Women on Business

JANUARY 4, 2011

By Webster’s definition it means “the steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code; incorruptibility.&# In order to teach it, I must first define it. Integrity; from the Latin root word means “soundness, wholeness or completeness.” I shall teach my friend about that kind of integrity; one of incorruptibility!

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO? Why would you ever want the person in charge of corporate leadership, vision and strategy to be a lame duck right from the get go?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll share two a few tips on deciding which tasks, and to whom, the art of delegation should apply… As a CEO it is critical to develop a keen understanding of your value to the enterprise, and to further develop an awareness of activities that are dilutive to said value.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

The moral of this story is that while sophistication and complexity often go hand-in-hand, they don’t have to be synonymous. While a business cannot scale without growth, a business can grow without being scalable.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Values based hiring increases performance, enhances collaboration, reduces turnover, increases morale, and creates a stable culture. In addition to testing, developing a solid set of interviewing questions to sniff out any character flaws is also a good idea. that can be administered as part of the hiring process.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fear based motivations don’t instill loyalty, create trust, build morale, inspire creativity, attract talent, or drive innovation. Lack of Feedback : If as a leader you don’t subject yourself to a 360 review process, then you are not earnestly looking for personal growth and development opportunities.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” Great leaders help people get to a yes - in other words, they teach them how not to receive a no.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The moral of this story is leaders need to be honest, have a demonstrated track record of success, be excellent communicators, place an emphasis on serving those they lead, be fluid in approach, have laser focus, and a bias toward action. Each person has innate strengths and weaknesses and the question is what will they do with them?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Don’t get caught up in attempting to develop something catchy to be encapsulated within a piece of framed artwork that hangs in your reception area yet never put into practice. I’ve tended to think this implies an enduring purpose, guided by a moral framework – values.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. This is not just good for individuals; it’s good for business. Keep it convenient.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. " used to be ingrained into the moral fabric of our society. How sad is this? Their responsibility is to be correct; not politically correct.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Developing a culture of caring within your organization to engage your employees is vital to the strategy to drive success to your business. But what they don’t realize is that they are damaging the business by failing to develop staff. This will affect morale and productivity. Building a Customer Focused Environment.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

By the way, employee performance and morale at Wal-Mart is near all time lows… Diversity mandates just don’t work… Talent begets talent and blending occurs naturally when good decisions are made for the right reasons. And as you messaged via Twitter “The problem with #leadership is that many leaders fail to lead.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Many managers proudly describe the team-building initiatives they've pursued to create a sense of staff cohesion and morale. At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond. Don't get me wrong.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

How many times during the course of your career have you witnessed executives and entrepreneurs who desperately need help, but either don’t recognize it, or worse yet, make it virtually impossible for someone to help them? That humility boosts employee engagement and morale. Thank you for continuing to share your keen insight.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 25, 2009

The practice of good office politics relies on only a few things: A good moral compass; A generous attitude toward others and; A genuine desire to further the interests of the organization And, by the way, a natural by-product of practicing good office politics is the respect and good will we earn from the people we work with.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character. That’s a big topic in its own right.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

Is it possible to help our people develop good character or do we simply accept that if they don’t have good character by adulthood, they never will? However, I refer to them as moral values. As the great ethicist Dr. Larry Axline said, “Moral values in action is ethics.” Some people would call these virtues and they are.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. People who have bad attitudes have more career turnover. Bert Ron Another great post Mike.Stonewall Jackson understood very well how “attitude reflects leadership&# and impacts the morale of subordinates. Great post.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I’m going to push more responsibility onto them, which should help them develop faster. In 2004, Hickox was a certified public accountant in Texas and at a crossroads in her career. “The culture in the bank’s accounting and finance team has changed totally since I got here,” she said. That was in 2008.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. via n2growth.com [.]

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

So we decided to develop a new elective MBA course called “Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry.” Andy not only helped develop case studies and teach them but also made conceptual contributions. But his lighthouse intellect and his extraordinary strong moral fiber and integrity will stay with me.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

The moral of my story continues to be that in order to be a great leader, you absolutely must be a great reader. As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 12, 2021

The upshot: Very early in his Navy career, before his SEAL days, Brandon did a six-month tour in the Western Pacific as a helicopter sonar operator and rescue swimmer on the USS Abraham Lincoln. Terrible morale, place not well kept, people got sick. Morale is low. We share a passion for music. It was miserable.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Forcing me to subsidize the killing of babies through higher airfares crosses a fundamental line of moral decency. Can we harness the information age to develop some sort of calamine lotion to soothe our hysteria in the face of uncertainty? Now back to the subject at hand; reporting. Now back to the subject at hand; reporting.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

There is in fact a point where “bad customers&# can erode margins, negatively affect morale, or even tarnish a brand. Develop Customer Scorecards : You should actually profile your clientele such that you understand the difference between good accounts and bad accounts.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2017

” But doing so is dangerous for your career, says Liane Davey, cofounder of 3COze Inc. “Say, ‘It is taking me about five hours a month to prepare this report for the finance department. “Speaking to them was more for moral support than to get concurrence on whether it was too much,” she says.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

. “It’s probably a frustration you haven’t had for a while — and if you’re a relatively new manager, you might not have ever experienced this before,” says Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Throughout my professional career, I have navigated multiple industry segments from professional services to consumer goods and served a decade+ stint in the insurance sector. It shouldn’t matter if you are in the finance department or leading the marketing team. Visit the “trenches!” Do we value our customers? Absolutely!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

The potential benefits of workplace variability are numerous — increased morale, motivation, and the ability to attract and retain talent — yet many managers don’t know where to start. Goldin noted that scientific, medical and technical fields tend to have substitutable work environments, while law, business and finance tend not to.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Over the course of our careers, and through our formal research on mentoring within and outside of academia, we’ve found that good mentoring is discipline-agnostic. Mentors trade away hours they could use to pursue their own career goals and spend them on someone else’s. As academic physicians, we do a lot of mentoring.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But if culture is developed outside of strategy, if it’s not driven by strategy, then said culture can become a very dangerous intoxicant. It is something you're thinking about and planning for, therefore it is part of the overall strategy being developed. Culture is important – it is very important. What say you?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

While there is little debate that speed can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of speed can send a company (or a career) into a death spiral. In Benjamin Franklin's own words, "I conceived the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral perfection.

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