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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. Of course subordinating one's ego to more productive traits never hurts.:)

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Psychology of Time – The Impact on Your Orientation

CO2

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand. With Apple design and user experience as so inextricably linked they are one and the same. Apple isn't simply selling superior functionality, but also a certain style that is communicated through design.

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How to Improve Your Sales Skills, Even If You’re Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business Review

And that is part and parcel of professional life. “People spend so much time in their own heads, thinking about their idea, that they fail to draw the connection to how the product will improve someone else’s life,” he says. ” But that notion is outdated. ” Here’s how to get better at it. .”

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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

Mindfulness meditation — the practice of cultivating deliberate focused attention on the present moment – has caught on as a way to bring focus, authenticity, and intention to the practice of leadership. Visualize positive outcomes : As Daniel Goleman argues , positivity is part and parcel of focused attention.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. These new ventures would operate separately from the core hospital assets and would compete in new ways in the health care marketplace.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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