N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Discipline requires a systemic approach. To make good decisions, we need to understand how the system works. The most productive leaders I know have the ability to be extremely nice, very civil and always polite while maintaining the ability to be direct, focused, and candid. It takes some work, but don't settle for anything less.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

When it’s time to hire for critical positions within your company, consider the training and certification in military systems offered to service men and women. Businesses with a commitment to hiring former service men and women are attending career fairs dedicated to veterans and building talent communities for veteran candidates.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

I find that it's rarely this bolt of lighting epiphany and rather a collective result of thinking systemically about solving a key problem. Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. Vision is often misunderstood.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Regardless of whether your firm embraces a meritocracy, a tenure based system, a highly sophisticated compensatory system, or some form of a benevolent dictatorship, bonuses are always an issue.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Taking from my own experience, I've been lucky to be successful (measured by quick progression up the career ladder, material comforts etc) and yet I'm still working on being professionally significant. "False" beliefs, a lack of sincerity, or any belief system that is not genuine can be harmful.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The leader has failed to communicate with those around him of what their system does, its current and future capabilities, and the group or individual's vision for the future. You assume that the person asking the question is always right. But are they?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. On with the exam… Section I: Character. Great leaders do the right thing regardless of circumstances, situational context or other influencing factors.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Or if they do-more times than not, it’s impersonal and relies on a rating system-not the feedback itself. The best source is the customer and yet companies would rather do anything but ask a customer their opinion.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Visit [link] to learn more about the leadership system. Leaders need to have a passion for what their company does or creates, not just a passion for the money it can make. Leaders need to have an profound appreciation for all the people working for them and the skills they bring to the table.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

But, eventually, I think that your real belief system will begin to shine through. The bottom-line here for me is this: As leaders, we can all choose to back things because they’re “politically” correct and good for our personal brands.

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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 22, 2010

Have they been fudging their research for years?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Systems and Processes. 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. Duties, activities, tasks, behaviors, attitudes, contracting, project fulfillment. Role and Job. Structure, hiring, control, work design, supervision, decisions.

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Their Speed-2-Green system can get you moving fast, but my big a-ha was the number of simple things that any leader can do to make an impact. Quite honestly, climate change is one of those issues that overwhelms me.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 16, 2010

He professes to have used this throughout his career on decisions from which grad school to attend to when it came time to sell parts of his business. Basically, the Schulich system is a pro’s and cons list with a twist. should I leave my secure job for the ambitious start-up? Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink.

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Roundtable Talk

JANUARY 25, 2011

But, as a manager, I was pretty stumped about what do to about it. Sure, I could make incremental changes, but the system seemed so completely fubared that it was hard to imagine how to make it better overall. Enter Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Then we look for tools and systems to manage those relationships and expand our capacity for more relationships, and they can add an additional layer of complexity. So, now throw on top of that a few hundred Facebook friends and hundreds or potentially thousands of twitter followers and things start getting complicated.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

But it was already too late – what wasn’t working for United was working for his career. But the moral of this story is not how to do crisis management faster and better in a lightning-fast digital world. Computer systems and algorithms are now part of customer service decision making.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 18, 2010

Top performers won’t stay in broken systems and baby boomer execs like Clive Beddoe at WestJet, may need to seriously consider making some internal changes to the system if that really do want to move beyond the boomer ranks to fill top leadership spots.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. AAPL) the iPod, iPad & iPhone are cherished as innovative and beautiful products. But Apple does not manufacture them. Apple truly defines next practice in all of these areas. But manufacturing?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

As you point out though we are now faced with a culture of political correctness> It no longer comes just from the "top" but is deeply ingrained in our belief system, especially when it comes to work environments. To speak "your truth" is perceived to be a potentially career limiting, if not ending move.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 17, 2010

All this drama made us wonder… does torpedoing a career bridge ever make sense? It’s possible that, over the span of your career, you may find yourself in at least one untenable employment situation. On the upside, a reality tv show is being talked about. But, only for a week. After that, you need to let them move on without you.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 13, 2010

Watching some Canadian soccer experts talk about why Canada isn’t a dominant player on the international soccer stage, the hurdles seem to boil down to: inadequate coaching… our coaches just aren’t on top of the latest techniques insufficient practicing… the feeder system for soccer emphasizes playing games not practicing technique.

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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. Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I’m not an MBA.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Image: Gareth Lock Train hard, fight easy Gareth also has a 25-year RAF career behind him. In his film, Gareth highlights the example of the aviation sector, which is well known for its use of confidential reporting systems, encouraging incident reporting and providing effective analysis and detailed output reports.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

working with one of our business partners was installing an electronic security system in the Pentagon window that was struck. Of particular note, I remember receiving the call that a young technician (Allen Bandy – sp?) He left behind a lovely wife and 3 small children.

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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. My question is this: have you taken the time to do the necessary planning? You will face physical, mental, financial, relational, and resource challenges among others.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

The PM has not had any career outside politics. And useful as activists may be in a democracy, the Greek experience suggests they don’t make for very practical crisis managers. The banking system collapses. Only the deputy PM has had ministerial experience — a quarter of a century ago.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Now six years later, an actual event has occurred that is eerily similar to that fictional scenario: a trusted retailer’s point-of-sale system security was breached and a large amount of customer data may be compromised. Crisis management Leadership Risk management' Are you ready?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Frankly, I'm all for letting the system be overrun by those who deserve to be there. Our educational system, family, societal status, etc indoctrinates biases). We all experience it, and both the introduction and experience are better when it occurs naturally and not via contrived mandates.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

It helps to have people that like and know how to lead (like is the born part), but born leaders without knowledge, goals and belief system are leaders for leaders sake and often end up creating a lot of trouble for themselves and those they lead. link] mikemyatt We are in agreement on all points Dan.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The first time adrenaline floods our systems its effects are dominant. 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.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Integrated : Ideas need to be incorporated into strategic initiatives and not constitute disparate systems. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) Timing : It must be detailed and deliverable on a schedule. via n2growth.com [.]

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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. So for those embarking on a career in finance, Lewis has one last piece of advice: "Watch yourself, because no one else will.".

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

This app will help people track their cases in the justice system. She recalls her time working in the Taliban-controlled Afghani province of Kandahar as the most challenging of her career to date. The role of self-compassion in resilience extends to career decision making. The compound she lived in took frequent rocket fire.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 7, 2016

I have advocated for many years the concept of the Grand Strategy to drive crisis response using the Golden Hour metaphor as the driving force. Very few management problems are crises, but all crises are management problems. Preplanning executive actions and decisions can avoid career-defining moments.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I started out as a sales rep selling big systems against IBM- which provided me with an early, first-hand perspective on Gravity. I’m also creating a broad range of turnkey systems for small business and entrepreneurial endeavors to help them apply the lessons on their own. No one wanted to change the IBM status quo.

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