Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: Learn an organization’s culture before working with or for it. Lesson: Moral Hazard.

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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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

They all share their methods, their successes and failures, and the lessons they learned. Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue,” he adds. And why the relationship that executives and leaders have with the sales organization is among the most important elements of growth leadership. The Growth Leader reveals how top executives create profitable growth through the intersection of strategy, leadership, and sales.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I was especially fascinated to learn about the difficulties Dickens had in publishing what he called “his Ghostly little book” to “haunt their homes pleasantly.” I’ve slightly revised and updated this post from last year with my top five life and leadership lessons from Scrooge: 1.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Below is a list of security initiatives that a security leader would either manage or have parallel impact upon within a business: Data security. Vendor management. Identity & Access Management (IAM). Vulnerability Management (VM). Managing enterprise risk tolerance. Human resource leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Shamis: One of the most gratifying experiences in writing a leadership book is the introspection youallow yourself in the process. I managed a national top-forty accounting and consulting firm (SS&G). Several of our initiatives set the industry standard for successful firm management. People leave managers, not companies.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 14, 2024

Interview: “I’m doing things I never dreamed of doing” Written by Jamie Oliver Tuesday 14 May 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Naomi Ogundiran had to rethink her life after not getting the school grades she wanted. You only regret the chances you don’t take in life, that’s what I think.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 19, 2023

When you’re leading through change, help your team recognize the behaviors they are already doing that are making such a positive difference. In the video, I describe a time-tested tool, Kurt Lewin’s Force field analysis that we use quite frequently in our leadership programs. Get curious about the possibilities.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

M aking any progress, process transformation or change across American communities and throughout the global business communities as usual is always hard and usually requires a significant investment of resources – people, finance and effort. Embrace a do it now philosophy; learn to be a better you because everybody else is taken.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 12-Week MBA offers an alternative way to learn business essentials by focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as both a manager and a business leader. Billhardt and Kracklauer : Learning is fundamentally a social activity.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

Blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, 3D printing, and robotics are among the most important technologies of today’s rapidly changing world. Nonetheless, these changes are everything but easy to implement because they challenge traditional ways of thinking and doing business.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

Adam Bryant has put together a great leadership companion with Quick and Nimble. There’s great advice on a wide range of leadership issues from Why Culture Matters to Alone at the Top. At the end of the day, if the thirteen thousand people on the front lines don’t understand what you’re trying to do, forget it.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® methodology is a “50 – 50 model.” It has been in active use for over 50 years, and it was created approximately 50 years after the discipline of organizational behavior and leadership development began. Leadership is joined at the hip with achievement (goals; tasks; desired outcomes; targeted results).

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It took a global pandemic to shake open executive minds to the possibility of better ways of doing office work. Why do we work in offices at all? Facility managers should be rewarded for maintaining highly sustainable environments, not merely reducing costs. We can all do much to improve the regenerative capabilities of offices.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2017

Learn from the Past. Instead of taking a step back to see what I could have learned from others who went before me, I plunged right into the task. Hikers learn to reserve judgment about others. Walking across a country sounded like a crazy thing to do before I did it. Think About the Future.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. If you can’t learn you can’t thrive.) What should we be doing now to insure we have a future? How do we create the future while managing the present? Actions have consequences and continuity of character matters.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Throughout the course of my career in leadership development, I’ve had the opportunity to confront, counsel, and console a lot of bad managers. As an HR manager, I sometimes had to discipline or even fire bad managers. More often, it was as a result of a manager receiving a rough 360 assessment. I mean, seriously?

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 19, 2022

I was especially fascinated to learn about the difficulties Dickens had in publishing what he called “his Ghostly little book” to “haunt their homes pleasantly.” Here are my top five life and leadership lessons from Scrooge: 1. Life and Leadership Are Habit Forming. Reflection and Renewal.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Delve into Richard's personal leadership journeys, including his methods for becoming effective leaders and inspiring others to do the same. Videos and Webinars] [Flexibility] Managing Change Learn about the change management process and ways to meet the challenge of leading people in turbulent times.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

This 1954 movie brought the truly timeless and consequential components of leadership into focus for me. Emotion Is Integral to Quality Leadership. Overcome the fear of failure so you can do the right thing rather than the thing you believe others expect you to do. Guest post by Andrew Cravenho. Self-Confidence.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Given not all CHROs are created equal, how do you differentiate from those who simply sit in the chair versus those who set the chinning bar for the future of the role. Put simply, how do you judge the success of a chief human resources officer, and who qualifies for the 2020 Top CHRO List? Selection Methodology.

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2023

Women’s leadership programs have been a crucial topic in recent years, with much discourse over their effectiveness in the workplace. On one hand, women-focused programs provide the skills, community support and resources women need to succeed in leadership roles.

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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. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Today’s guest post by Kevin Eikenberry ( @kevineikenberry ) really resonates with me because it’s chalk full of leadership perspective. Kevin also hosts the Best of Leadership Blogs 2010 contest of which this blog is a nominee (if you haven’t voted yet, today is the last day for voting). What do I mean?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Evolving Role of the CMO Previously, a Chief Marketing Officer’s or CMO role mainly involved traditional marketing activities like brand management, public relations, and market research. Leaders can embed creativity into the core leadership approach by empowering team members to think outside the box and challenge the status quo.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Resistance to Change and Learning Anxiety. What do you think we can do to increase the numbers to y?” Management must be OK with the team changing the steps, as long as the change goal is met you cannot micromanage the process. In management meetings we asked for what worked and what needed to be changed.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. On with the interview. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. In today’s post I’ll share 6 leadership characteristics that require zero talent or skill.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I asked him, “What are you doing to celebrate failures?” We then looked at some fun ways that corporate leaders have learned to take their failures and celebrate them. In doing so, they help their most creative people to develop exciting new ideas. This creates a culture of trying out new ideas and learning from the results.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. What’s interesting to me is that of all the constituencies that CEOs must deal with, the relationship with a board of directors is among the easiest to manage.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In today’ post I’ll share my thoughts on the value of learning to become a humble leader… It’s been said that life is a long lesson in humility. As a leader, the sooner you come to grips with your humility the better leader you’ll become.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

T HE BOTTOM LINE is that there is no “good leadership” without ethical thinking. The thinking that powers leadership choices must be grounded in ethical values or the impact on important constituents will be overlooked. Even non-profits have to carefully manage finances and raise funds using ethical practices.

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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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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2019

In today’s business environment, project managers are now recognized for their critical role in keeping essential business functions running smoothly. As such, there’s been a corresponding boom in demand for workers with project management skills. Change Management. Business Expertise.

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