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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

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. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.

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The Delicate Art Of Persuading Your Boss

Tanveer Naseer

Be a bobble head and nod in agreement– after all, push-back could hurt your career. Your best incubator for convincing is a quiet private setting. Invite her to continue to share with you as you grow in your leadership. business communication Guest Posts leadership Recent Posts emotion idea listening perception teamwork'

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4 Things Solitude Will Do for You

Leading Blog

It’s scheduled white space—a commitment you make to yourself simply because your leadership begins with who you are—not what you do. Joey Reiman, CEO of the consulting firm BrightHouse, credits their success to their “longer, incubation pace.” So let’s look at four things solitude will do for you. Clarity is about what is true.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. To get this broad exposure, managers were given a variety of functional roles, eventually assuming leadership for a small business unit. In fact, for many chief executives I've recently worked with, the first real GM job that they had was CEO!

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How to Tell If a Company’s Culture Is Right for You

Harvard Business Review

John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You Love , agrees that it’s important to do further “due diligence” on the company and its people to make sure it’s a place you want to work. “Ask if you are able to move into other functions and other roles as your career progresses.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. It is not about you.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. DAVID: Yeah. What did they come up with?