N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference. Putting political agendas and peer pressure aside (as great leaders do), leaders should not make their choices based upon public opinion.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

T HE leadership question is top of mind for many people here in the United States and throughout the world. No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2023

Insider Ted Van Dyk Can America overcome the recent political polarization and dysfunction? by @DebbieLaskeyMBA The Five W's of Leadership via @LeadershipMain You’re great at this job, let’s make you a manager! Or are our circumstances so dire and unprecedented that decline is inevitable and history holds few lessons?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 6, 2012

Welcome to the May edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! A blog "Carnival" is typically a collection of recent blog posts organized around a common theme, in this case, leadership development. Does social media play a role in developing high performance? This post explores the concept. Jennifer V.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2012

True leadership demands the character to demonstrate personal responsibility for one’s actions, and the courage to hold others accountable for theirs. However the solution is a rather simple one – I’ve always said, people will stop offering excuses the minute those in positions of leadership stop accepting them. Thoughts?

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 2, 2023

Handle the politics. Every workplace has its own set of politics, and it is up to you to navigate them effectively. Be a role model for your team by demonstrating integrity, honesty, and ethical behavior. This could involve providing opportunities for professional development or simply showing concern for their well-being.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

They all: · Made fact-based decisions · Built great teams · Made ethics a part of the culture · Engaged listeners · Evaluate constantly · Embraced change · Inspired Make fact-based decisions At the start of each morning, Craig Ryden—the CEO of Yankee Candle—would look at the sales from the previous day in great detail.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With many expectations, including navigating complex strategic and organizational challenges fostering innovation and inspiring and galvanizing students and faculty alike, the stakes have never been higher when attracting and retaining exemplary leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 10, 2011

I was skimming through headlines on my RSS feed this past weekend when a particular title caught my eye – it simply read: “ Situational Ethics.&# Situational Ethics – Really? Life is full of areas that benefit from flexibility, fluidity, context, and other forms of nuanced thinking, but ethics isn’t one of them.

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Thin Difference

MAY 21, 2019

Nothing around us stays static, so change leadership is a necessity. Change for the sake of change is not good leadership. Change leadership and common good need a tighter intersection. Common Good: Dignity and Ethics. Change leadership and common good create an interesting intersection.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 17, 2021

Leadership experts Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren , in The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership , argue that leaders must balance between analytic logic and intuition. The first job of all leadership is to protect people.”–Lewis, The first job of all leadership is to protect people.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In a 2012 study of 361 top-level executives from 53 countries, by the Center of Creative Leadership, 19% of respondents stated that leaders are born to lead, while 52% believed that leaders are created; 29% said that both factors are equally important. Leadership is a skill, similar to playing a musical instrument. Ask the Coach .

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

Good leadership skills may differ across businesses, yet few of these skills prepared leaders to manage the turmoil over the past year. Gone are the days of equating winning only with profit and equating leadership only with assertiveness. Business leaders had to quickly develop an open-minded mindset to remote ways of working.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 10, 2022

In the spring of 2020, when leaders at all levels and in all sectors were communicating about the emerging pandemic and those messages varied widely in content and delivery, Tom Friedman interviewed Dov Seidman for an article on the critical role of leadership. Great leaders trust people with the truth.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. ” Neither For nor Against Apathy Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. .”

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Leaders schooled in rational, left-brained thinking need to adapt to changing political, social and technological forces. Real leadership combines both logic and emotion, both short and long-term thinking. The Leadership Lab points out the dangers of over-reliance on analysis and extrapolation based on historic data.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 20, 2014

Tanveer Naseer of Tanveer Naseer Leadership brings us How Leaders Can Successfully Champion Change. Learn about 3 lessons from the political realm that inform us on how leaders can successfully champion change initiatives in their organization. Bill Benoist of Leadership Heart Coaching shares Accepting Change. Jennifer V.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Thin Difference

