N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia. Show-up : You can’t make a difference if you don’t show-up. It requires zero talent to be present mentally and physically.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. I have witnessed otherwise savvy executives place the need for emotional superiority ahead of achieving their mission (not that they always understood this at the time).

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The only exceptions I’ve witnessed that contradict my observations mentioned above are situations where a purpose-aligned execution based on the desire to give selflessly in service exists. However, even in these circumstances personal leadership is still at the forefront of the success.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : Leadership is a contact sport and it’s often messy. In fact, I hold Marshall in such high professional regard that he is one of only three other coaches that I’ll refer people to if I’m unable to meet their needs. The best thing a leader can do is to focus on making themselves a better human being.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

Some of the writers pointed out that these were two different sports and couldn’t be compared. Whether it’s the style of play in a sport, or leadership style in the business world, men and women are clearly and obviously different. A lot of people said a lot of pretty dumb things. Can’t we all just get along?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2013

Freakonomics examines the commonly held myths surrounding: Campaign finance. Cheating schoolteachers and sports players. Recommended Resources – The Complete Executive. Recommended Resources – The 4 Disciplines of Execution. Crime rates. Child-rearing. Why You Should Read This Book.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. When black & white becomes permanently blurred so that everything reads as shades of grey, things can become dicey.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. I’m always amazed at the number of senior executives who really struggle with even simple decisions…This next comment might hit a bit too close to home for some of you, but I’m hoping it may help bring you back to reality.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

Tanya currently writes about leadership, in sport, work and life on Elevati’s Blog at www.elevati-inc.com/blog.  Each story brings a relevant analogy to the business issue at hand, making the learning more fun, the process guarantee more impact, and the happiness-meter on high.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. However, they use starkly different levers to build one.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. This trend toward ever more critical reliance on IT is not only transforming the idea and practice of corporate IT, but has disruptive operational implications for every manager. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

If you ask managers to name their favorite sport, you'll hear a wide variety of answers: Football, baseball, tennis. But what they won't tell you is the one sport that all managers play the most: The Game of Reorganization. Managers love to reorganize at almost every level. Do your people need a wake-up call?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. To do this, executives should be compensated with stock and in effect, make them both shareholders and executives. THE STORY BEGINS.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. Exhaust resources that don’t cost first and at least come up to “Dummy&# level on each initiative that you manage.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How to price 8 million tickets in a way that allows equitable access to 26 sporting events, meets revenue and attendance targets, and adheres to the explicit social objective of making the Olympiad "Everybody's Games.". Be proactive.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

In my early years as an executive search consultant in Argentina, I was frequently asked to hire senior investment bankers. How did the stars at that firm manage to shine brightly together, while those at the other merely twinkled on their own? You see it in business, in sports, in creative endeavors from movies to magazines.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

But it was crystal clear who’d made the negative comments in the assessment of one executive. Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. This had been a running joke among Barker’s executives for years. Nina laughed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

Others have argued that executive education programs are likely to be disrupted , as companies weigh the savings they could achieve by directing executives to MOOCs instead. At Wharton, nearly 20% of the annual revenue comes from executive education, while at Harvard Business School 26% does, and at IESE, it is nearly half.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. This is also true of executives.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Even people who have achieved a great deal of career success aren’t immune to these feelings, says Whitney Johnson, an executive coach and the author several books including Build an A-Team. ” With this in mind, over time, Joel changed his management style. Finances were a consideration. ” Here’s how. .”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. Susaans work with senior executives over the last 30 years shows over and again that the people (mostly men) who rise to senior levels in organizations have a preference for operating in the abstract. Because it isnt their sport. He wasnt a process manager. The company was too big for that."

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Leadership for the small-business owner (which usually deal with entrepreneurialism, sales, financing, and other basic management and business skills). Leadership for managers in big organizations. Processes need to be analyzed and improved, and leaders need to learn how to manage through systems.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

It has long been widely acknowledged that legal skills are broadly applicable to all kinds of careers: business, politics, finance, even sports coaching, fiction writing, and journalism. Execute fast. Few people or organizations can match the speed with which a newsroom and its reporters can execute.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. At Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lauren Hobart was promoted from CMO to President, while at KFC, CMO Kevin Hochman became President and Chief Concept Officer. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

A strong, transparent, and trust-driven culture plays a central role in driving a scale-down decision and in managing the process as the it unfolds. Blickstein and his finance team had already begun to analyze the options. Managing Cash. Home Run Media’s Turning Point. He wanted out. Making the Decision.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

This typically holds true for the highest-ranking and most dynamic slices of industry, whether financial services, professional sports, health care or high tech. Healthy conversations around clawbacks are as important to risk-management and employee morale as well-designed incentive-based compensation programs and a generous bonus pool.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

  Perhaps there is a third interpretation, one that would indicate that the advertising gurus over at Audi are geniuses because they managed to inflame a controversial subject to the point where a blogger would waste some of his precious time writing to his 3 loyal readers about a commercial! 

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Rather than incremental change, they wanted a true paradigm shift, so the group tapped me as Machine Shop’s Executive Vice President. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. I met the band at this inflection point. We also looked beyond music for insights.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. Rogier Maes, the CEO of Contect, wrapped up his year-beginning speech to all the company’s employees.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction? Probably the same as mine - not so good. Coaching is one of the fastest growing professions on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? Our bottom-up view was markedly less optimistic than the top-down story that the company’s management team had painted.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Consider where you went wrong in your last search and don’t be afraid to ask hard questions of prospective employers — questions like what success looks like at the company and how managers handle challenges. But she was hurt and frustrated when her managers told her she wasn’t right for the available role.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data. As a successful manager today, you must be able to make sense of all this information.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Whether you’re a mentor to a medical resident or marketing manager, the same principles apply. We offer here an informal set of guidelines for good mentorship — a playbook, if you will, for a game that is very much a team sport. Rather than being apologetic, Sam criticized the manager for cutting him loose.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

The politics of office life seldom fail to flummox and frustrate the top female executives my partners and I coach and train. In 2013, we conducted a number of interviews and surveyed 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings. Get yourself an agent. The problem?

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