N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Closing gaps becomes much easier when you can position differences as non-adversarial and operate within a framework of trust. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Sure it would…Likewise, if I drove up in a new Bentley, wearing a $3,000 custom tailored suit, sporting a fresh manicure, a GQ hair-cut, and with an attitude of arrogance, wouldn’t that also color your opinion of my ability? While I have a few swiss watches, my Timex Ironman is still my favorite.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

” These questions are especially agonizing for mid-career professionals who may be searching for fulfillment while juggling demands at home and intense financial pressures to earn. How should you address a mid-career crisis? Mid-career malaise runs deep. One of the biggest culprits of middle-age career malaise is boredom.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : Leadership is a contact sport and it’s often messy. All three of these individuals have had a profound and positive impact on those individuals and organizations which they have led. Mike Myatt : If you could offer any of our readers’ specific advice about leadership what would that be?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. When black & white becomes permanently blurred so that everything reads as shades of grey, things can become dicey.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Transitioning from a military career to the corporate world can be a fraught process for the nearly 360,000 U.S. In addition to networking their way into new professional circles and learning new cultural mores, veterans have to face down the even more fundamental questions: what career will best suit them?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

In thinking of your example of sports teams, for example, is it possible that leaders can emerge at different times, for different purposes or tasks? One question: in addition to the hierarchy (focused accountability) you identify so well, is it still possible that leadership can emerge at any level?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport. It is more critical than ever in today’ economic climate that leadership development be a top priority for CEOs who want to build a thriving enterprise moving forward. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever. and The Career Playbook.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This premise equally applies to the environment businesses operate in today. Human error is a very real consequence of people operating in the real world. Human error is a very real consequence of people operating in the real world. Image: Gareth Lock Train hard, fight easy Gareth also has a 25-year RAF career behind him.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In addition they operate from a plan — however confidential it may be — to strengthen the team year over year. When it comes to building management strength, these executives are similar to professional sports coaches. They want their teams to win this year, that is, to achieve their annual goals and objectives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. Because it isnt their sport.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 28, 2019

That was the bomb that nearly killed my leadership career, just as it was just getting started. It was an offer that came from my boss at the time (and the owner of the team), who had hired me 3 years earlier to be the VP of Operations of his cable TV company in Los Angeles. That was Mistake #1 on the road to near career killing.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

” That was the bomb that nearly killed my career. The cable company had just been sold, so the idea of not only escaping the resulting uncertainty, AND also landing safely in a dream position (pro football was my favorite sport), was just too good to pass up. And, he wanted to finance it privately, without taxpayer money.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

And how can you put yourself back on the right career path? Most people who take the wrong job haven’t done enough research going in,” says Priscilla Claman, president of Career Strategies, Inc., a Boston-based career coaching firm. Here’s how to make a bad career move work for you. What the Experts Say. Be realistic. “No

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction? I find this especially true when coaches work with executives in operations. Probably the same as mine - not so good. Its about results.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” The two men went way back.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

On the other, they acknowledge that it’s all but impossible to operate above the political fray. Gail was in her fifth year at a large finance firm when she recognized a disconcerting pattern. “It’s like having a sports agent looking out for my career,” she said. Get yourself an agent.

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