N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

When you take part in gossip you do none of these things. In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I have had many excellent ones in my long career and have in turn mentored hundreds of others. The mentor becomes a role model, offering insights about their own life-career. The sharing of trust and ideas leads to developing business philosophies. This is a bonded collaboration toward each other’s success.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Leaders need to understand that compassion humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence and loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. Should the traits mentioned above be more formally cultivated in leadership development programs? What do you think? Alex Good One! Mike Henry Sr.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Or, what development needs existing leaders may have. When people see this in others we suggest it forms a bond, and in leadership this can be a powerful bond. Within this aspect we can introduce elements of continuous professional development, coaching, mentoring and career opportunities. Transactional leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Leaders need to understand that being authentically humble humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence & loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. Thanks in advance for sharing… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.]

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Finely develop skills in every aspect of the organization, beyond the scope of professional training. Mentoring, creating and leading have become the primary emphasis for your career. Develop and share own philosophies. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Let the buyer beware.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. The immigrant mentality has proven time and again to accelerate careers and build enterprise. All managers need to develop this ability to see around the corners up ahead.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Discover areas you can unite with others on – agreement on similar interests or like mindedness on a topic will help develop connections. On your next visit, refer to something they said; this will help them to know that you listened and create a bond because you remembered something about them. Good stuff.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Simply by asking, you have built a bond with them. I read a lot of Leadership development articles and blogs, and I think this is one the first ones I’ve read that i’ve actually said to myself “Hey! Go ahead and: Find someone you trust and ask them to assist you. Be specific about the help they can provide.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

However CEOs that implement a well thought out and clearly articulated vision, create a sense of stability and a bond of trust amongst the ranks. I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

People who behave like this are what I call Seductive Operational Bullies (SOBs). Seductive operational bullies are not blatantly violent or antisocial; their disturbing behavior is not so in your face. Some of these people rise to astonishing heights, but in the process they cause enormous damage.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

Leading global businesses since the early 1970s and serving as a board member of two European companies, Bill's travels throughout the world shaped his ideas for developing global leaders. Learning local languages enables you to appreciate cultural nuances and develop more personal relationships. That's a mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

It’s how they develop and grow (just as children do, first imitating their parents, then their peers). And that’s precisely what gets us in trouble as we hit career transitions that call for new and different ways of leading. So we stick with what’s natural and comfortable. Finally you dream in the language.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In addition they operate from a plan — however confidential it may be — to strengthen the team year over year. At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Hundreds if not thousands of hospitals have responded to trends such as shorter average hospital stays, fewer surgeries, a shift to outpatient and home care, and reduced reimbursements by consolidating or overhauling their operations and laying off staff. We’ve certainly had to change too. Serious accountability.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

How many times during the course of your career have you witnessed executives and entrepreneurs who desperately need help, but either don’t recognize it, or worse yet, make it virtually impossible for someone to help them? Its easy to ask for help when you first make a decision and develop it as a habit.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It is the time when we talk about a full range of topics: family issues, financial discussions, career decisions, information exchange, and even neighborhood gossip. Most important was the bonding that resulted between me and the leaders and staff of the department. We found that we enjoy this activity together.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. She recalls her time working in the Taliban-controlled Afghani province of Kandahar as the most challenging of her career to date.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

The condition is rare but, fortunately, there appeared to be several specialists both in Germany and France who had each treated hundreds of cases during their careers. When it comes to specialist operations, experience is key, so he was going to visit each of them and then make a decision. Sound strategy requires objectivity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Focus too on forging bonds and fostering trust among your team members, says Meyer. “Invest time upfront on building emotional bonds so that people on your team have opportunities to get to know each other by sharing meals or talking over drinks,” she says. How can I ‘own my career’ [at Accenture]?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

These diverse groups of volunteer employees work across organizational boundaries and outside of their regular operational duties. Having to develop testable hypotheses forced the participants to think deeply about how to structure their work so that it was rigorous and data-driven. in less than five years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

” Dillon recommends trying to embrace the open office concept by focusing on the positives, “the bonding,” and downplaying the negatives, “the occasional TMI.” ” As a team, your collective goal is to come up with “agreed-upon norms that you’ll all operate within,” says Burkus.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

As I sit to write each morning, I draw upon the vast network of people (many in active chat windows) with whom I've worked in the trenches over the course of a 35-year career, while also having the benefit of opinions and insight by expert strangers a click away. It's a huge and real loss in terms of career development.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Remember that connections are not the same thing as relationships, but that connections can develop into relationships with the proper effort on your part. Don’t breach trust - you work far too hard to create a trust bond with your followers, so don’t blow it by not following through on your commitments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Sometimes it’s been across oceans and time zones (we are a military family), and sometimes it’s been across town (the office was short on space; I was a slave to my children’s schedules; the whole operation was virtual). Meeting up with other work-from-homers to “keep each other company” is like that.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Leaders have a large degree of autonomy and consequently develop the sense of ownership crucial to success. All this in Brazil, a country where women are known to have much slower and shorter corporate careers than men, and where black directors are vanishingly rare in larger corporations. Rank is matched with empowerment.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Most executives have been taught since early in their careers that they can never, under any circumstances, appear to not have all the answers. Raw as In-Process” refers to co-development, to how brands that communicate in frequent, collaborative bursts with their public create bonds of joint ownership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In True North Groups , Bill and Doug provide an extremely insightful and practical roadmap for how you can create your own ecosystem for mutual support, feedback, development, and, ultimately, lifelong learning collaborators. My 13 years with Medtronic became the most important of my career. It is a very timely book.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. Or must it be managed to build better bonds and relationships throughout the enterprise? I’ve seen it happen, and careers ended when it did.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. For my whole career I did it wrong," says co-founder and CEO Lavoie. -based company is a nimble competitor in a high-stakes and highly-structured industry. As Lavoie describes in his Management 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The prevailing feeling is that "we're in the same boat together": success will reflect well on everyone, whereas failure could hurt people's careers. So people initially operate in a positive atmosphere of " swift trust." After all, how can employees truly develop trust for people they've never met?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. SFO’s facility, the 3,146-seat War Memorial Opera House, was funded by a voter-approved municipal bond in 1927.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But if culture is developed outside of strategy, if it’s not driven by strategy, then said culture can become a very dangerous intoxicant. It is something you're thinking about and planning for, therefore it is part of the overall strategy being developed. I think not, and I’ll explain why. What say you?

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