N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

B EING A LEADER often means making far-reaching decisions that require major investments of time, resources, and energy. By asking more of these questions – of yourself and others -- you articulate goals, set benchmarks and assess risk. They ask about long-term goals, interests, and priorities. Who will it help?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The HR Digest: In a 2021 interview, you mentioned evolving leadership approaches. How has your leadership style adapted over the years, and what lessons have you learned in shaping a successful leadership philosophy? Every leadership journey progresses from individual contributor, to manager, and then leader.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

The achievement of current goals and objectives free up the time & create the resources to move on to bigger and better things…Trying to do too many things at once will impede progress, dilute effort & energy, add to chaos and lead to burn-out. Bottom line…success equals focus.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 20, 2013

Eleven Rings is a memoir that, for me, is more about leadership and relationships than basketball. Some coaches insist on having the last word, but I always tried to foster an environment in which everyone played a leadership role, from the most unschooled rookie to the veteran superstar. The most in NBA history.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In The Optimist’s Telescope , author Bina Venkataraman suggests that we can a “ radical strain of optimism ” and cultivate a sense of collective agency that would motivate “more people to make choices today for the sake of the future, whether it’s how they vote, eat, use energy, or influence others.” An “ optimist’s telescope ” so to speak.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 5, 2019

who is an executive leadership guru with LeadershipX) and Dr. Lynette Gillis (who is a professor at Concordia), and you know that you will have something special. Their new book, Powerhouse: 13 Teamwork Tactics that Build Excellence and Unrivaled Success , combines practice and theory and mixes in numerous soccer stories at the same time.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Maybe it’s from working in environments where people use passive-aggressive tactics to get what they want when there’s conflict. The way we go about using the energy created by conflict can be destructive or constructive. Conflict generates energy. Did you feel the energy contained in your discomfort? What did you do?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2015

No amount of tactical change management training will substitute for having an entire organization that has a clear vision of goals, shared responsibility, and personal accountability to achieve results. At best practice organizations, these success metrics are included in individuals’ annual performance goals.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2014

How can new leaders at organizations large and small help stir things up in a positive way that produces new innovations, generates new energy and engages staff? While this doesn’t necessarily mean wiping the slate clean, it’s important that the relied-upon employees are rallied around the same cause and focused on the same goals.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The typical inside-out view, by contrast, measures work according to whether we have completed our tasks and goals, regardless of whether they produce any benefits.” With passion and purpose working for you, you bring more energy per hour of work. The goal isn’t collaboration, but better performance. Hunt for value.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 15, 2021

I hope they’re helpful and make a difference in increasing your influence and impact: From Pleasing the Few to Engaging the Many : Lots of superstar individual contributors spend their time and energy focusing on pleasing the powerful people in their enterprise. If you want to get the nod, work on striking a balance between the two.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Once you know what you want, you have to set expectations in the workplace to achieve these goals. Sheryl Sandberg has said a survival tactic of hers was accepting that her husband may not have been doing things around the house like she would, but at least he was helping. Emit positive energy. Is it traveling once a month?

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 24, 2017

Justin and I were introduced to one another through a common connection who just knew we needed to know one another based on our values-based approach to leadership. One simple tactic to give your team an edge. But the simple truth is this: We are the ones that are harboring all this negative energy. Winning Well Connection.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Susan Fowler is a thought leader on discipline and self-leadership. She outlines how to rid yourself of failed motivational tactics and shares ways to go beyond discipline, willpower, and goal setting. “In a world crying out for effective leadership, I think we need to begin with an obvious source: ourselves.”

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 11, 2011

Additional Information Added perspective on the merits of a singular leadership authority can be found in StrategyDriven Decision-Making Best Practice – There Can Be Only One. For this reason, actions that are highly acceptable to or desired by one individual will cause some to pause and appear entirely counterproductive to others.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Do Leadership Books Really Help Advance Your Life and Career? There's a sea of poor advice to wade through looking for those leadership pearls of wisdom , especially with the popularity of blogging and the ease of self-publishing. Leadership books aren't a magic cure-all that turns you into a great leader overnight.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 24, 2016

T oday’s guest on the Answers From Leadership podcast is Ann Fishman. I’m excited to bring Ann on the show to discuss generational trends in leadership, especially in relation to millennials. Listen To The Answers From Leadership Podcast. These women are living the feminist goals. Receiving four U.S.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Having (or finding) passion seems especially important for leaders who need to infuse the energy of their passion into the workplace to get done what needs to be done. There is a gap between what they feel capable of doing — often at a more tactical level — and what your broad vision dictates as the end result. Tweet This

