N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Your business now operates as part of a global digital eco-system where leveling the playing field has become a digital impossibility. Don’t attempt to compete with those who are more evolved, piggy-back off of them, partner with them, engineer around them, on move out in front of them. Think next chapter vs last book.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2017

Facebook, Apple, or PayPal, all enjoy global success. These companies have “going global” down—they perform strongly in international markets, and can execute across borders because they embed globalization on their daily executive discussions. Being decisive on how to prioritize global expansion is key here.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest post from James Hlavacek: To improve innovation and growth, knowledge workers must be led, not managed. People at all levels of a company, both degreed engineers and factory-floor craftspeople, are needed to design user-friendly new products and assemble prototypes that users can experiment with in the field.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2013

Guest post by Nancy Vason: As leaders of global businesses, you draw from a deep well of talent. You employ engineers, plant managers, economists, IT managers and marketing directors from all over the world. Are they leading global teams? How can you cultivate the communication skills of your global team?

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Chart Your Course

MARCH 17, 2015

Leadership is the engine that drives successful organizations. According to a recent Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report: GLOBAL organizations today must navigate a “new world of work”—one that requires a dramatic change in strategies for leadership, talent, and human resources. Why are we falling behind?

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Next Level Blog

MAY 19, 2020

A few weeks ago, I received a nice comment on LinkedIn about one of my blog posts from David Hoey who shared that he’s been a regular reader since 2010 when I wrote about the leadership lessons offered by the Chilean mine rescue. Perhaps that’s one more leadership lesson we can all draw from their story.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2018

Guest post from Cassandra Frangos : We had a handy rule of thumb for hiring in my first job in management consulting. Yet, it’s not the same in every case—likability does not necessarily equal followership when it comes to leadership. In leadership, likability looks different depending upon the context.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. From a list of 13 leadership competencies for leading the function, here are the Top 5 that emerged: Executive communication.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

AUGUST 28, 2023

Four (and in some cases, five) generations were value-programmed by global events spanning from World War II to COVID, and everything in between! These values provide you with a partial description of the modern-day leadership landscape: Daunting, highly personalized, complex, and multi-dimensional! Own your readiness to perform!

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

The company global headquarters are in London, United Kingdom (Rio Tinto Plc) with the Australian Headquarters in Melbourne, Australia (Rio Tinto Ltd). This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) On with the interview. Rio Tinto provided that opportunity.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2024

Adapt to advances in generative AI: Experts predict that generative AI could automate up to 30% of current work hours by 2030, contributing an estimated $15 trillion to the global economy. Coaching, in particular, has seen a 177% year-over-year increase among managers and leadership teams. Change leadership is essential.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 12, 2021

An exceedingly bright and consistently energetic member of our team at The Center for Leadership Studies (CLS), who for all intents and purposes is just starting her career, approached me recently seeking wisdom : Her : “You know how we are always saying that Situational Leadership ® is a language of performance management and change management?”.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

To compete as a world-class company, world-class executive leadership is required. And while finding this elite leadership who will take your organization to its desired future state is critical, top-tier candidates probably aren’t going to walk through the front door. N2Growth is a proven, trusted advisor.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Following the Navy, he completed a fellowship at Yale in surgical critical care then held a series of increasingly senior leadership positions at hospitals in Connecticut. It happened during a period earlier in his career when his leadership responsibilities increased while fewer colleagues were available to help carry the load.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 16, 2013

The Power of Collaborative Leadership by Bert Frydman, Iva Wilson and JoAnne Wyer has arisen from the spirit of partnership and mutual inquiry. in engineering at a prestigious German university. In virtual all of her engineering managerial positions, she was the first woman. The Road to Transforming Management.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2014

Another common complaint about Business Review Meetings is that nearly always the time gets hijacked with discussions on day-to-day operating or tactical issues, especially when we have a room full of engineers turned managers; they quickly dive down into trying to fix the problem right then. Each global region gets 10 min.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

