N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

In today’s post I’m asking you to nominate the everyday community leader - the soldiers, first responders, teachers, volunteers, student leaders, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, pastors, medical professionals, etc., First year, he had 8 children. The first is a young salesman in our company. but you’ll not find that here.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As the founder of Today’s Growth Consultant and Income Store, two companies that collectively own over 200 income-generating websites, I regularly partner with industry thought leaders, CEOs, authors, and athletes to create a generous amount of blog content. But there’s another way. And you, too, want to get rich, quick.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I was sitting in a meeting with one of my clients as he was going through the details of a merger between his company and another big company. If you are going to partner, you want to give more than what is fair. Additional Reading: • At The Risk Of Being Changed. 
• The Power Of Parting: 7 Things You Need To Stop Doing 
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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

Those good leaders understand they might take another role in the organization. When the seat becomes empty it is too late to think about succession planning ( a topic we’ve covered in depth on our blog in this post – click here to read it ). None of us likes to think about being replaced in our jobs. They might get laid off.

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CO2

APRIL 19, 2018

This client interview is the first in a series for CO2 Partners. Stuart Sneer is the first CO2 client we approached, and we’re extremely grateful that he agreed to be interviewed. Stuart Sneer is the first CO2 client we approached, and we’re extremely grateful that he agreed to be interviewed. I worked at first with John.

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CO2

APRIL 19, 2018

This client interview is the first in a series for CO2 Partners. Stuart Sneer is the first CO2 client we approached, and we’re extremely grateful that he agreed to be interviewed. Stuart Sneer is the first CO2 client we approached, and we’re extremely grateful that he agreed to be interviewed. I worked at first with John.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 17, 2010

A thinking partner, or someone who can physically help you get something done. Would you like a longer term “partner&# , mentor, or MasterMind group with regular meetings to provide support over the long haul? And of course, he has an executive coach to support him. I predict great things for this leader. Regular meetings?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Years ago, our firm conducted research at Universal Studios Florida and Walt Disney World, Orlando. From toddlers to teens, children have conflicting sentiments, a desire for the security of connectedness pulling them in one direction and a desire for the adventure of independence pulling in another. However, this has changed.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Interacting with the press is another key pillar of marketing. .” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. From a Good Sales Call to a Great Sales Call : Close More by Doing What You Do Best by Richard Schroder. In short, it works.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. As a backlash against increasingly international trends, relationships matter more. When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. Most are talented in one over the other. Mine your backyard.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Nothing has contributed more to my success than my reverence for the first 90 minutes of every day. The next 10 minutes I walk through my house, looking out the windows for the first signs of the sunrise and early morning rabbits, deer, squirrels and birds that make their home on our property. Photo by Element5 Digital.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

First, know that there is no need for you to waste your time with poor performers or high maintenance employees who have an inflated sense of their own importance and ability. Those who succeed are benevolent dictators – able to make the intricate process happen in days, weeks and months to win. I speak from experience.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Even if the conditions are right, they still may not. This doesn’t mean that they should stop asking for feedback, it means that they just need to be aware that they may not get the full story from others. This may have nothing to do with the leader who is asking; but it may have a lot to do with the fact that the leader is in a position of power.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

However, some of the most common beliefs about how this will happen, repeated by conference speakers, self-proclaimed gurus, and consultants, have been oversimplified, misunderstood, or misapplied. The first common misconception is that in a digital world, the winner takes all. Here are four to watch out for.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

The whole thing is a must read for anyone interested in the company''s future, and a quick summary of the history it recounts is worth repeating here. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. So will it work?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

First, buyers are no longer paying much attention. Buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way , often through the Internet, and often from sources outside the firm such as word-of-mouth or customer reviews. In turn, social media firms, such as Facebook, should become expert at enabling this.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 22, 2011

