N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

It is now expected that a CMO strikes a harmony between pioneering innovation and maintaining commercial acumen, a balance intrinsic to the realization of substantial business growth. However, integrating creative innovation within a broader business strategy does not equate to an effortlessly navigable journey.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

While the concept of thought leadership is well established among individuals, it is less so among organizations, which is a gap a recent study from INSEAD attempts to plug. The researchers first gathered data on follower counts and company revenue to evaluate the link between opinion leadership and business success.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

Diverse Industry Experience : With Minneapolis’ varied economic landscape, these coaches offer a breadth of knowledge across sectors like healthcare and finance, crucial for navigating different industries. Fostering Innovation : Encouraging out-of-the-box thinking, these coaches help entrepreneurs push beyond traditional boundaries.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

Diverse Industry Experience : With Minneapolis’ varied economic landscape, these coaches offer a breadth of knowledge across sectors like healthcare and finance, crucial for navigating different industries. Fostering Innovation : Encouraging out-of-the-box thinking, these coaches help entrepreneurs push beyond traditional boundaries.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 19, 2023

In the video, I describe a time-tested tool, Kurt Lewin’s Force field analysis that we use quite frequently in our leadership programs. Look for people on your team (including support team members like HR, Finance, and project managers) who really understand what you’re doing. Get curious about the possibilities.

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 14, 2020

While AI applications can do a lot of things more efficiently than humans, like answering basic questions or guiding an employee through a self-directed training module, motivating and guiding people’s development isn’t one of them. Only people have the skills to lead others. Specialized areas of expertise. Ingenuity.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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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 innovating and breaking-down barriers. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. From a list of 13 leadership competencies for leading the function, here are the Top 5 that emerged: Executive communication.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Today’s guest post by Kevin Eikenberry ( @kevineikenberry ) really resonates with me because it’s chalk full of leadership perspective. Kevin also hosts the Best of Leadership Blogs 2010 contest of which this blog is a nominee (if you haven’t voted yet, today is the last day for voting). Most would call it work.

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

While AI applications can do a lot of things more efficiently than humans, like answering basic questions or guiding an employee through a self-directed training module, motivating and guiding people’s development isn’t one of them. Only people have the skills to lead others. Specialized areas of expertise. Ingenuity.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I really appreciate Pete’s insights into the necessity of self-leadership and his honesty in admitting that this is his own area of struggle. His leadership is remarkable! I think the most important one, however, was his comment on 'Self Leadership' I agree 100%. Thanks so much for your comment Bridget.

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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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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

JULY 11, 2010

A CEO’s ability to perform effectively is so closely tied to their ability to form a clearly articulated vision, evangelize the vision and then to execute on their vision, that no real discussion on executive leadership should take place without an emphasis on vision. learning » Leadership thinking [.] link] Principal (le?)

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2020

If you can continually pinpoint the weaknesses of your company and your leadership skills, then you’ll be able to continually develop solutions which improve your business. Learn about the mistakes being made by you and your competitors so you can develop innovative new ideas to win over potential customers in your market.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. EY is known for its focus on innovation.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Identify what could have gone wrong with the leadership team. It involves reassessing your business operations, starting with leadership. You may discover that some poor leadership decisions may have been responsible for your establishment doldrums. The first is to research online training packages which are less costly.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Informal training of teams and groups. Application and development outside the classroom and structured training time. For years the team emailed and bugged people, sharing data on who was NOT getting the budget reports to finance. People and teams test the change on their own and find what works.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The finance team in a Health Care Company. The finance team in groups of 3 flip charted those responses. We discussed who is getting expenses and reports in on time AND specifically how the finance people made that happen. I want you to focus on seeing the person who you need the finance information from as a cooperator.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

Here, we go beyond the public debate on how to re-distribute limited resources and ask how the levy system could support a meaningful expansion of employer-led training across the UK. Open University's 2023 Business Barometer Declining employer investment: Despite the importance of training, employer investment in skills has been decreasing.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

Here, we go beyond the public debate on how to re-distribute limited resources and ask how the levy system could support a meaningful expansion of employer-led training across the UK. Open University's 2023 Business Barometer Declining employer investment: Despite the importance of training, employer investment in skills has been decreasing.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays. While this coming weekend simply signifies a long awaited prelude to summer for some, it is much more than that for me.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2022

Research from Harvard Business School reminds us, however, that precious few doctors receive any kind of leadership or management training, so may be unsuited to the task. A remedy for this, you might imagine, is for medics to graduate into managerial roles, and therefore bring their clinical expertise to the management teams.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2019. Transforming Legacy Organizations : Turn your Established Business into an Innovation Champion to Win the Future by Kris Østergaard. The truth is innovation initiatives of legacy organizations have far better chances of succeeding.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2019

In fear-based cultures, the educational backgrounds of C-suite leaders can disproportionately favor finance and accounting, which causes organizations to be hyper-analytical and risk-averse. When fear-based leadership reigns, work environments turn toxic, permeated by anxiety and urgency. Everything Is Needed Yesterday.

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HR Digest

JUNE 18, 2023

The HR of the future needs to be more innovative and evolved to manage the future workforce. As the workforce becomes more diverse, diversity and inclusion trainings may become a part of HR management. Future HR jobs will necessitate those in charge to train employees on developing standards.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2022

Nobody has ever created a perfect company, nor trained a perfect employee. She is a dynamic and empathetic leader who has succeeded by putting people first in the process of transformational leadership. Her dual-role leadership made a tremendous impact on strategy and performance. ” Get Up if you Fall Down.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 4, 2022

When someone moves into leadership, they typically have more responsibility. Learning how to understand and manage their finances made people less anxious. Innovation. Whether done alone or with others, innovation is figuring out new ways to do old things or new ways to do new things. ” and challenge the answer.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Have a great Thanksgiving Sir.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

It has spread to pandemic proportions, crossing boarders and cultures, such that you’d be hard pressed to actually find someone under the age of 40 who hasn’t had substantial amounts of “diversity training&#. OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 12, 2021

A recent working paper from Stanford highlights this growth in compassionate leadership at a time when over 22 million jobs have vanished in the United States alone. Indeed, if firms with a weak commitment to worker welfare had a strong balance sheet, they were just as likely to lay off staff as firms with weak finances.

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HR Digest

MAY 23, 2023

Also, college courses often include personal finance education, which can provide students with the knowledge and skills to manage their finances effectively, including budgeting, saving, investing, and managing debt. Having a stable job can lead to greater job satisfaction, as employees feel more secure in their position.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

Pat Teague, who leads USAA’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the company’s leadership development programs that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. USAA takes great pride in its leadership development programs. How are you coping?

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. The finance department is your business foundation so you need it to be one that you can trust. The research suggests that sales are highest when the team is highly coachable and under transformational leadership.

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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., In this age of instant communication, everyone seems to be in such a rush to communicate what’s on their mind that they fail to realize the value of everything that can be gleaned from the minds of others.

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HR Digest

MARCH 9, 2020

Kaplan Professionals, an HR firm that assesses, designs and implements innovative learning solutions, conducted a three-year extended Situational Judgement Assessments of 4,500 employees at global tech firms and identified five key workplace findings. SJTs tests measure hidden capabilities and training impacts.

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