N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the often misunderstood value of influence… Let me be clear…when I mention influence I’m not referring to manipulation, elaborate schemes, or other forms of skulduggery. Influence is built upon making others successful : This is often times referred to as the law of reciprocity. Trust Matters….

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

To be a frugal CEO , here are three approaches you could take. These fees can eat out of your finances if they aren’t carefully managed. Consider Mixed Use Development. Mixed-use development is a way to grow your money as an entrepreneur.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

If gossip pervades your organization and you are not aware of it, then you clearly don’t have the pulse of your organization, your public statements about the importance of culture and morale will seem disingenuous, and you’re likely guilty of being what I refer to as a disconnected leader.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

While most C-level execs have a general idea of what I’m referring to, it is also quite clear that most can’t even begin to define it, much less articulate the specific constructs of a sound business model.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

I’ve never been a fan of what I refer to as “make-work” disciplines. I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. only to fail in miserable fashion.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

There has been no shortage of information published on the topic of Emotional IQ or what’s referred to as EQ in recent years. However I believe the more important emotional trait for CEOs and entrepreneurs to gain mastery over is what I call EC or emotional control.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

In addition to testing, developing a solid set of interviewing questions to sniff out any character flaws is also a good idea. Lastly, conducting a background check and thoroughly vetting references is also something that should not be glossed over. that can be administered as part of the hiring process.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2019

To be a frugal CEO , here are three approaches you could take. These fees can eat out of your finances if they aren’t carefully managed. Consider Mixed Use Development. Mixed-use development is a way to grow your money as an entrepreneur.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

As I stated above, having an underexposed brand, or what I like to refer to as having a brand in stealth mode, means that you really don’t have much of a brand. Whether you’re assessing the strength of a personal or corporate brand, finding the appropriate level of brand exposure is key to sustainable growth in brand equity.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary. Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

As the CEO, your ability to transfer your passion to your employees is the essence of being a great leader…So much so that if you can’t accomplish this, you simply can’t be a great leader. You must get your employees to engage. Each person has innate strengths and weaknesses and the question is what will they do with them?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process. I have always found that rapport is quickly developed when you listen, care, and attempt to help people succeed.

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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.” While inherently obvious, it should not go unnoticed that the use of the word no is 100% negative.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As a CEO when you start to lower the chinning bar by allowing for the hiring of someone based more on their diversity segment than their talent you are enabling the demise of your enterprise. This is a leadership issue in which diversity, and the awareness of it, will play a key role in the development of future leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

As a CEO Coach I am often asked to provide counsel on the political hot potato de jure, and let me be perfectly clear that it is not only possible, but preferable, to successfully handle highly charged political topics without being politically correct. I liked your reference to fallacy that the truth can somehow be hidden – it cannot.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

Their reliance on alliances and licenses has increased in both product development and marketing and they have become aggressive acquirers. So far have they moved, in fact, that they sometimes sound as if they have altogether abandoned their commitment to internal development. Nonetheless we counsel CEOs to mind the rhetoric.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D student at the Ecole Polytechnique, and a statistics professor at Columbia) developed a statistical technique for detecting bubbles that they tested on data from the dot-com heyday. What should executives do when their company is caught up in a bubble?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Two years later the company was the poster child for reengineering success — the subject of speeches, a Harvard Business School case study, articles, and book references. Two years after that, the CEO was gone and the reengineering program was defunct. Engage the finance organization. What happened?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail. Whether you like it or not, your success as a CEO will be largely tied to your team building ability. Great CEOs realize the importance of being consistently, purposefully and intensely engaged with their CXOs.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 8, 2022

Sarah is the former President and CEO of a wonderful company, Bottom Line Inc., has provided consumer health and finance news to over 20 million readers worldwide. Endorphins , often referred to as the body’s natural painkillers, are the hormone that athletes get “addicted” to because they feel so good after activity.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

You have front-line employees who create what you sell or who deal directly with customers: software developers, sales reps, call-center staffers, and so on. You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions. It’s the same in a company. Limit the caravans.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 15, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Behavioral science research tell us that households, small business owners, and CEOs of multinationals alike are prone to overweight recent adverse events, follow the decisions of their peers , compartmentalize risks , and engage in many other behaviors that economists have traditionally considered peculiar.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

But it contains most of the Haldane trademarks: a framework in economic theory, references to the latest in empirical research, grand historical sweep, and crystal-clear explanation. 2, 2010 speech " Patience and Finance." Stock holding periods are down, market volatility is up, CEO tenure is down. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

Within most religious and spiritual traditions, there is a cornerstone reference to love. Some very well-known companies such as Whole Foods (founder John Mackey dedicates a whole chapter to love in his book Conscious Capitalism ) and Southwest Airlines (their NYSE ticker code is LUV) make explicit reference to love. Why is this?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. Some focused on personal leadership style of the CEO, others on compensation or training practices, and still others on organization governance and design.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. They’re often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. Development matters. Leadership & Developing People Book.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. But I believe that Dimon literally didn't see perceive disaster unfolding before him.

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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. Without some sort of development intervention, this can be a bad hire. If you don’t have good character, how long does it take to gain it?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

As Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world, and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S., I refer to this as receiving “the gift of ears.” Humble, authentic leaders who really understand their craft are equally scarce. They humbled me.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

During my first private conversation with “Steve,” the CEO of a top mid-sized law firm, he surprised me with a confession: “Mike,” he said, “I have to share something with you that I really can’t tell anyone else. Be realistic about what you can achieve and develop a plan for carrying it out.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

The first 100 days are usually the honeymoon period for any new CEO to make their mark and get others on board. However, for Airbus CEO Christian Streiff, it was just a brief window before his abrupt departure from the European aircraft company that’s part of the EADS consortium, along with DiamlerChrysler and Aerospatiale-Matra.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Bill Gross, the founder and CEO of Idealab, who described the design challenges faced by Worldhaus , a $1,000 house for the poor that his team has been working on. We need to think big and deploy disruptive technologies and financing mechanisms to house 100 million people by the end of the decade.".

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2010

In fact, while these three individuals wouldn’t necessarily refer to themselves as such, I believe it’s vey fair to call them thought leaders on the subject of leadership. professing leadership acumen and expertise that it can be tough to distinguish between the posers and the players.

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