N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

David asked Becky, “How come no one ever talks about love as a leadership competency?&# While l ove and leadership are certainly two words you don’t often hear in the same sentence, I can assure you that rarely does great leadership exist without love being present and practiced. I think it’s a great question.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : I don’t specifically work in the area of strategy or leadership, but my work often affects those areas as what I do is help people change behavior. Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, January 28, 2011 5 Leadership Styles that Work A guest post by Art Gould Recipes for Success: 5 Different Leadership Styles That All Work! But when you look more closely and study their leadership styles, you tend to notice more differences than similarities.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

He asked a question and then went around the table in an orderly fashion getting input from the attendees. Before we blame the CEO as a bad, old-fashioned leader, let’s check again: all other people complied. You “catch” and influence culture on a daily basis: where and when it happens. So down-to-earth?

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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

AUGUST 26, 2010

In Covey’s classic illustration below, you’ll find a simple chart to use as your guide. Another part of the art and science of delegation is understanding how to effectively delegate to others in a fashion that sets them up for success and not failure.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In the same fashion that being the source of gossip is destructive, so is furthering the damage by ratcheting up the rhetoric by participating in gossip. Let me cut right to the chase – real leaders don’t participate in gossip, and likewise they don’t tolerate gossip from others. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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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 first key in understanding how to make great decisions is learning how to synthesize the overwhelming amount incoming information leaders must deal with on a daily basis, while making the best decisions possible in a timely fashion.

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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? As an example, Look at Apple! But manufacturing?

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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 [.] Experience, while a great teacher, can nonetheless result in a very costly education that rarely occurs in a timely fashion. learning » Leadership thinking [.] managing the CEO-Board relationship [.]

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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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Lead Change Blog

JULY 17, 2015

But, leaders can influence how employees chose to feel exactly in the fashion outline by the junior philosopher. Leadership connections are similar to electrical connections. Employees are much more focused when they can operate from a wholesome, solid (no BS) position. They tell me neat stories…”. The move was dramatic.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

While anyone can have a social media presence, not everyone possesses social media influence. You might have something to say, but without influence, nobody will be listening. Put simply, having a social media presence without influence is little more than an exercise in frivolity. News Flash: you can’t.

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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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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Similarly, it’s important that through your leadership you demonstrate to your employees that learning is about discovering what you could do better, and not just what you did wrong. The reason for this is that our brain operates as a predicting machine; it likes to anticipate what’s going to happen next.

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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 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. If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best?

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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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CO2

AUGUST 13, 2010

Often when you read leadership books, blogs, or journals, you will be inundated with views on how leaders build trust. Consistency in others is demonstrated by a strong track record of success and acting in a predictable fashion. How will this inconsistency reflect on your leadership? Are you driving for that expectation?

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

If retail operations can more reliably keep their discretionary relationships with people who have to pay for that relationship than we can with our employees, who earn their livelihood with us, we need to take a serious look at how we’re creating the environment for those relationships. It’s more than simply clumsy leadership.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Let me explain.

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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]. I appreciate your post and using your influence in such a meaningful way. link] Wally Bock Thanks for doing this, Mike.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

But design thinking can also be applied to other business-related challenges such as devising entrepreneurial practice models, expanding professional services, operations, and even setting fees or pricing plans. Design thinking can be a critical tool for addressing leadership challenges. Michael Tardif. Strategic plan as jigsaw puzzle.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 13, 2011

There are simply no words that can do justice to the example of servant leadership epitomized by Command Chief Master Sergeant James Hotaling. A highly decorated member of the special operations community earning the Bronze Star with Valor for actions during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, Jim is a true American hero.

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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? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

In Superbosses , Sydney Finkelstein discovered that although they may differ in leadership styles, they share a playbook that leads to extraordinary success founded on making other people successful. Operating a masters, they forge sustained, all-encompassing, intense, and intimate” relationships with the people that work for them.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

The point is that we throw around this word “team&# in a very cavalier fashion, maybe because it has that warm glow of inclusion about it. After all, it stands to reason that we do our best work when we are operating from our strengths. So, what do we have to do to ensure that we are creating real teams? What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Much has been made in recent years about the pernicious influence of short-term investors on corporate performance. Clearly, some of these traders could get very rich even while others lose money, but these trades — unless they influence operators within companies — amount to little more than robbing Peter to pay Paul.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2016

The key is to create “intelligent autonomy” that gives employees the independence and influence they crave, but does so in a manner that thoughtfully avoids the contradictions and pitfalls of a poorly executed delegation of power. Here are eight ways to grant autonomy in an intelligent fashion. 7) Covet Communication Loops.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. .:) Actionable : A successful idea cannot remain in a strategic planning state.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 23, 2013

Remind employees that conflict is only negative if we tear each other down When it comes to conflict, there’s a understandable tendency to view it negatively in large part due to our past experiences where we might have lost influence or authority, felt disrespected, or not heard by the other party.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. In our version, we sought to identify only companies that are design leaders. Starting with a list of over 75 publicly-traded U.S.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

In contrast to “transformational” and “authentic” leadership, which has been criticized for being fuzzy and wishy-washy , “fitness leadership,” as we refer to it, offers a more concrete approach. Henrik Bunge is one such leader. As a start, staff members had to become stronger, in more ways than one.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 12, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Successful leadership ~ The Story of a Man The Comfort Zone… It Isn’t Always Dangerous → June 13, 2010 · 3:00 am ↓ Jump to Comments Communication… Two Good Things About Yesterday. What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

However, recently they began to take a more holistic approach, focusing on lifetime value and their most profitable segment, the “fashionable spender.” ” This group looks across the business to gather behind-the-scenes information on the runway, newest clothing lines, and aspirational fashion content.

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