Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: Learn an organization’s culture before working with or for it. Lesson: Moral Hazard.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue,” he adds. And why the relationship that executives and leaders have with the sales organization is among the most important elements of growth leadership. The Growth Leader reveals how top executives create profitable growth through the intersection of strategy, leadership, and sales.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

. “Seizing control” had nothing to do with power or politics. It was all about learning to lead courageously when others were not, and to do the right thing for the business. What Gail would do next made all the difference too. Do you have a strong implementation plan?”. “Is Gail knew we knew that.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2022 that you will want to check out: Ten Life Lessons Learned & Reinforced From A Year Well Lived by @artpetty. The Law of Slow Leaks - Why Important Things Fail and What We Can Do About It by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr. Why Leaders Must Learn to Forgive and Forget via @Entrepreneur.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 9, 2022

Learn how to take control of your business and future so that you can not only meet but exceed your expectations and can be proud of your accomplishments. Your finances also play an important role in your business and the amount of success you experience. Continue Learning & Developing Your Skills.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Shamis: One of the most gratifying experiences in writing a leadership book is the introspection youallow yourself in the process. Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. And in a competitive marketplace, it cost us dearly.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 19, 2023

When you’re leading through change, help your team recognize the behaviors they are already doing that are making such a positive difference. In the video, I describe a time-tested tool, Kurt Lewin’s Force field analysis that we use quite frequently in our leadership programs. Get curious about the possibilities.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Human resource leadership. Meaning, the bad hackers don’t care if you are required to comply with a policy or law, nor do they care about your budget or resources. Constantly learns and stays abreast of emerging security trends, while transcending learning to the employees, organization or partners. Breach mitigation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Guest post from Ron Schutz : Confidence is my #1 trait for leadership as an entrepreneur. A simple reality could be, do people respect you and seek out your opinion or do they avoid you as much as possible? If you do not know where you are going, how will you know when you get there? Prideful people turn others off.

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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. If you can’t learn you can’t thrive.) What should we be doing now to insure we have a future? How do we create the future while managing the present? Actions have consequences and continuity of character matters.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

Adam Bryant has put together a great leadership companion with Quick and Nimble. There’s great advice on a wide range of leadership issues from Why Culture Matters to Alone at the Top. At the end of the day, if the thirteen thousand people on the front lines don’t understand what you’re trying to do, forget it.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 19, 2022

I was especially fascinated to learn about the difficulties Dickens had in publishing what he called “his Ghostly little book” to “haunt their homes pleasantly.” Here are my top five life and leadership lessons from Scrooge: 1. Life and Leadership Are Habit Forming. Reflection and Renewal.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2017

Learn from the Past. Instead of taking a step back to see what I could have learned from others who went before me, I plunged right into the task. Hikers learn to reserve judgment about others. Walking across a country sounded like a crazy thing to do before I did it. Think About the Future.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® methodology is a “50 – 50 model.” It has been in active use for over 50 years, and it was created approximately 50 years after the discipline of organizational behavior and leadership development began. Leadership is joined at the hip with achievement (goals; tasks; desired outcomes; targeted results).

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2023

Women’s leadership programs have been a crucial topic in recent years, with much discourse over their effectiveness in the workplace. On one hand, women-focused programs provide the skills, community support and resources women need to succeed in leadership roles.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 12-Week MBA offers an alternative way to learn business essentials by focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as both a manager and a business leader. Billhardt and Kracklauer : Learning is fundamentally a social activity. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

M aking any progress, process transformation or change across American communities and throughout the global business communities as usual is always hard and usually requires a significant investment of resources – people, finance and effort. Embrace a do it now philosophy; learn to be a better you because everybody else is taken.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2020

“Leadership comes from a place that troubles your heart.”. believed he could do something to eliminate needless blindness. Here’s the critical leadership lesson: Dr. V listened to his heart. Only when that prompted him to do something about a critical problem, did his brain kick into gear. What might you need to learn?

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

This 1954 movie brought the truly timeless and consequential components of leadership into focus for me. Emotion Is Integral to Quality Leadership. Overcome the fear of failure so you can do the right thing rather than the thing you believe others expect you to do. Guest post by Andrew Cravenho. Self-Confidence.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

Blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, 3D printing, and robotics are among the most important technologies of today’s rapidly changing world. Nonetheless, these changes are everything but easy to implement because they challenge traditional ways of thinking and doing business.

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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. Plenty of core competencies will remain essential skills for leaders in the future. Coaching ability.

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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. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. On with the interview. billion in the last 5 years). billion in the last 5 years).

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It took a global pandemic to shake open executive minds to the possibility of better ways of doing office work. Why do we work in offices at all? Finance and development providers should be rewarded for sustainably managing what exists already, rather than pursuing new ventures. We can now do most office work without offices.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In today’ post I’ll share my thoughts on the value of learning to become a humble leader… It’s been said that life is a long lesson in humility. As a leader, the sooner you come to grips with your humility the better leader you’ll become.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Delve into Richard's personal leadership journeys, including his methods for becoming effective leaders and inspiring others to do the same. Videos and Webinars] [Flexibility] Managing Change Learn about the change management process and ways to meet the challenge of leading people in turbulent times. In this digital event.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I asked him, “What are you doing to celebrate failures?” We then looked at some fun ways that corporate leaders have learned to take their failures and celebrate them. In doing so, they help their most creative people to develop exciting new ideas. This creates a culture of trying out new ideas and learning from the results.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

In The Talent Masters , Bill Conaty and Ram Charan explain how to do it. That leads us to Conaty and Charan’s first principle of the talent masters: The leadership team understands that the top priority for the future is developing the talent that will get it there. Continuous learning and improvement. People deliver numbers.

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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). What do I mean?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. In today’s post I’ll share 6 leadership characteristics that require zero talent or skill.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

T HE BOTTOM LINE is that there is no “good leadership” without ethical thinking. The thinking that powers leadership choices must be grounded in ethical values or the impact on important constituents will be overlooked. Even non-profits have to carefully manage finances and raise funds using ethical practices.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 24, 2019

After some lengthy interviews with each director and extensive desk research on the business finances, operations, and history, I introduced the notion to them last week that their business was grounded, barely standing still, and as far from a legacy company as they might get. Some family members can sell cars; others do not want to do that.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

“Leadership is not about a title or a designation. Learning to think like executives, understand their vision, and articulate ideas with confidence are key aspects of gaining influence with them. When the sales department believes in what the company is doing, it will convey that enthusiasm to customers or clients.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

It is important for executives to learn to apply focused leverage to a limited number of highest and best use activities rather than to continually shift gears between multiple initiatives. This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MAY 20, 2013

So how are today’s organizations and institutions doing? ” According to Peter Block, author of the seminal bestseller Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest , “A few companies like Harley-Davidson and some Silicon Valley companies like AES are doing it differently. But most still just give it lip-service.”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The finance person’s priority is budgets and profit/loss statements. But a leadership team’s members need to own responsibility for the whole business, not just their individual pieces of it. His leadership team identified customer service as the senior leadership team’s—and therefore the division’s—top priority.

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