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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.

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The Delicate Art Of Persuading Your Boss

Tanveer Naseer

Your best incubator for convincing is a quiet private setting. Invite her to continue to share with you as you grow in your leadership. The finance guy or gal is usually a convincing choice. Karin Hurt is an experienced leader, speaker and writer, a former Fortune 15 executive and CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. CEOs manage them, employees work for them, customers buy from them, suppliers sell to them, investors buy their shares, and governments regulate their activities. What Can CEOs Do? treating suppliers as partners). Educate and Motivate Others.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. But today no one gets that experience.

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A Crisis of Character – A Book Excerpt

Lead Change Blog

In a post, we shared how the Lead Change Group was incubated by people who wanted to capture the idea of leadership being espoused by a group of leaders in social media and internet channels in the summer and fall of 2009. An excerpt from chapter two, Why Character-Based Leadership, authored by Chery Gegelman , appears here.

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Big Companies Should Collaborate with Startups

Harvard Business Review

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. They should take their teams and regularly walk the aisles of Whole Foods, which is as much a greenhouse incubator of the hottest new brands as it is a retailer.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

From its founding 31 years ago, Intuit has been an entrepreneurial company, creating personal finance and tax preparation products such as Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks. Throughout these years of cultural transformation, Intuit’s leadership support has been constant. Then he meets with the leadership team.