Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Move to a more circular business model. In working toward a sustainable future, we need to make a strategic choice: control the linearity of the value chain or move toward a more circular business model. While technical solutions are necessary, they are insufficient to bring about a change in behavior.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

It just misses the big breakthrough or is too focused on old business models that it cannot make the leap forward. They sink into inertia because of their clunky tendencies—often with multiple business models, competing goals, and conflicting priorities. In the final analysis, pragmatic leadership is about execution.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

Good leadership skills may differ across businesses, yet few of these skills prepared leaders to manage the turmoil over the past year. Gone are the days of equating winning only with profit and equating leadership only with assertiveness. Aligning business models with social purpose.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

John Dingell: Leadership In Service To People from @JohnBaldoni. How to have productive disagreements about politics and religion via @ConversationUS. Successful companies are based on providing that opposite truth in an effective business model. Never Too Late To Learn New Tricks via @CLOmedia. MarkDMcKinney.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Take note: “The right protégé will complement your leadership skills and style, provide honest feedback, make you feel that you have extra hours in the day, and enable your influence to persist even after you’ve moved on to your next role or opportunity.”. Advocate behind closed doors. Provide air cover. So, find some protégés today.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” When faced with a potential threat of technology or business model disruption, you need to consider two things.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

As the investor leader, you are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. Perhaps your confidence in management rejuvenation is even starting to wane after the reality of all the politics, personalities, and history sets in. Part One – Core, Hard Credential Constituents.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 26, 2022

Slootman, Snowflake CEO, declares that most leaders have significant room to improve their organization's performance without making expensive changes to their talent, structure, or fundamental business model—and they don’t need to bring in an army of consultants to do it.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2020

In business, playing with an infinite mindset means building an organization to last well beyond our own leadership. Existential Flexibility is the capacity to initiate an extreme disruption to a business model or strategic course in order to more effectively advance a just cause.”. It is the long game.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. The fundamental business model that had sustained the great estates for hundreds of years was unraveling.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2018

To assure focused delivery, pragmatic leaders must master the political competence of campaigners and the managerial competence of sustainers. …To If you can see where a change needs to be made but can’t translate that into an actionable concrete agenda, a leader can actually drive their organizations into sluggish territory.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

Choosing "is a risky prospect, fraught with personal, political, and cultural risks for the organization and its leaders." Leaders often "duck their responsibility for choosing because they cannot accept the tradeoffs, risk, and loss that accompany and act of commitment to one definition of the business over the other."

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Sure, it's harder to get it due to increasing geo-political entanglements, environmental and regulatory constraints and access to product, but it still has a strong profit margin and, you believe, defines your brand. But, whether you admit it or not, the business model has run its course. It's a valuable niche!

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Constraint Resistance Business Model Politics 118

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. In fact, I would go so far as to say that CEOs who are not consistently reengineering elements of their business fall into one of the following two camps; 1) They have a perfect business, or; 2) They are an ineffective CEO.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

While a business cannot scale without growth, a business can grow without being scalable. If your business model requires implicit customer growth your business might grow for a time period certain, but it isn’t scalable. Let’s drill down on the talent argument a bit deeper. Take Google, for example.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They are so busy making the most of yesterday’s opportunities, they cannot see today’s or create tomorrow’s. New leadership is needed—leadership that goes against the grain, challenges conventional wisdom, and pushes the status quo. How will you handle sudden and radical changes in business conditions? Are you ready?

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Management Craft

MAY 30, 2012

Is there one indicator of great leadership that shines above all others? The litmus test for great leadership - in my humble opinion - is the degree that you lead according to your stated and understood intentions. They come to meetings and politely seem in agreement, then go back to their groups and do whatever they want.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 10, 2016

Integrity: An Essential Component of Servant Leadership. Shortly after becoming CEO, she announced that Xerox’s business model was unsustainable and that the company would confront reality then make the tough decisions necessary to restore the Xerox’s competitiveness. Don’t be a political animal.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Should the old business stick around or should it be shut down? Too often, startup CEOs cling to old business models as their reason for success, when in reality it was their innovation and risk-taking that helped them succeed in the first place. Don’t forget that business is a leap of faith.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 5, 2011

They fit perfectly into my business model. I run a 21st century business: I have a home office where I coach. Their staff is always polite, engaging, and sometimes even fun to interact with. Then at some point, it all levels/evens out. But I still love them. And I write my daily blog (as I am doing right now).

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

The next time you hear someone question an investment into design solely for the purpose of reducing expenditures, I would suggest that you think long and hard before doing so as few things in business produce the return on investment that a reputation for quality design can yield.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Strategy should include, inform, and integrate with leadership development, talent management, organization design, and proactive culture management. Many organizations are either planning or already have strategic initiatives underway in leadership development, talent management, organization design or culture management.

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CO2

APRIL 9, 2018

Five years ago, after developing Elite Destination Homes, Bill started wading back into the core business. As I took on a leadership role at Real Estate Equities, I met Gary through a third-generation, real-estate entrepreneur. In the beginning, Gary helped with internal politics.

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CO2

APRIL 9, 2018

Five years ago, after developing Elite Destination Homes, Bill started wading back into the core business. As I took on a leadership role at Real Estate Equities, I met Gary through a third-generation, real-estate entrepreneur. In the beginning, Gary helped with internal politics.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

Their business model is unique and there are so many lessons for our businesses and organizations from their story. During this time, the community members recount dreams, tell myths, and discuss hunting techniques, politics, and weather patterns. We drink the tea in our home all the time.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

My experience has been consistent over the years - whenever a common aspect of business turns into a “practice area&# trouble is on the horizon. Cost cutting and process improvements always have their place, but on their own accord don't constitute a sustainable business model. What say you?

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CO2

APRIL 9, 2018

Five years ago, after developing Elite Destination Homes, Bill started wading back into the core business. As I took on a leadership role at Real Estate Equities, I met Gary through a third-generation, real-estate entrepreneur. In the beginning, Gary helped with internal politics.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Despite the fact that executives could improve the value and performance of their companies by shifting capital from under-performing business units to better performing units, most choose to allocate their resources the same way year after year. Outdated beliefs about the world can linger for decades in a leadership team.

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CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Each business model calls for different cultures and different reasons for these behaviors. was personally motivating not only to the employees but to the leadership team as well. It provides a way to give anonymity to the employees and great insight to the leadership team. It becomes an upwardly reinforcing system.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I’m curious about how leading across generations is impacting your business. Registration for this free online event will not only give you access to my video, but also presentations featuring some of today’s leading influencers. Sounds like an interesting event and line up.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

We feel strong alignment in purpose: elevating the networking profession by teaching leadership and professionalism, and finally take network marketing mainstream as the most ethical and effective business model for the new economy. Main | Caption Contest 2010.3 Thank you, Chris and Orrin.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

But there are thorny cultural, strategic, political, and budget issues that must be confronted by CEOs and other leaders if they want to ensure that their organizations can be hospitable to — rather than hostile to — new ideas. They were: Politics, turf wars, and a lack of alignment (cited by 55% of respondents.).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

In order to succeed outside China, Xiaomi must figure out how to tweak its business model. In addition, India provides Xiaomi with an opportunity to experiment with new products and business models. That might well change the very nature of the political and economic ties between China and India.

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LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

The second book was, to be frank, a major part of that model that I scissored out in order to make the first book predictable success of a length people would purchase. It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

” Consider the challenges that modern corporate leaders — and especially CEOs — now face, in addition to running their companies every day: A high likelihood that the company they run has a business model that is being seriously disrupted, most often as a result of technology. I recognize this inclination in myself.

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