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.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Leaders need to understand that being authentically humble humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence & loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. While hubris can be a needed trait to call upon at times, to rely solely upon it as the foundation of your leadership style just doesn’t work.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 22, 2016

My client, Seventh Generation, recently messed up—then handled it so beautifully that I now use them as the ultimate example of how to make a mistake, apologize, and move forward successfully. It’s a win-win for consumer and company alike—one that’s hugely dependent on customer loyalty. But that was about to change.

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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. They are the ones who have earned the trust, loyalty and respect of their co-workers. Identifying leaders?

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

That’s one reason I was interested to talk with Leo Tilman and General Charles Jacoby, who co-wrote a new book, Agility: How to Navigate the Unknown and Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption. and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. Leadership Practices to Watch. Northern Command. ” -Tilman, Jacoby.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It was a simple foot race, but what I witnessed in the final minutes taught me a life-lesson about leadership and culture. Actually, I think it’s in their culture and in their leadership. Following the stock market crash of 2008, finances were shaky, and Chapman was under heavy pressure to start laying people off.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 26, 2010

While hubris can be a needed trait to call upon at times, to rely solely upon it as the foundation of your leadership style just doesn’t work. They were able to command greater loyalty and respect from peers and subordinates alike with less bravado and more humility and discernment. I think not.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2019

No matter what your reason is for starting your own business, you’ve got to figure out how to fund your business. Unless you’ve got a nice nest egg and are ready to part with it, you probably need to learn how to get a business loan. The Simple Truth About How to Get a Business Loan. Look at Your Lender Options.

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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

MAY 5, 2011

In today’s post I share my thoughts on how to develop a sound pricing strategy… While the topic of pricing is certainly not rocket science, it has indeed been a thorn in the side of business people since the dawn of commerce.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

This isn’t rocket science, rather it’s just plain-old, good leadership. Following are five representative tips that will help you recognize the need for a reengineering initiative: Unusual declines in revenue, margin, market-share, customer loyalty, or brand equity. The inability to recruit or retain tier-one talent.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

" Thanks again for your contribution to the leadership community. the janitor, night watchman, leadership team, etc., Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Geoff Snyder Great post Mike, very true. It goes back to what a wise man once told me: "We were give two ears and one mouth for a reason." one mouth.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 28, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Five Minutes – a Key to Successful Time Management by Kevin Eikenberry on January 28, 2011 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning , Manage Projects , Personal Development Every leader I talk to tells me they are busy.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I believe that it can actually be both, but that decision lies solely with the employer, and is not really up to the employee no matter how much they might feel it is. Happy Holidays.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Delighting customers doesn’t build loyalty. I spend lots of time talking to ppl about how to be a yes – and it’s really important in conversations with kids. Happy clients that go wild about you because of the surprising way you serve their needs. Related posts: Are Your Client Delight Efforts Misplaced? The first reaction.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 16, 2010

Unfortunately, that's not how it works.    As Orrin Woodward and I wrote in Launching a Leadership Revolution, leading involves much more than that. Leadership is the art of influencing other people to high performance. Figure out how to add more value to more people with everything you do.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

who serve as inspiration to us all by the daily difference their leadership makes in our lives. You can nominate your unsung hero by leaving a comment explaning how their example of leadership touches the lives of others. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

These 10 principles of trust when employed consistently to your entire organization without bias will build a bridge of loyalty that will stand against the elements. The book will expose you to the principles of relational leadership and show you how the principles when applied in tandem, can produce substantial results.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

Here’s the background of how to succeed as a local business networker from arguably the toughest sales category on the planet: insurance. I started in the insurance business in 1993 as a fresh graduate from East Carolina with a finance degree. How to hire, fire, train, and market business. Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Here's a post that I wrote for SmartBlog on Leadership , published 10/25: The majority of popular leadership advice falls into one of two categories: 1. Leadership for the small-business owner (which usually deal with entrepreneurialism, sales, financing, and other basic management and business skills).

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. Brad's comment illustrates an important truth about succeeding to the executive level.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

While this sounds simple enough at face value, I have consistently found that one of the most often overlooked leadership attributes is that of a positive attitude. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? The simple answer is that you can’t…it just won’t work.

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 10, 2010

We might confide that our marriage is failing, or discuss private, sensitive details about our finances with such a friend. Fifth Floor relationships–the Penthouse of relationships–go well beyond anything discussed in Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends & Influence People. But how do you do it, you might ask.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

After reviewing all the comments, I decided to talk on how to lead effectively when dealing with the collision of cross generational cultures within an organizational setting. So, if as a leader your curious about how successfully integrate Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y then this video is for you.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In the business world, focusing strictly on a digital experience will eliminate customer loyalty and emotional connection to a brand. Even in this digital age, personal relationships are critical to building trust and loyalty with customers. 8, 2019), he shows readers how to attain meaningful, lasting relationships with customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

And when I started the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project a few years later, I got some strange looks, for it was odd to be a man talking about work and family at a business school known mainly for its strength in finance. teaching employees how to generate support from others. investing in what employees do outside of work.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Prepare in advance to withstand inevitable disappointments: have creative distractions, friends who know how to soothe, a planned break, and a solid plan B. Loyalty is paid for one way or another.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead leadership development for LinkedIn. Ritz Carlton and Zappos follow a similar model.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In the following months, the CMO began to look for opportunities where her team could proactively step “into the gap” — to take a leadership role on an opportunity that none of the other functions picked up. The goal was to get feedback and strengthen the thinking to maximize the potential impact on growth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The question is how to equip employees with the skills to handle complexities such as creating innovative solutions to emergent problems, understanding new markets, and pushing back on the "status quo." How to Woo Talent From the For-Profit World. However, the core skills they need are different.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

We must ask how to fulfill the very real needs of communities in ways that are relevant to our business, take advantage of our strengths while being cost-effective and, yes, potentially profitable. Values increasingly drive consumer and employee loyalties. Writing checks for charity, for example, won't cut it. We must go deeper.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. The superconsumer effect is realized in more loyalty, lower turnover for United and in the industry.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Value loyalty and fidelity. He serves these firms with a range of accounting and consulting expertise that includes merger and acquisition advisory services, finance and business consulting, tax and estate planning, business negotiations, executive compensation, litigation settlements, and other management advisory services.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

A winery I knew from its beginning kept the original group longer than the business could afford, and loyalty got in the way of bringing in experienced people "above" the people who felt they were founders and thus privileged to call the shots. Raise a glass to courageous leaders willing to tell people they must either grow or go.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

At its core, marketing is about engaging with customers, meeting their needs, solving their problems, sparking their passion, earning their trust, and cementing their loyalty. Leadership : There are a number of ways to get in trouble here…poor leadership, no leadership, or fractionalized leadership can all be quite problematic.

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