Lead Change Blog

APRIL 27, 2021

Jayden,* a newly appointed supervisor, approached me with a question at the end of a leadership program. The same is true for your leadership career. Your mission statement should include powerful verbs that reflect your vocation and the people you serve. What can I do to advance quickly as a leader in my company?”

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

“Only you , as a senior leader, have the power to direct your company to continuous and sustainable success,” says Scott K. 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.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The book got his career and finances back on track, while reinvigorating and popularizing Christmas traditions first in Victorian England and then North America. 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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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We discovered through a rigorous analysis applying 70 years of Nobel-prize winning economics that Mobsters have leadership teams and structures that enable their success despite continuous efforts to disrupt them. Relentless offers five transformative leadership lessons that leadership training programs must incorporate and promote.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Books like Helping People Change and The Power of Bad , have the power to change forever how we work with others and address the things that hold us back. The Power of Bad : How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It by John Tierney and Roy F. Maxwell (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) In Leadershift , John C.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 9, 2019

Welcome to the July Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building provided TWO Powerful Questions to Use Instead of Asking “What’s Wrong?”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Nearly a third of managers say they’ve actually “quiet fired” an employee via @jobsageworks. TBM 49/52: Pyramid of Leadership Self/Other Awareness by @johncutlefish. The Old Model of Manager is Broken—It’s Time to Start Fresh by @artpetty. UK's new finance reforms part of a 20-year plan to be world's next Silicon Valley.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Management must be OK with the team changing the steps, as long as the change goal is met you cannot micromanage the process. Example – Working with a large Coffee and Bake Shop franchise headquarters wanting the district managers to use Coaching & Feedback as opposed to authority and demands with the franchise owners.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

While the concept of thought leadership is well established among individuals, it is less so among organizations, which is a gap a recent study from INSEAD attempts to plug. The researchers first gathered data on follower counts and company revenue to evaluate the link between opinion leadership and business success.

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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). Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.

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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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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The book got his career and finances back on track, while reinvigorating and popularizing Christmas traditions first in Victorian England and then North America. Here are my top five life and leadership lessons from Scrooge: 1. Life and Leadership Are Habit Forming. Less effective managers are pulled down by their shackles.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Zig Ziglar is known for saying, “You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.” In this time of unrest and change, the role of Emotional Intelligence (EI) in leadership has emerged as the critical skill set for leaders. At every level of the organization, EI’s pivotal role is to help the leader: Manage self.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In addition to entrepreneurship-specific careers, you may find jobs as research and development specialists, general managers, and sales representatives. You’ll learn about critical topics, including financial management, marketing, and business planning. But they need more than just a great product to succeed.

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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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Terry Starbucker

JULY 14, 2013

They were in their own little bubble, emmersed in the day-to-day challenge of serving customers 24 hours a day, in sometimes challenging conditions (geographically, meteorogically, and financally). That’s what great more human leadership is all about. Leadership' And boy oh boy, did things accelerate after that.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

As a few recent examples, Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, is changing the face of finance as the first decentralized peer-to-peer payment network powered by its users with no central authority or intermediaries. It takes a unique mindset to execute them. . Creativity is thinking up new things.

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Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 15, 2017

Running an organization requires the management of certain functions. Take financial management, for example—no one gets a pass on that. Culture is a part of every organization (like finance), and there is increasing agreement that it has a direct and powerful impact on competitiveness, performance, and bottom-line results.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In her book “ Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands” , Nancy Ortberg talks about the need to differentiate between “ a tension to be managed and a problem to be solved “ One example for me is the constant tension between the administration/money side of ministry and the discipleship/hands on side of ministry.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I am proud to teach Situational Leadership ® every day. Even as 14+ million managers have gone through the program in some form or fashion, it remains a comparatively untapped resource and strategy for many of the urgent leadership challenges in our world today! Application Questions. Look back if you are a Situational Leader.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2010

Have you bought-off on the myth of multi-tasking, or do you believe in the power of restraint and focus? Bottom line…success equals focus. Sound-off in the comments below… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] mikemyatt Your most welcome Sai…I'm glad the information was of benefit.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The finance person’s priority is budgets and profit/loss statements. But a leadership team’s members need to own responsibility for the whole business, not just their individual pieces of it. A good friend of mine, , Scott Ault, who is the EVP of Workplace Solutions at Mutual of Omaha, understands the power of priority.

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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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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

The leading candidate is the scheming CFO played by Frederic March, a passionless, colorless bean counter groping for power, but with no vision beyond increasing dividend payouts to stockholders. This 1954 movie brought the truly timeless and consequential components of leadership into focus for me.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Kevin Eikenberry ( @kevineikenberry ) opened-up voting for The Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 yesterday , and the N2growth blog was one of 11 blogs nominated for the award. I know all but one of the other nominees and would highly recommend any of them as a high quality source of leadership information.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

To be recognized on the 2020 Top CHRO List, the words leadership, team, succession, purpose, culture, governance, and diversity are not just buzzwords – they represent who a CHRO is, what they believe, and where they work every day. LFG has established itself as a powerful employer brand, and a company with a strong and stable culture.

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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). Most would call it work.

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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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. Superbosses : How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein Although Superbosses may differ in leadership styles, they share a playbook that leads to extraordinary success founded on making other people successful.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While hubris can be a needed trait to call upon at times, to rely solely upon it as the foundation of your leadership style just doesn’t work. Thanks in advance for sharing… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] It was C.S. link] Ovidiu What a GREAT article!

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

“Manager&# is an interesting title. An account manager is different from a store manager. Even within the title of “store manager&# the scope and breadth of responsibility varies widely. The manager of a 7-Eleven has significantly different responsibilities than the manager of a Costco store.

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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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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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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It can be found throughout various industries, from marketing to law to finance. In that case, it might make it harder for people who don’t fit into this mold to achieve leadership positions. How Does The Boys-Club Affect Leadership In The Workplace. What should my manager do next?” Bottom Line.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

I was recently asked the following question: “What is the difference between CRM and CEM, or is there any difference between the two?&# In a previous post I addressed the practice of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in fairly great detail. As most of you know I am a huge fan of well conceived CRM initiatives.

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