Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

He’d taken on several cross-functional projects and nailed those too. It was twice as important as communication (the second most important behavior) and almost 50 times more important than hands-on tactical behaviors. John’s frustration had turned to exacerbation. His results were amazing. It’s a win-win.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Earlier this year brought the book, Create The Future: Tactics For Disruptive Thinking , by J eremy Gutsche , CEO of Trend Hunter. Once you are primed for change, you can flip it over to read, The Innovation Handbook , and began the journey to finding your big idea. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

Women gaining more power to lead, green-light projects, and innovate does not come at the expense of men. Feminists and sticklers for correctness at all costs may decry some of the tactics suggested, but all is fair in the boardroom wars. Leading From the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for Women”. Author Lois P.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Growth Opportunities are More Difficult to Come Across Working independently through contracts and job platforms means that growing in your career is largely left to you. While most only think of delivery workers and drivers when they hear “gig economy,” it extends to all independent workers who take up work on a project-by-project basis.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2015

React : Having learned from the experience, adjust your tactic accordingly. Constantly tinker with ways to expand your horizons, grow your skill set, and disrupt your career or your organization. If you are not on track, rethink the solution, rethink the audience, or rethink the way you’ve positioned yourself and your brand.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss. Innovative Leadership: Scott Galloway (start at the 4:00 mark). The entire project took less than one day to complete, and Adam narrates this video with commentary about his design and construction methods.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Adapted, and reprinted with permission from Career Press. For example, investing significant resources to develop an innovative new product makes sense if there is a realistic potential for making a profit from selling the new product. This tactic is based on a proven process from strategic planning. ” -Valerie Patrick.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

An Overview on the Importance of Change : While there is little debate that the successful implementation of change can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of doing so can send a company (or an individual’s career) into a death spiral. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Tactics: the methods and means by which you assail the objectives. It is our higher purpose which, when coupled with Values, very much informs both the Vision and the Objectives/Strategies, and Tactics that form the road to achieving the Vision (in service of the Mission). link] Laurie Young Hi Mike, thanks for the explanation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Strategy and tactics are so often confused, this post and graphic simplifies it.hopefully!”. In this post I’ll share 3 misconceptions entrepreneurs and business leaders should be aware when starting a company but also when starting a bigger project. original in their ideas, their creative and innovative thoughts go beyond.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 17, 2010

To be able to think beyond tactics of work. To innovate and experiment. Tags: ability , Excellence , expertise , Self Growth Career Related , Leadership , Quality | Tanmay October 17, 2010 3 Comments By Jay Chhaya, October 18, 2010 @ 12:03 pm Good post at the start of the week. To be able to build/deliver quality consistently.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 22, 2013

Hirschman said, "This sentence admirably epitomizes several of the histories of economic development projects in recent decades. The leadership lesson is: Developing organizations, communities and countries requires more than capital and innovation. Nietzsche''s famous maxim, "That, which does not destroy me, makes me stronger.".

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TEST : pilot test new ideas and projects and welcome mistakes and failures that show up. Well, it depends on what you want and need out of your relationships and career. We look forward to answering your strategic planning and tactical business execution questions. Failure can be our friend when we take another, deeper look.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. I think your approach makes most sense in project teams.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed?

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HR Digest

MARCH 19, 2024

Being a career-oriented individual doesn’t automatically mean you’re an expert on the top professional goals you need to prioritize for your growth. This is often because there’s no room to stop and think of career advancement strategies that we could put to use considering our work takes up all our time.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Your brain isn’t always as powerful as you think it is, and having a written record of your boss’s project analysis or your colleague’s sales strategy can save you from having ‘oh darn’ moments, and can set you apart from the pack and put you on a straighter path to success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The job interview is often the best opportunity to accurately separate out people who have this relatively rare talent from the high volume of candidates that only have tactical capabilities. When you are working on a strategic project in your current job, how do you go about identifying the relevant stakeholders across the firm?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Our three-year project was designed to build awareness among small firms about the value that data could have for their businesses. They were able to envision long-range innovations, rather than reacting to competitors’ or the retailers’ actions. The tactic improved the events’ productivity. But cost isn’t the only barrier.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. They needed a designer, and he thought the project was a good way for me to try my hand at a consumer-facing product. Block as a team. Expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Without a sponsor to spotlight her attributes, offer her opportunities, and kick her career into high gear for years , she found herself stuck in what she calls “permanent lieutenant syndrome.”. They all felt the benefit of that,” McIntyre notes, “and wanted me on board for subsequent projects.”.

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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. Anyone who has ever launched a new initiative understands the inevitability of running into numerous barriers over the life-cycle of any project. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Although concerned leaders try to address this problem in many ways — teamwork exercises, mentorship, perks, innovative office spaces, and incentive programs — their solutions miss a simple but pivotal point: Employees are engaged by engaging jobs. Ask the person to describe themselves and their career, and listen closely.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

In our research on change agents at the Phoenix Community of FCB Partners , we have found that there are three distinct challenges which require different kinds of change leaders: (1) transformational leaders, (2) innovation instigators, and (3) innovation managers. The Innovation Instigator. The Innovation Manager.

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Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Consider these scenarios: Earlier in my career, a dean at my school (who used to be a peer) asked me and another colleague to lead a significant change effort. He had his hands full with other projects, like nurturing a growing network of external senior executives, but that didn’t stop us from feeling taken advantage of.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Innovation. The boss must act as the ‘external force’ for continuous, systematic change and innovation in an organization. To achieve true innovation, you can’t lead like an iron-fisted dictator, where your word and only your word is final. But being too quick to dismiss their ideas will only discourage innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Rebel Brown : I began to realize that regardless of my client’s size or market focus, from early stage to small business to enterprise, I was constantly having to deal with the same challenges in thinking and planning, before we could focus on the project objectives. As humans we are Natural Born Gravity Machines. Wow, that was a shock.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Systems and Structures The first three principles of strategic leadership involve nontraditional but highly effective approaches to decision making, transparency, and innovation. By setting up ways for people to bring their innovative thinking to the surface, you can help them learn to make the most of their own creativity.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. One is concerned with activities, procedures and project fulfillment. These executives spend much of their energies on planning, tactics, organizational development and business development. Career and life are not a short stint. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The answer is often no—particularly if you’re at the end of your career and want to slow down,” he says. He also suggested the company use a similar tactic when it moved departments in the future. Is it that my boss got a promotion, and I didn’t? But don’t dismiss your feelings either, says Meister.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Spending time networking or volunteering for projects seems like a good idea at the time. It builds character, helps their career, showcases their company and pays dividends to the community.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2018

I disagreed with the direction she was taking our project, the people she chose to involve, and the pace at which she thought we should do our work ( why did she need to go so slow? ). But because she was the client, and I was just starting out in my career, I didn’t think it was my place to openly disagree with her.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s the project for a major client, the opportunity to build out a new team, or the chance to represent the company at an industry conference. This kind of assignment has to get done by someone , but it isn’t going to make that person’s career. Glamour Work. Office housework happens outside of the spotlight.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The downside of this is that it stifles candor, creativity and innovation and often leads to a my way or the highway environment. Almost without fail, this tactic is a trite and clichéd attempt to somehow insinuate that speed in decisioning is a weakness, and that quick decisions are somehow synonymous with reckless decisions.

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