N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : I don’t specifically work in the area of strategy or leadership, but my work often affects those areas as what I do is help people change behavior. Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 30, 2018

With one change, you can transform meetings from having low-to-no engagement with ambiguous outcomes into fully transparent, productive collaborations. When I suggest making a clear statement of intent, I don’t mean open your next meeting with, “Hello folks, today we are here to talk about the new product launch.”

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. 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. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2019

This isn’t a marketing issue, this is a business-wide issue, involving every facet of the organisation, hence leadership being so important. Companies have to be consistent in their behaviour, from top to bottom, and right along the supply chain, from the ‘first hand of production to the final hand of the consumer’.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The most productive, high-performance organizations have the ability to deliver fairly complex solutions, and complete difficult tasks at the lowest levels within their organization.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Something as simple as a 360 Review, or as complex as a deep psychological profile (both with weighted emphasis on leadership aptitude) can point out an individual’s leadership capabilities.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

In other words, make the meeting meaningful, productive, and if possible enjoyable. Thanks in advance… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] If your board members dread attending your meeting, they will be predisposed to show up with a bad attitude.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. The first key in understanding how to make great decisions is learning how to synthesize the overwhelming amount incoming information leaders must deal with on a daily basis, while making the best decisions possible in a timely fashion.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” While inherently obvious, it should not go unnoticed that the use of the word no is 100% negative.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’re still on the fence, I would request you try and answer the following question: If you can engage those with whom you conduct business, or otherwise desire to interact with in a meaningful and value added fashion why wouldn’t you do so? Thoughts? Also, It seems like a ton of time needs to be devoted to it all.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . Leadership Practices to Watch. What are a few leadership behaviors that destroy organizations by making them less agile? Northern Command. ” -Tilman, Jacoby.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Salinger, famous for “Catcher in the Rye” passed away this year, as did the talented fashion designer Alexander McQueen. About the author Lena Rizkallah of Mosaic Consulting is an attorney who focuses on legislative developments, tax and fiscal policy, and advanced strategies for investment and retirement planning and products.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Figure out what is sucking up your time preventing you from being productive and profitable. Then, look for venues in which you can expand your circle with connections that complement your professional life in the same fashion. Authentic Leadership I was recently at the Pa. Governor’s Conference for Women.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. Here's link to a post of mine a couple of years ago: Dan Nigro, Rick Rescorla and the Leadership Lessons of 9/11 [link]. We owe deep debts of honor to so many people for their service on that horrendous day, and in the years afterward.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. This is great way to stifle innovation without exploring extensions to existing product lines. It must be actionable through tactical implementation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

If biology flows downhill, shouldn’t society as well—especially when society will contain more older people than ever before, while becoming more dependent than ever on the productivity of a relatively smaller cohort of young people? Age-integrating education is another promising frontier.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Successful established companies are focused on increasing scale and are often better at scaling proof of concepts than creating new products from scratch.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers. When multiple players compete for the same space, revenues indicate the progress towards achieving market leadership that creates the dominant protocol for industry partners, suppliers, and customers. (In

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

In a perfect world you would build relationships with the largest possible universe of targeted constituents where you can productively engage and contribute. Good luck [link] mikemyatt Hi Robbie: Well said…with leadership that has a world view like yours there is little doubt as to why you've achieved such success.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Their business school education and their initial experience within narrower company functions ( e.g., marketing, manufacturing, finance) may leave them unprepared. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). A needed a pproach.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the past three years, I conducted a research project on men, masculinity, and fashion. It’s more common in the arts and fashion industries, but men also choose to dress fabulously in professional organizations. The closet in Mark’s bedroom offers a glimpse into his three-decade career in finance. ” Olu.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. On the other hand, analysts who are too deeply embedded in business functions tend to be biased toward the status quo or leadership’s thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Technology and new concepts of living, as well as progressive notions of urbanization, industrial capitalism, consumerism, ecotourism, and renewable systems, could meld to fashion a new shared-growth paradigm.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Is it because everything valuable in regard to leadership has already been discovered? I believe our world is suffering greatly due to a lack of leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. While leadership doesn’t require being perfect, it does require doing what is needed and necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. Find Common Language: Designers don't typically study finance, accounting, or economics so communicating to them in these business contexts usually only adds to confusion.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Nabob survived near-bankruptcy in the ’70s by making the tough decision to streamline its business and become a specialist (versus the generalist it was originally set up to be, once carrying a myriad of product lines from coffee to jams to spices). It actually used to play in 12 different product categories.

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