N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof. Great leaders do the right thing regardless of circumstances, situational context or other influencing factors. Want to find out?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have great vision? Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# Are you a master of strategy?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. Let me ask you a few simple questions: How do you feel when you’re told no? Moreover, when those conversations do occur they tend to be focused on admonishment rather than teachable moments.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

I profiled Wooden as a role model who we can all learn from in my book Fired Up or Burned Out. During those impressionable years in this leader’s life, he learned that, like the Depression, some things in life are not in our control. Instead, his dad focused on the future and told his children that everything would be all right.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

  One thing I’m pretty sure of, though, is is that after a week of meetings and briefings in DC this past week, a lot of the new members heads are spinning from learning about all the things they have to get organized in a short amount of time.     Learn the rules behind committee assignments. .   

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. What is the most ethical action we might take?” It is so often that I read blogs and articles in which people tell us what to do, what we are doing wrong, and how to act.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. November 8th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus One of the definitions of the word reflection is “the bending or folding back of a part upon itself&#. So that’s what we do.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

in the 1980s, put it this way: “In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. With the right ‘business operations’ in place, your company will achieve success: People: In any company or organization, the real assets are the people. . People come first.&#

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Putting political agendas and peer pressure aside (as great leaders do), leaders should not make their choices based upon public opinion. Putting political agendas and peer pressure aside (as great leaders do), leaders should not make their choices based upon public opinion. How sad is this? Are these extreme statements?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Most importantly, don’t assume their withholding has anything to do with how they feel about you– after all, it’s at least 50% possible that it has something to do with the person or thing about which you are asking. Doing so erodes the possibility of ever being given critical information in the future.)

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Our careers are a means to an end and if we’re lucky, it’s a means to happiness and joy because we love what we do! Love is something that is either a part of everything we do or grossly missing from the picture. You’ve also suddenly realized that twenty (or thirty) years have flown by in a flash.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In our research, we have learned that leaders whose organizations achieve high levels of employee engagement and strategic alignment understand the power of emotional connections to engage and align employees and they are intentional about making core employees feel connected to them and to the organization.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2011

He never choose to judge you and listened deeply and then he was “The Great Asker&# of questions, he then shared his insights based on his learning and experience. As we struggled to build the business in the first year he tried to create opportunities for us to earn money (something every board member could learn).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

The Changing Expectations for Followers There was a time in the not too distant past when followership essentially meant, “be quiet and do whatever I tell you to do.” The Civil Rights and more recent Tea Party movements are good examples of what happens when angry followers decide to do something to change the status quo.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. 1) Create a Learning Environment -. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

And although the retail giant's green efforts have done a lot to showcase the company's commitment to sustainability, sometimes Walmart gives its critics some legitimate ammo, like the recent revelations and allegations of corruption in its Mexican operations. So what do the recent allegations mean for Walmart's sustainability efforts?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation. What do leaders dop to provide a safe environment for people to explore, test, try, fail, learn, review, try again etc. Sounds like an interesting event and line up. How should leaders behave to suppress this natural behaviour ?

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

After learning that James Ryan’s mother had lost three of her four sons in battle, Marshall sent a squad to France specifically to retrieve Private Ryan and return him to America and to his mother. Defenders of McChrystal argue he was speaking truth to power. President Harry S. He increased human value in several ways.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Why then do so many CEOs appear to have a bad attitude? What do you reflect, and what do people see in you? Do you tend to have a pessimistic outlook on things ? Do people seek your input, advice, and counsel ? Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. If not, why not?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Nearly every prospective Chinese employee who I met with in the 1990s shot out the following sentence once — if not multiple times — during their job interviews: “I will do my best!”. Today, the “I will do my best” attitude still prevails. The work ethic of Chinese employees is still fierce.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. But by the company’s launch, in 2010, most urban taxi fleets used modern dispatch with GPS, plus custom hardware and software.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The perception is that getting along with people is nice, but “nice-to-have” — secondary to the operation of the business. The problem is, they learned them “on the street.” They need to learn new patterns. This turns out to be harder than learning a brand new skill. Nothing is further from the truth.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. They learn to learn from their wrongness and move on. If you don’t make mistakes, how will you ever learn to get things right? It’s how we learn.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Politician Posted on November 1st, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Politics By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth It’s been a while since I’ve weighed-in on the political front, and with U.S. I did something interesting last night which I’d suggest you do as well….I

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