but I’m too busy to talk.”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2013

'Welcome to the July, Teams and Teamwork Edition of the Frontline Festival. I am pleased to bring you another International line-up of thought leaders sharing their best posts on teams and teamwork. Skip Prichard, of Skip Pritchard, shares a fantastic list, 10 Lessons in Teamwork, Top 3: Make the team the rock star; Remove all excuses for [.] The post Frontline Festival: July- Teams and Teamwork Edition appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2013

'This is a post by Brian Sheehan, author of Loveworks: How the World''s Top Marketers Make Emotional Connections to Win in the Marketplace. Earlier this year, star NFL quarterback Joe Flacco re-signed with Super Bowl champions the Baltimore Ravens in a record six-year contract worth $121 million. The deal made him the highest-paid player in the league.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 19, 2013

'The door to personal achievement never opens kindly. It swings on reluctant hinges called resistance. Failure to push through resistance explains why you’re stuck. You came to a doorway and sat down. You started asking: What will people think of me? What if I flop? What if results don’t match aspirations? “Rule of thumb: The […].

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 19, 2013

'Today’s quotation comes from a man who became President first by not being elected (when Franklin Roosevelt died) and remained after most thought he wouldn’t win re-election. In this quotation he talks about how he feels his behavior was mis-perceived. I think it has application for us, which is why I share it with you [.].

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Engaging Leader

JULY 19, 2013

'Link to podcast episode: EL 43: How to Lead a Likeable Business | with Dave Kerpen JESSE LAHEY: Welcome to the show leaders! I’ve shared before the quote from Seth Godin that “Advertising is the tax you pay for not being remarkable.” But how do you make sure your business is remarkable; one worth talking about […]. The post How to Lead a Likeable Business | with Dave Kerpen [Transcript] appeared first on Engaging Leader.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 19, 2013

'There’s something about fundamentals that basketball players love. (Tex Winter — Phil Jackson’s assistant coach, credited with refining the Triangle Offense originated by Coach Sam Berry): Tex was a master at this. He had developed a whole series of drills to teach players how to execute fundamentals. As far as Tex was concerned, the genius […].

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leaderCommunicator

JULY 19, 2013

'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.

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CO2

JULY 19, 2013

'by Gary Cohen Dr. Jon Warner has once again compiled the annual update of the 50 Best/Top leadership blogs on the web as of July 2013. On Ready to Manage , he explains why the list changed so much over the past 12 months: Alexa rankings of individual blogs have changed considerably. This mainly arises not only because of the time invested by individual blog authors in the last year but because many more web sites and blogs have been launched (and Alexa estimates that there are now around 60 mil

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Your Voice of Encouragement

JULY 19, 2013

'It’s been more than 30 years since Dustin Hoffman played the starring role in the movie Tootsie. This now-classic film required him to dress up as a woman in order to play the character of Dorothy Michaels. But before he agreed to play the part, he had a requirement. He didn’t want to look like a man dressed in drag. He wanted to be seen as a woman when walking down the streets of New York City.

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Six Disciplines

JULY 19, 2013

'The Six Disciplines® Organizational Performance Assessment is the fastest and most effective way to gain clarity about your organization''s performance on the key Baldrige performance excellence dimensions of: . Leadership / Culture. Strategy. Customer Focus. Measurement . People. Processes. Results. Expertly designed and analyzed by our professional staff of certified business coaches, the Organizational Performance Assessment service uses questions that map to the Baldrige performance excell

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 19, 2013

'My own opinion is that all species (including human beings) must adapt or stagnate and then, in that event, eventually die. This is what Charles Darwin had in mind when observing, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most […].

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Deep Imprints

JULY 19, 2013

'Today, I am working from home. There have been a plethora of benefits – not the least of which was that I was so focused on work that I didn’t even look at my website until after 1pm. So, in no apparent order, here are some things to contemplate: Working from home is good! I get.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 19, 2013

'What’s the Future of Business?(WTF): Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences Brian Solis John Wiley & Sons (2013) How to gain an understanding of the psychology of engagement between and among connected consumers First, an introduction to Brian Solis who is principal at Altimeter Group, a research firm focused on disruptive technology.

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 19, 2013

'It was Burns (1978) and Bass (1985) who first defined the terms ‘transformational’ and ‘transactional’ leadership to describe managers who are strong on individual and group motivation and those who prefer to focus on goals, tasks and processes. Over the last decade or so, a number of studies have tended to confirm the intuitive expectation that people generally prefer to be engaged with their work, and so a leader who facilitates this is likely to be more effective.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 19, 2013

'Moms are great! Gotta love ‘em. But, seriously, they say funny stuff. I was remembering on vacation recently some things my mom said…some of them I’ve repeated. Which of these are familiar to you? Here are 25 things my mom used to say: “Whatever floats your boat” “If I had a dollar for every time” “I’m always a day late and a dollar short” “You’re cruising for a bruising” “And if you don’t quit it you̵

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

'As an entrepreneur who founded and runs a successful and growing business, Getaroom , I see many entrepreneurs with great ideas but no clue how the business will be profitable. For certain websites or apps, if the idea is good enough you can get lucky and sell the business after you get a spike in interest. However, most companies require considerable planning and need both a competitive advantage and a solid business plan in order to succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

'Shortly after my 21st birthday, I went on hiatus from university, and lived in Uruguay for a year as a missionary. Because I had studied Spanish in school, I thought I knew Spanish. It turns out I didn''t; I could say little, understand less. After eight months, when I was assigned to a town in the interior of Uruguay where no one spoke English, I finally learned to speak, understand, and even think in Spanish.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

'A stunning 70% of U.S. workers say they are "not engaged" or "actively disengaged" with their work, according to Gallup''s ongoing study of the American workplace from 2010 through 2012. Sales reps — the people who represent your firm with customers — are not an exception. What must you do, at a minimum, to regain the trust and recharge the talent of sales people?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

'IT is not something that can be managed from a box on the organizational chart. Unfortunately, this is not the view in most C-suites. Just look at what most do: They appoint a CIO and give him or her a budget and a mandate to get on with it! Why? As one CEO said to us: "I just want to forget about IT and concentrate on my core business.". Of course, this response would be fine if the challenge were merely to deploy technology (on time and to budget) and ensure it continues to function properly

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

'On a recent business trip I somehow left my credit card at a restaurant in San Juan. No big deal, I thought: Simply call the bank. When I got home, I eventually found, hidden on a remote corner of the web site, the number to call for lost cards. I was assuming this would be an important call for them, but I was left on hold to think about the power asymmetry between service provider and customer.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

'In emails, employees tend to show much more deference — using hedges and disclaimers such as "This may be a bad idea, but." — to people at their own level than to higher-ranking employees, according to a study that included an analysis of hundreds of corporate emails. Employees load their messages to peers with deferential and polite language in order to avoid suggesting that they''re trying to inflate their own status, say the researchers, who were led by Alison R.

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Career

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

'There''s the Rub. There''s nothing new about comparing global policies pertaining to working parents, particularly when it comes to working mothers. But Claire Lundberg, a 30-something mother of an 18-month-old who moved from the U.S. to France two years ago, found that the glorious-sounding parental leave laws in the European nation are just that — the reality is much more complicated.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

'For almost twenty years, I have refined a systematic approach to uncovering the right questions—those that start to unlock entirely different solutions and perspectives—with hundreds of teams around the world, from the C-suite to the shop floor. The method, which I now call Catalytic Questioning, incorporates five simple, unconventional steps to help change our questions — and creatively solve significant problems both in our personal and professional lives: Step 1: Find a whi

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