N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Agility, innovation, disruption, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment, and above all else a bias toward action will lead to the creation of change.

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Leadership Competitive Advantage Due Diligence Short-term 397

Lead Change Blog

MAY 24, 2019

Today, as cycles of technology, market conditions, and competitive environments continue to accelerate, responding in an agile and flexible fashion to that world requires clarity, more than ever before. We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. However, how do you get better in the face of increasing complexity?

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Telecommunications Agility Fashion Learning-by-Doing 193

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This definition comes from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. The Lean Startup delivers a lot of great insight for leadership and product management. A Good share of development is now done using some form of Agile.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 13, 2015

When it comes to discussions on the state of today’s leadership, one topic that understandably comes up is the issue of women in leadership. Specifically, why there continues to be so few women holding senior-level leadership positions in both the private and public sectors.

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Leadership Diversity Learning-by-Doing CEO 100

Mark Sanborn

APRIL 28, 2020

During a recent interview about post Covid-19, entrepreneur Mark Cuban referred to the “new abnormal.” Agility replaces processes. Mark Sanborn is an award winning speaker and Leadership Expert in Residence at High Point University, the Premier Life Skills University. ” Bingo. Many will guess.

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Long-term Consensus Agility Information 85

N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

I believe the same characteristics that are present in the heart of a warrior are also present in the most successful executives and entrepreneurs. They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated, and that they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion.

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Brand Depreciation Blog Politics 353

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 76

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Methodologies such Lean Startup and Agile have taught us to innovate faster by harnessing the power of iteration. We’ve learned to build products and scale our companies by testing things in the market, seeing what works, and iterating. In essence, you need clarity of vision and strategy before you try different marketing tactics.

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Productivity Products Development Short-term 111

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 28, 2023

Compassionate Leadership The world today is in dire need of positive, empathetic, and compassionate leadership, and this need is beautifully addressed in the book, Don’t Wait for Someone Else to Fix It. Doug Lennick is the founding CEO of think2perform , a high-performance leadership development firm.

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Self-aware Open-book Learning-by-Doing Books 91

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2015

A comfort to know for all those entrepreneurs and learners out there! The market is saturated, and so are you. They know they have to be agile, more responsive to change, innovative. People, projects and organizations could be in one of three phases on this learning-innovation curve. But they are stuck.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 11

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 58

Lead Change Blog

MAY 29, 2020

At present, it’s hard to tackle any issue pertaining to leadership or management without addressing Covid-19, which is impacting on marketplaces and workplaces across the globe. With this in mind, the Coronavirus outbreak arguably represents an opportunity for growth and innovation, and good leadership will be central to ushering this in.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Books Handbook Kotter Leadership Pipeline 92

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Usually, entrepreneurs have lots of ideas, but it takes them time to really implement them. Leadership. 2) Implement a leadership model that balances your four type of competences of the leadership team (spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical). 3) Be agile by delegating tasks and trusting your team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

“Why change my leadership style? It got us to this point, where we’ve established a real beachhead in our market.”. These are the famous last words of many an entrepreneur. It is the ad hoc nature of the project that enables the flexibility and agility required to capture the first real customer.

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Project Process Entrepreneur Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Market leadership requires companies to create distinctive insight about the consumers they serve, insight drawn from data that only consumers themselves can provide. Wise leaders will enable individuals to be entrepreneurs and masters of their own fate.

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Strategy Content Business Model Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. American tech entrepreneurs earned some bad press this year, but in HBR, they proved why more established firms should not stop watching them closely. Emotional Agility. Connect Then Lead.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In response, many now seek agility yet simultaneously fail to address the issue of complexity and exorcise the spirits of legacy. Agility cannot be achieved without first tackling complexity. The enterprise architecture must be driven by a customer- and market-oriented view of a constantly changing business environment.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

They share a motive: Growth is increasingly hard to come by, so large companies are increasingly looking to entrepreneurs to help them find it. Startups must be agile and adapt their value proposition several times until they get it right. The community of entrepreneurs is also very tightly knit. Consider the numbers.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. Rajesh Setty Entrepreneur. We used agile method to build the product using the latest open source stack and some mashups with a few online services. Its even 100% free!

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Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

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. “There was this one instance where the market tanked and there was panic on the desk. “Most of our new clients … are not sold by mindfulness as a novelty. Mindfulness.

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CEO Emotional Intelligence Cooper Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Instead of making the leap to an entirely new form of organization — a radical change not without its pitfalls — perhaps we should think more seriously about the problem of agility itself. Frank and honest leadership is usually enough.

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Groupthink Agility Diversity Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. Leadership roles and responsibilities.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests. It’s not very agile.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. “I’m an entrepreneur through and through,” he would say. Our revenue is up by 14%, EBITA by 12%, and order intake by 13%.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. Led by serial entrepreneurs. Unicorns are often founded and led by serial entrepreneurs, who have experienced business failures several times in their professional lives.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. Medtronic used business model innovation to enter markets formerly out of its reach.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

In 1987, a Portuguese audio engineer named Fernando Duarte took a friend, South African entrepreneur Robbie Brozin, to a small takeout restaurant in a suburb of Johannesburg. And you also can’t put customers first until senior leadership meetings are filled with the voices of the customers and front line.

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