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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have witnessed otherwise savvy executives place the need for emotional security and superiority ahead of achieving their mission (not that they always understood this at the time). Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success.

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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments , with 80.7% of executives characterizing their big data investments as “successful.”

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Guidance is Good, Overpriced Shares a Disaster

Harvard Business Review

And I couldn't resist following up with an email Q&A: Justin Fox: A lot of smart people have been saying for a while now that public-company executives should put less time and effort into dealing with Wall Street. JF: But shouldn't executives be running their companies, not dealing with investors all the time? Why's that?

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Executives may be playing favorites with one way to approach a particular opportunity, or it may be hard to envision how a tiny customer base can get big. Start with a survey.

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How to Improve Your Sales Skills, Even If You’re Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business Review

.” Scott Edinger, the founder of Edinger Consulting Group and the author of The Hidden Leader , says that the resistance to sales stems from an “antiquated idea that selling is pushing people to buy something they don’t want, don’t need, or can’t afford.” And that is part and parcel of professional life.

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Become Businessperson of the Year

Harvard Business Review

They resist putting the cart of scale before the horse of competence. We fully expect that the 2-in-1 mentality — and accompanying capabilities — will become part and parcel of what distinguishes the most successful leaders of tomorrow.

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