N2Growth Blog

MARCH 9, 2011

If you want to create a powerful sphere of influence start by taking the following six steps: Create a Vision : Take pause and examine where you are currently in your professional career as contrasted with where you want to go. Be sure that your vision is based first and foremost on adding value to the lives and careers of others.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

For managers, leadership isn’t one-size-fits-all. Each individual must take their own unique mixture of real-world experience and personal talents to forge their own leadership style. With leadership training, managers can study the core competencies they need to adapt and grow for their entire career.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

It’s the final installment of my five-week series outlining my 25 timeless (and time tested) leadership lessons that just plain work. “It is Solved by Walking” Take the Leadership Litmus Test. About 17 years ago, someone advised me I needed to be more “statesmanlike” in my leadership approach.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

In other words, core competencies turned into core rigidities, preventing the firm from responding appropriately to the strategic threat Yamaha posed.”. What is the core knowledge discipline that is most fundamental to your company and how widely available is it? Corporate leaders need to absorb career risks….

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Women on Business

AUGUST 15, 2011

Leadership, at its core is about helping others reach full potential. Here is a good article and my response is an underline of what needs to be seen as a core competency of leadership. Yet we often resist seeking expert advice in critical areas like our career or parenting. But it would be a half truth.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Tanveer Naseer wrote a wonderful post recently where he asked, “ Is Leadership an Art or a Science? Great leadership behaviors require a lot of blending and the ability to balance seemingly contrasting behaviors; a lot of this’s and that’s. Positive and Realistic: You can go far on a positive attitude.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Pull up a tall glass of warm apple cider (with a shot of something that has a kick if you’d like) and grab some donuts while you learn from the top leadership readers on the net and consider some autumn fun. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership announces a penalty in Individual Development Plans are Worthless….if

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

» Thought-full Thursday: Appreciative Leadership September 9th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Every Thursday, we provide you with a thoughtful way to coach yourself – something all leaders need to do. It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. Well done and keep the great content coming!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Sure, leaders may perform the occasional miracle, but for most of you, most of the time, leadership is accomplished by doing a lot of little “ings&# thoughtfully and consistently over time. Supporting growth and development will positively affect the goals your organization is attempting to achieve. Ricky, yes.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In the public arena, we vote for our leaders (this may provide the most obvious connection to our responsibility for bad leadership): In this case, we might ignore bad past behavior before we cast our vote. How can followers possibly be responsible for bad leadership in our organizations? Let’s consider this. We tolerate them.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

With a lot of wisdom and good things to say about leadership – hop over to his blog and be sure to subscribe. The navy’s leadership knew training everyone to replace anyone was a core success and survival factor. He regularly blogs about leadership on The thoughtLEADERS Blog. Stay in touch with those people.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 28, 2010

In competition for blog attention today is an article that talks about the high rate of boss bullying on US leadership teams. Likewise, when US business adopts the concept that workers (all workers) can actually self-actualize within the work they perform – leadership takes on a higher meaning. Because I don’t believe it.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

1. Spend more time on making recruitment a core competency in the entire organisation. The challenge is to manage behaviour rather than manage people, and the best way to do this is to use every interaction with a staff member to reinforce positive behaviour patterns needed, and nip in the bud any unwanted behaviour.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

According to my experiences, working with happiness, motivation, humor and confidence will make things more effective and much easier, since we have a positive attitude. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

There’s nothing gender specific in running a business well [link] # entrepreneurship #leadership #. Two Questions for Bosses by @ wallybock [link] # leadership #perception #. On Leadership and Dealing with Comfortable Inaction by @ tnvora [link] # leadership #. RT @ techrepublic ) # Career | [link] #. (RT

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Discuss the importance of their commitment: It is important for them to know that they are responsible for their own actions and career. When they make a promise to follow through on an action that will further their career, they should follow through. This shows they are committed to themselves as well as the relationship.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 17, 2011

They learned how to give constructive feedback to each other and agreed that they needed to assure that positive feedback and expressing points of agreement in a debate were needed. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

Often what it comes down to is that their manager is not willing to wait for the time it takes my client to make some changes to their leadership. Some of these clients got lucky and found positions in different parts of the same company before the firing squad came. Don’t Fire That Person (Yet)! Thanks for sharing your ideas.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 10, 2010

