N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Repeatable processes and procedures add great value in stable and predictable times. Principles, not process and procedures, provide the overarching guidance in any situation for making the right decisions and taking the best action. Five Paradigm-Shifting Principles. Those are not the times we live in today or likely in the future.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

A Reel Leadership Article My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. What’s answered in this article is what leadership lessons are there in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever? Have a gallery of leadership alumni throughout the office.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. But it’s a process that does something crucial for skill development: it breaks the spell of automaticity. “By Source: Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success.

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Experience to Lead

OCTOBER 30, 2023

High-performance leadership isn’t just a goal; it’s the engine that propels us forward. Let’s explore how you can take your leadership skills to the next level as a high performing leader. Let’s explore how you can take your leadership skills to the next level as a high performing leader.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership reminds us that gratitude is good for you, but an attitude of gratitude is not enough. David Dye of Trailblaze provides motivation, encouragement, and inspiration in this list of forty-five leadership gifts you can both give and receive. Please submit your links here. A Parade of Gratitude.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 13, 2013

Seconds before the crash all four of the plane’s engines stopped working. ·. One of his dimensions is the “ power distance index ”. It measures how differential members of a society are to those in positions of power. The US has a relatively low “power distance index” it is a culture of straight talkers. 73 people died.

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The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

To explain what I mean, I’ll lean on my background as an engineer. In my engineering design classes, I learned about the concept of design or safety margin — a factor built into design calculations to allow for minor errors, miscalculations, under estimations, and other variables that are difficult to accurately determine.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The clutch, as you well know, provides the linkage between the engine and the transmission, which ultimately provides power to the drive shaft. When the clutch is engaged, the power produced by the engine is harnesses and transferred to the drive shaft to produce motion. Such a decision-making process is others-focused.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

W ITH the presidential election of 2020 upon us, here are some thoughts about the presidency: “Despite all of the trappings of power—the big house on Pennsylvania Avenue, Camp David, Air Force One, never having to sit in a traffic jam (ever!)—the the president is in charge of an entity over which he has fairly limited power.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

Guest post by Mark Hopkins : The best leadership tip I ever received came from a pastor’s sermon during a non-denominational service in Yosemite Valley Chapel. He went on to explain that this kind of feedback was confrontational and would only be accepted and processed by the recipient if it was delivered in an extremely caring fashion.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. However, their overall leadership scores are generally well below those of other less technical groups. So weak STEMM leadership effectiveness is especially critical.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Whether overt or covert, you must identify critics of change early in the process if you hope to succeed.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There’s not a lot we can do about the processing power between our ears. This rigorous and ever-deepening research provides hard evidence for the catalytic power of “ soft skills ” in personal, team, and organizational performance. But, too often, STEMM leadership is an oxymoron. Something is missing.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The process is to separate the important from the peripheral—to life people from their present reality to a future possibility. While virtually invisible, faith is powerful. It is what brings life to leadership relationships. Leaders with great power also have great faith and build that faith in others.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2020

Senior leaders who experience our culture process believe that culture is the primary driver of the results they’ve seen. Results of the culture change process include: ? Often senior leaders who embrace the positive power of culture find themselves in organizations that don’t support this world view.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Using this language is a powerful way to deliver a message to others without making them wrong. An engineer by training, he began his career as a Navy officer and member of the US Naval Construction Battalion (Sea-bees) and the Navy Dive Community. Mark Minukas is the managing partner of Co-Creation Partners.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

At Merchants we have a simple yet powerful vision— to enable the movement of people, goods & services freely —and a well-documented strategic direction that we revisit regularly and communicate to the broader organization on a constant basis so that everyone understands their part in achieving it.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 17, 2015

Now that you’ve absorbed the 8 basic principles of More Human Leadership , learned the 10 immutable laws that go with them, and truly know the difference between a boss and a leader , it’s now time to dig a little deeper. It’s process ahead of progress. Even with friends. Study up, and lead well!

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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 seek efficiency and quality and depend on processes. What they seek is power. First, we need to get to know ourselves.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2019

His boss – let’s call him Tom – is a fabulous champion of the company’s culture change process. Tom started with his senior leadership team by sharing his leadership point of view – his philosophy of leadership – and his values. That’s really powerful!

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2019

Ashby’s Law says you need to bring a matching amount of variety to the solving process.” A highly engineered conversation—engineered serendipity. And collisions can be engineered. A foundational idea behind the formula is Ashby’s Law or the Law of Requisite Variety which states: Only variety destroys variety.

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Leading Blog

MAY 16, 2020

Six powerful new technologies, all reaching maturity simultaneously in the early 2020s, will each act like a new color in the palette of creators, designers, and innovators. Sensors coordinate the activities of humans and machines as they work together, semi-automating business processes. He was born in the U.K. and became a U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. LFG has established itself as a powerful employer brand, and a company with a strong and stable culture.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Welcome to the September, 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale! Yes, it's back to school shopping time, and this month's Carnival gives leaders and aspiring leaders a shopping cart full of leadership development supplies. Where are you on your leadership journey? So stock up, and enjoy your reading!

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 2, 2014

On the other end of the spectrum, I’ve seen leaders who were so lackadaisical in their direction that there were numerous periods of dead silence as participants waited for the team leader to speak up and guide the process forward.” There is no argument when it comes about the extent of the leader’s power to shape a meeting.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Dan McCarthy posted a collection of top blog posts on leadership that included a post I wrote. Wally Bock presents The Joy of Helping posted at Three Star Leadership , saying “The best bosses revel in helping others succeed” Mark Stelzner presents Two Easy (And Legal) Ways to Gather Competitive Intel posted at Inflexion Point.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! Wally Bock presents The Joy of Helping posted at Three Star Leadership , saying "The best bosses revel in helping others succeed". She also provides a practical 4-step process to make a change in your attitude.". The fried clams won. Mike Henry Sr.

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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. It’s about upgrading the organization and its core offerings and processes from analog to digital.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Commitment means you will persist with the process long before it appears to be working. Any one of those truths could take an individual years to discover on his/her own, and any one of them has the power to immensely improve that individual's life. It's what we know that just isn't so that holds us back the most.

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Lessons in Using Checklists for Managing Processes Most quality management theories and modern management practices rely heavily on checklists as an important tool to get things right the first time. I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2017

But, in order to realize that promise, business leaders must be willing to drastically re-think their company’s business processes. The assembly-line, given the power of today’s digital technology, is becoming an unnecessary construct. Today’s digital capabilities offer great promise for businesses big and small.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Gen Z is already responsible for $29 billion in purchasing power and more than $333 billion in influence. 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine?

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Gen Z is already responsible for $29 billion in purchasing power and more than $333 billion in influence. 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine?

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Vivek and Farai have curated a collection of personal, powerful, inspiring, encouraging, disruptive, and challenging stories of women who grabbed the status quo by the horns. Freshman Engineers designing radial keyboard for the communication impaired (e.g., STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math; STEAM = STEM + [Art + Design].

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The Recovering Engineer

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

November 2, 2010 by Guy Harris Filed under Communication Skills , Leadership Skills , Persuasion , Resolving Conflict Leave a Comment This morning, I read a great post by my friend and colleague Kevin Eikenberry. To illustrate the power of this tip, imagine a young child walking across your kitchen with a cup of milk.

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