N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

While my personal practice is focused on providing leadership advice and counsel to Fortune 500 CEOs, as the senior operating executive at our firm I also have oversight responsibility for our talent management practice. From my perspective, I can’t imagine not integrating services throughout the talent management lifecycle.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2018

Even the military has morphed their ideals on leadership roles, shifting away from the highest ranked official and instead citing the individual or group who knows the mission and territory the best. Effective listening skills, make it possible to select leadership and those responsible for success.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I am proud to teach Situational Leadership ® every day. Even as 14+ million managers have gone through the program in some form or fashion, it remains a comparatively untapped resource and strategy for many of the urgent leadership challenges in our world today! Application Questions.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

With that in mind, board recruitment should be approached from the angle of purpose-driven leadership, which can drive organizations to nominate Board Directors who bring new skills and experiences to strengthen the board’s overall composition. Why Is Leading With Purpose Important to Board Recruitment?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

You’ll rarely encounter the words leadership and surrender used together in complementary fashion. Society has labeled surrender as a sign of leadership weakness, when in fact, it can be among the greatest of leadership strengths. Control is about power – not leadership. ” Thoughts?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership. Maxwell (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) In Leadershift , John C. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

These mark our leadership. If we respond in a fashion contrary to our Aspiration, we can unwittingly undermine our efforts to create the culture we’ve been dreaming of. It’s important to recognize the power of mundane moments, the seemingly trivial actions, and the ordinary encounters. These moments happen all day, every day.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 12, 2023

What To Say Next When Your Boss Gets Cranky Maybe it’s a side effect of passion, intensity, or creativity, but have you ever noticed that many high-achieving managers also have a moody dark side? The first was immaculately dressed in typical Barbie fashion, matching shirt, skirt, shoes, and pearls. Moody people are hard to work around.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

While many companies are turning to more flexible models, far too many are still being run as old-fashioned bureaucracies. Many companies can’t properly manage their resources or their people. Do what you can within your own team to make sure resources and people are well managed. The Leadership Gap.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 3, 2018

But like those old-fashioned records, you have a B side whether you want it or not. How your B side will impact your team depends on your leadership style. Leadership shouldn't be a solitary venture and neither should exploring how to manage your own strengths and weaknesses. We suggest you don't go it alone.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

Management information is that which is used to determine business direction, to make executive decisions and to set policy. Done right, your management information environment can be leveraged for competitive gain over rivals who don’t get the most out of their data. Management information should not be an afterthought.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 3, 2023

Nicholai Foss and Peter Klein suggest that complete autonomy isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be, however, and that managers can actually be incredibly useful. Flatter organizations with minimal hierarchy are fashionable at the moment, with an emphasis on empowering workers and not placing managers at the center of things.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. Maybe it’s an old fashioned management concept, but there used to be something called “professional courtesy” when it comes to situations like this. Lencioni claims your #1 team as a manager should be your manager’s team, not your own.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 19, 2011

“ Managing Up &# is a great catch phrase and an interesting concept – it’s also a practice that can get you in deep trouble rather quickly if misunderstood or misapplied. Many people would say the purpose of managing-up is to have the by-product of your efforts enhance the work of those you report to.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

Welcome to the August Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, creativity and inspiration, development, productivity, team building, and more. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided A 5-Step Training Plan to Think like a Navy SEAL.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

In today’s post I’ll look at the topic of resourcing as a key success metric for anyone in a leadership position. The essence of Leadership is not found in doing things yourself, but in teaching others how to do things better than you ever could. Leadership is about teaching, coaching, developing, and mentoring.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Let’s call this methodology what it is: a recipe for leadership. We seek these quick fixes to leadership dilemmas like we’re shopping on Amazon.com and expecting next-day delivery, especially if we’re new leaders. Perhaps it’s because as managers, we face a horde of challenges. So, we rely on the leadership recipe.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest post from John Mattone: The fundamental belief underlying Positive Performance Management (PPM) is this: Leaders and their employees must strive to make performance reviews complete, honest, and timely. The Ten Elements of Positive Performance Management. There are ten key elements of Positive Performance Management.

