N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2011

With all the attention and emphasis given to leadership, I have a few questions for you: Why is it that so many people refer to themselves as leaders, but truly great leaders are so few in number? How do you measure great leadership? What matters is how those impacted by your leadership think and feel about you.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

Use this energy for motivation and focus. HM: Work hard at being a positive example to others, (you can not expect others to work hard if you never sweat yourself!). JH thoughts: The classic “set the example.” Have a vision of what the future looks like and strive to achieve that objective.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By turning to a skillful executive coaching company that knows exactly how to deliver results when it comes to leadership coaching and helping leaders do what they do best: optimize their performance, imagine further, and lead well. Still, it has taken many different forms, and today, not all executive or leadership coaching is created equal.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

Leadership is not a great mystery. As a leader, you need to understand the specific traits that will help you achieve a high level of leadership success. Great leaders lead by example with an overriding guiding vision or purpose. They exude a passionate energy that rubs off on others around them.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. Here’s an example. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. You’re not managing your energy well. You must concentrate on managing your energy because there are so many demands on your time, that you can’t meet them all.

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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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

A great example of this would be carving out time in your already too busy schedule to mentor someone in your organization with great potential. Lastly, I’ll leave you with this reminder – leadership is not about how many emails, memos and transmittals are sent under your signature – it’s about relationships, service, and engagement.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

But to the surprise of most leaders today, increasing overall performance has become a complex, and in some cases, a Bermuda Triangle-like mysterious process that continues to baffle even the smartest people in the field of leadership and change. Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. One example from my latest book, Ruthless Focus, is Staples. Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Being a leader at home requires a different set of learnable competencies.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

The time, energy, and cost associated with acquiring a customer are substantial, the benefits of retaining customers are considerable, and the costs associated with customer churn are significant. This means you can conservatively expect to lose another $600 dollars of upside in our $2000 dollar example.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

One of the charges being levied in the Indian High Court was that Coke and Pepsi products were addictive and unhealthy, Hmmm…More recently there have been a number of energy drinks and dietary supplements that have been pulled from retail shelves because of health hazards posed by addictive consumption.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Who doesn’t love a business hack that expends very little time, energy, or invested capital?! As an example, my wife and I use a $30 Elf on the Shelf with our daughters during the holidays. However, the greatest value is felt when they receive the recognition they aren’t expecting.

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