N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

That’s because top-tier executive leaders devote time to imparting principles, techniques, ideas, values, and emotional energy to others, sharing their wisdom and expertise with younger employees in order to create a stronger and more dynamic business. Executives today are saddled with a business landscape unlike anything in the past.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 4, 2023

Why Young People Should Resist Being Cynical About the World. Fear and scare mongering get politicians elected and some bully bosses “motivate” employees, but rarely do these approaches foster innovation and sustainable progress. Finally, Some Good Climate News: The Biggest Wins in Clean Energy in 2022.

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Newsletter Crisis Health Care Positioning 59

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Lyn Boyer presents Healing the Wounds of Change posted at LynBoyer.net , saying, “this blog deals with what leaders can do to recognize and deal with fear of and resistance to change.” Listen in to the Management Tips podcast find out more.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Lyn Boyer presents Healing the Wounds of Change posted at LynBoyer.net , saying, "this blog deals with what leaders can do to recognize and deal with fear of and resistance to change.". Shawn Cyne, Author of Brainsteering, tells us to forget the brainstorming.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Deming 248

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 4, 2010

→ View from the corner cubicle: leadership lessons from Tomer Strolight Posted on March 4, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment TorStar Digital is one of Canada’s fastest growing, most innovative media companies. Don’t waste your energies trying to win everyone over. Management’s dirty little secrets exposed!!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Sometimes strategic change just means taking something from the periphery — an anomaly, a demonstration, a small innovation — and redefining it as central. Motivate change by creating a new narrative showing how success will be achieved and why the elements are in place to get there.

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Constraint Entrepreneur Globalization Media 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Sometimes strategic change just means taking something from the periphery — an anomaly, a demonstration, a small innovation — and redefining it as central. Motivate change by creating a new narrative showing how success will be achieved and why the elements are in place to get there.

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Constraint Entrepreneur Globalization Media 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

Motivating people to try something new, or to get on with innovation, is tough when the rules of the game are up in the air. Uncertainty is one of the primary reasons that people resist change. Seeds of innovation could sprout. You could be a CEO weighing factory location decisions in the U.S. Let ideas flow.

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Uncertainty Tips Safe Harbor Brainstorming 15

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

A flexible employee demonstrates proficiency in a variety of areas, allowing for greater use of skills and less resistance to re-organizations, transformations, or company developments. What you like, what motivates you, what fires you up. If you enjoy your work, you'll be more productive, more motivated and a better team player.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Elon Musk is already incredibly rich, and also doesn’t seem particularly motivated by further wealth. And yet this contradiction of motivations has mostly been absent from discussion of Musk’s pay. In fact, much of the discussion to date misses the point.

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For instance, think of all the zigzags in strategic direction the old Hewlett Packard took as it went through four CEOs in a decade: first, the focus was on technology innovation, then it was on growth through acquisitions, and then on efficiency. This is all right as long as they explain the rationale behind their actions.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. You can’t drive your vehicle on an empty tank, nor can you lead your life or teams with zero energy. My energy levels are based on the foods and beverages I consume. Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Innovating for Value in Health Care. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

Spreitzer and Wrzesniewski suggest using a job crafting exercise to redesign your job to better fit your motives, strengths, and passions. Focus on forging relationships that give you energy, rather than sapping it. Resist complaining. And you don't necessarily have to transfer departments or get a promotion to do it.

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Contract Manufacturing Case Study Delegation Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

He radiates energy, his eyes are beaming with determination, and he never really comes to a full rest. Sustainable speed does not come from ego-drive, that is, your own personal performance or energy level, but rather from a different approach to engaging with people around you. Image Source/Getty Images. From ego-drive to co-drive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Some research studies suggest such competition can motivate employees, make them put in more effort, and achieve results. But employees can also outperform their competition through innovation. As we have seen, leaders need to invest energy generating excitement by highlighting the potential positive consequences of competition (e.g.,

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Banking Creativity Policies Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

It’s time for companies to embrace their rebel talent as a way to foster innovation, employee engagement, and change from within. Rebels can especially benefit from Wharton Professor Adam Grant’s psychology research findings: a sense of appreciation is the single most sustainable motivator at work.

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Handbook Construction Bottom-up Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

In their own ways, these people had the same hopes that had first motivated Hilde 15 years ago, when she met Georg von Suttner at an Indian restaurant in Cambridge, England. Hilde had initially resisted, worrying that Caliska, with its existing nutraceuticals business, might fancy L-39 more as a dietary supplement than as a pharmaceutical.

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Case Study Pharmaceuticals Bottom-up Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Having cofounded and sold PayPal, he quickly moved on to launching a range of ventures with world-changing aspirations for how we generate energy , transport ourselves and our goods, interface with machines, and explore our solar system. By any measure, Elon Musk is exceptionally successful. Being truly coachable.

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Succession Armstrong Self-aware Wilde 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. Health care is not the only industry that is resistant to change.

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Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The head of what was then Daimler Chrysler South Africa, who had returned to his native South Africa after apartheid ended, motivated a hostile, unproductive black work force by engaging with them in their dream of building a Mercedes for Mandela. As a City Year trustee, I saw firsthand the positive energy Mandela unleashed.

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Incentives Long-term Power Resistance 15

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his Lencioni (Matt Holt, 2022) The 6 Types of Working Genius is the fastest way to help people identify the type of work that brings them joy and energy, and avoid work that leads to frustration and burnout. What is the key to shaping and changing corporate culture?

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 369