Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Frances Frei and Anne Morriss offer a different worldview. Strategy First : How Businesses Win Big by Brad Chase. In Strategy First , Brad Chase, the mind behind some of Microsoft’s largest and most successful initiatives, explains why building robust strategies is the imperative to business success. Dig deeper.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The diversity across markets results in a mixture of backgrounds of different belief systems, habits, and perceptions that govern the behavior of local team members. Understanding and embracing these differences and nuances has proven to be of utmost importance in creating a unified culture across all organizational levels.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 31, 2023

This was the starting point of the bridge that took another seven years and a different engineer to complete. What an incredible metaphor for the power of small activity to make a big difference. And for that one day, it may not make a big difference. Where can you take that micro step that will make a macro difference?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 27, 2020

Twenty-two different studies have, in the years since, found that the more materialistic and extrinsically motivated you become, the more depressed you will be. Twelve different studies found that the more materialistic and extrinsically motivated you become, the more anxious you will be.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 17, 2018

On and on we chase this supposed notion of what success really looks like. We chase unfulfilling promises. And, if you’re anything like me, you’ve been chasing the wrong things too. Have they diverged in a different path than you believed you were headed? I’ve been pursuing the wrong things.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Don’t chase category leaders – outsmart them and unlock hidden value they’ve yet to recognize. Focus Point #2: Redefine your future and get there first – resist the temptation to chase others in pursuit of their future as already defined by them.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 9, 2022

Eventually, you chase the latest new thing only to be run over by a car. It’s there for you in black and white (or maybe gold, pink, and blue if you use different colors of ink). Does every new thing catch your attention? Goals allow you to focus on what needs to be done. You have a list of things to accomplish.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2014

Wondering through several facets of the analogy presented by the idea of selling change, my mind began to chase a series of questions. He''s passionate about energizing motivated people to make a positive difference. I saw an interesting phrase the other day that I felt I needed to address: selling change. One Person At A Time.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

This book takes a different approach. they ask a different question: “Why haven’t they changed already? Cops chase robbers, doctors treat patients with chronic illnesses, and call-center reps address customer complaints. Could there be a better way? Catalysts remove roadblocks and reduce the barriers to change.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2024

Image courtesy — JP Morgan Chase & Co website ) 3-Day Workweek: Jamie Dimon on Future of Work Dimon’s AI predictions and ponderings on the future of work indicate his strong belief in AI expansion and its applications across industries. It’s a living, breathing thing. It’s a living, breathing thing. It’s going to change.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 10, 2014

You shouldn’t have to chase after awesome. You were created differently with awesomeness that is unique to you. To become awesome in your own right, you’ve got to embrace your uniqueness and chase after it. Go after, don’t chase, your passions. People will see you in a new and different light.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Be careful what you chase after: Miguel’s great-great-grandfather was a musician. Be careful what you chase after – Leadership lessons from Coco Click To Tweet. His chasing of fame left his family shattered. Because of the chase and allure of fame, a family was no longer whole. Leaders are different.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 11, 2018

Disciplined people take a different approach. They look at the benefits and pitfalls of chasing after the squirrel. Be willing to stop and think about chasing after something new. It helps you avoid the shiny object chasing. They see something new, something shiny and they examine the situation.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Or, for CEOs who do not follow that advice, do their organizations end up essentially chasing squirrels?” The analysis revealed 13 different categories that cover a range of options CEOs tend to focus on. “But we find in the data that CEOs end up destroying more value when they try to chase those opportunities.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

I don’t think if Welch stayed on, it would have been much different. There were lapses in judgment (Yes, he talks about the chase plane) and mistakes made, to be sure, as he admits in this book. And learn to recognize the difference between tailwind and good management. What Welch built was not sustainable.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

They’d been chasing a man who’d committed armed robbery half a mile down the road. Choose people who you know to have different perspectives from one another (not just your fans, favorites, or foes). But when I looked up, there was no one at the door. I supposed they got impatient and left. REAP the Benefit of Feedback.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Let’s cut right to the chase; stop focusing on being efficient – it’s a waste of time. Efficient vs. Effective – there is sometimes a very big difference between the two. Nobody other than perhaps you really cares how efficient you are, but everyone cares how effective you are.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 6, 2018

Mindfulness is something that can benefit all of us, and sparing just 3 minutes at the start of every day to remove yourself from your concerns, worries, and anxieties could make the world of difference. Let go of the ideal; putting that much expectation on yourself as a leader will only leave you chasing something that doesn’t exist.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2021

