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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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

In a world that is often described as VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and ambiguous), there are major tectonic shifts that demand a new mindset of leadership. The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. Communication and clarity are the currencies of effective leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated, and that they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion. It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, and a never say die attitude that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Agility is the key to good planning. This helps you remain agile. In a way, these lessons also map with the fundamentals of agile planning. In my view, Agile is not just a software development methodology, agility is also a mindset. Further, for longer projects, you cannot plan the entire project together.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Lisa Haneberg emphasizes on Agility as an important leadership skill – Agility for leaders is an important skill to focus on in 2010. Wally Bock says that Leadership might be a bad choice for you if…. Michael Wade writes about successful strategies for fighting fear. Quite an interesting read. Don’t Kill It!

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Companies worry about losing talent – Google is losing talent to Facebook as it becomes bigger, slower and less agile.”. . Talented people join and stay in an organization to have an impact – to do work that matters to them and to make a difference. Size doesn’t have to mean bureaucracy, but it takes fresh organizational thinking.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2010

One way we solve this at Planbox – An Agile Project Management Tool is through a solid web-based interface that simplifies communication and minimizes data entry. Let’s face, I think communication is a major part of ANY sound (and successful) project management team! Try it out! Alex Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 7, 2015

As a fighter pilot during the Cold War, I trained for years to fight the Russians, but on April 4, 2011, I stood at the base of a Soyuz rocket named Gagarin , in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first human spaceflight. One of the main things gained through established trust is a team’s improved agility.

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Chris Brady

JULY 11, 2010

Leadership is a lot like taking a trip. The best leaders are the most agile, the most able to adjust and course-correct, the most rock-solid on commitment to a vision but the most flexible on the route. Here are some areas to consider when seeking to increase your leadership ability by traveling light: 1.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Ability to change, readiness to realignment and agility in mindset are the new competitive advantages. Change can be a great learning experience if we know when and how to align ourselves (and our mindsets). You should know what "not do to" when implementing change. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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Women in the LEAD

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back? GRATITUDE: Journey to Ones Calling WOMEN: CLAIMING YOUR WINGS WOMEN: Challenged and Overwhelmed? What’s yours?    That’s quite a credential.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. Then there are the leadership, cultural, and intangible benefits that arise from the consistent practice of debriefing. Leadership must be observed and practiced in order to be mastered. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. has a unique and powerful mix of leadership skills in both the military and business worlds. The Debrief Imperative is a culmination of over a decade of teaching and practice in Global 1000 organizations. If the military can do it, any organization can.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 58

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Since early 2015, when he began working with Sodexo’s executive committee as the global services firm’s chief transformation officer, Sunil Nayak has undergone his own leadership transformation. These four competencies are the basis for global leadership. ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Finally, because of the size, importance and structure of the bank, the project would require not just the support of the BTFG function that reported to Shuttleworth, but the leadership team of BTFG (of which he was a member), the executive team of parent Westpac, and the board of directors of Westpac.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. The advice boils down to building better strategic foresight and creating more agile management and operations. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

The Dubai move is a sequel to the month we spent in Shanghai in 2011. All this drove home the point that we need to be more agile in extreme-growth markets. A new style of leadership is emerging. Our relocation to China stretched our thinking. And our associates will follow our postings on Tumblr and Instagram.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

By definition, an insurgency consists of a small and less-powerful force seeking to overturn the leadership of a much larger and more powerful institution. It is a simple matter of the big and strong (but often too slow) being unable to manage, or even see, the small and weaker (but fast and agile) threat.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. And for many people they're harder to learn. To some extent, they come only from experience. In a knowledge economy, the shift is inevitable; you need to keep up with it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

And you also can’t put customers first until senior leadership meetings are filled with the voices of the customers and front line. Or was the agenda designed to serve the needs of the senior leadership, as they reported out their activities and demonstrated how busy they are? In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. So you must demonstrate very strong leadership. Overall transparency requires that leadership models it. 15 Iss: 4, pp.675

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

He says he’s seeing a growing interest among leaders in meditation as a way to build leadership skills – and achieve business goals. Chirag Patel, CEO of Amneal Pharmaceuticals and Ernst & Young 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year, credits meditation with helping him feel more connected to his clients.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

As a business term, “unicorn” was coined to describe a rarity: In 2011 there were just 28 early-stage companies, still privately owned, with investment valuations of $1 billion or more. Nurtured correctly, it can help a company achieve scale insurgency — a company with the benefits of both size and agility.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

With many state-run enterprises dependent on public subsidies, Cuba has attempted to shift workers to the much more agile private sector, but progress continues to be slow. At the last Congress, in 2011, Raul Castro had announced plans to introduce new market reforms and attract foreign investment. An economic crossroads.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

In 2011, with 605 new Wipro employees across three different operations centers as our participants, we conducted a field experiment testing whether an authentic approach would lead to greater performance and retention than the traditional entry approach.

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Power Outsourcing Self-aware Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5 billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

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