Leading Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

When it comes to innovation, it is no different. Jeff DeGraff writes in The Innovation Code , “ Your dominant worldview is your biggest strength —the quality that makes you stand out from other people.” DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2021. This innovative resource features real-life examples of how today’s most successful companies are building upstanding character while increasing employee engagement, happiness, and performance. When we're moving at 115 MPH, we rarely see the wall coming.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Evolving Landscape of Human Resources Leadership In this ever-changing business landscape, the role of human resources (HR) leadership continues to evolve and adapt to meet the demands of a dynamic workforce. Moreover, HR leaders must have a keen eye for emerging talent coupled with attracting and retaining top performers.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2019. Become : The 5 Commitments of Purposeful Leadership by Mark Hannum. Mark Hannum reveals the evidence-based secrets that surfaced from vast data Linkage has collected on leadership effectiveness. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

In the past week or so, there’s been much discussion and debate over the merits of disruption and with it, how we view and understand what it means to innovate. It was a wonderful moment for the normally staid engineering team. Landing on Mars is a huge engineering challenge. It was innovative and seemingly crazy.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

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. New thinking will not likely come from those who want to protect their creation, but from those who want to engineer a new creation. Think next chapter vs last book.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2016

An executive at a company I work with recently told me: “W e have very creative employees who want to be innovative but find many obstacles created by the cultural opposition to it. We spend a lot of time training and encouraging employees at all levels how to be more creative and innovation. Allow employees time to innovate.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

The Scope and Significance of Global Executive Search Securing top leadership talent is essential in the dynamic and fast-paced business world. Their reach extends beyond borders, tapping into a wider pool of talent and thus making their services invaluable to corporations seeking to fill critical leadership roles.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2019

When creating an innovation team, we often put a lot of thought and effort into bringing the right functional expertise together. Making sure we have diverse marketing, design, engineering, product supply, finance, research and innovation working together early in the process is certainly smart.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2021

It turns out, they could withstand the impact, but the engineers designed them not to. The engineers design them to break cleanly for three reasons. Knowing that these breakdowns in traffic flow are inevitable, the engineers plan for it. These are awesome culture-building leadership moments. Your team’s watching.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Formula 1 racing is an industry built on speed, innovation, and teamwork. Flexible Work Arrangements and Pay Flexible work arrangements are not commonly offered to F1 team employees, especially those in roles that require on-track activities, such as mechanics, engineers, and drivers.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Even though Musk’s approach doesn’t necessarily provide a blueprint to be copied any more than Steve Jobs’ approach did (even though both individuals got results), it does offer lessons to be learned and applied in our own leadership. This emotional shutoff valve could make him callous, but it also made him a risk-seeking innovator. “He

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Leadership implies that someone is being led. Interwoven sentience is the path of innovation, creativity and sustainability for the organization. Source: Faisal Hoque: Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership. .

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Innovation doesn’t happen by one person having an aha moment. Leadership should shift from hierarchy to hustle. The CEO needs to take up the leadership challenge to help others respond to that. Leadership is a distributed capability throughout the organization. And yet we often approach it with an engineering mindset.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In his new book, Always Day One , award-winning Silicon Valley journalist Alex Kantrowitz takes readers deep inside the tech giants, revealing the leadership and culture practices that have helped them dominate the economy. Leadership Tip: “prioritize feedback, collaboration, and democratic invention.” A Winning Culture.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Benefits of Empathetic Leadership. When you start to explore the benefits of empathetic leadership on a deeper level, it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership. But it’s clear that empathy is a core leadership skill. Still, a sea change like this is hard-won.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2023

Professional development has emerged as a vital tool for business owners and engineers alike to enhance their skills, drive innovation, and achieve long-term success. The Power of Lifelong Learning The landscape of business and engineering is constantly evolving, driven by technological advancements and market demands.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Welcome to the December Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share our leadership experts’ favorite posts from 2018 on the topics of communication, creativity/inspiration, development, engagement, productivity, and more. Art Petty of Art Petty provided Leadership Power-Up: Make Time to Think Deeply.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2019. It provides readers with the tools they need to design innovative and indelible experiences and to move their organizations into the experience economy. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 39 titles. Designing Experiences by J.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 25, 2021

0:22 – Last chance to get your Kindle edition of Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates at a crazy-good price. 2:53 – How engineers plan for things to break to avoid more damage and minimize time to repair. Leading When Things Break. Why do they break at all?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg is how Google created its innovative and productive culture. Leadership requires passion. The book is full of principles that if they can’t be implemented outright in your own workplace, they can by degrees. It’s about how Google goes about doing what it does do—day to day.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, while I speak about Leadership and Workplace Culture, I realize that other topics are timely and meaningful based on an organization’s specific situation. And it is an article I will continue to update – Because at every event I get the opportunity to meet and see new speakers that might be a great fit for past clients of mine.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 4, 2013

All companies, no matter the size, need to continually innovate in order to remain competitive. Innovation is a two-part challenge. Organizations are not Structured to Execute Innovation. So why is innovation execution so hard? They are built to be performance engines. The first part is coming up with the big idea.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“People may just generally experience more of the positive stuff and are less likely to recall specifically negative leadership behaviors, especially if they’re overall happy in their workplace.” They asked them about bad situations with their bosses, like if their bosses publicly embarrassed their team or got very angry.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 10, 2018

Transformation is the natural byproduct of this type of leadership. Recently, I was listening to a podcast which shared how Texas A&M University has created a pilot program, combining engineering and a medical degree. Integrating these two disciplines can mean more precise medical procedures and other innovations.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Boosting Team Performance: 3 Ways to Make Your Team's Engine More Powerful by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr. Innovation Is Everyone’s Business by Ben M. 3 hallmarks of effective leadership communication. See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 28, 2014

If you ever wondered about the power of innovation to radically change lives, wonder no more. Anish Sarma , a volunteer at SpeakYourMind Foundation (SYMF) and research engineer at Braingate , tells us. For Whom Do We Innovate? As an engineer, I''m as enthusiastic about innovation as anyone.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 17, 2013

as a engineer? The engineer sees themselves as a tiny spot of ignorance surrounded by a vast see of knowledge. Corporate Team Building Innovation Leadership Organization Development coaching create-learning team building and leadership quotes Team Building' How do I approach team building ; as a scientist?

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2024

In the face of rapidly advancing innovation, many organizations are grappling with the growing skills gap. Foster strong leadership: Today’s workforce is facing constant change, from the rise of hybrid work to generative AI and widening skills gaps, leaving over half of employees feeling burnt out. Change leadership is essential.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

STAN takes STEAM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Art, and Math) to another level. Nonsense, the essence of STAN, puts the whimsical, visionary, inventive and innovative on equal footing with Science, Technology and Art (and engineering and math). Yup, Science, Technology, Art & Nonsense - STAN.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Through his leadership, the church has become a force to be reckoned with. How do we create a culture of innovation? At one point in church history, the church was the innovators. Now, the church has lost it’s innovation. Apple, Facebook, GoPro… These shouldn’t be the organizations that are innovative.

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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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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in November 2019. The quality of our leadership is based upon our intentions, energy, and presence. Building the Best : 8 Proven Leadership Principles to Elevate Others to Success by John Eades. and with it, the requirements of leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Previously, the leadership team had only met on a monthly basis. First, I had to align our leadership team to drive the service-oriented, flexible and innovative culture. Next, we implemented formal and informal leadership development for our most influential leaders to instill the culture and teach others the way.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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