Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

In The Talent Masters , Bill Conaty and Ram Charan explain how to do it. To develop talent, you need to become intimate with your people; to know the essence of each individual. Talent development is not an event. Developing people simply must be a priority from the top down. Continuous learning and improvement.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2022 that you will want to check out: Ten Life Lessons Learned & Reinforced From A Year Well Lived by @artpetty. The Law of Slow Leaks - Why Important Things Fail and What We Can Do About It by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr. Why Leaders Must Learn to Forgive and Forget via @Entrepreneur.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. They all share their methods, their successes and failures, and the lessons they learned. The larger points of intentional leadership, intentional leaders, and their place in the current world are explained, giving readers the opportunity to spot the parallels in real-world examples.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: Learn an organization’s culture before working with or for it. Lesson: Moral Hazard.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue,” he adds. And why the relationship that executives and leaders have with the sales organization is among the most important elements of growth leadership. The Growth Leader reveals how top executives create profitable growth through the intersection of strategy, leadership, and sales.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I was especially fascinated to learn about the difficulties Dickens had in publishing what he called “his Ghostly little book” to “haunt their homes pleasantly.” I’ve slightly revised and updated this post from last year with my top five life and leadership lessons from Scrooge: 1.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 9, 2022

Learn how to take control of your business and future so that you can not only meet but exceed your expectations and can be proud of your accomplishments. Your finances also play an important role in your business and the amount of success you experience. Continue Learning & Developing Your Skills.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. Given the number of baby boomers expected to retire between now and 2030 (the last group of baby boomers reach of the age of 65 in 2030, and, of course, some may choose to work past age 65) organizations need to prepare others to take over leadership roles.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 19, 2023

When you’re leading through change, help your team recognize the behaviors they are already doing that are making such a positive difference. In the video, I describe a time-tested tool, Kurt Lewin’s Force field analysis that we use quite frequently in our leadership programs. Get curious about the possibilities.

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 14, 2020

By developing the right mix of skills, you’ll have the confidence and assertiveness to thrive in a changing organizational environment. Practice exercising your leadership skills within challenging situations in order to hone your ability to guide your team through the rough waters of change. Six Essential Skills for Future Leaders.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Guest post from Ron Schutz : Confidence is my #1 trait for leadership as an entrepreneur. A simple reality could be, do people respect you and seek out your opinion or do they avoid you as much as possible? If you do not know where you are going, how will you know when you get there? Prideful people turn others off.

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2023

Women’s leadership programs have been a crucial topic in recent years, with much discourse over their effectiveness in the workplace. On one hand, women-focused programs provide the skills, community support and resources women need to succeed in leadership roles.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Policy & controls development with implementation. Human resource leadership. Meaning, the bad hackers don’t care if you are required to comply with a policy or law, nor do they care about your budget or resources. Data storage. Business Continuity (BC). Cloud enabled solutions – SaaS, IaaS, PaaS.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® methodology is a “50 – 50 model.” It has been in active use for over 50 years, and it was created approximately 50 years after the discipline of organizational behavior and leadership development began. Leadership is never over (Organizations change, jobs change and so do people.).

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

Adam Bryant has put together a great leadership companion with Quick and Nimble. There’s great advice on a wide range of leadership issues from Why Culture Matters to Alone at the Top. At the end of the day, if the thirteen thousand people on the front lines don’t understand what you’re trying to do, forget it.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2017

