Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 18, 2019

Leadership expert James MacGregor Burns, once wrote something that we think is very interesting to consider. He said, “Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.” As leaders, we must recognize this interdependency and leverage it to our advantage. The most effective leaders understand that….

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Understanding the Role of a Chief Commercial Officer In the complex world of corporate leadership, a Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) holds a pivotal role. The CCO works closely with executive teams to define the company’s commercial path, making pivotal decisions about brand positioning, market competition, and revenue growth.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Finding innovators in the life sciences industry The importance of innovative leadership cannot be overstated. Organizations can gain a competitive advantage by identifying and attracting these innovators, accelerating research and development efforts, and ultimately driving their businesses forward in an increasingly competitive landscape.

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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. However, recent technological advancements and industry shifts have expanded and evolved this role significantly.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 7, 2024

Leaders are increasingly recognizing the need to integrate AI into their organizations to stay competitive. As an executive leadership coach I’ve gathered five essential questions for leaders to grasp AI, make wise decisions, and navigate its impact effectively. How Will Leadership Adapt to an AI-Enabled Environment?

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In the rapidly evolving world of leadership, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Improving Customer Understanding: In the age of AI, understanding your customers on a deeper level is a competitive advantage. But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 27, 2024

Brad Jacobs’ new book provides you a treasure-trove of leadership lessons from a man with more than four decades of CEO and serial entrepreneur experience. And he shares his techniques for: Turning a healthy fear of failure to your advantage. Transforming a company into a superorganism that beats the competition.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I have seen time and time again how successful leaders unknowingly sabotage their own success through certain habits that they fail to recognize as detrimental. This can lead to a toxic competitive environment where team members are constantly vying for approval rather than working together for a common goal.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 6, 2023

Leaders must adapt to the rapidly evolving future of work to attract and retain top talent. To prepare, they must pay attention to changes and take action to ready their company. Therefore, it’s important for companies to prioritize diversity and inclusion in their hiring practices and create a welcoming and inclusive work environment.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

The tensions of returning to the office and figuring out the most effective permanent post-pandemic work arrangements are the topic of my newest book, Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage. So did Amazon for the same reasons.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2014

As I thought through this series, I reached out Kevin Kennemer because I knew that he had both the passion and the data to make the case that Great Workplaces enjoy a significant competitive advantage over their competition. [.] Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In Dream Big and Win , author Liz Elting shares the lessons she learned ― both the successes and failures ― while building a billion-dollar company from scratch. You’ll learn: Why ownership is a core value and a philosophy every leader should embrace. Why the key to motivating employees is in taking a personal stake in your people’s success.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Welcome to the July 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Dan Rockwell of Leadership Freak wrote recently about assets that help leaders extend their influence. Before highlighting each of the assets, Dan wrote, “Leadership isn’t about status, position, salary, or title. I hope that’s the case.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Leadership is all about the human experience. American leaders need to wake up and smell the coffee. Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. What can be done? As human beings we have emotions.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. First the bad news : If you’re not willing to embrace change you’re not ready to lead.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 10, 2021

It’s one thing to know something intellectually—to learn interesting new data, to gain an understanding of why something works the way it does, to be inspired by a message—but if it stops there and you don’t develop heart knowledge, then you’re less likely to see meaningful or lasting change as a result. Don’t touch it.”

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

Rather than seeing it as an obstacle to overcome, integrate it into your strategic approach to invigorate your high-growth potential and outperform competition under any market condition,” explains Rebecca Homkes , author of the new book, Survive, Reset, Thrive. Most books aren’t honest enough about how hard it is to reset ,” adds Homkes.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

Bob Lisser, author and business strategist, unveils the secrets to unlocking this growth advantage in his book aptly titled The Growth Advantage. The Growth Advantage serves as a comprehensive blueprint for companies seeking to thrive and gain a decisive edge in their respective industries.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