Let them know what that is, and let them know you will miss what they brought to your leadership and your organization. I have even seen that sometimes, these people also reconsider joining the same organization again, just because they had positive experiences at workplace when they left. Don’t Fire That Person (Yet)!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

All of the information he provided was given in a positive way, without rushing. It reminds me of the research that Gallup did (chronicled in the book How Full Is Your Bucket by Tom Rath) that identified the optimal mix of positive to negative comments as 5 to 1. How often we forget the impact our own attitude has on others.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 2, 2011

blind spots are not always weaknesses; they may be positive traits too). Instead of focusing on the past behavior – which you cannot change – ask people to give you one or two suggestions for positive changes you can make in this area going forward. In the latter case, I’ll want to learn to lighten up.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 10, 2010

When we are intentional about our words, we can choose to spread positive emotion or negative emotion; to lift or deflate. To be intentionally positive is the key to making gratefulness a habit in our lives. I think many of us have a natural tendency to want to downplay positive events, for fear of the ensuing negative event.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

In a world devoid of positive feedback, you can make a difference. It has been a huge learning for me throughout my own life and career that presence is sometimes all that is needed. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Found: Edgar, my beloved leadership pug. Jennifer, it is so much more positive to think in these terms, isn’t it? Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Found: payment for work I love. Lost: corporate politics.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

First, encouraging, coaching, + nurturing individuals in ways that establish patterns of work which improve the odds positive results will be sought creatively (I esp. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Every action, every gesture and every word out of a leader’s mouth can influence in a positive or a negative way; either way impacts the bottom line. Patrick, Mom’s are so full of leadership wisdom. Mary Jo Asmus : September 7, 2010 at 9:52 am Matt, Seems as though the art of discipline was learned by you at the right time?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 27, 2010

It was in his journey from Superman to being trapped in a body following a tragic accident that we can begin to understand how we, as leaders, might choose to respond to the adverse and trying times that happen in our leadership and our lives. Wouldn’t you also say that leadership is so very human? Your niece sounds very special.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Here are some places to look and some questions to ask yourself that may help you to find inspiration: Look inside yourself: What is my core purpose in life? How do I express it in my leadership? How might I convey more of those characteristics in my leadership? to infuse (breath, life, etc.) by breathing (usually fol.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 25, 2010

Upbeat and positive, people loved being around him. He would come over and visit Edgar the Leadership Pug and chat with us, often speaking of the beauty that surrounds us here. Best, Tanmay Mole Chapman : August 25, 2010 at 10:19 am indeed, I’m always stuck by the human capacity to contribute positively to others.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 15, 2010

I guess you could say that I think it’s important for managers to learn and use coaching skills as part of their leadership tool kit. Like a lot of things in life and in leadership, coaching others well isn’t easy and it isn’t quick. can take their leadership to the next level. Thanks for adding these thoughts!

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Why did American auto-makers lose their once dominant position to their European and Asian counterparts?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

And so this becomes the lens through which we view others: “He has an attitude problem and just cannot work on team&# , or, “She is a high performer, but couldn’t possibly step up to a position in the C-suite&#. I think it’s all about the environment you set for them. Thanks for the great post.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 30, 2010

I spent many years working in positions that allowed me the freedom to choose my path. I will keep these lessons in mind as I embark on my career, which hopefully will be soon as my job hunt continues. I learned from them all and each contributed to the joy in my current work. I was appreciated for what I did and was paid well.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

September 20th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Every now and then, I have the pleasure of seeing how my education and early career as a bench biologist can have some connection with the work I am now doing. What this means to you So what does all of this research mean to leadership and organizations?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 21, 2010

Positive and “corrective” feedback is given freely and without consequences to the messenger. 360’s are a featured item in the Leadership Museum. You walk into the Leadership Museum and are guided past wax replicas of ruthless leaders and famous consultants. Les, I like it that 360′s are being used.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The act of reflecting can us to become aware of our past actions in order to impact the future in a positive way. Leadership requires a great deal of reflection in order to improve and change; yet we resist the idea of doing something that feels stagnant. In a way, when we reflect, we fold back upon ourselves.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

This book highlights Paul’s significant experience in a 40-year career of managing people and as a well-respected consultant to managers and their organizations across the globe. Positive changes in all areas of their life may occur as a result since the skills can all be used, in some way, at work and in life outside of work.

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