Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. It only makes your current game better.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

who serve as inspiration to us all by the daily difference their leadership makes in our lives. You can nominate your unsung hero by leaving a comment explaning how their example of leadership touches the lives of others. He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy).

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2010

John is probably one of the world’s best known and most respected authors and speakers on the subject of leadership. In fact, three of his books (The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Developing the Leader Within You , and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader) have sold more than one million copies each. Oswald Sanders.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

While this sounds simple enough at face value, I have consistently found that one of the most often overlooked leadership attributes is that of a positive attitude. If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. The simple answer is that you can’t…it just won’t work.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

In one of our very first issues, back in 1996, we did a deep dive into a strange, offbeat, little-known grocery operation based in Austin, Texas. I met Jeff Bezos at one of the first e-commerce conferences ever organized, sat by him at lunch, and within minutes knew I had to hit the “record” button on my cassette recorder. (I

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A new study by The Bridgespan Group, based on a survey of more than 400 nonprofit C-suite executives and dozens of interviews, surfaced this surprising finding and discussed how to address this leadership development deficit. Education crowdfunder DonorsChoose.org, which finances classroom-based projects, is a good model of success.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In addition they operate from a plan — however confidential it may be — to strengthen the team year over year. At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But now our meetings consist of working moms and dads sitting awkwardly in a conference room, talking about how hard it all is. ” Start by ensuring the group’s leadership is demonstrably diverse; prospective members will want to “see themselves” in the network’s composition. This if for you.”

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be. Never confuse power with leadership.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I still spend much of my time traveling from conference to conference in the West to meet people who can help my work succeed (I'm writing this on a train bound for Davos). I am required to do all this on a shoestring budget and a super-lean staff.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Great communicators can tailor a message such that they can speak to 10 people in a conference room or 1,000 people in an auditorium and have them feel as if you were speaking directly to each one of them as an individual. Communicate more effectively. If you fail to justify your message with knowledge, business logic, reason etc.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

” Backgrounds in STEM, business, finance, or economics are a launchpad for female CEOs. Forty percent of the female CEOs started out with some technical expertise in STEM, and close to 20% started with a background in business, finance, or economics. That conversation was a bit of a wake-up call.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. At Rakuten we faced this challenge and have embraced a solution that not only improved our communication as a company, but it propelled us into the ranks of global expansion leadership. What do you do? Hire interpreters? My company, Rakuten, Inc. I call it Englishnization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. This leadership imperative goes far beyond being collaborative and "playing nicely" with peers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Now, however, the model is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” ” Yet the freedom bestowed on corporations by Citizens United comes with serious risk. .

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Today's climate of employee dissatisfaction, distrust, and disengagement, as reported in numerous surveys conducted by organizations ranging from the Conference Board to Gallup and human resource consulting firms, will surely keep Scott Adams in Dilbert ideas for years. You probably won't sway them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. Competition Leadership Retail' A company’s age may count against it, but it’s no guarantee of failure.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

However in reflecting upon my presentations and client engagements, I’ve noticed that it’s not an infrequent occurrence to find that even the most savvy executives misconstrue certain basic leadership ideas. Some individuals openly seek out positions of leadership, while leadership is thrust upon others.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Nando Parrado - Nando was the only speaker at the conference to receive a standing ovation, but this is not why I ranked him #1. We all need to learn from Jack by dropping the politically correct approach to leadership by just doing the right thing. I’ve never heard anyone speak so fluently on the topic of innovation.

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