Making payment terms highly visible, such as using a different font or placing the text in bold, will help to draw the recipient’s attention to them and can help to ensure payments are made speedily. Businesses can spend a disproportionate amount of time chasing missing or late payments, which can affect their efficiency and productivity.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 31, 2018

Is opinion different from fact? I suggested that ” chasing the one true path only leads us to one true conclusion.” Should laymen be suspected? If something is a fact today, will it be true in 2 years, 5, 50? If the fact is true, is it the only truth? ” We go down a narrowing tunnel once experts take the lead.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 2, 2014

Her footnote message is equally powerful: find the possibilities in every circumstance, and DO something to make a difference. With no business degree, Chemo Beanies was recognized in Walmart’s “Get on the Shelf” contest, received a major grant from Chase , and additional support from Google. Thing REALLY big.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

That’s a tough pill to swallow as most people spend a large amount of their day sitting behind a desk at work or driving back and forth to different work locations. Death is chasing us. Next time we’ll put forth the real effort and make a difference. Make the choice to chase after your dreams and passions today!

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 21, 2022

They were able to escape the crazies chasing them. You both are looking at the situation through different lenses. There are different leadership styles: Shuko’s people blew up the building Satori was in, killing her. Each of these men had a different personality type. You’re going to be different than them.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Despite all of these differences, we found managers’ top disconnects and frustrations with their millennials were strikingly similar across all companies regardless of location, size, or industry. Let us help you stop chasing relevance and make it happen. Managers’ Top 9 Disconnects / Frustrations with Their Millennials.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Yet we’ll often chase too many different people while we look to build our audience. Chasing too many target audience members only muddies our message. It’s time we stop chasing after more in the wrong places. We have to get more people to follow us to continue to grow.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 1, 2016

I began to see him in a different light. We can forget this as we’re chasing fame. Don’t chase the next BIG thing. Chase the next RIGHT thing. He was vulgar. My opinion was changed by this presentation. Never do a good deal with a bad guy – @ZigZiglar [link] Click To Tweet. Why or why not?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

On an impact level, we must act to be Never Meaningful Enough , knowing what will make the biggest difference for the people e in our lives and in our communities, and potentially on an even larger scale. Being a do-er for others “means actually doing concrete things that make a difference in our friends’ lives, often at a cost to ourselves.”

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This comic con was no different. We met one man who had created life-sized versions of many different Transformers characters. Chase your muse. As he moved into the new role as a graphic designer, he chased his muse: Aquaman. What do you need to be chasing? Chasing your muse helps you hone your craft.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 9, 2017

They bring a different bias and experience to the workplace and new ideas to relationships. Dan Negroni, founder of Launchbox and author of Chasing Relevance, discusses how to relate with our colleagues and bridge that […].

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Once you recognize that an external search professional is needed, the decision for which one should be solved with a different calculus than in the past. Vukelic explains that you may only speak with a partner occasionally as they are likely busy chasing billings and not focused on your search day-to-day.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 10, 2024

Four years on from the first Covid-19 lockdown, one of the most striking differences is the prevalence of hybrid working. Boots, JPMorgan Chase and even Chancellor Jeremy Hunt have all adopted a similar rationale for rolling back hybrid arrangements and insisting that people return to the office.

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CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Business founders and university students, top athletes and couch potatoes, meditation gurus and military leaders all have very different ways of coping with discomfort, but the most successful among them believe that withstanding discomfort is a skill that has helped them in hugely positive ways. If the bad food is - I eat that.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

But the field is still nascent, and the role of a product manager may differ from organization to organization. The skills may differ organization-wise, so be ready to learn as you go. Set Long-term Goals Starting a career as a product manager sets you on the right path, but you cannot stop chasing growth from here.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This re-activity means that team members are often chasing their tails and figuratively going round and round in circles. Many of these have different reporting lines with team managers who sometimes have different agendas for the success of the team.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Let’s cut right to the chase; stop focusing on being efficient – it’s a waste of time. Efficient vs. Effective – there is sometimes a very big difference between the two. Nobody other than perhaps you really cares how efficient you are, but everyone cares how effective you are.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Without it, though, you end up not only making short-sighted decisions and chasing the wrong goals but also damaging a lot of relationships in the process. Driven by passion and fueled by their dreams, they are determined to take action and make a difference. They avoid chasing anything that isn’t tied directly to their strategy.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

We can take a lot away from the situations that arise due to these disagreements, challenges, and differing lines of thought. Many times, the new possibility is the one you should chase. There are different kinds of leaders: Searcher and Jaeger were related. Yet, they were very different. They’re just different.

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