N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. It’s important to understand that vision statements are design oriented, while mission statements are execution oriented.

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 9, 2012

How do you define Servant Leadership? Why do you advocate Servant Leadership? How did you learn of Servant Leadership? Do you believe leaders today lack a Spark? What do you believe leaders today can learn from the Revolutionary War? How do you define Servant Leadership? Introduction. Introduction.

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Leading with Trust

MAY 6, 2019

One study showed that firms led by a CEO who scored high in humility developed management teams that were more likely to collaborate and make joint decisions, share information openly, and possess a shared vision. Humble leaders do the same for others. Do you see a person wise in their own eyes?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I want to frame my thoughts on the topic of significance by beginning with an excerpt from my book “ Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual “: “By the time you reach the CEO level you should be striving to move beyond success and towards significance.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Alice Snell follows up with More Human Than Capital posted at Taleo Blog – Talent Management Solutions. The always reliable Art Petty gives us a dose of caffeine to start the day with Leadership Caffeine: Learning to Ask for Help posted at Management Excellence. Mark Stelzner commits to giving all his best stuff away!

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

These interactions not only give me the chance to understand which leadership insights resonated with them the most, but it also allows me to learn more about the current challenges and pain points they’re looking to resolve in their organization. I’m the same CEO I was the day before our earnings announcement.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A personal note: This post is a tribute to Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse who tragically passed in March 2021. Kent was one of the most intentional leaders I’ve ever met, and I am grateful I had a chance to make his acquaintance, and more importantly, learn from his example. Do they enjoy their job?

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License. .  However, The Conference Board does much more than just report on leading economic indicators.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Uncover Effective, Expert Personal Brand Statement Examples​ What do Rand Fishkin, Charlie Puth, and Martha Stewart all have in common? While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. What type of impact do you want to make?

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 6, 2015

Fauzia Burke Many of the leadership books I read and sometimes review on my blog I first learn about from FSB Associates , a digital publicity and marketing firm specializing in creating awareness for books and authors. I have worked with young CEOs (sometimes under 30), and it changes the dynamics of the workforce.

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Roundtable Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Posted on September 20, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment Just like a classically bad pick up line (“Do fries come with that shake?”), some leaders are notorious for dishing out lame leadership lines. Do as I say, not as I do.” “As Well, in MBA school I learned…” (Which was the pre-cursor to overriding any decision). “I

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Frustrated by what they believe is their people’s inability to execute on their decisions, these executives often turn to outside help from consultants to help shepherd through these so-called “change management” initiatives. They and their boards make decisions and send out orders and then…nothing happens.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

The typical approach is to assess an individual’s performance against a metric usually tied to whether or not they performed a task and the amount of output they generated by doing so. While it might be easy to measure someone’s output on an assembly line, how do we decide how well a manager manages or a leader leads?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Take the recent case of JC Penney, which hired and abruptly fired its CEO, Ron Johnson , after the major changes he instituted took the company from bad to worse. Let’s be realistic: Having a mission statement too often means very little to low-seniority staff in many organizations. Identify the major bias.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

To do this, I reached out to leaders I admire and respect. I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Mark Timm, CEO of Ziglar Family. That is exactly the opposite of what’s true, and I’m lucky I didn’t do more damage to my health.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

As a leader, what do you want to accomplish? Do your employees know what needs to be done to reach that objective? Do they know how you expect them to behave? And — once they know the "what" and "how" — do you provide them with enough autonomy to get the job done in an effective and timely way?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

When people aren't achieving what they should be achieving and things aren't going the way they should be — and if senior managers can't pin the blame on some specific issue — they often declare: "We have to change the culture around here.". Build in some learning on the cultural issues that need to change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

This new style in soccer was first experimented with by FC Barcelona manager Laureano Ruiz, who called it rondos, and between 1988 and 1996, Johan Cruyff built on it to develop the concept of futball total , or total football. Solo efforts and individual stars used to decide the fate of soccer matches.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

That was caused by previous management. If our people would think more about what they’re doing, then we would be successful. That’s our problem… people thinking but not doing… people doing but not thinking. Our people were hired to do their jobs. They know what they’re doing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

This new style in soccer was first experimented with by FC Barcelona manager Laureano Ruiz, who called it rondos, and between 1988 and 1996, Johan Cruyff built on it to develop the concept of futball total , or total football. Solo efforts and individual stars used to decide the fate of soccer matches.

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The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 30, 2013

According to Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos, hiring mistakes have cost his company as much as $ 100 million! As a hiring manager, you are dazzled by first impressions, how good the person looks on paper, credentials, advanced degrees, well-prepared interview responses, etc. Shocking costs of hiring mistakes. Hiring, by no means, is a science.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Sunday, September 19, 2010 Do you have a brand strategy? Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 17, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees. Honor The Legacy Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

She was disturbed by what she learned: It was easy enough for an aspiring entrepreneur to get a $100 microloan, but borrowing sizable amounts was impossible—as was obtaining any kind of venture capital—unless you were rich and from a prominent family. Because the defining vision had been Helena’s, she became the CEO.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees. Foster said. Honor The Legacy Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

According to their mission statement, the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestial Intelligence) Institute was founded to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe. Do we qualify as intelligent life? Or another space craft built 200 years from now would have passed it up. NASA photo 4.6

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

The construct came from our CEO Paul Polman. The rationale for combining marketing and sustainability is, to grow our business we need to do great marketing. How did you do this? This means I can drive clarity and alignment of message for Unilever, for what we’re doing in sustainability both internally and externally.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

In the real world of quarterly numbers, though, embracing failure mostly remains a throwaway line in CEO speeches. The story of our decision to create and embrace a failure metric begins, as do many business advances, with desperation. The product manager? The results? It’s easy to understand why. But that was analog.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. And with ad blindness and the use of ad blockers online increasing by the day, there is one area of digital that counteracts both, that is content.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 21, 2010

Pursue growth and learning. Do more with less. From the outside, Zappos.com is a successful online retailer, but from the inside Zappos.com has created a mission that is about creating happiness. Not just making sure that the CEO or shareholders are able to upgrade their BMW’s next year. billion (yes billion) dollars.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 3, 2014

The fundamentals of effective leadership communication are: Learn to be yourself, better Authenticity in a leader is crucial. You have to be true to yourself, but you also have to learn to ''perform'' yourself better. Source: Kevin Murray: The Language of Leaders: How Top CEOs Communicate to Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results .

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

One of the responsibilities of corporate managers is to keep this truth front and center. Formulate their mission and their purpose in terms of serving others. No one expressed this better than the late Bobby Piper, former CEO of Piper Jaffray & Hopwood. He is just stating the obvious. Is that simple enough and clear enough?

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