N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Identifying Organizational Needs: Assessing Challenges and Goals Assessing the challenges and goals of an organization is a critical first step in providing effective leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions. Assessing the leadership team’s and employees’ readiness to embrace new ideas and behaviors is vital.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In this post, I will briefly expand these ideas and then focus on a specific emotion from a communication and leadership point of view: Anxiety. Social mastery needs some elaboration: It has to do with competency in terms of being able to anticipate others’ behavior, reacting appropriately to this behavior and the ability to influence others.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 25, 2013

As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays. In the text below I’ll share why I believe all business executives can learn valuable leadership lessons from those in uniform.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership. Maxwell (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) In Leadershift , John C. Blog Post ).

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Skip Prichard

MAY 17, 2021

Leadership experts Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren , in The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership , argue that leaders must balance between analytic logic and intuition. The first job of all leadership is to protect people.”–Lewis, The first job of all leadership is to protect people.

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HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

In this article, we’ll present 10 polite ways to write a layoff email to employees – each of these layoff letter templates will help you ensure that when they do happen, the redundancy feel fair and the company and the affected workforce are set up for success. Research shows that bad layoffs rarely help the leaders accomplish their goals.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Leaders schooled in rational, left-brained thinking need to adapt to changing political, social and technological forces. Real leadership combines both logic and emotion, both short and long-term thinking. The Leadership Lab points out the dangers of over-reliance on analysis and extrapolation based on historic data.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

September 11th, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Great Recession, the COVID pandemic, and polarized politics have created our own existential worries. Hands-on, value-driven leadership. Financial capitalism, on the other hand, is concerned with short-term results without regard for long-term consequences.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Brooks differentiated the terms this way in an article in The Atlantic : “Optimism is the belief that things will turn out all right; hope makes no such assumption but is a conviction that one can act to make things better in some way.” In terms of the pandemic, there is a realistic basis to be optimistic.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2020

Welcome to the March 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Eileen McDargh contributed Cracking the Leadership Code: The Secret to Resilient Leaders.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 2, 2020

elections in November will likely exacerbate anxieties, given the volatile political environment and inevitable stoking of fears by some politicians. Now, I’m not here to offer financial advice or political commentary. Short-term stress is one thing. Second, the upcoming U.S. Recognizing the Ways People Deal With Stress.

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 10, 2014

It took me too long to discover servant leadership. Simply put, servant leadership is authentic leadership. The problem is, most definitions of servant leadership are difficult to understand or share. This acronym is not just another model for servant leadership though. The S.E.R.V.A.N.T.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

If you can’t handle others’ disapproval, then leadership probably isn’t for you. While it might help in the short-term, the pursuit of approval is a guarantee of long-term failure. In life, but especially in leadership positions, we all face fears. Prepare to be Hated. Conquer Your Fears. The Bottom Line.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 7, 2021

The events of January 6 th , 2021 in our nation’s capital starkly illustrate the results of self-serving leadership. I’m embarrassed and ashamed for our country, and totally disheartened that those who accepted the mantle of leadership for our nation have failed us so miserably. ahead of the common good of our country.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

Craig was polite to whomever gave opinions, but became riveted when he got facts. From this leadership, we developed a culture of fact-based decision making. From this leadership, we developed a culture of fact-based decision making. As Craig’s CFO and CAO, I always appreciated this leadership style.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 20, 2016

There’s a leadership crisis in American politics and business—a crisis that extends around the world. We find the training and managing of leadership is broken. Today, the model of “Change Leadership” versus “Bigness Leadership” is an approach built for these turbulent times by Google, Walt Disney Company and others.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 30, 2016

In this election year, as a leader you may have to wrestle with what is acceptable in regards to politics in your organization. Patriotism and politics are synonymous in the vocabulary of some, while diametrically opposed terms for others! Add politics to that mix, and it becomes a monster on steroids!

