N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Are your strategic planning practices flat and uninspired? Have you reduced your planning process to a once per year, budgeting exercise? Do your senior people feel disengaged and removed from your strategic planning? Does the rank and file even understand what’s in your strategic plan? Clearly, it’s time for a new strategic planning paradigm to emerge – one that features the right set of “ next practices ” that your organization can embrace to dramatically increase

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The following is a guest piece by cognitive scientist and author Dr. Carmen Simon. Conversation between flight attendant and passenger: “What would you like to drink, sir?” “Water.” Flight attendant goes to get it and turns around after 2 seconds: “Sorry, was that a club soda?” “No, water.” I heard the exchange above just now, on a flight to Michigan.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 25, 2016

One of the great gifts you give team members is opportunity to reflect on their journey. “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” Peter Drucker Leaders energize teams when they help team members bring their best selves to work.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 25, 2016

“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. ” Bob Moawad. Every leader has the chance to learn a little more about themselves every day.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 25, 2016

A few month’s ago, I published a video about the importance of using people’s names. So in today’s video, I’m following that up with strategies and ideas to help you better remember people’s names. Tweet it out: Remembering someone’s name is one of the fastest ways to improve relationships and communication. via @KevinEikenberry From This […].

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Lead by Adventure

OCTOBER 25, 2016

When I was in my early twenties, within the space of about three weeks I lost my job, my grandmother passed away (her funeral was on my birthday, no less), my dog died, and I became fairly ill. It was like a country song gone bad. During that season, I worked for a guy that was a micro-manager. I was in a job that stretched me, for sure. But I was willing to work on the things that I didn’t know, and I was committed to do whatever I needed to make things work with my boss.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Dr. Seth Stone is an organizational consultant focused on helping leaders uncover latent potential and thrive in the global marketplace using the components of innovation. He’s also the host of the LeadThis podcast. In this interview, we discuss how the most innovative firms shape the future, and how you can too. [ Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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Change Starts Here

OCTOBER 25, 2016

As a result of my work at Enclaria, I frequently meet change agents in a variety of industries across the world. I love to hear the stories of how each one came to the change management profession. Everyone has a unique and fascinating tale, although there are many similarities across all of our paths. Some people start in Human Resources, either in corporate or as an HR business partner.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 25, 2016

If there’s one thing Joe Teno knows with great certainty, it’s that he knows nothing with great certainty. And that’s a good thing to keep in mind if you want to help build an innovative culture. “I’m a firm believer in not knowing,” Teno says. “All things that have potential reside on this edge between knowing and not knowing.” But this much we know: As president of Athleta , the women’s athletic wear company, Teno helped build an organizat

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 25, 2016

And other scary times of life. Can we just admit this has not been our favorite presedential election season? I’ll admit. I’m one who tends to see the more positive in every scenario and it’s honestly difficult to do this time. A man with a young children asked me recently how should he and his wife parent their family during this season.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Respect. It’s such a simple word that carries so much power. It commands: “Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.” (Eldridge Cleaver). It empowers: “We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.” (Thomas Jefferson) It elevates: “We must build a new world, a far better world – one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. Reeling from the growing pains of a $475 million merger with Nortel, the business communications company faced lingering customer disillusionment and falling profits. Avaya’s 2011 Net Promoter Score (NPS) was in the 20s (on a scale of -100 to +100), suggesting that it would have a hard time keeping the customers it had, let alone grow on word of mouth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Research shows that one of the best ways to help employees thrive is to give them feedback. It’s one of the primary levers leaders have to increase a sense of learning and vitality. Giving your direct reports regular updates on personal performance, as well as on how the business is doing, helps them feel valued. Negative or directive feedback provides guidance, leading people to become, over time, more certain about their behavior and more confident in their competence.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Financial institutions have been employers of women for decades: historically as tellers, secretaries, and junior administrative staff. In the 1980s, however, pioneering women began moving into management roles and into frontline business areas, such as investment banking. Today 47% of management and professional roles in American financial firms are occupied by women, according to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

I discuss cybersecurity with hundreds of executives every year. The biggest mistake I see is companies treating cybersecurity solely as a technology matter for IT departments to solve. But it’s not. It’s an enterprise-wide opportunity that’s critically important. If the end game is preventing something bad from happening, companies typically waste time and money on futile attempts to build an impenetrable wall of systems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Innovation-led growth can square a circle that is challenging modern capitalism: how to generate sustained and sustainable economic growth, built on high-value, well-paying jobs. This is at the core of entrepreneurial societies, and it is a good objective. The problem is how to get there. Although many countries have set the goal, few have achieved it.

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