Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Our research on CEOs and their senior leadership teams reveals that regularly reevaluating and adjusting the leadership team is crucial for optimizing a company’s performance over time. Instead, leaders must reassess their leadership teams, from redefining existing roles to creating new roles to altering how different roles interact.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

From the era of large mainframes, command line interfaces, and backing up data on tape to the modern world of cloud computing, user-friendly interfaces, and low-code/no-code software development, technology has continued to change rapidly and has significantly shaped our lives and businesses.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2023

As the healthcare industry continues to undergo rapid changes, driven by advancements in technology and evolving patient needs, it is crucial for healthcare organizations to stay ahead of the curve. Case Study 1 One example is an organization disrupting the sector with a Patient Engagement Platform.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. Leadership Lessons. Southwest Airlines Fall From Grace. Invest in Technology.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. In servant-leadership terms, this is a failure of the principle, THOROUGHNESS.

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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). 90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR). The problem is leadership on autopilot. Rethinking Leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This reality is becoming a competitive differentiator for organizations willing to embrace it. Nevertheless, businesses that solve these challenges can benefit from increased flexibility, reduced operational costs, greater productivity, and an improved ability to scale.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

T HE BIGGEST CHANGE being brought about by AI is not human replicas, but the emergence of digital operating models. When a business is driven by AI, software instructions, and algorithms make up the critical path in the way the firm delivers value.” The operating model is how that is accomplished. But here’s the thing.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

However, the most important duty associated with entrepreneurship is leadership. While different scenarios demand different leadership styles, leaders can use the following tried-and-tested leadership lessons to lead effectively. Do not get involved in tasks that the use of software can automate.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Chief executive: CEOs are responsible for leading their organization and making sure that it’s running smoothly. General managers are responsible for managing a department or division within an organization, as well as taking care of all the details that go into running a company. They manage everything sales in a company.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

Other than emphasizing that digital transformation is hard work, they make a valid point about how industrial manufacturing firms that used to sell hardware and give the software away for free, have created new business models selling personalized performance-enhancing software too.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2021

The dashboard built into the press software kept careful track of impressions per hour. Strategic Clarity – leaders must constantly assess how well their organization’s strategy is understood across operations staff. However, if the color scheme was off by just 2%, the printed matter would not meet their customer’s standards.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

As a leader in your organization, it’s up to you to determine whether your company’s legacy and corporate culture will be positively driven by a corporate purpose or negatively driven by a short-sighted focus on profit alone. Corporate purpose guides all activities and decisions within an organization. What Is Corporate Purpose?

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

As a leader in your organization, it’s up to you to determine whether your company’s legacy and corporate culture will be positively driven by a corporate purpose or negatively driven by a short-sighted focus on profit alone. . Corporate purpose guides all activities and decisions within an organization. What Is Corporate Purpose?

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CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

When people are aligned and prepared to make decisions, organizations and their employees act purposefully and swiftly. Predictably Unpredictable Organizations like to plan for predictable growth, and yet most organizations don’t grow or shrink in predictable ways. It also leads to a stronger sense of community and engagement.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

There’s lots of talk about building agile organizations. Organizations that will survive — even thrive — in these disruptive times are fast and flexible. Agile approaches began a few decades ago with software development. Products and services pulled through the organization. For good reason.

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leaderCommunicator

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2017

Organizations in practically every industry are struggling to attract and retain great talent, especially in senior and executive leadership roles. With average job tenures dropping at every level, Human Resource professionals may need to play a more active role in leadership development and coaching.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

This business process management software makes it easier to manage a complex business because integrated applications help automate a number of back office functions and coordinate all operations. Since ERP does so much, ERP vendors play a huge role in guiding organizations on their ERP selection. 3 Benefits of ERP Software.

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LDRLB

JULY 27, 2012

With the cost per hire only rising , why do so few organizations have a process for identifying and cultivating leaders within their existing talent pool? Companies need to change the way they are sourcing leadership talent. Here are reasons to do it: Leadership Programs Boost Employee Engagement. That was three years ago.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

In today’s high-velocity environment, Scott Klososky believes you need to understand how to guide your organization in the implementation and usage of technology—in short, how your organization “does” technology. [As Younger generations will not operate like the current generation of leaders ….If

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Leading Blog

MAY 20, 2020

But these days a maverick CEO is often at the center of board and executive consternation and investors’ claims that leadership failed to protect the company. Travis Kalanick 's brash operating style and the toxic working environment he created led him to be tossed out of the company. Be contrarian.