So, when you first became a leader, how did your relationships change? Among them is a change in how the leader relates to those who report to him or her. I call this the Relationship Shift… not very original but there it is. We tend to pick and choose the people with whom we become close. We become involved in their lives. Here’s a clip.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Now Stefan was the head of the consultancy's South Asia and Middle East business, and Caroline was its global human resources director. For sure — keep reading," Stefan said. Leman Highlander's partners had aggressively recruited Vijay eight years earlier to set up their Mumbai office. The partners were thrilled.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The first is aspiration-based planning. In my work as a strategy consultant with companies, I helped client executives identify where they hoped to take their company and then worked backward to see what they must do to create that desired future. Another strategy tool takes the opposite tack. This can lead to surprises.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

“There’s a growing war for talent for people with specialized skills,” says Steve King, a partner at Emergent Research. . “There’s a growing war for talent for people with specialized skills,” says Steve King, a partner at Emergent Research. Understand what they want. Set expectations.

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CoachStation

JUNE 28, 2015

This is hard to write and I am sure is difficult to read for some. Last week during a dinner meeting with my two Connect Alliance business partners, many of these points were reinforced within various different contexts. The current state of leadership is not what is wanted nor required. Why is this the case?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

First, some background. I’ve spent the better part of the past 30 years venturing from my home base in Buenos Aires to North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa and found that my most valuable trips always involve establishing and cementing links with extraordinary thinking or working partners. Why do we travel?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

That work brought me back, as so many things do, to Coase''s early writings — in particular his two searingly critical yet insightful essays, "The Nature of the Firm" (1937) and "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960). Coase had observed first-hand the efficiencies to be gained by internalizing market transactions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Reading the banner headlines about family businesses gone sour — Market Basket , Rollins , L’Oreal , among others — people often conclude that conflicts in family businesses spiral out of control like mighty tornadoes that destroy everything in their paths. Some interests are shared; others are individual. 4) Alliances form.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

It's been wonderful reading all the online commentary from HBR readers to my article "The Case for Executive Assistants" in the May issue of the magazine. I want to address three general comments or questions posted in response to to the article: First, are women better-suited for men for this role? How will I add value?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2017

First, you may worry that by saying something you’re going to lose your job. and author of You First: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done. “You are partnering with your boss to fulfill the company’s goals.” I should be able to handle this.’ ’ So you suffer in silence.”

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

You should instead lead as a benevolent dictator – benevolent’ being the operative word – who always puts the company, the employees, and, most importantly, the customer, first. However, you’ll never reach that point in the decision making process if you never open up the issues for input in the first place.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

According to our calculations, Energy Transfer Partners, the company developing the Dakota Access pipeline, incurred over $800 million in damages as a result of conflict with local indigenous communities that quickly escalated when activists joined the protest and opposition campaign.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

This is perhaps even more the case in the world of management outside of academic medicine — whether it is finance, consulting, or technology — as the path from professional to senior executive requires more than individual success. For instance, we often ask mentees to read a book and return within a month to discuss it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

And far from obvious are the answers to how these approaches relate to one another or when they should and shouldn’t be deployed. The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I first started studying mentoring in the 1970s it was a much more stable world. There are many ways to define mentoring," says Jeanne Meister, a Founding Partner of Future Workplace and co-author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I spoke with Melba Duncan , president of The Duncan Group , a retained search and consulting firm specializing in senior management support resources, and author of The New Executive Assistant , to learn what it takes to be a successful executive assistant – and what other employees can learn from these masters of managing up.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The text that follows is not going to sit well with a number of those in my profession, but hey, that’s never stopped me before. The truth is that while I absolutely love what I do for a living, I’m not overly enamored with the industry norms and status quo. Probably the same as mine - not so good.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

“For most professionals, the job offers they receive and consulting offers they land are a direct result of their network,” she says. “For most professionals, the job offers they receive and consulting offers they land are a direct result of their network,” she says. a job reference or a professional favor)?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. In The Motive , he shifts his attention toward helping them understand the importance of why they’re leading in the first place. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The opportunity to reach people directly is powerful, and still underexploited," says Dorie Clark, a strategy consultant and author of the forthcoming book What's Next?: When handled correctly, social media can help you professionally. The key is to be proactive about managing your activity and image. What the Experts Say.

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