N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As an executive coaching professional who works with top executives in the world’s largest companies, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of coaching in shaping effective leaders. Leaders face an array of complex challenges, from navigating organizational change to driving innovation and performance.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Episode 239: Antonella Pisani, the CEO and founder of Eyeful Media , a digital marketing and consulting firm, joins host David Dye, and discusses the importance of culture, values, and remote culture in leadership. She emphasizes hiring experienced talent and creating an intellectually stimulating environment.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We’re seeing more offsites, leadership training kickoffs, executive leadership workshops, and team innovation events. We see a renewed commitment to strategic planning groups. We’re noticing HOPE is powerful in leadership. How to Build a Great Team Culture (Even if You’re Not CEO).

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

For CEOs and executives, understanding when to embrace leadership and when to lean into management is crucial for success. Good managers excel at planning, organizing, leading, and maintaining tasks efficiently to achieve specific objectives with the support of their team. The CEO’s Dilemma: Leader or Manager?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans. This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

D ISRUPTION is happening in even the most stalwart industries, leading business leaders scrambling to create a culture of innovation in their organizations. The techniques of improvisational comedy can provide important lessons for developing a innovation mindset. Those unexpected connections are what lead to innovation.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep. times more likely to trust their leaders. “Our

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Keegan , CEO, Merchants Fleet One thing all great leaders have in common is that they understand that transformational growth doesn’t happen without a willingness to change. When I joined Merchants Fleet as CEO in 2018, I knew I was joining a team of some of the most experienced professionals in the fleet industry.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Intent workshops are powerful tools where diverse stakeholders from both sides co-create a shared roadmap for collective action. The CEO sets the tone , championing the mission with unwavering commitment. Transparent and consistent communication from the CEO and leadership team is crucial. Take the first step today!

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it? What does a CEO really do anyway? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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CO2

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As a CEO, it’s crucial to think long-term, crafting visions that transcend the present moment and set the stage for future generations. Gianni’s ability to plan beyond his era’s technology is a powerful reminder of the importance of forward-thinking and innovation in leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Career Advancement

MAY 15, 2017

Coach Joel Answers: When David Steiner became CEO of Waste Management, Inc., These are the four most powerful leadership words you can say, and you should say them often. These are the four most powerful leadership words you can say, and you should say them often. Why “I need your help”?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Succession showcases super-rich, but deeply flawed characters who struggle for power and seem to face an endless maze of existential conflict. That said the show has undeniable appeal because it allows us to live serendipitously the lives of rich, powerful, and famous business titans. Succession is one of the most popular shows on HBO.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Through coaching, executives can refine their ability to analyze complex situations, anticipate future challenges, and craft innovative solutions. An effective strategy for implementing board advisor coaching includes designing a customized coaching plan for each executive.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

For the last 20 years, and all around the world, we CEOs have invested untold millions into the question: “What does it take to have an engaged workplace culture?” We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. How to Be a Soul-Sucking CEO.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Innovation doesn’t happen by one person having an aha moment. The most important person is not the CEO, but the person facing a challenge. CEOs should spend some time on a retreat and reflect, read Plato, think more of philosophy. The CEO needs to take up the leadership challenge to help others respond to that.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

They are subject matter experts in their field, the brightest minds, and equipped with the immense technical skills and experience to be at the helm of the world’s most powerful and disruptive companies. This powerful reflection and guidance can help executives identify blind spots they might be missing. How is that possible?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” ” When it comes to resourcefulness, three of the most powerful words you can teach your team are “ How can we ?” Ask “How can we?”