However, failure rates are well documented. Some statistics show even higher failure rates. Between my research and that experience, I’ve developed some insights into what makes a venture a success or a failure. Putting your stamp on the world. Entrepreneurship is a great, noble profession. The answer is complicated.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

leadership style. Guest post from Jean-Marc Laouchez , Hay Group: “Banking is no longer somewhere that you go, it’s something that you do.” - Brett King, Banking 3.0. When was the last time you visited a bank branch? My kids have never seen the inside of one. Chances are they never will. Just do it” doesn’t do it any more.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2013

How to Overcome the 3 Organizational Barriers to Leadership Development by @greatleadership. Failure: The Competitive Advantage by @LollyDaskal. Leadership Caffeine: Beware Leadership Drift by @artpetty. Video: The two most underrated leadership skills , a great leadership model from MIT.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Does the integrity and quality of your thinking position you for success, or does your tendency toward intellectually dishonest rationalizations and justifications doom you to a life of chaos and failure? By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. When was the last time you conducted an honest evaluation of your thought life?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

Welcome to the March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! Thanks to those who contributed the many excellent posts on leadership practices, the workplace environment and personal mastery. And a special thanks to carnival leader Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership for the invitation to host this carnival.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Throughout the ages, leaders and followers alike have wondered whether the process of leadership depends on inborn traits or whether it can be taught. Still, some people who strive for leadership never quite achieve it. Leadership skills can be taught. What is different about strategic leadership?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Anticipating and preparing for change is the essence of competitive advantage. The leaders who dominate in this new era will not only understand the changes affecting them, but they will seize them, master them, and use them to their advantage to achieve ever-higher performance.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 27, 2013

One recent article in Forbes magazine examined the interesting phenomenon behind a shift in today’s leadership principles. The article’s author asserts that old leadership models were based on power because business was essentially about competition. Here are five key practices to help you do this: 1. Be vulnerable.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2019

B LACKSTONE chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen Schwarzman has written a book about the potential that can be realized when you combine personal responsibility with ambition. What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence chronicles his life leading up to the founding of Blackstone and the journey to build it into what it has become today.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 19, 2019

Being known as an organization where the best people want to work isn’t just an HR issue—it brings a serious competitive advantage when the best people want to be part of your team. They fall into six critical areas: Great leadership. When you get leadership right, you get the right people. Great jobs. Great purpose.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Negative thinkers have a competitive advantage in the face of difficulties. They’re skilled at turning failure into lessons. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 8, 2020

More recently in the wake of the novel coronavirus, we have seen a second wave of disruption coming from outside forces, rather than competition. More recently in the wake of the novel coronavirus, we have seen a second wave of disruption coming from outside forces, rather than competition. Banks, by Paypal, Venmo, and ApplePay.

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QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. Beth Miller of Executive Velocity asks “ Does Your Leadership Fear Transparency? ”

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

ADVANTAGE STRATEGY. A move toward the Advantage Strategy Paradigm begins with the adoption and commitment to a set of principles that guides all executives in the decisions and actions they take related to developing, planning, and executing strategy. Here are the five principles that guide Advantage Strategy: #1.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

A business failure can cause all those problems and many more. There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. I certainly observe patterns among them, but they all share one and only one thing in common: they decided to get on the bucking bronco and actually do it. Family Questions.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

High-performing teams are increasingly a competitive advantage. The dictionary defines default as the “failure to perform a task or fulfill an obligation,” which means that default behaviors are reactive responses that occur when we fail to consider the appropriate response. . John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

In recent years, organizational culture has been cited as a reason for managerial failures at organizations including General Motors, NASA, Nokia, and Volkswagen. When you think about the five performance advantages Connection Cultures have, it’s not difficult to see how they would improve an organization’s safety record.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 2, 2018

But as a leadership executive coach with over three decades of experience, I’ve seen hundreds of leaders fail because all they know is process and procedures. That means making sure people feel invested in and nurtured, and keeping the company competitive in the market. So how do you start? Act as the brand and ambassador.

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