Lead from Within

JANUARY 12, 2023

The world of leadership is constantly evolving, and new trends and developments are shaping the future of leadership. Here are some of the massive shifts in leadership that are creating the new future: Leveraging AI: Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to impact leadership and work in the coming years.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

And the bottom line is that trust is anything but soft. Customer satisfaction occurs when a companies products and services live up to brand promise thereby improving reputational value and trust. Customers are willing to speak up, organize, and boycott when their expectations aren’t met. What is trust?

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2020. Success Mindsets : Your Keys to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership by Ryan Gottfredson. How Innovation Works : And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

T HE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE of leading in an increasingly complex world is that we will have developmental gaps in our leadership. In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up. Who : Leadership trust - Does leadership trust its employees to take risks without fear of being punished? But what does this mean? How does the organization enable teamwork?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was recently asked what I consider to be the most misunderstood aspect of great leadership; in other words, what makes great leaders great? If you want to become a better leader, I suggest you become comfortable with a leadership practice very few are… it’s called surrender. Control is about power – not leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2019

Guest post from Tabitha Laser: What is leadership? Since joining the workforce more than 25 years ago, and serving as a leader for numerous organizations, it’s apparent that leadership means very different things to different people. Not just from the bottom up, but from the basement. So, how can we fix this conundrum?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 26, 2017

For my part, I’m in the process of trying to eliminate the term “thought leadership” from my vocabulary. This week, after months of reflection, I’ll be instructing our team to remove all references to thought leadership from our materials. Thought Leadership was once a term reserved for a limited few.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

They bulldoze their plans through and others, who weren’t consulted, wind up resisting them — no surprise there. Innovator) Assess alternative methods of taking action, such as, “Will this help us reach our goal? People get promoted for having good answers. Since then, I’ve expanded upon my conclusion. How can we do it better?”

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

They bulldoze their plans through and others, who weren’t consulted, wind up resisting them — no surprise there. Innovator) Assess alternative methods of taking action, such as, “Will this help us reach our goal? People get promoted for having good answers. Since then, I’ve expanded upon my conclusion. How can we do it better?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Olakunle Soriyan, known by most as PK, author of A Love Affair With Failure: When Hitting Bottom Becomes A Launchpad To Success , paints “failure” and “failing” as two different realities and mindset. Shift your perspective and use failure to thrive. How Leaders Use Failure To Thrive.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 19, 2020

But now that they are starting to retire, what will happen to their stable work approach and traditional top-down leadership practices? They prefer a bottoms-up approach, and want to feel involved and valued in the workplace. Nine clear leadership traits emerged. So where do we start? That’s what I did.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2017

Smart leadership creates an environment where yes is not viewed as a weakness, but as an opportunity. The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. No is not all it’s cracked-up to be. It means you’re not teaching, mentoring, communicating, or leading.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2013

Guest post from Shoya Zichy: Innovation is critical to an organization''s growth and competitive advantage. Yet in a recent survey of 5,000 only 1 in 4 people believe they are living up to their creative potential. If you chose more items on the left, your inborn styles is that of a "structured" innovator.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 31, 2014

It’s been almost 4 years now since my cable TV company was sold, and my wife and I packed up and moved from Stamford, Connecticut to Portland, Oregon. I still wanted to practice and study my vocation of leadership. So for me, as one of the founders of Built Oregon, it’s a grand leadership experiment.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage. Joel Answers: Let’s start by demystifying what leadership actually means. To many, leadership is an elusive role.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 18, 2012

Here's some new research on innovation and a guest post by By Rich Wellins, Ph,D., Senior Vice President, Development Dimensions International (DDI): In the past year, innovation has risen to the top of the business agenda. It seems not a day goes by that the major media writes (or broadcasts) stories in innovation.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 2, 2020

Alex Goryachev ’s latest book teaches you how to go beyond the buzzword of innovation to continuously drive growth, improve your bottom line and enact change. The book, published in January 2020, is, Fearless Innovation. Focus on execution of innovation to showcase ROI. Communicate the value of innovation.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 24, 2021

