N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The most important decision a leader can make with regard to any implementation, initiative, project, objective, goal, task, etc. I've been around long enough to see all types of leadership styles both succeed and fail. is who they are going to put in charge? while others fail to do so?

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Bottom-up Blog Objective Brand 310

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When the business environment in which leaders and organizations must operate has changed considerably. Thus, contextual challenges include succeeding in VUCA environments, leading geographically dispersed teams, transforming a high conflict culture, or delivering rapidly changing products, services, or processes.

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Leadership Agility Leadership Pipeline Welch 392

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s no coincidence that the UK is suffering from low productivity and stalled growth. Will undertook the apprenticeship after reflecting on his training and development to this point, and recognising that it had largely been vocational, and reliant on his natural leadership style to achieve results.

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Learning-by-Doing Leadership Styles Education Training 105

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > We’ve found in our research that clarifying what collaboration is (and what it isn’t) and gaining firsthand experience with one or more collaborative projects is the only way to combat these common apprehensions. Collaboration is not a style. But collaboration is not consensus.

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Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

As the CEO of a small investment firm, I was surprised by the finding, but as I considered my own leadership style and intraoffice relationships, I concluded that the authors were onto something. Without clarity on important issues, everyone’s mind goes to the worst-case scenario and productivity suffers.

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Stress Herzberg Survey Cooper 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The new role required the former CEO of Sodexo India On-Site Services to work with a team of 15 executives from different nationalities and cultures, demanding a shift to a more inclusive leadership style. Project Credibility. ” Insight Center. and the UK) finds that 62% of senior leaders in the U.S.

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Globalization Emotional Intelligence Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

At Cisco, we designed an in-depth executive assessment to help us profile each of our topmost leaders: strengths, development needs, aspirations, strategic capabilities, blind spots, operational capabilities, how they develop their teams, how they fare in big-stage versus one-on-one communications, and so on. It measures how we work in teams.

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360-Degree Feedback CEO Leadership Pipeline Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Culturally, the face-to-face meeting is still an important symbol of productivity. Look at leadership capabilities. Consider the individual’s leadership style and how he or she projects himself or herself. Decisions are still passed down from one to many as opposed to emanating from small, autonomous teams.

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Due Diligence Diversity Video Leadership Styles 8

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

Two factors making global thinking a key variable for the future are the dramatic projected increases in global trade and integrated global technology, such as e-commerce. Future leaders will have to learn how to manage global production, marketing, and sales teams to achieve competitive advantage. Appreciating cultural diversity.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Diversity Technology 140

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

They must launch new products, for instance, at shorter intervals. In the 1970s, the automobile industry introduced new models roughly every eight years; by the 1990s, the product lifecycle had fallen to three years, and, as we know, car brands now need a facelift every two years to stay in the race.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

They must launch new products, for instance, at shorter intervals. In the 1970s, the automobile industry introduced new models roughly every eight years; by the 1990s, the product lifecycle had fallen to three years, and, as we know, car brands now need a facelift every two years to stay in the race.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

’ in order to improve your products, processes, or procedures. You should instead lead as a benevolent dictator – benevolent’ being the operative word – who always puts the company, the employees, and, most importantly, the customer, first. And when they’re more comfortable, they’ll speak more freely.

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Innovation How To Retail Motivation 50

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Guest post by Steve Coughran : In my two decades of business experience, I have encountered many different flavors of leadership. Some leaders are strong-willed and autocratic, some are open-minded and democratic, some employ laissez-faire, employee-centric leadership styles, and most fall somewhere in the middle.

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Simon Micromanagement Leadership Styles CFO 248

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Motivated by Ferose's participative leadership style, many self-organized teams at SAP Labs India have since tested and implemented dozens of innovative solutions to boost productivity. Another team of employees designed and deployed a daycare for working mothers.

Innovation 9

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 29, 2013

After a solid performance, that manager will be promoted to a leadership position, under the assumption that their management skills will make them good leaders. Too many organizations operate on the idea that great managers make great leaders, and vice versa. Ultimately you are the “product leader” more than the manager.

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Management Bottom-up Leadership Styles Operations 270

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® framework was the product of over 50 years of pioneering research in leadership development and organizational behavior. One challenge with those discoveries is that many provided conflicting results regarding who leaders were, what they did and what the most effective style of leadership was.

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Situational Leadership Hersey Blanchard Argyris 52