N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia. Show-up : You can’t make a difference if you don’t show-up. It requires zero talent to be present mentally and physically. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. elliotross So well said Mike, I know for myself that managing conflict is not a 'natural' for me. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

How has social media changed your business, if at all? Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion. Marshall Goldsmith : Leadership is a contact sport and it’s often messy. I was thought of as a good Dean, but I didn’t like the job. Mike Myatt.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 30, 2020

Many of the large corporations have been hit hard, with British Airways announcing they will be cutting up to 12,000 jobs , EasyJet around 4,500 and Virgin Atlantic 3,000, these businesses will need to put plans in place as a matter of urgency to ensure the continuation of their operations. A major impact faced by all.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Until now, holographic displays needed powerful gaming laptops to run even the simplest holographic media. But new holographic software can run high-definition media content. The displays employ several techniques, such as LED arrays, novel projection mapping, moving (swept or spun) LEDs or projection media, or laser-generated plasma.

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HR Digest

MARCH 27, 2020

Interpreters mostly work in international events like international conferences, sports arenas, company meetings, media houses, and organizations. Hotel Manager. A hotel manager fits such a position. Intelligence Operatives or Government Agencies. International Sales Marketing. Linguistic Tour Guide.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 30, 2021

Great businesses know that family business is a team sport. Some franchisors, for example, require that only one family member serves as the owner/operator -- meaning one family member if officially in charge of that franchise. And that’s in part because family businesses are poorly understood by the media and in academia.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Great businesses know that family business is a team sport. Some franchisors, for example, require that only one family member serves as the owner/operator -- meaning one family member if officially in charge of that franchise. And that’s in part because family businesses are poorly understood by the media and in academia.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

In thinking of your example of sports teams, for example, is it possible that leaders can emerge at different times, for different purposes or tasks? Ultimately I see struggles on both secular and spiritual fronts regarding managers and subordinate leaders executing the vision and plans set forth by upper level leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

companies are expected to spend more than $37 billion dollars on social media promotion annually each year by 2020, representing 24% of the economy’s total digital advertising spend. But social media managers face innumerable possibilities for posting content. There is a better way. Putting an Ad Hoc Strategy to the Test.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 9, 2016

Organizations operate within the context of their environment; the military being no different than civilian businesses. In total, the combined review should take between 15 – 30 minutes daily and be a part of a professional’s morning routine. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 9, 2011

After graduation came the Army Ranger School, command of an air defense battery on a snowy hill in Germany, and a year of combat operations in Vietnam. John Wooden on Managing Your Emotions Composure - Control Your Emotions in Stressful Situations Post by Dennis E. The rest of us learned mental toughness. Coates, Ph.D., Copyright 2010.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

He fired his lackey and hired a professional general manager. He appears to have removed himself from the day to day management of football operations. Rabid sports fans are known to disagree after all.  Posted by: timage | November 03, 2010 at 05:18 PM Interesting how the sporting world inspires so much feedback.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Cultivate the local media. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Media builds like blocks: one exposure stacks atop another.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. With knowledge and practice, associates gain confidence. With confidence, they become passionate performers.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2023

It dictates whether you should see family vehicles or more high-end sports cars, for example. Have Talent Management Practices. Part of that involves having talent management practices so you can properly oversee and actually manage your employees. Your business could become unsustainable to operate.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. With knowledge and practice, associates gain confidence. With confidence, they become passionate performers.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Can you operate weapons? Administration/management. Can you wait tables? Is it the clothing retail business? Is it the military? Do you understand small unit tactics? You gotta know the business. You gotta have business savvy. Can you organize things? Account for things? Control things? Conserve things?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. With knowledge and practice, associates gain confidence. With confidence, they become passionate performers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

A strong, transparent, and trust-driven culture plays a central role in driving a scale-down decision and in managing the process as the it unfolds. Home Run Media’s Turning Point. Home Run’s media billings and its revenue, took off, growing more than tenfold in less than two years. Vendors posed a trickier problem.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

After all, it stands to reason that we do our best work when we are operating from our strengths. There are all kinds of teams… independent teams, interdependent teams, multi-disciplinary teams, sports teams, project teams, self-managed teams. And, I expect we are that much happier about it too. Each has its challenges.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Addressing a managers meeting, Brian Halla, CEO of National Semiconductor Corp.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

He would have to train in completely different ways, and unlearn many of the things that have allowed him to succeed at his chosen sport. His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. That's no dig on James.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

A company must get its sales, marketing, research and development, operations, and even customers and suppliers to work together. Whether in sports or business, a team is a group of people with a shared goal. So how can you get this process team to sustain operational gains and continue to attack the next set of process problems?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Second, the legislation would add a new element of risk to business and nonprofit operations. Examples might include online crafts store Etsy and social media sites, where users are forever posting copyrighted pictures. Politics is not a spectator sport. Talk to your lawyers. Talk to your Congressperson.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

After interviewing several ad agency executives and marketing leaders in a diverse group of businesses — pharmaceutical, high-tech, manufacturing, retail, sports, and others — I’ve found a few common themes that could help explain what is going on. Agencies are slow. Agencies are stuck on advertising. I’m sick of it.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 8, 2017

Fortune magazine recently recognized Theo Epstein, President, Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball and the Cubs organization, as #1 on its world’s greatest leaders list. Last year the Cubs won the World Series and broke the franchise’s 108-year World Series title drought, the longest in professional sports.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When making a purchase decision, customers use an average of six different channels, which are often managed by different parts of the organization. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

It doesn’t have one center of organization and imagination looking out at the far horizon to inspire and guide all of the component parts to get to a place together that none operating independently could ever get to on its own. It has no coordinated analytical capability to help it understand its progress.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms. SHRM reports that 84% of organizations use social media for recruiting, and 82% of them use it primarily in the hunt for passive candidates.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

And the incentives top management ignores can prove more revealing than the ones they celebrate. In other words, top management should seek out talented teams, not just gifted individuals. Top management and HR need to explicitly acknowledge and embrace the productive relationships that elevate the individuals who make them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We surveyed more than 2,500 managers, from 1,000 companies, including over 100 Fortune 500 companies and 70 organizations ranked at the top of Universum’s “World’s Most Attractive Employers” list (a ranking of company preferences among university students in the top 12 economies).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

I enjoy the sport. The operative word in that sentence is “founding” or in my case “co-founding.” Over eighty founders or co-founders of health care, technology, social media, retail, and financial services firms responded. Founders Work-life balance Time management' I’m a passable golfer.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

That’s why we pay close attention to social media where we can see the video for ourselves. We want to see the raw feed – the hidden video, the livestream from the street that tells us what is really happening and that the mainstream media glosses over. Is “heroic credibility” something we can credibly manage?

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