Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2015

It used to be said that people have three careers in them. Bacharach started his music writing career by taking 'work for hire,' tailoring songs to particular performers. We benefit from going back and learning from our own early Body of Work, assuming that we stratregized our career to be a long-term thing, as Burt Bacharach did.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Executives often don’t want to give up there star performers. The family bonded like never before, they were exposed to new and rich experiences, and it forever changed their perspectives. Can the manager try it out and commute back and forth, giving them time to get used to the new environment and then make a decision?

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Throughout my career, I have observed people who could stretch themselves beyond their self-perceived limitations and attain a far greater level of innovation than they initially thought they could. And that we must create and surround ourselves with a positive environment—and learn from one another. There’s everyone else.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip. When you take part in gossip you do none of these things.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

Two bond issues had failed with warring camps arguing about educational quality and fiscal responsibility. When they addressed the concern about growth, the bond issue passed with over 70%. As one Fortune 100 executive commented, “We learned that debate is our skill, but it not our friend.” Heat doesn’t translate into light.

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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. This is a bonded collaboration toward each other’s success. The mentor stands for mentees throughout their careers and celebrates their successes.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I wanted to be a leader – something I had promised myself I’d doggedly pursue since I had hit my career bottom two years earlier. They were so accustomed to buttoned-down executives, that is, if they ever saw them at all. Here was this guy, showing up, and not “acting” like an executive. It was all out there for everyone to see.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I call the opposite of a strategy tourist a Strategy Execution hero. I believe the behavior of strategy tourists offer us a very useful career guide. Change jobs regularly to outrun major execution challenges. Learn to identify other tourists and bond as hard as you can. And yes, they are somewhat lazy. Inflate budgets.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

The mentor becomes a role model, offering insights about their own life-career. This is a bonded collaboration toward each other’s success. The mentor stands for mentees throughout their careers and celebrates their successes. ’ Approach your career as a body of work. Insight offered about own life-career.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Moving the average executive from prepared statements to an unscripted, off-the-cuff, and ultimately more honest and spontaneous communications strategy is terrifying to most. Most executives have been taught since early in their careers that they can never, under any circumstances, appear to not have all the answers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

My students frequently ask me how I planned out my career to become president of Fidelity Investments. I always tell them, "There was no grand plan; I backed into my career one step at a time.". What does my history suggest about career planning? That you can't control the trajectory of your career.

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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. Gwyn Teatro Mike , so many view kindness, empathy, compassion and love as elements foreign to business environments and strong leadership. Thanks for sharing Dan.

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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. At the same time I personally feel its a long way to go to see the environment what has been discussed in the article.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams. This in turn leads to a very focused, coordinated, and ultimately a very passionate work environment.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

I started out my career by aspiring to be like Dick Clark. Each entertainment niche may not be your ‘cup of tea,’ but relating to others will create common bonds and exhibits leadership. I would ask corporate executives to articulate core values, and they could only recite meaningful song lyrics, movie lines and quotes.

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Miles Anthony Smith

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Then we will turn to the impact both good and bad workplace environments have on people, the warning signs, and what to do to improve your employee engagement and team morale. ” Charley Polachi, managing partner at executive recruitment firm Polachi Access Executive Search. So what are we to do? So hang on to your hats!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Mentoring, creating and leading have become the primary emphasis for your career. It is a bond of trust that, if violated, will haunt the business. In today's highly competitive business environment, every dynamic of a successful organization must be toward ultimate customers. Amplify upon philosophies of others.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

He was raised in an environment where nobody drank Pepsi. So, if you can create well-executed, on-target brand narratives, you will have tremendous power. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. I have to admit, I was a bit confused by this at first. But then I looked at his history.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

According to William Steiner of Executive Coaching Concepts , your ability to connect with others is directly related to your ability to demonstrate empathy for them. Communication, the human connection, is the key to personal and career success. 360 Feedback systems connect the loop for communication and engagement Follow David.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Have you ever said to yourself, How in the world did [insert name of powerful business executive] get to where he is? That executive who made it big probably doesn’t have more powerful brain cells than you… but what he (or she!) In today’s dog-eat-dog environment, a person’s word isn’t always his or her bond.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

I did that for years," Karp recalls, all the while knowing that coming out could jeopardize her career in investment banking. "It By not promoting and supporting an inclusive workplace, organizations whose workplace environments cause LGBTs to stay in the closet risk alienating and ultimately losing a critical tranche of talent.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

This plagues everyone, but especially women who are candidates for high-powered careers. A woman executive who doesn't drink coffee never learned how to make it, thus saving many hours of time over the years while never being forced into coffee-service role early in her career. Not exactly your typical job.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Conversely, in “ Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters , ” Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Andrew Ward suggest a more aggressive, ego-centric alternative. A small but intriguing new survey by a pair of British consultants confirms the importance of resilience to business success.

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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.” Zeba Rashid, who specializes in celebrity event management, has worked in many different kinds of office environments over the course of her career.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

And more people than you might think are lying to get ahead or gossiping as way to exchange information, vent their frustrations, and bond with co-workers when they don’t trust their leaders. Put all of this together and you’ve got a highly politically-charged work environment.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. But what about younger people just entering a traditional office environment? It's a huge and real loss in terms of career development. Is there an upside?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The phrase “mobile talent” implies rootlessness, but the ability to commit to one’s new environment — broadly and deeply, as Ahn did — is crucial to succeeding in it. Ahn changed his first name to “Viktor,” for victory and also in honor of a Russian rock star of Korean descent, and he studied Russian.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Involving staff in conceiving, designing, and implementing the change would result in a course of action that was more fit-to-purpose and more likely to be well executed. We wanted to create an environment where “thinking out loud” was encouraged. The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The SEALs leadership recognized that technical excellence—better shooting and better shots—didn’t go nearly far enough in addressing the complex environments and demands that would be made upon sniper teams in wartime deployments in multiple theaters. The post-9/11 environment demanded it. They are self-motivators.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high. That's exactly the kind of environment Jim Lavoie worked in for 30 years. You behave, you stay.'

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Here’s the bottom line: How can you possibly justify not communicating with your key constituents, stakeholders, and influencers in an environment of their choosing, where they are actively having conversations in real time? In the post-recession, post-mass media environment, it's all in play. News Flash: you can’t.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

These executives spend much of their energies on planning, tactics, organizational development and business development. That’s how this book came into being…there was no executive encyclopedia for those to make it long-term. Career and life are not a short stint. This is a bonded collaboration toward each other’s success.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

While these barriers affect women at all levels of the organization, they are particularly pronounced in the pressure-cooker environment at the top, putting women at a disadvantage. Another leader found it hugely energizing to browse executive education programs she might sign up for, as if perusing intellectual holiday destinations.

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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. Fifteen years ago, what was a news executive thinking about? It is among the most transactional of all businesses.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In addition, when we work in complex adaptive environments (like an organization), then we have to be able to leverage each and every tool at our disposal in varying degrees to accomplish the objective. Some cultures are deliberate – built and crafted carefully by the executive team and often consultants.

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