Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The opportunity to learn and apply new skills that you can add to your portfolio and resume. The opportunity to network and leverage relationships with other board members who can potentially help you advance your career and broaden your influence. Other board members can be great connectors or influencers for new job opportunities.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths. Great leaders do the right thing regardless of circumstances, situational context or other influencing factors.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

These companies have placed themselves far behind the technology curve because tenured managers hire employees with obsolete skill sets and together they create mediocre solutions. Reward talent, innovation, loyalty, attitude, creativity, work ethic, contribution, and leadership ability…not tenure. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Poor Communication Skills : Show me a leader with poor communication skills and I’ll show you someone who will be short-lived in their position. Leaders need to have an profound appreciation for all the people working for them and the skills they bring to the table. Visit [link] to learn more about the leadership system.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO? Why would you ever want the person in charge of corporate leadership, vision and strategy to be a lame duck right from the get go? I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

In truth, the key is that they have the skills, passion, and traits to complement your natural talents. Financing the venture from your personal savings is an option, but won’t be open to many. The team ethic truly counts for everything. A business partner can be a friend, a former colleague, or a new acquaintance.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Determine if you need additional skills or if you need to enlist allies within the organization to support your promotion. Once you set your sights on a specific position, put a strategic action plan in place to communicate your value proposition to the key influencers and decision makers.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

A CRO must possess a diverse skill set to deliver on various responsibilities, from revenue growth management to strategic initiatives. We then conduct thorough research and leverage our extensive industry network to identify potential candidates with the appropriate skill set, experience, and fit. However, more is needed.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 9, 2011

The most important asset you will ever have is the ability to positively influence people. Gretchen Glasscock said: 10 Ways to be a Better Team Player: You have described yourself with the skill time and time agai… [link] [.] Now what to do? Related posts: How did you choose YOUR ‘A’ team?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

Rather than just kill something with a quick no, a good leader uses every adverse scenario as a development opportunity to help people advance their critical thinking and decisioning skills. While I understand that there are times when using no may be your only option, those times should be the exception and not the rule. I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2019

In truth, the key is that they have the skills, passion, and traits to complement your natural talents. Financing the venture from your personal savings is an option, but won’t be open to many. The team ethic truly counts for everything. A business partner can be a friend, a former colleague, or a new acquaintance.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action. I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! Are you a master of strategy? Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

I’m sure you’ll enjoy his wisdom about the intersection of character, trust, and ethics. We are prone to make bad, and sometimes unethical judgements when there is greater pressure to “get’er done,” versus to get things done ethically, safely, or legally. Some people would call these virtues and they are.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This makes sense, because the alternative is for behavioral insights to be tried out by individuals or specific departments, and their knowledge and skill are likely to vary: Someone in marketing might use their behavioral knowledge to develop more-effective campaigns, while at the same time someone in HR uses theirs to focus on employee engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Contrary to the common fear that educated and skillful workers are more difficult to retain, our experience is that workers' attachment to us grows as they absorb and share our values and passion. By competing on serving customers, we can understand, anticipate, stimulate, and influence market demands.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. But what role does culture play in corporate misconduct, and why do these problematic cultures persist?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

As I’ve said in other posts, great leaders have the innate ability to call on the right skills in a contextually and environmentally appropriate fashion. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S. No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

And while some question whether such special treatment is appropriate , it’s clear that this group has outsize influence: high-performers have been estimated to be four times as productive as average workers, and research has shown that they may generate 80% of a business’s profits and attract other star employees.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

The impact of her lack of leadership and management skills resulted in a tremendous amount of mistrust, uncertainty and poor moral. Any manager or supervisor that showed any leadership or aggressiveness was immediately dismissed. A poor manager or supervisor is more than just an organizational problem. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. Educate and Motivate Others.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

I have learned over the years to make meetings meaningful and productive, but it has become a developed skill over time. You can be a positive influence on your next meeting whether you called it or not. Almost everyone has suffered through too many meetings that take up too much time and accomplish too little.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

I call the first couple of years in one’s career the Aspiration Phase, in which it’s all about exercising one’s intellectual and interpersonal energies, and bringing enthusiasm, work ethic, and energy to an organization. Smart men and women in finance and corporate law always grow rich, or at least well-to-do.

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