Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

S O MUCH OF LEADERSHIP is managing tensions. And that’s what The Dichotomy of Leadership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is all about. The Dichotomy of Leadership is meant to help leaders find that equilibrium. This concept frequently gets lost on some discussing leadership. It’s about your leadership capital.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

But to the surprise of most leaders today, increasing overall performance has become a complex, and in some cases, a Bermuda Triangle-like mysterious process that continues to baffle even the smartest people in the field of leadership and change. OrgSx (to get it done, execution). Distinctio (to distinguish, differentiation).

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Welcome to the November 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. These are all phrases we’ve heard from managers (and executives) recently.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 2, 2019

And while individual leaders are key to an organization’s success, collective leadership effectiveness carries the day. This means that companies are poised for even greater success when they scale their leadership, that is, when they grow leaders throughout the organization and align them into a collectively effective leadership system.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? Why Hire Executive Coach as a CEO? This is why hire an executive coach! This is why hire an executive coach! Why Hire Executive Coach – Get You Unstuck How do we become aware of our mental models?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The N2Growth Leaders25 Awards are considered to be the Oscars of professional excellence for Board and C-level executives. Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. “Great CHROs are worth their weight in gold.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? Why Hire an Executive Coaching as a CEO? This is why hire an executive coach! This is why hire an executive coach! Why Hire Executive Coaches – Get You Unstuck How do we become aware of our mental models?

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

By: Gary Cohen Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It’s hard for CEOs to improve their leadership because they rarely get candid feedback from their subordinates who fear possible retribution. This is just one reason why you would hire an executive coach.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

” “How do I scale my leadership influence as my team size grows?” ” These are “ Asking for a Friend” questions I hear frequently in our leadership development programs. . Translate your leadership vision to tactical, measurable behaviors. What does “regular” mean?

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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). In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. The problem is leadership on autopilot.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

APRIL 14, 2022

I like work involving big strategic thoughts and long-term plans 15.46% I like work focused on execution, operations and tactics 25.76% I like having a balance of both kinds of work on my plate 58.78% Enjoying the Strategic and the Tactical. This is only the beginning of the thought.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Commercial Acumen: A Key Skill for Today’s CMOs In contemporary business management, the criteria dictating the roles and duties of executives are constantly evolving. It serves as the springboard to innovative solutions, breaks operational monotony, and imbues organizational practices with agility and resilience.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I’ve written about these and other crucial tools for helping leaders improve relationships, gain executive presence and succeed in my new book, The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career. Below are five time-tested approaches for new leaders to get off to a fast start.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 15, 2023

The researchers examined nearly 400 Fortune 500 firms over a six year period to understand the role female executives play. “The relatively unregulated nature of their industries offers strategic and tactical freedom. . “The relatively unregulated nature of their industries offers strategic and tactical freedom.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 8, 2022

In our case, at The Center for Leadership Studies, when we contemplate the reasons behind our endurance, the answer is simple: The practical appeal of our flagship product, the Situational Leadership ® Model. is a nagging, two-part question: Is Situational Leadership ® still relevant? If so, how? Manage the movement.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2012

These constraints prevent leaders from executing on business activities and in some avoidable cases result in customers not receiving the goods and services to which they are entitled. In other instances, business operations cease altogether. You just finished reading Tactical Execution Best Practice 6 - Succession of Authority !

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Focus has always been a powerful characteristic that has served me well in all leadership roles alike. Then why is this so hard for executives and entrepreneurs? Tactical Business Plans : I like to keep things to the short strokes. The post The Power of Focus appeared first on The Executive Hub | N2Growth.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

When I was honest and took a longer look in the leadership mirror, I saw that I modelled some of that behavior. In our work with culture development, we clearly see a variation of leadership modelling; people in organizations act like their leader — despite all attempts to train them otherwise. Well,…maybe not.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For every task you undertake, have an explicit goal for an outcome and a set of tactics to achieve it. To get your head around how to make Exciting Outcome-Focused Behavior or FEOs part of your normal way of operating at work, you need to understand that your work tasks have nothing to do with whether you love them.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2017

W ILLIAM JAMES, one of the great thinkers of the late 19th century and the father of modern American psychology, has much to offer the modern executive. Instead, I let short-term tactical thinking cloud my execution. Trust your teams to execute. As a result, he transitioned from being a capable contributor to a leader.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

In today’s post I’ll look at the topic of resourcing as a key success metric for anyone in a leadership position. The essence of Leadership is not found in doing things yourself, but in teaching others how to do things better than you ever could. Leadership is about teaching, coaching, developing, and mentoring.

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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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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Fact : bright, talented executives with a bias to action will often take on more than they should. Fact : bright, talented executives with a bias to action will often take on more than they should. This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The extension process within the Crisis Leadership & Performance-Driven Execution framework’s Leadership GPS System evolves from the new reality in business analytics and organizational design. Doing the right things to get the right things done requires a GPS system to achieve high performance-driven execution.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 4, 2011

Watch This Video I hope it provides a new perspective on the leadership vs. management argument. As the video progresses, the orange horizontal line that cuts the image in half is what I refer to as the leadership line. Strategy is what provides the tactical road-map, and it is tactical execution that validates and delivers strategy.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® Model has been a viable tool organizations have relied upon to build leaders and drive behavior change for over 50 years. But are there certain sizes or types of organizations where the Situational Leadership ® methodology seems to work more effectively than others? The short answer to that question is no.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Focus has always been a powerful characteristic that has served me well in all leadership roles alike. Then why is this so hard for executives and entrepreneurs? Tactical Business Plans : I like to keep things to the short strokes. My answer is simply become very, very focused. That sounds simple enough doesn’t it?

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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. It might be time for a rethink!

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It may sound like the simplest of tactics, but it’s often the most difficult for executives to do well. Some leaders tout an “open-door policy,” not realizing that few entry-level employees would feel comfortable walking into an executive’s office. Make time for informal communication. Their workplace novels – B.S.,

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 8, 2022

In our case, at The Center for Leadership Studies, when we contemplate the reasons behind our endurance, the answer is simple: The practical appeal of our flagship product, the Situational Leadership ® Model. is a nagging, two-part question: Is Situational Leadership ® still relevant? If so, how? Manage the movement.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Author Gary Cohen calls this tendency the “just tell” style of leadership. But “ just ask” leadership , centered on questioning, inspires greater accountability, surfaces innovative ideas, resolves conflicts, and motivates employees to higher levels of performance.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the value of loyalty as it relates to leadership. If relationships are the currency of leadership, it is important for leaders to note that loyalty serves as the cornerstone of any healthy relationship. Leadership and loyalty go hand-in-hand.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.” - Jack Welch. In our view, the fault nearly always lies in the company’s strategy execution process. You have to pay attention to the human factor and design a strategy execution process which takes it into consideration.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. I’ve seen many an executive or consultant attempt to identify leaders with interviews, tests, evaluations, etc., Identifying leaders?

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The Practical Leader

JULY 21, 2021

The session was focused on operational and tactical issues. Leadership and culture development to build capacity for implementation planning wasn’t on the agenda. .” ” This leadership team was heading straight for one of seven common causes of failure – partial and piecemeal programs.

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