Lead from Within

MARCH 21, 2024

The integration of advanced tools and platforms has become paramount for effective communication and project management. Technology Integration: Hybrid workplaces rely heavily on technology to facilitate seamless collaboration between in-person and remote team members.

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Art Petty

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Unless you work around the military, aviation, or in crisis management situations, chances are the answer is never. Increasingly, I see what I interpret as the skills to assess, understand, project, and act based on that analysis as a critical set of behaviors for leaders at all levels. That's a mistake.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 10, 2010

← The Golden Rule of Interviewing: Past behaviour predicts future Fast Friday with Joe Chidley, SVP Corporate & Public Affairs, Veritas Communications → Career Shifting: Leaping lanes mid-career. Allow yourself time to reflect and build your personal career vision. what you’re trying to move away from).

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 12, 2010

← Leadership lessons they don’t teach in school Fast Friday with Murray Kane, SVP HR, LCBO → Are you stuck in a never ending project spin cycle? She reported on her research into how organization’s chose, manage and succeed/or not, with projects. Dr. Henderson kept playfully referring to Project #26.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 27, 2010

← Fast Friday quote of the week with Gregg Levoy, author To be or not to be: can authenticity at work limit your career options? → Mid-career blues: Are Xers being sidelined? One of the keys, from Paul’s view, to managing your career is to know when to go through these windows and seize new opportunities.

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Career Blog Godin Crisis Management 31

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

I stated that I wasn’t interested in his projects and needed to end the call. I’ve learned the hard way the value of prioritizing time and focusing on the people and projects that matter. What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career? The caller then got hyper and talked all over me.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

To this day I’m amazed at how many CEOs still own tasks, roles, projects, and responsibilities that should be delegated to others. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

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CEO Blog Delegation Covey 294

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

In it, Bogey reprised the 1930’s Broadway hit and movie that launched his career. We recall compiling the case notes or sales projections just before the presentation meeting. Having too much time to get projects accomplished tends to breed procrastination. It was written by Rod Sterling and starred Jack Palance and Ed Wynn.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 75

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The use of a project vision is what many projects are missing. The timescale for a project vision is shorter than at the organizational level, but it should be used to create the future-picture of what the project's results should look like. Thanks for presenting this concept so well.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

What if the costs exceed projections, and the benefits fall short of projections? Have you sought counsel and/or feedback before making your decision? Conduct a Cost/Benefit Analysis : Do the potential benefits derived from the decision justify the expected costs?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

I am working on a consulting project where we have run into "Crazy", We had started down the path you outlined here, but we appreciate the clarity of your message. Agree wholeheartedly about positive conflict, though [link] mikemyatt Hi Bob: Thanks for your comment and I'm glad we're in agreement.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The most important decision a leader can make with regard to any implementation, initiative, project, objective, goal, task, etc. One of the reasons I think some organizations end up charging sub-par leaders with mission critical objectives is that leaders of projects are all too often chosen based on position in their hierarchy.

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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. The mentor stands for mentees throughout their careers and celebrates their successes. ” Approach your career as a body of work.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

No, he has the problem and is projecting it on the paying customers. A career is all about devoting resources to amplifying talents and abilities, with relevancy toward a viable end result. The same analogies apply to personal lives, careers and Body of Work. “Every one of them has a problem today.” About the Author.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

a 12 month project. I now own two small construction companies, I believe this industry could actually change to commission//Salary. As we grow, I will create this type of pay structure. Salary, with the abillity thru bonuses or commissions.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Make an equitable blend of ambition and desire: Fine-tuning one’s career is an admirable and necessary process. I should move on to other new projects.” There are no fast-forward buttons or skipping steps inn developing an effective organization, just as there are no shortcuts in formulating a career and Body of Work.