My entry into Reality-Based Leadership started with the Open-Door Policy. For the first time, I would be leading a team, which got me a free ticket to the Human Resources boot camp for managers. Designed to prepare me for my new organizational role, it was a crash course in the current conventional wisdom around leadership.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage. The Engineer The Engineer constantly improves everything. They love to take preexisting ideas and products and make them into something bigger—something reproducible, global, universal.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

He’s like the high IQ, low EQ, dehumanizing retail/technology global VP who joined us (and met the Canadian leadership team for the first time) at a strategic planning retreat a few years ago. ” Throughout the strategy session, it became clear the global VP was the quintessential bully boss.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Reprinted with permission from the book, Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership by Mark Brown, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. In addition, the group manages guest ranches in Montana, PGA Tour Superstores, and the Arthur M. I observed this power of mission-driven servant leadership multiple times during my career.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 17, 2020

One of the very best books I have read on speed is Lead with Speed: Fire up your team, power your engines of development, and make your organization soar. His experience and global work is evident in every chapter. The difference is mainly in the global scale of the need for speed pressure. Alan Willett.

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QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. Dr. Anne Perschel from Germane Insights shares “ The Secret Ingredient of Great Leadership ”.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Are you looking for the top leadership experts to follow in 2015? Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. 64 11,700 182 Bill Hybels Leadership, Ministry Sr.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

” Employees are constantly told they need to change processes and practices, only for the leadership team to keep on doing what they always do, and managers maintaining the same old routines. What leaders must do is to help employees and managers to recalibrate their expectations,” Altman argues. It may be a tough message.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2014

A slightly abbreviated version of this post was recently published in Smartblog on Leadership : True confession time. I once worked for a large, global conglomerate that was in a death spiral and struggling to turn things around. The Center for Creative Leadership is known for its “ 70-20-10 ” model of leadership development.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

For over 50 years, The Center for Leadership Studies has been known as the global home of the Situational Leadership ® Model. As such, we field questions like these on an ongoing basis from a variety of stakeholders: Can you identify and define the characteristics of the Situational Leadership ® Model?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. That is patch management—a relatively straightforward process, 10 or 20 years ago. Please follow the steps below to turn off Remote Management immediately.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

Adobe For All is a core platform of our employee experience, and during the pandemic, our employee networks went global as they stayed connected and engaged virtually. And as a company filled with analytical engineers, empirical evidence is a fantastic way to promote the best ideas!

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Global Practice Chair, Strategy N2Growth. Throwing out standard process and procedures in favor of a handful of powerful but easily remembered principles for managing strategy will soon begin to show improvements in your business results. Engineered to Win. By Mark Hefner. ADVANTAGE STRATEGY. Five Paradigm-Shifting Principles.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 1, 2018

To this end, humor engineered by leaders can shape a culture of empathy and relationship satisfaction and be a foundation for greater alignment. Now throw the instant and global reach of social media like Twitter into the mix, and we might soon be talking about digital intelligence for leaders too. www.jamieandersononline.com.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. The importance and value of leadership training and coaching came out clearly in the survey results.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 13, 2015

When it comes to discussions on the state of today’s leadership, one topic that understandably comes up is the issue of women in leadership. Specifically, why there continues to be so few women holding senior-level leadership positions in both the private and public sectors. This ability carries over into their jobs.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Being servant leaders as Chartered Managers In an opinion piece in the Daily FT , Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI, president of CMI Sri Lanka , reflects on a successful year and assures that CMI Sri Lanka will continue to facilitate the processes of up-skilling, multi-skilling, and re-skilling managers. Read it here.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 1, 2008

I’ll bet there’s a lot of small, one-person training departments and even big, global companies that need to run a lean organization that are looking for ways to train or develop leaders on the cheap. Get groups of managers together, assign a book, and facilitate discussions around content and application. It’s a great question.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

They are looking for the "right answers" - similar to the ones in engineering school. In some cases, brilliant technical experts should continue to be brilliant technical experts - and not feel obligated to become managers. Marshall Every two years there is a global survey to determine the world’s top 50 business thinkers.

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