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

According to the same study , expenditures on leadership development programs have decreased by about 10%. Sacrificing long term growth for immediate gain only serves to benefit those higher-up in an organization’s hierarchy rather than those who really need it. Leadership development is the most ignored aspect for several reasons.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In this post, I will briefly expand these ideas and then focus on a specific emotion from a communication and leadership point of view: Anxiety. Social mastery needs some elaboration: It has to do with competency in terms of being able to anticipate others’ behavior, reacting appropriately to this behavior and the ability to influence others.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. He’ll ask CEOs at board meetings, ‘ What was our long-term strategy again? ’

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While hubris can be a needed trait to call upon at times, to rely solely upon it as the foundation of your leadership style just doesn’t work. It was C.S. Contrary to popular folklore, it’s important to note that nice guys & gals don’t finish last.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

Very many prominent business and political leaders downplayed the pandemic in its early stages. This mental blindspot refers to the fact that our gut reactions drive us to feel that the future, at least in the short and medium term of the next couple of years, will function in roughly the same way as the past: normally.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” Too often, innovation leadership Is posed as a test of “guts”—are you willing to make the big bets? Flat but with Strong Leadership.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They know that for deep purpose to take hold, both their daily actions and long-term strategic plans must be consistent with the overarching purpose. Based on my research, I have found that when leaders practice deep purpose, their long-term financial performance actually improves in comparison with their convenient-purpose counterparts.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 14, 2020

Throughout my career, I have spent a lot of time studying and teaching leadership. But unlike hurricanes and tornadoes, the coronavirus is a long-term event that changes on a daily basis. The political and medical leaders have influenced and inspired many people (not all) to make the required changes. It’s a fascinating subject!

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2023

I was thinking about a couple of years ago if you’re listening in real time, the political leaders in the United States were negotiating and that might be a generous characterization, but they were negotiating a large infrastructure bill. But the short answer to the question is, we just don’t value maintenance.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 11, 2020

The first and most superficial level is Political. We make a “politically correct” change to show that we’ll “get with the program.” This issue starts with a look at balancing the head of management and the heart of leadership. Hope you dig into this issue and deepen your leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 22, 2016

Political season is upon us. As I watch debate after debate, I find myself asking one simple question: What happened to civility in leadership? Politeness. But is there anything on this list of fragile short-term gains that we couldn’t also achieve in the long-run, and in a more lasting manner? Personal comfort.

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CO2

JANUARY 29, 2012

Leaders in all spheres–education, business, politics, sports–feel compelled to address short-term concerns, now more than ever. And yet we also want leaders to be mindful of long-term stewardship and to act ethically. Leadership requires clarity of purpose, long-term vision, and committed action.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The environment is growing more complex all of the time, providers are dealing with a variety of conflicting priorities – resulting in lack of access and systems that reward short visits, but may only pay providers for good outcomes. Employees will be engaged and productive if they feel the company and their leadership care about them.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays. While this coming weekend simply signifies a long awaited prelude to summer for some, it is much more than that for me.

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Nathan Magnuson

AUGUST 15, 2016

In the 16th century, political consultant (for lack of a better term) Niccolò Machiavelli’s works were published in the controversial manuscript The Prince – which is still in print today. Dictatorship is alive and well in the world of global politics, but it’s a not-so-subtle organizational management style as well.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 20, 2023

Community-led housing For instance, a recent report from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) outlined how community-led housing could help to reduce levels of loneliness, which has surged during a pandemic in which many of the factors underpinning loneliness have been exacerbated.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

It’s the final installment of my five-week series outlining my 25 timeless (and time tested) leadership lessons that just plain work. “It is Solved by Walking” Take the Leadership Litmus Test. About 17 years ago, someone advised me I needed to be more “statesmanlike” in my leadership approach.

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Leading Blog

JULY 24, 2013

But it has been capitalized on by marketing agents, politics and religion for the best part of two millennia.". Tom Asacker reveals the role of belief in leadership in The Business of Belief. But belief is at the heart of making your leadership work. This is where, I believe leadership comes in. That''s leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 2, 2016

Alice Roosevelt, Theodore’s eldest child, was often surprised to find that her father - the most popular man in America - would suddenly and silently succumb to what she termed “a melancholic streak.” Perhaps, then, we should revisit the importance of internal empathy, and not outwardly charisma, as a potential hallmark of true leadership?

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