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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The need for creativity is no longer limited to thinking outside the box; instead, it involves leveraging multifaceted viewpoints, infusing creativity into the fabric of business operations, and fostering an innovation-driven culture across the organization. However, incorporating creativity into business decisions is a complex task.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Besides periodic questions aimed at deepening your understanding of the organization, business, people, and processes, most of your time should be spent listening. These meetings also provide an opportunity for your team to demonstrate their talent, and for you to demonstrate inspirational leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 20, 2014

Frustrated with the way most organizations attempt to improve their operations, Bill created the 5 Minutes to Process Improvement Success interview series , a work designed to uncover and leverage the best performance improvement strategies and tactics of top consultants from around the world. Edwards Deming'

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

When I was honest and took a longer look in the leadership mirror, I saw that I modelled some of that behavior. In our work with culture development, we clearly see a variation of leadership modelling; people in organizations act like their leader — despite all attempts to train them otherwise. Well,…maybe not.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

In today’s post I’ll look at the topic of resourcing as a key success metric for anyone in a leadership position. The essence of Leadership is not found in doing things yourself, but in teaching others how to do things better than you ever could. Leadership is about teaching, coaching, developing, and mentoring.

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

Photo Source: Clay Banks, Unsplash It is critical to understand the importance of an effective onboarding and induction process. Let’s firstly look at the environment and culture you are about to step into, including the induction process. What about the individual?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Focus has always been a powerful characteristic that has served me well in all leadership roles alike. That combination of personality traits, combined with the pace at which business operates today, can cause even the best and brightest to lose focus and in turn lose productivity, AND. My answer is simply become very, very focused.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

IT is an important subject for any organization and it becomes increasingly interwoven with business operations. IT should be connected to a functional process in the organization. The market a company operates in should also be taken into account for enterprise architecture. It could be part of strategy, tactics and operations.

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

Photo Source: Clay Banks, Unsplash It is critical to understand the importance of an effective onboarding and induction process. Let’s firstly look at the environment and culture you are about to step into, including the induction process. What about the individual?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Focus has always been a powerful characteristic that has served me well in all leadership roles alike. That combination of personality traits, combined with the pace at which business operates today, can cause even the best and brightest to lose focus and in turn lose productivity, AND. My answer is simply become very, very focused.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Getting the leadership part of supervising others right, however, is trickier because emotion and connection enter the picture. People see how their tactical work fits into the boss’s overall strategy. They ace the “art” of leadership—the people and character part. This transactional stuff is all part of being a manager.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For every task you undertake, have an explicit goal for an outcome and a set of tactics to achieve it. To get your head around how to make Exciting Outcome-Focused Behavior or FEOs part of your normal way of operating at work, you need to understand that your work tasks have nothing to do with whether you love them.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Remember that most people who fail just quit a bit too early in the process.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. Beth is another former operator who really understands the business and their 37,000+ workforce.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the value of loyalty as it relates to leadership. If relationships are the currency of leadership, it is important for leaders to note that loyalty serves as the cornerstone of any healthy relationship. Leadership and loyalty go hand-in-hand. The boss will never go for that.&#

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 6, 2020

“Our method provides a valuable structure for ensuring supply chain resilience, identifying risks, developing recovery tactics and continuous learning and improvement.” ” Phased approach.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Chang provides a glimpse into Coca-Cola’s use of AI to streamline HR processes and enhance employee experience. The HR Digest: In a 2021 interview, you mentioned evolving leadership approaches. How has your leadership style adapted over the years, and what lessons have you learned in shaping a successful leadership philosophy?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 4, 2011

Watch This Video I hope it provides a new perspective on the leadership vs. management argument. As the video progresses, the orange horizontal line that cuts the image in half is what I refer to as the leadership line. Strategy is what provides the tactical road-map, and it is tactical execution that validates and delivers strategy.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 20, 2011

Leadership remains one of the most important topics across a range of fields because studies continuously demonstrate that the success and well-being of any institution or society depend on the functionality, effectiveness, and promotion of leaders and leadership. Today, leadership is not synonymous with authority.

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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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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Successful leaders in Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations and Medical Scientific Liaison positions will use their resumes to market themselves as cross-functional leaders that have made an impact across many aspects of the business—not just the scientific areas. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Since writing about the nature of success and failure , I’ve had a number of colleagues express interest in discussing the process of experimentation with me, given my background in the sciences field. The truth of today’s workplace is that we can no longer operate from the position of simply sending down orders from above.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 15, 2021

These folks are actually team leaders with broad scopes of responsibility so they have the platform to operate as a leader across their enterprise but they haven’t let go of the superstar, go-to person modus operandi that got them noticed in the first place. It’s actually pretty simple and not that complex to operate that way.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 11, 2013

I’ve always said, leadership without vision is like trying to drive blind – it won’t end well. Businesses don’t have vision issues – they have leadership issues. Simply holding a leadership title/position doesn’t make a person a leader. Let me be as blunt as I can… leadership decoupled from vision is nothing short of a farce.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Gone are the days were BPO meant Business Process Outsourcing, with Robotic Process Automation technology fueling new millennium enterprises, BPO has taken on a new meaning, Business Process Optimization.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Take an assessment of what you do well and what you don’t and then apply rigor, process, structure and discipline to each of those areas. Then we have to deconstruct our abilities in each area, map a tactical plan to get better and measure our progress. Hard work isn’t easy, but it does pay huge dividends.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

To become a successful customer focused business, your leadership must develop a holistic strategy that impacts every department, and revolutionizes the way you do business. Leadership is the driving force of strategy. It’s generals that craft military tactics, so it must be your executives that develop a business strategy.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

To become a successful customer focused business, your leadership must develop a holistic strategy that impacts every department, and revolutionizes the way you do business. Leadership is the driving force of strategy. It’s generals that craft military tactics, so it must be your executives that develop a business strategy.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 5, 2023

I was asked to facilitate an annual strategic planning retreat with a senior leadership team. Hmm…oh, oh… Looking at the typical approach they’ve used before, four common strategic planning problems immediately popped out: The agenda was loaded with about 17 project/operational presentations/reviews and updates.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Process… just the mere use of the word can spread fear and panic in the workplace. This sad reality exists for a reason - 100% of companies unnecessarily suffer from a process problem. The good news is bad process is one of the easiest things for leaders to remedy. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

But to the surprise of most leaders today, increasing overall performance has become a complex, and in some cases, a Bermuda Triangle-like mysterious process that continues to baffle even the smartest people in the field of leadership and change. Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2015

No amount of tactical change management training will substitute for having an entire organization that has a clear vision of goals, shared responsibility, and personal accountability to achieve results. The information required for improving work process flows freely across organizational boundaries and formal reporting relationships.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

In the military we valued actionable intelligence, studied our enemy’s strengths and weaknesses, developed a battle plan around a solid strategy, and executed our tactical mission as if our lives depended on it - because they did. Competitive innovations in process, management, talent, pricing, efficiency, etc.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 2, 2015

Is there a commitment for organizational transformation, not some one-off tactics and silver bullets? Make the Customer Leadership Executive an Officer of the Company Ensure that the CCO is at a peer level of the leaders of the organization. Create continued clarity by having the CCO drive these meetings and steer the process.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In today’s post I’ll clearly explain the difference between vision and mission … As as a backdrop to answering today’s question, I want to share a simple organizational framework I developed several years ago to help executives gain a better understanding of leadership structure.

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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. Follow Paul. This will help us see their potential.

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