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In 1996, Pew Research found only 20% in each political party viewed the other unfavorably. Betterment requires raising standards across all dimensions, and we need the same method in our political exchanges and solutions. Betterment is our new leadership calling. Let betterment be our new leadership calling.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2020

In business, playing with an infinite mindset means building an organization to last well beyond our own leadership. Ethical fading, a condition that allows people to act in unethical ways to advance their own interests, is the result of a finite mindset. It is the long game. Built to last organizations are both stable and resilient.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Under the old Friedman dictum that a company’s only responsibility is to make a return for shareholders, it would be rational for the only political engagement expected of leaders to be that which would enhance the business. of them said that leaders should be taking a stand on political issues, with 62.5% An overwhelming 77.5%

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 10, 2016

Integrity can be defined as always interacting with others ethically and honorably. People with integrity aspire to the highest ethical standards and expect the same behavior of others. Integrity: An Essential Component of Servant Leadership. Soon thereafter, Goodyear launched the newly developed “Aquatread” tire.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Guest post from Thomas Steding : Slowly, almost inexorably, culture has big become almost top of mind as a key factor in effective leadership. Upon examination, I discovered it contained in a series of typical bromides like “We don't do politics” or “Be passionate” or “Go for the best” along with a promise for pizza on Fridays.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Author/speaker Jason Seiden just posted a “best of the web&# collection of articles on leadership that includes the post I recently wrote about the CEO of Starbucks. Amy has a unique ability to see around corners and figure out what’s coming in the talent development space. posted at Reclaiming Leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 15, 2019

So, employees are already poised to leave — and they will flee your offices even faster if your leadership isn’t up to snuff. Still, many poor communicators make it to leadership positions, and from there, they wreak all sorts of havoc. Leaders are meant to coach, helping employees improve their skills and thus develop their careers.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Related posts: The Positive Side of Workplace Politics Post by Jane K. Authentic Leadership I was recently at the Pa. Bold Leadership There are so many words to describe leadership and almost. Leadership Partnership and Business Possibilities Clearing out the old to make way for the new.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

In the face of all this complexity, there are four basic behaviors that leaders can adopt that will drastically improve their leadership and, by extension, the experience of those they lead. Ken Rubin, an agile leadership visionary, has a fantastic analogy that I refer to often to explain the concept.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Background: This post is part of a series defining the principles of Servant Leadership via the acronym SERVANT ( Selfless , Empathetic , Resolute , Virtuous, Authentic, Needful and Thorough). For more, visit the overview at this link or sign up for the free online course, Servant Leadership 101. But it usually goes deeper than that.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 25, 2017

Asked to describe an ideal team or organizational culture, most employees will use words like supportive, transparent, authentic, collaborative, and trusting, yet when asked to describe their company's actual culture, they will use words such as competitive, political, territorial, untrusting, and conflict averse. Ask the Coach .

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 12, 2016

A business woman politely said this to everyone who offered her a card, “Thanks. While companies provide wages in exchange for work, less care is taken with providing training and development, minimizing bias, not expecting 24 x 7 email availability, and consulting employees on issues that concern them. Here you go.”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Even more, we have a moral and ethical business obligation to be savvy in how the world works. By this, I mean being aware of the nuances of political systems, cultural norms, and psychological mindsets of whom we do business with and for. You can learn more about the GMI here.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

Political, social and economic cultures that have been sustained for long periods of time have these values and systems that don’t (i.e. This line of reasoning is why leaders such as Jim Goodnight of SAS Institute invest considerable sums to develop healthy cultures. These character strengths are universal. Posting your comment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

February seems to be anti-bullying month here at Great Leadership. Many of these could almost be regarded as side-effects to high levels of drive and determination, the innocent little quirks of a multitude of individuals currently residing in leadership positions. Are you at risk of being misunderstood?

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 5, 2013

Welcome to the August 5 th , 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For this month’s Carnival, I asked an all-star collection of leadership experts the following question: What is one piece of advice would you give to a new leader/manager? Dan McCarthy, from Great Leadership : “ 25 Tips for New Managers.”.

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