Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 21, 2020

Great leaders recognize that business success is a team sport and they cannot do it all for themselves. That is why the old paradigm of command and control structures will no longer be a successful leadership model. The Delegation-Empowerment-Shared Leadership Continuum. Howard Behar, Starbucks.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 27, 2014

A Culture of Leadership: Successful teams obsess over leadership. Every coach, player and student manager is considered a leader and they understand that they compete as a leadership team against another team of leaders. Follow me on Twitter @brianlayer.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2017

T HE AMERICA'S CUP is the world’s oldest international sporting trophy, first contested in 1851 when the schooner America crossed the Atlantic and beat 15 British yachts. Team New Zealand operates as a team. Great Teams Innovate. They made a habit of doing things differently; operating at the margins.

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LDRLB

JULY 23, 2012

The notion of business as a combination of sport and war was attributed to Emile Herzog (1885-1967), a French author who used the pen name, Andre Maurois. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success. The new economy doesn’t operate that way. Desperate times require desperate measures.

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Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s explore why leadership development is important, as well as the benefits and challenges of effective leadership development. Defining Leadership Development In simple terms, leadership development is a set of activities that equip current and future leaders with the tools they need to perform effectively in their roles.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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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. In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 1, 2018

But as an entrepreneur, all the needed skills like leadership, relationship building, etc., Life and Work Experience Everything from first jobs to playing on sports teams to boy scouts give us real life experience and skills. Finding and studying a great boss or leader is key to learning leadership skills yourself.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

If you’re not familiar with it, stand-up paddle (SUP) boarding is one of the fasting growing sports around. And the added benefit (given what I do for a living) is that stand-up paddle boarding also offers a treasure trove of leadership lessons! Failure supports innovation and improvement. And I know why. Mistakes fuel progress.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Or, it could be used poorly – just ask executives at Sports Illustrated who were recently terminated for their misuse of AI tools. Idea Generation: Struggling to come up with ideas for a team activity, product innovation, or rewards? Like any tool, AI can be used to great benefit for you and your stakeholders.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : I don’t specifically work in the area of strategy or leadership, but my work often affects those areas as what I do is help people change behavior. Mike Myatt : What’s been the most rewarding aspect of your work in the leadership field? My business has 3 primary aspects: I write, speak and coach.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 10, 2019

Guest post by Jamie Anderson and Gabor George: Truly creative leaders tap ideas from all ranks, and are typically skillful at fostering innovation. These leadership characteristics can be further enhanced by humor. They are open to diverse perspectives, and willing to take risks. His sense of humour has often been on display.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

As a kid in sports, I played my heart out, hated my opponents and cried when I lost. The late French author Andre Maurois once said, “Business is a combination of sport and war.” For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2016

With the latest edition of the Summer Olympic Games now well under way in Rio, there is naturally much interest in the outcomes of various sporting events. Within the leadership and management field, there is also much interest in discovering insights that can help us to better understand how to inspire the best in our employees.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Throw in complex organizations operating in complex markets, and you’ve really got to marvel at how it all comes together every day. In the face of all this complexity, there are four basic behaviors that leaders can adopt that will drastically improve their leadership and, by extension, the experience of those they lead.

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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.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 26, 2011

We’re constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in deep collaboration and cross pollination in order to innovate in a way others cannot. Apple’s is all about existing to make awesome products and operating under deep emotional principles. That goes for business and sports. Read it and you’ll understand why.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Sure, leaders may perform the occasional miracle, but for most of you, most of the time, leadership is accomplished by doing a lot of little “ings&# thoughtfully and consistently over time. Creativity and innovation depend on it! Truly, at its core, the best leadership is about giving. Ricky, yes.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. Because we have difficulty seeing ourselves and examining our own assumptions, “ learning is a team sport.” More than ever, it truly is learn or die.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2019

Various studies have proven Machiavelli’s dictum in The Prince that innovators tend to have no friends among those whose status quo they promise to disrupt, and lukewarm support from those who might benefit from the future they are bringing about. Leadership in such an environment requires less command and control and more catalyst.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 19, 2017

With Mother’s Day approaching, my wife and I treated my mother to lunch at an old-fashioned barbeque restaurant in a nearby town that sported one traffic light, two gas stations, and five churches. . Steve, take this money to the CVS at the end of the block and buy us a big battery operated wall clock to put on the wall right there.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Sure it would…Likewise, if I drove up in a new Bentley, wearing a $3,000 custom tailored suit, sporting a fresh manicure, a GQ hair-cut, and with an attitude of arrogance, wouldn’t that also color your opinion of my ability? While I have a few swiss watches, my Timex Ironman is still my favorite. I Think Not. Our Freedom.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

If BDAI had been in place at Olympus Camera on the day that Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, would the company’s management information system have warned leadership that the pocket camera industry, at that moment, was entering an irreversible swoon? CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. The second is to lead innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In the public arena, we vote for our leaders (this may provide the most obvious connection to our responsibility for bad leadership): In this case, we might ignore bad past behavior before we cast our vote. How can followers possibly be responsible for bad leadership in our organizations? Let’s consider this. We tolerate them.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 22, 2010

Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I am married, have two daughters, and a dog named Edgar the Leadership Pug who exemplifies the importance of relationships to great leadership.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

Local crime increases after public sporting events. At Stanford University, a machine learned to diagnose breast cancer better than human doctors by discovering an innovative method that considers a greater number of factors in a tissue sample. Online daters more consistently rated as attractive receive less interest.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. When black & white becomes permanently blurred so that everything reads as shades of grey, things can become dicey. How about our grandparents? Would they have acted differently?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Posted on August 31st, 2010 by admin in Leadership By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth “Who the * is in charge around here?&# In all but the rarest of circumstances, teams simply don’t function well in the absence of sound leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 2, 2012

We’re constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in deep collaboration and cross pollination in order to innovate in a way others cannot. Apple’s is all about existing to make awesome products and operating under deep emotional principles. That goes for business and sports. State a Compelling Purpose.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

But let’s face it — Providence, RI, where Sidney lives, is not exactly a professional sports powerhouse. BIF BIF10 Brown University CCChampions Cancer HBR Innovation Leadership Networking Sidney Kushner Storytelling Strategy Vala Afshar Virtues-Values' Yet Boston is nearby! What’s the worst Vala could say?

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

What she has done for youth and their families in Haiti demonstrates courage, compassion, purpose and leadership savvy few CEO’s of any age possess. GOALS uses soccer to engage youth in public service and education that improve quality of life and develop new leadership. 2 Degrees of Separation?

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 24, 2020

Even playing team sports, which I did for 18 of the first 25 years of my life – ultimately playing baseball in college and professionally, so much of the focus is on individual success – being in the starting lineup, having a good season, getting a scholarship, making it to the major leagues, etc. We need each other now more than ever.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

What shared interests can you learn about that you can combine to catalyze innovation for your organization? Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. The improvement of the economy is slower than most would like.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The CEO called for a redoubled effort to resurrect its ailing American arm, a market where customers had been flocking to sports utility vehicles. Under his leadership, Ghosn said, the struggling automaker would return to profitability in a year and halve its debt a year later. Integrate Strategy and Leadership.

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