N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2012

How are your leadership skills? There’s no shortage of independent empirical data generated over the years supporting the fact most people tend to overrate their leadership ability. I’ve always said leaders need to get over themselves and get on to the practice of leadership. Likely not as good as you think.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2018

We often equate developing a leadership voice with finding ways to appear more confident. But rather than living with imposter’s syndrome , or feeling exhausted by wearing your game face all day, you can build a truer confidence by more intentionally focusing on cultivating many different parts of your leadership voice each day.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. At the enterprise level, think of all of your corporate initiatives as a backlog, just like software developers think of future product features as a backlog. The CEO and his leadership team share a joint table. Systematic Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

To reduce this kind of complexity and stay away from micromanaging, take a periodic look at the organization''s structure and find ways to reduce levels and management and increase spans of control. Managers need to develop simplification as a core leadership capability and a critical component of the business strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You know that social interactions with the marketplace are becoming a source for innovation, strategy, product development, organizational alignment, and pretty much every important thing your organization does. These allow you to direct activities and allocate resources — and by doing so, control other people.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. He built a team to develop Predix, a cloud-based platform that underlies all of GE’s industrial businesses. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Although it may be counter-intuitive, one of the most powerful changes you can make in your organization is to increase spans of control — a simple shift that can liberate employees, streamline the hierarchy, simplify processes, and reduce costs. In short, today the manager's job is more about leadership than control.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Think of new product development, or the parts of the company’s value chain and business model that are undergoing significant reinvention because of digital transformations. The chapter’s primary role is to facilitate learning and competency development throughout the squads. This task is closely related to the other two.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The group at my table included executives from marketing, finance, sales, HR, and corporate development. But office seating tends to be grouped according to a single function, division, or span of control. Those lunches were a critical organizational lubricant, reducing friction and allowing the gears to turn much more smoothly.

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