N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

A great example of this would be carving out time in your already too busy schedule to mentor someone in your organization with great potential. Clearly this endeavor will take time, and may not yield immediate results, but the payoff organizationally, relationally, culturally, and in terms of future contribution can be huge.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The more partners, sympathizers, champions, allies, supporters, enablers, influencers, advisers, mentors, friends, and family you have helping you succeed, the faster you will achieve your goals. For sometime now believing in the power of mentor-ship. No single person can or should go it alone in today’s business world.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

It means you’re not teaching, mentoring, communicating, or leading. " Saying no doesn't imply that your "team is not aligned and your talent is not performing up to par," or that "it means you’re not teaching, mentoring, communicating, or leading."

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

I might only add and you know that young or immature leaders simply need tools, mentoring, and info to become great leaders. The truth is that all of us need mentoring, discipling and coaching to reach our full potential. I enjoy reading your thoughts here. Gaby pastortom2022 Totally agree! Great post Mike.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Ultimately the best way to insure your staff has influence is to model the correct behaviors and to make sure that you mentor them in said behaviors as well. That said, it will be how they choose to handle themselves, and how they treat others that will ultimately determine the amount of influence they have. Thanks for stopping by David.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

The information they gain through questioning and listening lays the groundwork for reflection, making decisions and/or mentoring. Then, when they ask questions they eagerly position themselves as the student, LISTEN and learn. I always appreciate your value added thoughts.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 11, 2018

The bulk of Muller’s research is devoted to case studies in colleges, elementary schools, health care systems, policing, the military, business, finance, philanthropy and foreign aid. Certainly, The Tyranny of Metrics is worthy to be read as a companion to The New Economics and Out of the Crisis. It may well become a classic.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Great CEOs not only view their interactions with team members as coaching and mentoring opportunities, but also as learning opportunities for themselves. An executive team that actually embraces the concept of collaboration will substantially out perform a silo-centric executive team focused on empire building.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

There is certainly no better example of leadership than Jesus – He is the one example that you can turn to for a model of how to lead, mentor, disciple, manage, build relationships, forgive, deal with conflict and betrayal, etc. Actually it is I who is not on the same level as you and my other pastoral friends.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths. On with the exam… Section I: Character.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. Whenever some crisis loomed on the Voyager, she was known barking out: “Options?” When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Smart leaders leverage influencers by involving them in modeling, mentoring and coaching. Following are a few of the thoughts Joseph shared on the importance of influence: Influencers succeed where the rest of us fail. Challenge begins when new ideas confront old thinking. Creating influence is about creating a magical experience.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Does anyone on your executive team have a coach or mentor? Has your business embraced social media? When was the last time your executive team brought in some new blood by recruiting a rock star? Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

However, humility can also effectively (and less painfully) be learned through coaching and mentoring. The benefits of humility are most often learned through painful life experiences.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

With good mentoring, that new leader will be effective. Someone just getting started as a leader is not a proven leader and as a result is more of an unknown quantity — but that does not mean that they are automatically an ineffective leader. Inexperienced, yes — ineffective…that remains to be seen.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If the point of departure is truly causing organizational/performance disruption, and it is not your issue, then you must either coach/mentor that person through the challenge or get rid of them. Keeping a "bad apple" can in fact spoil the entire barrel.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Enterprise IT is in crisis — no doubt about it. As IT steps up as mentor, it needs to mature as well. Historically, people got to the C-suite by progressing up the career ladder in one discipline, moving among multiple companies until they made it to an executive role in finance, sales, etc.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It is precisely the dispensing of one-size fits all advice that has allowed the ranks of consultants, coaches, mentors and other professional advisers to swell to historical proportions. After all, if you can apply someone else’s theory in a vacuum it lowers the barrier to entry doesn’t it?

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 5, 2010

Make connections with people who are… consider finding an “internal mentor&# to help you navigate the politics. As the group discussed the various places we’ve all seen politics at play, participants started owning up to their own games. Are you usually the “last to know&# when some big issue is going down?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

My dear friend and mentor, Cheryl Smith. but you’ll not find that here. He trained for and completed his first triathlon and has his sights firmly set on doing an ironman. I have no doubt he will achieve that goal. Blessings Mark [link] Christine Kennedy Where to begin! My pastor and his wife, Pastor Joe and Shawn Horrell.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

The bad news is that lots of leaders or companies are in crisis mode when they call for a consultant or coach, so they don’t really have the time necessary to really get to know the person they are hiring. There is an unmistakable element of wisdom borne of experience that they gladly share as they ‘mentor’ growth.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Reading is a topic that's dear to my heart, and one that I often cover on The Invisible Mentor blog. link] Avil Beckford Mike, This is definitely a post that I wish I'd written. A few years ago New York Times writer Harriet Rubin wrote a great article, CEO Libraries Reveal Keys to Success [link].

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The recognition by a boss or mentor was key to sparking long-term ambition in many of the women. ” Backgrounds in STEM, business, finance, or economics are a launchpad for female CEOs. The women we interviewed benefited from early mentors but still saw disparities. That conversation was a bit of a wake-up call.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It missed the crisis. The IMF missed the crisis. It was the form in which the asset was financed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

“Congrats on selling your business,” a longtime mentor said the day after I signed the paperwork. When you spend years architecting your life around a business and suddenly it’s gone, you’re probably going to have an identity crisis and some post-partum depression. Steven Moore for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Ask mentors or former bosses for advice. The financial crisis forced the firm to make cuts. He tried to think through all the factors that should influence his decision — finances, work/life balance, development opportunities — but couldn't figure out which mattered most to him.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Strategies like outsourcing, hiring lower-cost people, or exotic employment offer tempting cost savings to the finance-minded folks. Team leads can help you further scale managers by taking on the bulk of mentoring, coaching, and quality assurance. What not to do. Don’t get distracted by cost reduction. at the rep level.

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