Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Good Fight : Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track by Liane Davey (Page Two, 2019) Liane Davey shows you how to create the productive conflict your organization needs to get along and get stuff done. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Portfolo, 2019) Do you know how to play the game you’re in?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

This type of behavior is proof certain that the entrepreneur is not being effective at leading, team building, delegation, leveraging process and a variety of other highest and best use activities for CEOs. Priority number two is team building and talent management.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll share some thoughts on how to make sure the lunatics don’t gain control of the asylum… Let’s begin by defining “Crazy.&# If you’re a CEO who doesn’t leverage conflict for team building and leadership development purposes you’re missing a great opportunity.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Whether you like it or not, your success as a CEO will be largely tied to your team building ability. Not only do great CEOs understand how to recruit a top executive team, but they also understand how to build cohesion among team members through collaboration while addressing specific situational and contextual needs.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The fuel for toxicity is conflict not resolution, ego not humility, self-interest not service above self, gossip & innuendo not truth, social & corporate climbing not team-building, and the list could go on. Thanks for your characteristic thoughtfulness.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

A leader’s message has a direct impact on their personal and corporate brand equity, how they manage a crisis, marketing initiatives, investor relations, press and public relations, team building and employee engagement, and virtually any other mission critical area of chief executive responsibility.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The number of activities a CEO takes on can certainly vary based upon skill sets, stage of corporate maturation, and the talent level of the rest of the executive team. One of the first things you need to understand as a CEO is what your time is worth relative to others in the organization.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Accounting/Finance: This group is often completely ignored by product management. Product managers who can work successfully with these (and other) groups in their companies will release great products and have success throughout their careers. Please leave a comment and let me know about your experience working with other teams.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

The very bane of human existence, which is in fact human nature itself, will always create gaps in thinking & philosophy, and no matter how much we all wish it wasn’t so…it is. So the question then becomes how to effectively deal with conflict when it arises.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Moreover they know how to leverage information and resources to achieve their objectives. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Rather they understand how to make a timely decision while managing any corresponding risks as others are still trying to connect the dots. Section IV: Tactics.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do. If you’re a leader, don’t dismiss design as elemental or insignificant.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Our nature will always create gaps in thinking & philosophy, and no matter how much we all wish it wasn’t so…it is. So the question then becomes how to effectively deal with tensions, gaps, differences and conflicts when they arise. This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 17, 2010

Haim is certainly a tragic figure and there’s something to be said for what happens when success and power come before you know how to handle it. If you’re heading up any team that makes big purchase decisions, chances are you have vendors who are treating you like long-lost cousins.

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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? I ask people for help all the time, even if I know how to do it myself.

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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. The simple truth is that people strongly desire to work with and for great leaders. People with bad attitudes have a 50% higher divorce rate. It’s that strong.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

I fired him from my team realizing he would never understand how to relate to a client on their terms. Teaching one what to do, and even how to do it, doesn't automatically create leaders. The step that follows, then, addresses "How we will get there." And he was considered an expert!

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