Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2015

M any leaders, after the financial crisis of 2008, tend to give special importance to their personal values in an attempt to lead better. The crisis was an eye opener for many leaders who were guilty of measuring success in monetary terms. This is a guest post by Ali Jafri.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 20, 2016

There’s a leadership crisis in American politics and business—a crisis that extends around the world. If you want to become a leader today, whether you are leading a short-term project, a startup, or a global corporation, we already know the theme of your campaign for leadership. All markets are transforming today.

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HR Digest

MARCH 22, 2021

Employer Branding can be termed as the identity of a business or enterprise. This means employers have to now market themselves as viable options where people can build a rewarding career. One of the ways to add to one’s stature in the market is through a solid employee value proposition (EVP). Crisis Management.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2020

It’s likely that you can relate because most of us, at some point in our careers, have had this happen to us. While stress can give us short-term boosts to meet deadlines, it can become debilitating, adversely affecting our health and well-being, when it returns frequently or lasts for long periods of time.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Plus, if you missed last month’s instalment with Sunday Times economics editor David Smith , it was a cracker!

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2021

In terms of location, the Midwestern states appeared to gain most from this movement, with Minnesota the most popular destination. As one looks at the refugee crisis globally, it’s clear that it’s not going away any time soon and that we need research-based policies to navigate through it,” they say. “Our

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Poor Communication Skills : Show me a leader with poor communication skills and I’ll show you someone who will be short-lived in their position. Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

While the emotional distress associated with gossip can be dealt with fairly easily, the political discord that can erupt in an organization can be nothing short of disastrous. If you want to be a long-term survivor in business I would suggest that you not participate in gossip and get rid of those that do.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Those professionals that have self respect, and demonstrate a true respect for others regardless of their station in life, are much more likely to be successful over the long-term than those that use the tactics of disrespect to humiliate and intimidate. I wanted to put this question out there: Can humility be learned? Greenleaf in 1970.

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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. Business relationships with customers, collaborators and other professionals are established to be long-term in duration. Do you have a detailed, written analysis of your market area? It is quite illuminating.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While you might not detect brand taints associated with overexposure in the short-term, this principle holds true across most genres over time. Let me offer just a few examples to help connect the dots: Recording artists that release too many CDs over too short of a time period hurt their own appeal. will go into decline.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

There is a simple short-cut which allows you to quickly extrapolate an hourly rate from a total annual compensation figure that I find useful for quick comparative purposes. 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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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

I actually prefer to play to the middle in that I am neither understated nor overstated, but I am comfortable with who I am and my approach to the market. I believe that first impressions do matter but just in the short time. Thanks for highlighting that thought in your comment. Thanks again for stopping by Alvan.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. 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. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. In short, never stop! Culture and Mission.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. It is not uncommon to see both vision and mission statements change over time to reflect differences in market conditions.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

They could not be more wrong - I’m here to tell you that strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive terms. They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated and they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. 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 work with a small group of leaders.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Arguably o ne of the toughest career moves is the transition from peer to boss. Look long-term at the effects of your short-term battles: the reality of peer relationships at the leadership level is that they are often competitive. Sometimes the battle is worth it and other times it won’t be. Happy leading!

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Business is fluid, dynamic and ever evolving, which means that static advice is at best short lived, but most times is simply incongruous with the very nature of business itself. Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Do you ever wonder how the term “Politically Correct&# evolved from an obscure catch-phrase that was once used to label those who would not take a controversial position to the dominant mind-set of the day in our society? The first step in solving the problem is to deal in whole truths, not untruths or partial truths.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In the torrent of commentary following Steve Jobs' death, few have noted that his career and his company say something profound in the endless debate about the purpose of the corporation. In other words, we must turn our attention back to the real market and away from the expectations market. Emphasis mine.)

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Listen here to learn more about what Shootman calls the “digital work crisis.” Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. What do you mean by that term? And that’s really the source of this digital work crisis. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Here's the bad news for Gen X: at each point thus far, you've drawn a pretty short straw. As an article in a 1985 issue of Fortune said: "[T]hese pioneers of the baby-bust generation are finding life on the career frontier harsher than ever. Many X'ers' careers got off to a slow start. Unemployment hit 10.3

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Hanging over the right corner of his office was a flat screen TV tuned to a financial channel posting the most recent "unprecedented" crash in markets around the world. The psychological term for it is called "affect tolerance," or the ability to manage our emotional responses to outside events. What is the answer?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? Cathy Benko, a vice chairman at Deloitte, has been studying the various ways companies are working to prevent a skills crisis while transforming for the digital world. An edited version of our conversation follows. Which is proving more popular at the moment?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, I have sensed from many leaders that they want to do a better job of leading in accordance with their personal values. As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

-based companies, I’ve spoken with hundreds of high-performing working parents, and, on the hunt for real, feasible solutions, asked the same questions again and again: What advice has been the most valuable to you over the long term as a working parent? ” Have a Plan B — and don’t wait for a crisis to use it.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career. What I can tell you is that I’ve always made my family a priority.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down? Let me be clear. I am not saying they should.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Then again, that’s sort of what Bogle’s been doing since 1974, when he took a crisis that was all about him — he’d been fired by his business partners — and somewhat inadvertently turned it into something that was about defending the interests of retail investors everywhere. Jeff Bezos?) who can compare with Bogle.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As refugees they have the same rights and obligations — excepting only the right to vote — as the citizens of their host countries and they have much to offer in economic terms: many are highly trained and possess much-needed skills. Interfacing with the job market. They may not speak the local language.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. Articulate roles in terms that engage women. ’ I went anyhow.”

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

He was constantly cautioning about short-term hires, and believed that you shouldn’t hire anyone whom you couldn’t keep and develop over the long haul. I would encourage you to read a previous post on “ Workforce Reduction.&#

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When Billy Beane took charge of the Oakland A's he was tasked with building a winning team, but to do that he had to compete in the talent market against teams that could afford to pay players triple what his budget allowed. In the three years since I read Moneyball, the talent crisis has only deepened.

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