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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Resist the temptation to just advance a broad number of disparate initiatives, and alternatively focus your efforts on the completion of a few high impact objectives. I Think Not.

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Love and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While being motivated solely by conquest may allow you to achieve a stated goal or objective, the cost will be great. They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. People’s resistance to display compassion, other than to family and friends, is what makes it so complex. I Think Not.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. And what are your strategic goals?

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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” Northern Command.

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Dawn Baker at Dow is revamping leadership development offerings to ensure they mesh with their company's sustainability objectives.

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Military Leadership Lessons for Training Doctors

Harvard Business Review

Even a full professor typically remains ignorant of vital skills related to organizational behavior, operations management, finance and strategy. The coursecovers topics including healthcare policy, finance, and organizational culture as well as decision making (led by an Air Force colonel) and conflict resolution (led by a minister).

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business Review

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Innovating for Value in Health Care. They’ve lived through tumultuous times before and the status quo has always returned.