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HR Digest

MAY 25, 2023

One of the key themes for many organizations in the next 10 years will be digital transformation. Digital adoption and transformation is a key development for most organizations in their strategic goals. HR digital transformation is the process of changing operational HR processes to become automated and data driven.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2017

The change would be difficult for him personally and financially, and carried with it some risk of fallout in other areas of the organization. But there are times when negativity outweighs whatever contributions a person makes—and he has to be removed in order to preserve the organization. * * * This post is by Mike Tierney.

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HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned HR professional or a business leader seeking to optimize your training programs, this article will provide you with the insights and strategies necessary to elevate your organization’s learning and development initiatives as you learn how to conduct a training need analysis assessment correctly.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 16, 2017

Try steps for leaders to take for building teamwork in the workplace from Amanda Cameron of Patriot Software, LLC Follow Amanda. If you find yourself on a dysfunctional team, or just want to get a new team off to a great start, ask yourself the following three questions from Susan Mazza of Random Acts of Leadership. Follow Susan.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 2, 2019

Guest post from Alexandra Levit: As a futurist, it’s my job to track the evolution of the 21st century organization, and as of late we’ve come upon new challenges in reputation management, intellectual property, and digital transformation and disruption. In the next decade, though, most organizations will become more proactive.

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Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

Even with this fact, most businesses are organized in a traditional, hierarchical way. Hierarchical organizations exist to establish order. With more than one way to organize a business, why don’t we see other models used more? With more than one way to organize a business, why don’t we see other models used more?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 1, 2018

But as an entrepreneur, all the needed skills like leadership, relationship building, etc., Sam Walton, of Walmart fame, began learning and practicing his leadership skills from an early age: playing on sports teams, observing and listening to his job supervisors, and participating in and leading volunteer organizations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Organizations have many walls that hamper culture, development, and operations. Paul LaRue of The Upwards Leader shares How Leadership Can Break Down Walls. Jim Bouchard of The Sensei Leader shares that leadership by example should be part of the culture at every rank. .” – Michael Jordan. Follow Paul.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Leaders of small and medium size businesses (SMBs) often think their size lets them operate under the radar, as less attractive targets to bad guys. Someone in their organization, without explicit or implicit authority or oversight, may be making decisions adding to the Tech Debt 2.0 load and increasing exposure to cyberattacks.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 6, 2018

This is the usual story for a first-level supervisor – the person directly overseeing the personnel who serve customers, make the widgets, or code the software. More specifically, the leadership training. Delivering such training can be expensive, because this is typically the largest management group in most organizations.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Step 3: Leadership is Ever Evolving. Making sure that you embrace helpful software and technology, such as field service software for your operatives , shows your employees that you care about proper management systems and anything which can make their jobs a little easier. Step 8: Stay Organized.

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HR Digest

JULY 2, 2023

So, if you’re ready to elevate your HR game and make a lasting impact in your organization, read on and discover how you can become a standout HR professional in today’s dynamic workforce. These events allow you to meet HR professionals from different organizations, learn from their experiences, and exchange ideas.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

In struggling to generate a sufficient number of creative ideas, we typically blame the number of creative individuals in our organization or hierarchy and bureaucracy. As a result, they are viewed as having less leadership potential. Many organizations fail to understand and embrace the discontinuous nature of the creative process.”

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LDRLB

JANUARY 30, 2013

Whether you’re CEO of a company, a team manager or a hard-working employee, adopting and possessing leadership qualities can enhance your professional trajectory and even personal life. Labeling yourself as a leader and possessing leadership qualities personally executed can be seen as different entities. True Characteristics.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 4, 2022

Soft skills such as leadership , social awareness, communication skills, empathy, compassion, stress management , etc., As a result, organizations begin to recognize the importance of developing people with these attributes. More businesses are becoming aware of technology to support their operations. Hybrid Workplace Model.

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