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 10, 2010

← Fast Friday with Jacoline Loewen, Managing Partner of the Loewen Group Are you stuck in a never ending project spin cycle? Next month we’ll be joined by Colleen Albiston, Paula Roberts and Joe Chidley who will share their insights on how to navigate career leaps … up, sideways, across divisions, functions or sectors.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

… Executive Development Opportunities.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Look for projects and areas that can be improved. Share this: This entry was posted in Change Management , Crisis Management , Leadership , results , Stress and tagged Andrea Garson , Jay Woo , leadership lessons , managing in successful times , managing in tough times , Merv Hillier. Hope to see you then.

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 14, 2010

← Are you stuck in a never ending project spin cycle? Share this: This entry was posted in Career Derailer , Leadership , Motivation , Power , Termination and tagged job loss , Laura Bush , position power , self confidence. ← Are you stuck in a never ending project spin cycle? Skip to content Home Welcome!

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Duties, activities, tasks, behaviors, attitudes, contracting, project fulfillment. You offer a promising career and future for people with ideas and talent. Learn to pace and be in the chosen career for the long-run. Equipment, tools, materials, schedules. Skills and Tasks. Role and Job. Systems and Processes.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images. Medicine involves leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. I think your approach makes most sense in project teams. One just left to lead a new project so now there are three of us.) In my case.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 20, 2010

Whether you’re chasing a sales budget, a promotion, a new job, a raise, delivering a project on time… spending time worrying about the outcome isn’t going to make it happen. Never truer words were spoken. The only thing that will get you there is to focus on the tasks and actions that will get you to your goal.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). But I have been doing people and project management for years. And I believe that management is about applying common sense. So, people management is applying common sense on common people. I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer. I have recently started blogging.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 4, 2010

Decide who is most crucial to your project and focus your energies on securing their buy-in. Don’t look for or expect 100% support for your ideas… recognize that many people will be comfortable with the status quo and will resist change. Don’t waste your energies trying to win everyone over.

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Leadership Godin Blog Crisis Management 34

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He was on the creative planning team for catalyst, works with leadership development of Chick-Fil-A, and is quarterbacking many projects for well known leaders. He had a successful career in ministry and was in good churches, but he felt God calling him to this assignment. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Our research and analysis has revealed a complicated relationship between mindfulness and executive performance—one that is important for leaders to understand as they seek to develop in their careers. He will tell you that mindfulness played a critical role in transforming his career. Better project outcomes. Promotions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Regardless of where you are in your life and your career, I can promise you one thing; you will consistently be faced with challenges and obstacles along the way. Anyone who has ever launched a new initiative understands the inevitability of running into numerous barriers over the life-cycle of any project.

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Blog Brand Reputation Crisis Management 381

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Van Wagenen says that, to stay resilient, “a key strategy is having many different projects on my whiteboard — and knowing what I should be working on now, versus what is in someone else’s hands.” ” As with seeds tossed onto rocky soil, Van Wagenen accepts that not all projects will germinate and bear fruit.

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Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In a recent article in the journal Environmental Systems and Decisions , a group of risk management experts dissect how Venice responded to the Black Death in the 1400s. This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management. But not everyone likes being part of someone else’s cool engineering project.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Assume that fluidity and crisis management will be a core part of all of our jobs. Seek out projects that are crisis turnarounds, and make such developmental experiences part of traditional career development. This must be a new skill set that is developed along with more traditional competencies.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 11, 2009

If a project being contemplated carries with it a high risk/reward ratio, it also requires full involvement by the leader. Share this: 9 Comments Filed under Leadership Values , Leading Change , motivating & Inspiring Tagged as courage , crisis managment , delegation , managment , Maple Leaf Foods.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections. Every task should be assigned and managed according to a plan and in the light of day. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) via n2growth.com [.]

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

In it, Bogey reprised the 1930’s Broadway hit and movie that launched his career. We recall compiling the case notes or sales projections just before the presentation meeting. Having too much time to get projects accomplished tends to breed procrastination. It was written by Rod Sterling and starred Jack Palance and Ed Wynn.

Energy 57

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Most of us don’t oversee huge IPOs, but sooner or later, every team faces an unexpected crisis: technology breaks, a competitor makes a disruptive move, a promising project fails, a key employee quits, consumers have a negative reaction to a new product—the list goes on.

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