Learn from the Past. Instead of taking a step back to see what I could have learned from others who went before me, I plunged right into the task. Hikers learn to reserve judgment about others. Walking across a country sounded like a crazy thing to do before I did it. Think About the Future.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. M aking any progress, process transformation or change across American communities and throughout the global business communities as usual is always hard and usually requires a significant investment of resources – people, finance and effort. By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 12-Week MBA offers an alternative way to learn business essentials by focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as both a manager and a business leader. Billhardt and Kracklauer : Learning is fundamentally a social activity. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. If you can’t learn you can’t thrive.) What should we be doing now to insure we have a future? How do we create the future while managing the present? Actions have consequences and continuity of character matters.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It took a global pandemic to shake open executive minds to the possibility of better ways of doing office work. Why do we work in offices at all? Finance and development providers should be rewarded for sustainably managing what exists already, rather than pursuing new ventures.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Given not all CHROs are created equal, how do you differentiate from those who simply sit in the chair versus those who set the chinning bar for the future of the role. Put simply, how do you judge the success of a chief human resources officer, and who qualifies for the 2020 Top CHRO List? Selection Methodology.

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Career Advancement

JUNE 15, 2020

Many employees believe that if they continue doing what’s expected of them, they’ll always have a job. As AI, robotics, and machine learning take on increasingly central roles within organizations, employees will need to focus more on skills in the interpersonal and decision-making realms. Without an interpreter, data is merely noise.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Did you wake up eager and ready for the learning and relationship challenges that were there each day? They, as we did, bring with them the patterns of behavior learned for security and survival. The patterns of learning in most schools come from our European roots. So it is with all organizations.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I asked him, “What are you doing to celebrate failures?” We then looked at some fun ways that corporate leaders have learned to take their failures and celebrate them. In doing so, they help their most creative people to develop exciting new ideas. Like many leaders, he had no answer. Create a Fail Wall.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

This 1954 movie brought the truly timeless and consequential components of leadership into focus for me. Emotion Is Integral to Quality Leadership. This article posted on LiveLesium offers six tips for developing this important facet of the charismatic personality—confidence. Guest post by Andrew Cravenho. Always be positive.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

T HE BOTTOM LINE is that there is no “good leadership” without ethical thinking. The thinking that powers leadership choices must be grounded in ethical values or the impact on important constituents will be overlooked. Even non-profits have to carefully manage finances and raise funds using ethical practices.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

It presents a fine line where, on the one hand, the CMO must unleash the power of creative minds to develop innovative strategies that can distinguish the brand. It requires an organizational culture that nurtures freedom of thought, encourages risk-taking, and perceives failures as opportunities for learning.

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

By developing the right mix of skills, you’ll have the confidence and assertiveness to thrive in a changing organizational environment. Practice exercising your leadership skills within challenging situations in order to hone your ability to guide your team through the rough waters of change. Six Essential Skills for Future Leaders.

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Leading Blog

JULY 17, 2019

And yet, what is crystal clear to me after 20 years in leadership roles is that those ingredients, while important to success, aren't enough if you've forgotten the fundamentals of being positive, learning from others, being honest and the kind of person people want to work with. The truth has everything to do with intent.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. Clearly the difference possessed by all great leaders is that they refine, develop and build from their foundation – they don’t ignore it or take it for granted.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In today’ post I’ll share my thoughts on the value of learning to become a humble leader… It’s been said that life is a long lesson in humility. As a leader, the sooner you come to grips with your humility the better leader you’ll become.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. On with the interview. billion in the last 5 years). billion in the last 5 years).

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Through accountability measures and ongoing learning initiatives, EY fosters an inclusive culture at all levels.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Today’s guest post by Kevin Eikenberry ( @kevineikenberry ) really resonates with me because it’s chalk full of leadership perspective. Kevin also hosts the Best of Leadership Blogs 2010 contest of which this blog is a nominee (if you haven’t voted yet, today is the last day for voting). What do I mean?

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 7, 2024

This positive perspective fuels resilience, opens creative solutions, and ultimately drives sustained personal and professional development. Determination is the bridge between feeling something and doing something about it. Determination is the bridge between feeling something and doing something about it.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

“Leadership is not about a title or a designation. Jackie had just accepted a promotion and was working to develop a grasp of whom she needed to influence in her organization. Learning to think like executives, understand their vision, and articulate ideas with confidence are key aspects of gaining influence with them.

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