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

And Sean’s books, Rapid T eamwork , The 10 Commandments of Winning Teammates , and Staying Coachable are entertaining parables with powerful take-aways to improve team performance and leadership! Effective leaders and winning teammates “POINT” at the issue or behavior while still appreciating and encouraging the person!

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

These employees have to be led in a systematic fashion to ensure that all efforts are channeled towards a common goal. defined leadership as “the process of influencing people to direct their efforts towards the achievement of group goals.” Koontz Et Al. Communication. This is basically the lifeblood of any organization.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

Guest post by Mark Hopkins : The best leadership tip I ever received came from a pastor’s sermon during a non-denominational service in Yosemite Valley Chapel. He went on to explain that this kind of feedback was confrontational and would only be accepted and processed by the recipient if it was delivered in an extremely caring fashion.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

More than that, we had confidence in the idea that we were truly going to be introducing a new kind of shopping experience to the fashion-forward customer. We did it because we knew we that we were ‘in the right,’ so to speak—that we had the skills, the knowledge, and the passion necessary for opening up an online retail business.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 29, 2019

These companies find themselves managing complex organizational change, with challenges that will vary depending on the professional levels and geographic diversity of their human resources. Celebrate the small wins or milestones in a timely fashion with everyone to demonstrate progress and acknowledge their accomplishments.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. only to fail in miserable fashion. Beyond the character test, the first prerequisite for leadership is the willingness to lead.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2017

” frustration in the middle of our high-potential leadership development program. We’ve got a lot of old-fashioned ways of thinking and being around here… but you’re bigger than all that. Here are five ways to make a leadership impact before you have a team. I had a masters degree and most of a Ph.D.,

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. Superbosses : How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein Although Superbosses may differ in leadership styles, they share a playbook that leads to extraordinary success founded on making other people successful.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. What’s interesting to me is that of all the constituencies that CEOs must deal with, the relationship with a board of directors is among the easiest to manage.

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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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Leadership Freak

MAY 12, 2013

In his usual no-nonsense fashion, Jack said, “If your employees don’t know where they stand, you have no right to call yourself a manager.” It didn’t take long for the topic of candor to come up at the dinner I attended after the Chick-fil-A Leadercast. Here’s […].

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

By contrast, the characteristics of a low trust organisation are these: Managers employ a top-down, rigid approach to hierarchy. Those managers are status-orientated and use, or try to use, position power. Managers will be remote from the front line and, when present, will be seen as spying, not supporting.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 13, 2016

Groups with a high degree of connection have an assertive communication and leadership style. As a manager, Put-down Paul creates a culture of control. In the past when Silent Sally tried to speak up, her face got all red and she had a difficult time sharing her point-of-view in a concise, articulate fashion.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

“Great leadership is only found in the world of business,” my seatmate on a recent flight pompously boasted, “Certainly not in the government, churches or education where we desperately need it.”. Each of these three components is expressed in a fashion that reflects a relentless emphasis on excellence, life values and maximizing potential.

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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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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The Philosophy of Management. This note sums up the underlying philosophy of management and leadership. That, according to me, is the #1 challenge of leadership today. A focus on culture, development, and leadership can pay off in more ways than one can imagine. The key however is to know, how to earn these things.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 9, 2018

A Reel Leadership Article I recently had the opportunity to view this classic Studio Ghibli film in an actual theater! In classic Miyazaki fashion, Porco Rosso combines animation, story, and music into a touching film that leaves the viewer longing for more. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Porco Rosso. But you can’t!

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2013

An earlier post listed the 7 Principles of Leadership Development in no specific order of importance : Necessary Skilled-Knowledge. Education for Leadership. Strategy for Leadership Development. Exploring lessons learned and how an organization and I developed a leadership development process for high potential employees.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

Be disruptive in your approach and don’t fall into the trap of doing something in a particular fashion just because others do it that way – think “ next ” practices not best practices. And if outsourced, will it be done domestically or offshore, and who will manage the process? Put simply; don’t copy – create.

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