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Here's the complete 8/28 press release: New PDI Ninth House Pulse on Leaders research pinpoints personality traits that can both help and hinder one’s advancement through leadership levels, and uncovers stark differences between key traits for business unit leaders and CEOs. senior vice president, Leadership Research, PDI Ninth House.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2016

Within the leadership and management field, there is also much interest in discovering insights that can help us to better understand how to inspire the best in our employees. With the latest edition of the Summer Olympic Games now well under way in Rio, there is naturally much interest in the outcomes of various sporting events.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 7, 2013

There are two ways to look at the goals we pursue at work (and in life). Let’s start with a goal many of us share: “doing my job well.” If you are (or your employee is) someone who sees goals this way, you have what’s called a promotion focus. Confidence heightens their energy and intensity. for Canadian readers).

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Identify strategic objectives and goals. Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics. Sales is a tactic, one of dozens of tactics which an organization must pursue. Sales is a tactic, one of dozens of tactics which an organization must pursue. Generate select strategic options.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

Set yourself 5 personal goals to achieve. If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. These goals are generic to all industries and all types of projects. Regardless of your level of experience in project management, set these 5 goals for every project you manage.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

You don’t have the energy for listening to them try to convince you, so you say yes. When we’re at capacity, we use the one or two tools in our toolbox to manage conflict: shaming, intimidating, or some other tactic. Once I noticed these patterns, my goal was to understand the root cause of conflict mismanagement.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2017

And it’s costing you and the team time and energy. Unassumingly, they steer the team closer and closer to the goal. Ilene Marcus , MSW, MPA, is founder of Aligned Workplace, and author of MANAGING ANNOYING PEOPLE: 7 Proven Tactics To Maximize Team Performance. Already you are spending valuable time thinking about it.

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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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Jason Womack

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Recently, a Get Momentum member (and graduate of our past two Leadership Retreat programs in Ojai, CA) invited me to discuss the Get Momentum tenets of “FutureCasting” in to the new year with a small group of her most trusted clients AND advisors. Where did you notice that your energy was rockin’ at a night level? Think about that.

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leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The tone and tactics have infuriated some at the company. Bold leadership or bad decision? There’s little rationale for this move, especially for a technology company, and the direction comes in a memo that applauds the “positive momentum” and that the HR head “can all feel the buzz and energy in our offices.”. David Grossman.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

Leadership. by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. Tactics are often misconstrued as strategies. So are goals. Leadership. Main menu Home. What is the definition of strategy?

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 21, 2011

What Sutton discovered was that it didn’t matter what their role or function was within the organization as much as how they made others around them feel – that is, their ability to create this infectious, positive energy which they spread to those around them. 3 Tactics To Improve How You Give Feedback To Your Employees.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 15, 2014

Question : Can “working smarter, not harder” really be applied to leadership positions? Have a goal, ensure that 20 percent or less is devoted to information sharing, have a good agenda, get the right people in the room, and plan to have the meeting facilitated well. We waste a LOT of time in lousy meetings.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Ethics and profits are not conflicting goals. Corporate Responsibility relates to every stage in the evolution of a business, leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of doing business. It is during the downturns that strong, committed and ethical businesses renew their energies to move forward.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. Tactics are often misconstrued as strategies. Tactics are often misconstrued as strategies. So are goals. Frankly, strategy is overused and misused; the word is tossed around corporate boardrooms with reckless abandon. Ever heard this? Likely true.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He is reminding us that true leadership requires a degree of selflessness. IF YOU WILL LEAD, LLC Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Infrastructure Consulting IF YOU WILL LEAD recognizes that your personal and professional success depends, in large part, on your ability to effectively and powerfully lead.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

When Daniel Goleman released “Emotional Intelligence” in 1995, did anyone think that this best-selling book would transform the role of leadership? Your employees also have diverse skills, talents, and knowledge that could be beneficial to your overall goals. They’re unique individuals who have great stories to tell.

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Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

I recently spoke with the CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing company about his new CFO who was poised to attend our flagship program for senior executives, Leadership at the Peak. She had all the skills for the job but one; she lacked an executive presence, a certain energy, and gravitas. How to Increase Your Executive Presence.

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