N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Leadership abilities are those that are utilized to organize others in order to achieve a common goal. The best leaders are patient, empathetic, and capable of effective communication and feedback. Leadership is an important attribute when it comes to hiring.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 20, 2009

For a while, this blog post kind of just sat there. Some people kindly picked it up on their Twitter radar but overall, I felt that its impact was, well, kind of flat. Some bosses don’t actually understand what their employees do or how their roles fit in the organization. There are some inherent dangers associated with that.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Uncover Effective, Expert Personal Brand Statement Examples​ What do Rand Fishkin, Charlie Puth, and Martha Stewart all have in common? They are all killer personal brand examples. While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Kind of a "no-BS" mood. Can you organize things? Give them positive feedback? Constructive feedback? People who want to be successful should get serious work about developing themselves in all four of these areas. With tones of "bearing witness" mixed in. The bottom line. The business. Can you cook great food?

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This delightful book includes 51 four-page chapters. To My Readers: I’m honored to republish, with permission, Life Lessons: Become The Best Version of Yourself by Rodger Dean Duncan that first appeared in Forbes August 9, 2022. In it, he interviewed me about important life lessons. Frank Sonnenberg. You may be thinking, “Who cares.

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Morale Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Ethics 116

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2012

We came to this conclusion from two directions: First in this group of 30,000, we focused on the 11,000 leaders who received the lowest aggregate scores on their 360 feedback reports — the bottom 1% and the bottom 10% — to see if we could spot any early warning signals that might have predicted their lack of success.

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Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Report Resistance 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Sometimes managers lack the long-term incentives to set clear development goals for short-term employees or to offer them reviews or feedback. Maybe work on a known weakness but then continue to really improve and develop ‘expertise’ level in an area that you excel in.” develop expertise in my industry).

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Mark Sanborn

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Four years later, he hired another person part-time. And when the decisions that your team makes are filtered through the same filters and four values we built our business on, we know we’ve been successful.” By his senior year of high school, Steven had taken enough classes that he could leave by 1:00 p.m. every afternoon to work. .

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Training Mission Statement Open-book Positioning 71

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Organizations looking for their people to love them better be pragmatic about their idealism. To do “what it really takes to become a company employees love” requires leaders to ask, “What kind of love do we really want from people?” What expectations should organizations love to encourage and encourage to love?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Organizations need to be continually on the lookout for new market developments and competitive threats, identifying essential experts and nimbly forming and disbanding teams to help tackle those issues quickly. Marina Nasr / EyeEm/Getty Images. The group was surprised several times by the demands of external stakeholders.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Digital today is part of everyone’s job — and many enterprise organizations are adopting strategic mobile, social, and cloud initiatives to educate and empower employees. Here are four ways I’ve seen this problem tackled effectively in my 17 years leading and consulting to digital teams across organizations large and small.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Here are four: 1) Reach directly down into the organization. Maintaining an obsession with the front line—where the company meets the customer—is fundamental to achieving sustainable growth. So how can leaders of growing companies maintain this essential focus? Sunny Verghese of Olam, and Adi Godrej of Godrej Group.

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Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In our new book Agile Talent , Norm Smallwood and I focus directly on this latter question: What must organizations do to be attractive to top creatives or other external experts? Why are organizations making greater use of agile talent? The Top 5 Reasons Why Organizations Are Increasing Their Use of Contingent Talent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Few organizations master it. At our hotels, we keep our team motivated and our morale high by focusing on four important factors: Financial Security. That kind of move doesn’t tell employees we care, it shows them. Neither do today’s guests of the Beverly Hills Hotel, a favorite of those two actresses. Forgiveness.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

This is a relatively new client, but I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt his positivity sets the tone for the entire organization and has produced incredible results. Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. Why then do so many CEOs appear to have a bad attitude?

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees.

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Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

In our view, Brian’s work is an excellent demonstration of strategic leadership. Also, all of his work was done outside the boundaries of strategic management practices within the organization. Companies like Google and 3M have benefited from embracing innovation that comes from all parts of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

You’re just making clear the kind of work you’re doing now and that you’re available to help anyone who might need it,” she says. Horowitz’s organization hosts monthly meet-up events for independent workers in 18 cities across the U.S. What processes and structures do you need to have in place?

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Succession How To Consultative Project 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Worse than this is the fact that 60% of average Americans only get through the first chapter. Do I have your attention yet?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Scott has generously offered to send four free copies of his newest edition of The Next Level to the first four people who thoughtfully respond to the questions at the bottom of this post (that means that there is some decision made on what “thoughtful&# means – i.e., just commenting may not get you a free book).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And yet when we asked raters to select the four skills they thought were most important for an individual contributor to have, less than one in 10 chose high goals. The less effective individual contributors are excellent “sandbaggers,” having concluded that the biggest consequence of producing great work and doing it quickly is more work.

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Resistance Learning-by-Doing Follow-up Goal 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

This kind of intellectual diversity is more likely to be present when individuals on the team come from different disciplines, backgrounds, and areas of expertise. This kind of intellectual diversity is more likely to be present when individuals on the team come from different disciplines, backgrounds, and areas of expertise.

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