N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

In the text that follows, I’ll provide you with 4 constructs to help you evolve your thinking around digital transformation. The only chance businesses have at longevity, much less sustainability, is to stop trying to play catch-up and get out in front – fast. Remember, bigger isn’t better – better is better.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2021

It turns out, they could withstand the impact, but the engineers designed them not to. The engineers design them to break cleanly for three reasons. Knowing that these breakdowns in traffic flow are inevitable, the engineers plan for it. These are awesome culture-building leadership moments. Your team’s watching.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Welcome to the December Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share our leadership experts’ favorite posts from 2018 on the topics of communication, creativity/inspiration, development, engagement, productivity, and more. Follow Randy on Twitter at @RandyConley. Communication. Development.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

The following are 35 quotes from the two-day event that are worth reflecting on: ? Innovation doesn’t happen by one person having an aha moment. Leadership should shift from hierarchy to hustle. The CEO needs to take up the leadership challenge to help others respond to that. Linda Hill, Harvard Business School. ?

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

So, following a successful program, during a break in the agenda, after leaving the stage and talking with many with conference attendees, I often find myself standing beside the organizer.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 19, 2020

A few weeks ago, I received a nice comment on LinkedIn about one of my blog posts from David Hoey who shared that he’s been a regular reader since 2010 when I wrote about the leadership lessons offered by the Chilean mine rescue. Perhaps that’s one more leadership lesson we can all draw from their story.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2018

Yet, it’s not the same in every case—likability does not necessarily equal followership when it comes to leadership. Would that same CHRO be as successful at a firm where the culture was more about innovation and less about continuity? In leadership, likability looks different depending upon the context.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

It is a journey and I hope we can follow Geneca's path of experimenting-learning-applying-iterating and learn for ourselves. By Tim Kippley: Jeff Bezos, one of the planet’s greatest innovators, once said that: “You need a culture that high-fives small and innovative ideas and senior executives [that] encourage ideas.”

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Indra Nooyi.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

Welcome to the July 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Although mid-summer is a time when many of us slow down (as we should), this compilation of excellent cutting-edge leadership thinking will help motivate you to hit the ground running when your vacation or other summer relaxation period ends. Let’s Get Started.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Welcome to the October 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival. Read over these outstanding leadership posts this month and I think you’ll agree each one is a home run! Anne shares, “Ed, an Engineering Director, has a habit of mind that immediately sees what could go wrong in any given situation.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) On with the interview.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Leadership for Tomorrow. His advice to adopt a mindset of growth, focus on what fulfills you, and embrace new modes of leadership is exactly what many people are looking for during this time of transition and change. The new style of leadership is premised on trust , and the practice of management is now more art than science.

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QAspire

MARCH 25, 2014

In American Management Association’s critical skills survey 2012 , respondents emphasized on 4 C’s ( C ritical thinking and problem solving, Effective C ommunication, C ollaboration and team building and C reativity and innovation) as their key priorities for employee development, talent development and succession planning. Stay Tuned!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The following is a guest piece by Derek Lidow. Most people assume that successful entrepreneurs are created solely based on how innovative and groundbreaking their new idea is. Ford did not think up the combustion engine or automobiles, Edison did not think up incandescent light bulbs, Larry Page did not think up search engines.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest post from James Hlavacek: To improve innovation and growth, knowledge workers must be led, not managed. People at all levels of a company, both degreed engineers and factory-floor craftspeople, are needed to design user-friendly new products and assemble prototypes that users can experiment with in the field.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Good business processes serve as the central nervous system for your organization providing a framework for every action, decision, activity or innovation to flow from and through. Process by default will never provide the benefits of good process engineering by design.

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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. I’m paying you to run.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Are you looking for the top leadership experts to follow in 2015? Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. Innovation Advocate. Zondervan Author. 8 1,735 219 109 Bonnie St.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

” Employees are constantly told they need to change processes and practices, only for the leadership team to keep on doing what they always do, and managers maintaining the same old routines. According to Altman, leaders can help employees — and themselves — cope with change fatigue by taking the following steps: 1.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 5, 2013

The following is a guest piece by Harvard Business Review columnist Deborah Mills-Scofield. We show up, do our jobs, follow policies and procedures and check our hearts, souls and even minds at ‘the door’. which leads to freedom, to innovation and growth and solutions to real customer needs and wicked problems.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Coronation marks a new era of leadership, vision and progress under the British monarchy. Under the main theme of “Scaling up Capability and Capacity for a Sustainable Future”, speakers and participants gathered to discuss ways of shaping education for the future via interdisciplinary learning and multi-sectoral collaboration.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 7, 2013

This is Hanna''s story of how she''s working to create a common language to integrate design thinking with science and engineering. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. After a 15-minute debate on the differences between a parameter and a constraint, it has become apparent my advisor is an engineer, and I am not.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place? Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development. . “Skipper” Pitts.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

For over 50 years, The Center for Leadership Studies has been known as the global home of the Situational Leadership ® Model. As such, we field questions like these on an ongoing basis from a variety of stakeholders: Can you identify and define the characteristics of the Situational Leadership ® Model? Empathy is the key!

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A form of the Miracle Question: I tried a variation with a Project Team of Aircraft Engineers. The engineers had statistics, charts, specifications for all sorts of things…and I was there to facilitate the team through Innovation Models to develop a solution to this vibrating screw. What do you think? With yourself?

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Millennials and Generation Z, who together make up nearly half of the full-time workforce in the U.S. Neither Gen Z nor millennials have blind loyalty to brands or their employers; they grew up during The Great Recession and saw first-hand how this loyalty didn’t pay off for their parents. Every company needs a corporate purpose.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Millennials and Generation Z, who together make up nearly half of the full-time workforce in the U.S. Neither Gen Z nor millennials have blind loyalty to brands or their employers; they grew up during The Great Recession and saw first-hand how this loyalty didn’t pay off for their parents. Every company needs a corporate purpose.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

In a growing economy where credit was plentiful, the tech industry has repeatedly chanted the innovation mantra “Fail fast, learn fast.” Methodologies such Lean Startup and Agile have taught us to innovate faster by harnessing the power of iteration. In the last decade, we’ve learned to over-rely on iteration. Radhika Dutt.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 29, 2013

Incorporating some of these steps into your leadership can definitely increase your chances of success and sustainability whether you are an extrovert or an introvert. These scientists and engineers develop innovative products and breakthrough ideas. Quiet time allows innovative ideas to percolate and emerge.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 24, 2014

When it comes to thriving in today’s fast-changing, interconnected global economy, one of the attributes of organizational success that often comes up is ensuring that we promote greater collaboration among the various teams and departments within our workplace.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 13, 2012

Perhaps innovators and entrepreneurs aren’t more risk-o-philic, they just define risk differently – not following one’s passion and purpose is a greater risk than financial or reputational security. We can all learn from their transformative innovations. Perhaps this is a basis for Rebellious Optimism.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy). I probed further to ask if they considered holding similar events for the CFOs, CIOs, CSOs, CTOs, CMOs, etc.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. Not very likely.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. If a newly implemented business process has design flaws, will employees follow the process or circumvent it? Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters.

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