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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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 1, 2018

This is particularly true in today’s complex and uncertain operating environments in which a culture of solidarity and knowledge sharing become critical drivers of staying relevant. So knowing your audience is paramount, and business leaders who score high in the effective use of humor also tend to score high in emotional intelligence.

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Organization Succession CEO Emotional Intelligence 150

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Coronation marks a new era of leadership, vision and progress under the British monarchy. The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member).

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Leading Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

A team with high levels of trust will have the agility necessary to make decisions and react quickly to fluctuating situations. When your team knows exactly where to focus its efforts, trust in your leadership will grow. And the more trust increases, the more smoothly and quickly your operation can run. Maintain agility.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Lacking this capability “freezes” the ability to enlarge the audience, increases the costs of staying competitive, and ultimately degrades the economies of scale of the platform. Leadership is changing — fast. Assuring nimbleness and agility is paramount, as is strategic vision and subject matter expertise.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. 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.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Eichenger and Michael Lombardo According to Day and Lord (1986), differences in the quality of executive leadership explain as much as 45 percent of an organization’s performance. TQ – Technical/Operational Quotient Top leaders know the business. They have the operational skills to make things happen. Again, the news is good.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

” It might be hard for people in HR to hear, but only 20% of those who responded said that their HR function was enabling them to transform, ranking them even lower than finance — an area not exactly known for its agility. First, low barriers to entry into these sectors lead to more agile competition.

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Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Both Forbes and its external contributors (freelance journalists, authors, academics, and topic experts) want to maximize readership, so Forbes publishes the page view statistics for each piece and created an incentive payment program based on the audience contributors attract. To speed operations and improvement, Process Strategy 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

The second leader is Jennifer, a leader in operations with a team that had recently doubled in size after an acquisition. Todd decided he wanted to be not only an expert, competent leader, but also a strategic, agile learner. You and Your Team. Improving Yourself. Take charge of your own development. Define what you need.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. The lesson here for new CIOs, in Higher Ed or elsewhere, is to know your audience and know them well. I fundamentally believe that these need not be mutually exclusive goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

“Leadership” has historically referred to “industrial leadership” – the managerial styles and structures that served industrial firms well for a century. But the leadership of digital businesses in the post-industrial age is fundamentally different and is defined by five paradoxes.

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Leadership Long-term Agility Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

No longer passive audiences, they can organize to overturn even the most strategic initiatives. 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. This collaborative approach was central to his leadership of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By 2007, PBS.org audience growth had stalled and the product pipeline was dry. It’s a membership organization created to serve more than 350 independently owned and operated stations, each with its own board of directors, objectives, agendas and strategies. Executive leadership has your back. Iterate fast.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

In response, capturing the right data has become the key capability in finding and engaging audiences. They orchestrate content marketing tactics that situate their brands at the moments that matter to their audiences. Nike tells stories that ask audiences to reach for their personal best. Marketers must also become publishers.

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