Alex Goryachev ’s latest book teaches you how to go beyond the buzzword of innovation to continuously drive growth, improve your bottom line and enact change. The book, published in January 2020, is, Fearless Innovation. Focus on execution of innovation to showcase ROI. Communicate the value of innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

The problem with conventional leadership theory is it’s littered with misunderstood and misapplied practices. To prove my point, today’s post will examine the downside of a topic you have not likely considered as a possible area of weakness…Leadership Continuity. . The same principle applies to business.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Bottom-line: There is no secret sauce. Any culture with an over-emphasis on “ knowing your position ” creates problems that get in the way of relationships, causes resentment and, as a direct result of this, can interfere with progress and innovation. And indeed they are. Our problem is age-old: putting what we know into practice.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In that follow-up zoom call, I try to be as helpful as possible in sharing any data I’ve collected from pre-event surveys or attendee interviews I use to prepare for their event. And, while I speak about Leadership and Workplace Culture, I realize that other topics are timely and meaningful based on an organization’s specific situation.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Encourage stepping out of the box: Creativity and innovation are essential for any business to succeed. As a leader, this means encouraging your employees to think creatively and come up with new ideas by providing them with the tools and resources they need to explore different solutions and approaches.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Alex Goryachev ’s latest book teaches you how to go beyond the buzzword of innovation to continuously drive growth, improve your bottom line and enact change. The book is, Fearless Innovation. It’s a down-to-earth guide that provides advice and actionable steps on how to: Get teams to embrace innovation beyond empty slogans.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Ongoing innovation with new products, services, and processes through autonomy and entrepreneurship. Hands-on, value-driven leadership. Buried within the text, Peters and Waterman offer the bottom line of how to identify excellence in companies. A customer-first focus in all decisions. Perhaps not. Love and greed.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

You’ll rarely encounter the words leadership and surrender used together in complementary fashion. Society has labeled surrender as a sign of leadership weakness, when in fact, it can be among the greatest of leadership strengths. Control is about power – not leadership. ” Thoughts?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

They are no longer responsible for managing risk but also for driving innovation, enhancing customer experiences, and achieving sustainable growth. Strong strategic leadership skills, including the ability to inspire and motivate teams, are also crucial in navigating the complexities of the insurance sector.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 26, 2016

Innovation occurs when boundaries, roadblocks and Naysayers are pushed to the side. A book, ORBIT-SHIFTING INNOVATION , explores both the creative process behind innovation, as well as the execution. The first in-market experiments will throw up new blind spots and even open up new opportunities. Related articles.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It’s a structure that stifles creativity, innovation and motivation. They aren’t sure what’s urgent or important, and without a big-picture view they end up jumping from one task and one crisis to another. At the bottom line, building a great team requires strategy. The Leadership Gap. The Deception Trap of Leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Getting the leadership part of supervising others right, however, is trickier because emotion and connection enter the picture. These priceless individuals value results and the bottom line. They value traditions while encouraging innovation and creativity. They value traditions while encouraging innovation and creativity.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Innovation occurs when boundaries, roadblocks and Naysayers are pushed to the side. A new book, ORBIT-SHIFTING INNOVATION , explores both the creative process behind innovation, as well as the execution. The first in-market experiments will throw up new blind spots and even open up new opportunities.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 11, 2021

From cover-to-cover of Made From Scratch you’ll learn the leadership lessons of the late Kent Taylor , founder of the restaurant chain Texas Roadhouse. In the new book, Taylor recounts how he built the restaurant chain from the ground up after being rejected more than 80 times as he pitched the idea for the business.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 4, 2013

All companies, no matter the size, need to continually innovate in order to remain competitive. Innovation is a two-part challenge. The first part is coming up with the big idea. Organizations are not Structured to Execute Innovation. So why is innovation execution so hard? The Innovative Leader "Out Thinks".

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. Identifying leaders? Have we really degenerated to this point?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 8, 2019

Bottom-up commitment. In this post I focus on one point: selecting the right change ambassadors using Rogers’ innovation theory. The early majority eventually want to hook up with the new idea, but want some proof that it works before committing. ” Innovators are typically poor ambassadors. Critical mass.

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