Leading Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

When your team knows exactly where to focus its efforts, trust in your leadership will grow. McChrystal (best known for his leadership of the US Army Joint Special Operations Command), he shared that when the war in Afghanistan took a turn for the worse, they weren’t able to quickly get the intel they needed.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Prepare to be inspired by and to learn from the stories of more than 60 highly-successful female CEOs and leaders who are featured in Julia Boorstin ’s new book, When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, How We Can Learn From Them. I think two key things will help to change that.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A proficient board is a guiding light, offering leadership and oversight to fuel the realization of organizational objectives. A formidable board delineates clear expectations and periodically reviews the performance of the CEO and other apex leaders. How can a board be high-performing? How can governance excellence be sustained?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. 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.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

CEO Marissa Mayer announcing the end of all employee telecommuting, and it’s making a lot of people mad. CEO Marissa Mayer’s Slaying of Telecommuting Makes Me Mad – It’s Not Why You Think appeared first on Women on Business. Last week, All Things D published an internal email from Yahoo! The post Why Yahoo!

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Prepare to be inspired by and to learn from the stories of more than 60 highly-successful female CEOs and leaders who are featured in Julia Boorstin ’s book, When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, How We Can Learn From Them. I think two key things will help to change that.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 29, 2014

They are co-founders and co-CEOs of Harvest Earnings Group, Inc. Highlights of our high-spirited chat include: How Jeremy & Terri became business partners, and how they make being co-CEOs work. What’s wrong with benchmarking and brainstorming. The two critical leadership lessons in the book.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

All the Six-Sigma, Lean, benchmarking and metrics in the world won’t help us lead people if we fail to recognize these realities. Leadership is all about the human experience. Individuals who don’t demonstrate that they care about people will never be true leaders and, frankly, have no place in a position of leadership.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Prepare to be inspired by and to learn from the stories of more than 60 highly-successful female CEOs and leaders who are featured in Julia Boorstin ’s book, When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, How We Can Learn From Them. I think two key things will help to change that.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

In fact, if you're reading this text, just stop right now and benchmark your activity against your reflective thoughts – Is what you're doing, in alignment with your true priorities, or have you been sucked down into the weeds? The old "what if I only had 'x' number of hours to work in a week, what would I focus on?"

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. As a result, they are viewed as having less leadership potential. The Benchmarking Mindset.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So with apologies to those who don't share this passion, I present to you the September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival, NFL Kick-off Edition. I asked each leadership blogger to give me their favorite NFL team. The five suggestions I put forward in this post have leadership as the core, though I don’t dwell on leadership per se.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Effective Leadership Satya Nadella’s transformative leadership at Microsoft demonstrates the profound impact of visionary and effective leadership. It’s crucial to develop leadership at all levels, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Leadership doesn’t make “a difference.” Be extraordinary.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Already approaching a Billion square of projects not only in the United States but also from India to Sweden and Israel to Bhutan, if you are not familiar with the Arc platform, that helps a building owner measure performance and benchmark against others, you are missing out on what is transmogrifying the built environment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 22, 2017

Efficiency and reliability exceeded the industry's previous benchmark. About Angela Sebaly: Angela Sebaly, author of The Courageous Leader (Wiley, spring 2017), is co-founder and CEO of the firm Personify Leadership, a training provider. Think for a moment: Does your workplace’s culture encourage this sort of communication?

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 17, 2013

In an evolving digital work place, it is critical for leaders to think of their products, services and leadership in terms of SoCoLoMo. Social CEOs : 77% of buyers say they are more likely to buy from a company whose CEO uses social media1. eMarketer: CEOs who Tweet Held in High Regard by eMarketer 3/27/2012.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

This may sound harsh, but the truth often is… I’ve witnessed far too many people in positions of leadership that wouldn’t recognize an opportunity if it hit them squarely in the face. If you cannot recognize, attract, and acquire opportunity you should not be in a leadership position. Any opportunity being adopted must be measurable.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

By asking more of these questions – of yourself and others -- you articulate goals, set benchmarks and assess risk. CEOs are often the most successful people. These are the types of questions that deepen understanding and look over the horizon. You become a better thinker and a smarter leader. What do you hear?

