N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the value of loyalty as it relates to leadership. If relationships are the currency of leadership, it is important for leaders to note that loyalty serves as the cornerstone of any healthy relationship. Leadership and loyalty go hand-in-hand.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

A leader’s view on competition will not only reveal a lot about their beliefs on current and future market trends, but also on innovation, branding, talent management, supply chain issues, constituency management, capital markets, and customer facing. Do your R&D and innovation programs evaluate the competitive landscape?

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

To do that, we had to lean into a “brand renegade” mindset and apply it to our daily operations. Learn more at www.clubtattoo.com. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. How it’s always been done” was never our standard. There is something for everyone at Club Tattoo!

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

David asked Becky, “How come no one ever talks about love as a leadership competency?&# While l ove and leadership are certainly two words you don’t often hear in the same sentence, I can assure you that rarely does great leadership exist without love being present and practiced. I think it’s a great question.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, January 28, 2011 5 Leadership Styles that Work A guest post by Art Gould Recipes for Success: 5 Different Leadership Styles That All Work! But when you look more closely and study their leadership styles, you tend to notice more differences than similarities.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

Furthermore, you are likely just as familiar with my position that a static business, which doesn’t constantly innovate around the changing needs of the marketplace is the same thing as a dying business. From my perspective, I can’t imagine not integrating services throughout the talent management lifecycle.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In the realm of knowledge work, rookies tend to outperform those with experience, especially when it comes to innovation and speed. While rookies are more capable than we might think, they still need leadership and guidance. They insisted that there was no room for learning when someone is flatlining on the operating table.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors? And what are your strategic goals?

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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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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 7, 2023

One key finding of the study is that CEOs with high levels of self-assessment (or CSE) pursue risks in a differential fashion that depends on their particular market’s characteristics,” the researchers explain. By contrast, when these bosses operate in environments that are not dynamic, they’re more likely to follow the pack.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

That said, it is nonetheless safe to say that CEOs who find a way to focus their efforts on values, vision, mission, strategy, team building, innovation, networking, and branding will be the CEOs who achieve the highest and most sustainable levels of success.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 3, 2012

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: The Top 5 Leadership Mistakes: which one would your team members say you make? And for innovative ideas on moving away from the traditional performance review feedback, read an article from Daniel Pink: [link]. Ineffective Feedback.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Along the way, the leaders of these organizations turned their backs on the tenets of great branding, defined as carving out unique brand positions and adding to that strategic advantage with innovations that thrill customers. Maybe it’s because the leaders of these enterprises didn’t believe they could succeed the old fashioned way.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In the same fashion that being the source of gossip is destructive, so is furthering the damage by ratcheting up the rhetoric by participating in gossip. Let me cut right to the chase – real leaders don’t participate in gossip, and likewise they don’t tolerate gossip from others. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Be Innovative and engaging, not flat and uninspired – countless management consultants employ the same old, tired planning processes that generate little interest or energy. We believe company culture is something that should be designed in a deliberate fashion as a part of any strategic planning program.

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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

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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Lead Change Blog

JULY 19, 2017

With Mother’s Day approaching, my wife and I treated my mother to lunch at an old-fashioned barbeque restaurant in a nearby town that sported one traffic light, two gas stations, and five churches. . Steve, take this money to the CVS at the end of the block and buy us a big battery operated wall clock to put on the wall right there.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Thanks in advance… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] Experience, while a great teacher, can nonetheless result in a very costly education that rarely occurs in a timely fashion. learning » Leadership thinking [.] managing the CEO-Board relationship [.]

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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

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. If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best?

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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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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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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Leadership Practices to Watch. Northern Command.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. It’s more than simply clumsy leadership. It will lose the license to operate from key stakeholders. They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. We all know that.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Let me explain.

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CO2

AUGUST 13, 2010

Often when you read leadership books, blogs, or journals, you will be inundated with views on how leaders build trust. Consistency in others is demonstrated by a strong track record of success and acting in a predictable fashion. How will this inconsistency reflect on your leadership? Are you driving for that expectation?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. But design thinking can also be applied to other business-related challenges such as devising entrepreneurial practice models, expanding professional services, operations, and even setting fees or pricing plans.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

If that is your gift – leverage email, texts, etc to extend it, but not to replace the ‘old fashioned way’ Nice thought this morning Mary Jo. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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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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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Checklists are excellent guides for others to perform the same activity in a consistent fashion with little instructions. Checklist standardize the operations and serve as great reminder to get the most crucial activities done. People get blinded so much by checklist that they stop innovating, experimenting and learning.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Meaningful innovation requires sponsorship. At its core, Penrose's idea is the reason innovation requires sponsorship. Without the foresight and intervention of senior leadership, the firm will simply concentrate on the opportunities that it was destined to concentrate on. It always has.

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