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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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Afterall, we got this far in our careers by following our instincts, practicing what we learned, and applying appropriate business strategies. Let’s call this methodology what it is: a recipe for leadership. So, we rely on the leadership recipe. This “formula for leadership” approach occurs at all levels.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 10, 2020

Before you pull the trigger on sending your team members home to work virtually, I suggest you formulate a thoughtful strategy. Incorporate these four areas in your strategy to have team members work virtually: Clarity —Your team needs clear direction about the expectations and responsibilities of working remotely.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Leadership and mentoring go hand-in-hand. If you accept this premise as correct, then why is it that so many in positions of leadership fall woefully short in successfully transferring the benefits of their wisdom and experience to others? Walk the Talk : Who is your mentor?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. What’s interesting to me is most people actually form their perceptions in a very similar fashion. They take inputs (information), process them through a variety of filters (experience, emotions, expectations, moral and philosophical positions, etc.),

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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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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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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

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. While some companies talk a good game with regard to competitive strategy, in my experience very few businesses actually address the issue in adequate fashion. Competitive innovations in process, management, talent, pricing, efficiency, etc.

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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 13, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. There are simply no words that can do justice to the example of servant leadership epitomized by Command Chief Master Sergeant James Hotaling. Jim’s answers to my questions are nothing short of a leadership manifesto. James Hotaling : See the above answer.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 20, 2012

As this week marks the official start of Spring for most northern countries, I wanted to take the opportunity to revisit an idea I wrote about sometime ago about a seasonal event in these parts and the lessons we can glean from it on leadership and organizational success.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 29, 2012

At those moments there’s a natural tendency to immediately start forging ahead – after all, YOU are all up to speed on the vision, the plan, and now, the strategies and tactics that will be needed to get to the mountaintop. Alignment is not a leadership assumption , as the impatient parts of our brain may love to think.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . 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. Thoughts?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 10, 2022

Without a clear knowledge, understanding, and practical know-how of business processes and functions, it will be nigh on impossible to start your own business. Teamwork/leadership. One of the top skills required by all those starting a business is leadership and teamwork. Technology.

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The Empowered Buisness

DECEMBER 8, 2015

This article provides you with 3 critical leadership steps for transitioning from the end of this year to 2016. Let’s first address what are transitions. Why Are They Important to Leadership Growth? Transitions are a natural important part of leadership growth, whether you realize it or not. What Are Transitions?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. Okay, my question is this: What constitutes best practices in this situation?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2020

As a result, there is a real-time ability to address all customer demands without going through a complicated, costly, or time-consuming process. Long gone are the days when e-commerce strategy meant focusing only on SEO. Direct Sources. Direct has gone from 75% to 9% over the last ten years, while e-commerce has been growing 15-25%.”

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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. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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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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Mark Sanborn

MARCH 15, 2023

Through this follow-up strategy, Sarah was able to convert many of these leads into paying customers. This could include scheduling a follow-up meeting, providing additional information or resources, or agreeing on a timeline for the next steps in the sales process. Send a Thank-You.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Ideas in and of themselves do not constitute a philosophy, principle, or strategy. However while most anyone can cobble together a high level strategic plan, very few can author a strategy that can be successfully implemented. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 20, 2020

In some form or fashion those that occupy positions of visible formal authority in organizations need to be able to say and do the right things — NOW ! Leadership: What you do when you (and pretty much everybody around you) have no idea. Without question, this is a time for leadership! Another formidable challenge is time.

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The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

Even though I did strategy development for billion dollar corporations in the early days of my business 30 years ago, I had no idea that there were 3 different approaches to strategic planning. Another may be confusion over the strategic planning process itself. Decisions are made often in a top-down, hierarchical fashion.

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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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Six Disciplines

MARCH 6, 2015

Poorly Understood Strategy. While most organizations have a strategy, most people do not understand it. One research report revelad that 85% of leadership teams spend less than 1 hour a month discussing strategy. The barrier isn''t usually the strategy itself -- 90% of strategies fail due to execution.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

With this in mind, I want to share three strategies leaders can use to ensure that their words and actions don’t inadvertently activate these neurological responses that can limit your team’s creativity and willingness to collaborate with others in order to achieve your organization’s shared goals.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. While I rarely meet a CEO who is completely comfortable with turning the hiring process over to HR, most of them still seem to acquiesce and do exactly that…&# Who should do the hiring? &# is a question that more CEOs should spend time pondering. Put simply; talent matters.

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Leading with Trust

APRIL 18, 2023

Monitoring employees in some form or fashion has occurred for decades—think GPS trackers in trucks, timecards, swipe badges, CCTV, regulating web browsing—but some of today’s methods border on outright distrust of remote workers. Extending our trust to someone makes us vulnerable to their actions.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 9, 2012

A leader’s ability to create a collaborative environment through open communication and mutual understanding is undoubtedly becoming a critical leadership skill in today’s faster-paced, increasingly interconnected world. But how do you establish and maintain team harmony if those team dynamics are in constant flux?

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HR Digest

JULY 11, 2019

If you are a job seeker who wants to gain a creative leadership position, you want to pick action verbs that best describe your leadership and management skills. CREATIVE LEADERSHIP. One of the most important rules for using action verbs is to choose them based on the jobs you’re applying to. Emphasized. Established. Overhauled.

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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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Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Our choice is to manage this ongoing process and improve the things that can be improved, or ignore the process and decay. Which Comes First: Process or Behavior? Many leaders address the change challenge in a very clinical fashion, going first for the process, the policy or the procedure.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. We’ve all watched many a blog launch in prolific fashion only to die a slow public death weeks or months down the road. Bottom line; process what you’ve read here and in other places, then incorporate what you deem to be valid into a blogging strategy that will work for you.

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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. . Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Northern Command.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 1, 2016

Bilging takes place in several forms and fashions some of which include: publically airing out the shortcoming of a teammate. You just finished reading Leadership Lessons from the United States Naval Academy - Don’t Bilge Your Teammates ! Bilging your teammate. How do people bilge their teammates? blaming others for team shortfalls.

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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. 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.

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