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 27, 2017

Is the leadership spine aligned and strong? Assess what works and what doesn’t through benchmark visits, customer research, scanning the environment and other areas of business, and personnel rotations. Daloisio is founder and CEO of Charter Oak Consulting and a principal of The Highlands Group. Are leaders modeling the change?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference. OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Leadership Actions to Renovate Your Culture. His book CULTURE RENOVATION: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company contains Kevin’s extensive experience and research into turning cultures into agile, innovative, and resilient powerhouses. Only 15% of organizations succeed in their attempts to improve company culture.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Assessments can be part of an assessment process - IQ for intelligence, a 360 assessment against potential criteria, a properly benchmarked behavioral or motivational preference inventory, behavioral based interviews, and a variety of simulations all can be parts of a valid and reliable potential assessment process.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome is crazy — start benchmarking other successful behaviors and you’ll slowly become successful. Many people today are making big bucks again. Go find them and see what they are doing. This work by Rich Gee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This is shared leadership in action and works on the principle of “I own what I help to create”. And it also means that a new approach to leadership and management is needed. Developing such agile leadership and shifting rigid mindsets is not easy. A worthy aim!

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 12, 2019

CEOs rated their number one issue as “impact on society, including income inequality, diversity, and the environment.” ” The report offers these “benchmarks for reinvention”: Purpose and Meaning. How’s your team/organization doing against these benchmarks? Ethics and Fairness.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” I asked her a question that I ask CEO’s of major corporations all over the world. . Fueled by his personal and corporate desire to give to others, Paul developed skills and techniques in Leadership, Goal Setting, and Sales Techniques, including his Grid Square Technology. She went on to share her personal story.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 8, 2014

Invite her to continue to share with you as you grow in your leadership. D – Data If you’re still convinced of your position, ask for the opportunity come back with more data: do more homework; build graphs; show correlation; draw pictures; find more stories; benchmark what others are doing.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The three most critical items to focus on when conducting your planning are: Insure that personal accountability is present on any major benchmark, milestone or deliverable. link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] In most cases your wins won’t put you out of business, but your losses most certainly can.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Internal benchmarking of existing talents based upon determined potential; skilled-knowledge, complexity-management; value of the work. Using this benchmark to determine based upon above what skills and competencies are needed to be successful in identified future management positions. What are the outcomes? What are we going to do?

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HR Digest

MARCH 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is proving to be one of the most difficult leadership tests of company executives around the world. Companies with CEOs that welcome a diverse range of abilities and opinions are more likely to emerge stronger from the crisis. You will learn how to improve DEI and what actions are necessary to take.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 25, 2010

During a recent conversation with the CEO of a debt collection company I was told, "I reduced my staff by 30 percent and we actually collected more debt."   Benchmark the position.    When you benchmark the job (not your best talent), you have the foundation for employee performance.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding. The Centers of Gravity (CoG) that will be influenced: Leadership, Process, Infrastructure, Populations, and Action Units. By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. C2: Identify Means. C3: Ensure Intelligence.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In today’s post I’ll clearly explain the difference between vision and mission … As as a backdrop to answering today’s question, I want to share a simple organizational framework I developed several years ago to help executives gain a better understanding of leadership structure.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 21, 2016

This would be stated in terms of expected dollar increases, projections of personnel needed to handle the increase in volume, and benchmarks to see whether the plan is on the expected track. The adjustments become easier to understand as the benchmarks are met or missed. You may find that not everyone is meant to follow your plan.

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Thin Difference

APRIL 16, 2019

In a recent episode of Activate World , Jon spoke with Debbie Forster, Co-Founder and CEO, of Tech Talent Charter about (among other things) the importance of data in her work. Focusing on data means there’s less wiggle room – goals become more tangible, more apparent, and more absolute. And that can be scary.

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

When you enroll, here’s what you'll get: A Business Health Assessment of your organization from six key dimensions (Leadership & Culture, Strategy, Customer Focus, Measurement & Results, People and Processes). Industry Benchmark reports from three perspectives: (Financial, Market, Competition).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Some years ago, the then-CEO of Air Products told me that it took his team two months to decide and plan layoffs, two weeks to do them, and two years to recover. As former Procter & Gamble CEO A. But that's not what goes on.

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