N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Something as simple as a 360 Review, or as complex as a deep psychological profile (both with weighted emphasis on leadership aptitude) can point out an individual’s leadership capabilities.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

While most executives that have reached the C-suite level understand the importance of scaling via delegation, far too many CEOs struggle with the effective implementation of the concept. The simple truth is that all great leaders are highly skilled in matters of delegation.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. The fact of the matter is that senior executives who rise to the C-suite do so largely based upon their ability to consistently make sound decisions. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Northern Command.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Thanks in advance… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] This is a must read for any executive who has face-time with the board. Experience, while a great teacher, can nonetheless result in a very costly education that rarely occurs in a timely fashion.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you are the owner of a women’s clothing line or the Editor in Chief of a woman’s fashion publication and you are interested in getting on The Early Show to discuss spring and summer fashion trends, tailor your pitch to meet the news of that specific audience – (educated, sophisticated, female oriented).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors? Many things in the church world do cross over.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” While inherently obvious, it should not go unnoticed that the use of the word no is 100% negative.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’re still on the fence, I would request you try and answer the following question: If you can engage those with whom you conduct business, or otherwise desire to interact with in a meaningful and value added fashion why wouldn’t you do so? Thoughts? Also, It seems like a ton of time needs to be devoted to it all.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Salinger, famous for “Catcher in the Rye” passed away this year, as did the talented fashion designer Alexander McQueen. I’m not referring to the passing of our own family members, friends and coworkers, but the tragic deaths of the celebrities, socialites and business moguls that we’ve known and loved (or not). The brilliant writer, J.D.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Then, look for venues in which you can expand your circle with connections that complement your professional life in the same fashion. Authentic Leadership I was recently at the Pa. Women Leadership and Mad Men Some revolutions are bloody, and some are flash-in-the-pan moments. Governor’s Conference for Women.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 24, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. Here's link to a post of mine a couple of years ago: Dan Nigro, Rick Rescorla and the Leadership Lessons of 9/11 [link]. We owe deep debts of honor to so many people for their service on that horrendous day, and in the years afterward.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 8, 2009

Even if we have never been placed in a formal leadership position, we influence those around us simply by being there. And, being human, we are not always going to act in exemplary fashion. For example, a long time ago, I was invited to attend a lunch in the Head office executive dining room. It happens. It happens.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

You see, while creativity is a clearly a valuable asset, unbridled creativity where random, disparate ideas abound outside of a sound decisioning and execution framework will create distraction and chaos much more often than they will lead to innovation. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

I'm talking about the fact that hard-charging executives in the financial world, just two years after the most catastrophic meltdown since the Great Depression, are back to the business of taking too many risks and asking too few questions. It's happening again, and I guarantee it's going to end as badly as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Big-company executives must choose to become personally more aware of new, growing companies. Other large consumer companies are doing the same.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. With what I’ve noted thus far I’m always amazed at the number of executives who don’t keep up with their professional reading. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Modern design schools increasingly encourage this, demanding that graduates be familiar not just with a traditional creative skillset, but with ethnography, finance, coding, and a host of other competencies. Establishing this role also announces clearly, to the entire organization, that mastery is respected as its own form of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Issues bearing significantly on the business emerge not just in legislative, executive, or regulatory settings; they can also arise in litigation or transactions or adoption of ethical standards necessary to pre-empt policy proposals. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., A needed a pproach.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

This ideology, Fukuyama goes on: could not begin with a denunciation of capitalism as such, as if old-fashioned socialism were still a viable alternative. But nobody believes that about stock prices anymore, and so executives are back to balancing competing interests — this time short-term traders vs. long-term shareholders.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. ” Make no mistake, they have substantial relevant experience.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Good luck [link] mikemyatt Hi Robbie: Well said…with leadership that has a world view like yours there is little doubt as to why you've achieved such success. link] mikemyatt Again, thank you for the kind words Awinash and I hope I've helped in some fashion. Thanks for commenting and best wishes to you as well Robbie.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Is it because everything valuable in regard to leadership has already been discovered? I believe our world is suffering greatly due to a lack of leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. While leadership doesn’t require being perfect, it does require doing what is needed and necessary.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

In 1977, the year the two executives joined, Nabob decided to sell and dissolve eight of its 12 product lines. Reynolds conducts a “smell” test, telling the audience that the competitor’s “ordinary, old-fashioned, soft paper bags” allow you to smell “the coffee inside, on the outside.” Desperate times called for desperate measures.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

On February 3 President Trump issued an executive order directing the Treasury Department to conduct a sweeping review of financial regulation, including Dodd-Frank , the financial reform bill passed, in 2010, as part of the Obama administration’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession.

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