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Career Advancement

MAY 15, 2017

Coach Joel Answers: When David Steiner became CEO of Waste Management, Inc., These are the four most powerful leadership words you can say, and you should say them often. These are the four most powerful leadership words you can say, and you should say them often. Why “I need your help”? Share your experiences here.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It is a decision that requires careful consideration, extensive planning, and the involvement of a large network of key stakeholders. It guides the development of academic programs, research initiatives, and community engagement efforts, ensuring that the institution remains at the forefront of educational innovation and excellence.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

The CEO sets the tone , championing the mission with unwavering commitment. But remember, it’s not enough to identify the values that will drive decisions by all team members – Transparent and consistent communication from the CEO and leadership team is crucial. Imagine building a magnificent house without a blueprint.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2020

Negative responses are often the default when a boss wants to maintain power, or a direct report wants to avoid hassles. Sometimes this is a control issue; sometimes just poor planning. It’s much easier to envision plans B and C without a deadline or domino effect clouding your judgment. Hire to innovate.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Despite all of that, the best, most carefully crafted plans may fail miserably. His new book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments , takes you through his research and best practices to show how to experiment and test before acting. There must be a better way.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 29, 2020

Last week, I delivered a 45-minute webinar on Powerful New Approaches to Leadership and Coaching Development. How do “fatal flaws” feed into a personal development plan? Customer focus, innovation, analytical skills, and communication were among the 8 most frequently found in high strategic leaders.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

His own special innovation, it's a nonjudg­mental, nonreactive way of coolly assessing problems and analyzing crises, a mode of attack that offers luminous clarity and su­preme calm in the critical moments before taking decisive action. Experimentation Works : The Surprising Power of Business Experiments by Stefan H. In B2B and B2C?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

But for boards to excel in a way that encourages business performance, agility, and innovation, Board Directors need to understand the levers they can pull to be more impactful and make a greater contribution to the overall effectiveness of the Board or Chairs need to make changes in the Boardroom. Appropriate Board Succession/Turnover.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2020

If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets. There are rules that shape the play on the field, and whoever is the most powerful at the end of the game wins. The challenge for leaders in the West today has become the fixation on short-term results. They are played within a boundary. There is no start and no finish.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

When we’re open to receiving it and thoughtful in providing it to others, feedback can be very powerful while deepening and enriching relationships overall. The Power of Constructive Feedback A key misconception about constructive feedback is that it’s a critique. So why do so many shy away from asking for or giving feedback?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

We are entering a new fluid state that will lead to an unprecedented period of innovation and transformation. While some organizations had begun to embrace these technologies before the pandemic, it’s now critical that business leaders keep moving ahead with innovation efforts as we move into a new normal. Autonomous machines.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2019

Managers who trust their employees allow innovative ideas to bubble up from all levels of the company…together people working in high trust environments deliver far more value.” Imagine your high-performance workplace with a powerful, high-trust culture aligned with brand management. Is your culture on your brand wagon?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2019

Taking time to consider culture fit when a new CEO joins an organization is vital. Boost Your Leadership with the Power of Perspective by @WScottCochrane If you can fix it with money, that is not a big problem. The Myth of “Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail” by @Gleb_Tsipursky via @JesseLynStoner. via @ChiefExecGrp.

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LDRLB

JULY 1, 2013

“When you look at strategy as a frame of mind to be cultivated, rather than as a plan to be executed, you are far more likely to succeed over the long run.” – Cynthia Montgomery. Montgomery tells the CEOs she works with that when people ask what you do, tell them simply that you are an architect of organizational purpose.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Diana Peterson-More shared The Power of Apology: It’s Not If, Rather How. Jon Mertz of Thin Difference shared CEO activism needs a modern-day blueprint. Chamber of Commerce outlining the importance of political power for business leaders. Are you planning ahead effectively? Access it here.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

Survive, Reset, Thrive (SRT) is a practical and innovative interconnected three-mode approach : Survive : Stabilizing your business when a shot hits. Note that the power of getting to Thrive is in the Reset. Question: Because we cannot predict the future, you encourage leaders to stop planning, and start preparing.

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Mills Scofield

JULY 27, 2014

Michel is finishing his assignment as Commanding General (CEO) at NATO Air Training Command in Kabul, Afghanistan in a few weeks. Namely, there is actually greater power, energy and opportunity in allowing our successes to crowd out the unsuccessful. General John Michel of the U.S. To say I''m honored is an understatement.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Agility and experimentation beat planning and process in times of dramatic change. Innovative Commitment Google and Tesla exemplify the power of fostering a culture of innovation. Their continuous push for breakthroughs has kept them at the forefront of their respective industries. Leadership doesn’t make “a difference.”

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