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Top 10 Posts from 2013

Nathan Magnuson

2013 featured a Leadership Profiles series and Powerful Questions series in addition to everyday leadership content. Here are the top 10 posts from 2013. Whether you want to be a rock star, a better leader, or simply more successful, you’re getting nowhere without perseverance. Thanks for making it such a great year!

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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

He is highly intelligent and incredibly successful with a net worth of $15.3 billion as of March 2013 (per Forbes Magazine.) It is clear once again that planned CEO succession is necessary. Yes, Michael Dell is an icon of the stature of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. This presents an interesting dilemma.

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Success Stories From 10 Successful Entrepreneurs From Around The World

Eric Jacobson

Susanna has a big techie network, as an early community leader at the pivotal publication Wired and then on the staff of Macworld , PCWorld and Outside magazines. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. This variety of types is key to startup success.

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Why Your CEO Just Doesn’t Get It

N2Growth Blog

The problem is most people don’t know what to look for in a leader, and according to a recent study by Chief Executive magazine many CEOs don’t seem to know what to look for either. Even more revealing is that the value placed on integrity, trustworthiness and transparency by respondent CEOs went down when compared to the 2013 survey results.

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The Success Delusion

Marshall Goldsmith

The more successful we become, the more positive reinforcement we get – and the more likely we are to experience the success delusion. I am successful. Therefore, I must be successful because I behave this way. Our belief in ourselves helps us become successful. I behave this way. Why We Resist Change.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

I had coached many groups of mid-level managers who were on the verge of success, but never an individual who was already very successful and needed to make a change to be blasted into the stratosphere. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013.

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What Does Uncoachable (and Unchangeable) Look Like?

Marshall Goldsmith

This successful adult has no interest in changing. He had a fun, successful company and people liked the work, but feedback said that the boss played favorites in the way he compensated people. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013.