Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Leadership is about hope. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. And that feeds our approach in society at large. Blog Post ).

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2024

Building resilience into the fabric of the organization is essential for weathering uncertainty and sustaining long-term success. Resilient businesses anticipate and prepare for challenges, leveraging their strengths and resources to navigate uncertainty effectively.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

This trend highlights the shift towards shorter CEO tenures in large corporations, as companies seek leaders who can quickly adapt to changing market dynamics and drive growth. The Case Against Long CEO Tenures In the corporate world, longevity in a leadership role is often seen as a sign of stability and success.

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CO2

JANUARY 14, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of business leadership, executives often find themselves at the center of a complex maze – the Leadership Labyrinth. Navigating this labyrinth requires more than traditional management skills; it demands a deep understanding of oneself and the ability to inspire and lead others effectively.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

It ensures that companies are prepared for any unforeseen changes in leadership due to retirement, emergencies, or sudden departures. Emerging Technologies to Facilitate Leadership Planning As the digital revolution unfolds, it’s becoming clear that technology plays a substantial role in enhancing leadership planning.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Through focused conversations, targeted assessments, and personalized strategies, executive coaching helps entrepreneurs identify their blind spots, enhance their leadership skills, and make informed decisions that align with their vision and goals. One of the primary challenges entrepreneurs face is the need to wear multiple hats.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Uncertainty. I wouldn’t say I had a fear of uncertainty. My first hard lesson of adulthood, i.e. expect one uncertainty after another. Challenge uncertainty with anticipation and planning. After surviving the cut I knew I didn’t want to feel that type of uncertainty again. I said yes. Take care of yourself.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market. It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In this episode, David Giersdorf, a former senior executive in the global cruise, travel, and marketing services industry, gives the roadmap for leading through disruption. 2:00 – Early leadership lessons being “born” into the global travel industry. 6:05 – The anxiety of navigating through fog and uncertainty.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 18, 2012

Leadership is rich with uncertainty. Turbulent times, regulations and compliance, technology, politics, people, and global markets enflame uncertainty. Image source Ineffective leaders require certainty before they act, I am certain. On the other hand, successful leaders make decisions where outcomes are uncertain.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Part of this is assessing levels of uncertainty. The other part is making decisions that can give you the best chance of succeeding despite uncertainty. And the new CEO decided to commit the future of the company to new software from Microsoft – with very little success in the mobile phone market. Only time will tell.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

From the 2008 global financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing, devastating effects of war and conflict, real leadership is required to navigate these challenging times. U, for Uncertainty – controlling situations can feel impossible when the present is confusing and there are no guarantees for the future.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 23, 2024

It is a valuable leadership attribute for future employers to see. Recruiters may notice that your ability to manage multiple priorities and responsibilities shows you have the discipline to succeed in an online MBA program. Developing Leadership Skills A top online MBA program will train you to be a better leader.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

“Uncertainty is here to stay. Rather than seeing it as an obstacle to overcome, integrate it into your strategic approach to invigorate your high-growth potential and outperform competition under any market condition,” explains Rebecca Homkes , author of the new book, Survive, Reset, Thrive.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2014

In Leadership Blindspots , author Robert Shaw make this important observation: “ Leadership strengths are often found in close proximity to blindspots. Once uncovered it can be managed in some way. Leadership Blindspots has a Leadership Blindspot Survey in the appendix of the book. Yes, but….

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

Good leadership skills may differ across businesses, yet few of these skills prepared leaders to manage the turmoil over the past year. Gone are the days of equating winning only with profit and equating leadership only with assertiveness. We have learnt that collaboration, support networks, and creativity is fundamental.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Insurance executives face unique challenges and opportunities with emerging technologies, including AI, evolving regulatory environments, and global economic uncertainties. They are no longer responsible for managing risk but also for driving innovation, enhancing customer experiences, and achieving sustainable growth.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Consequently, this enables them to continuously improve and adapt as leaders, and to effectively respond to changing market conditions and customer needs. Emotional intelligence mindset: The best leaders have high levels of emotional intelligence, which is the ability to understand and manage their own emotions and the emotions of others.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

This is where business coaching and leadership development emerges as not just a support system, but a critical investment in the future of your company. It’s a journey where coaches, with their expertise and experience, help you navigate the complexities of business decisions, strategy formulation, and personal leadership development.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

You should be willing and able to adapt to changing market conditions and customer needs. As a result, this will help to create a more adaptable and resilient organization, and will enable you to better respond to uncertainty and challenges. You should be able to understand and manage your own emotions.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

.” The last few years, there’s been a broader movement to applying agile principles to leadership and organization development. Products and services pushed out to the market. Management and experts “manage change” “Naive listening” keeps everyone tuned to and aligned with changing needs.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 12, 2024

Shanelle Reese, Chief People Officer, Wonderschool The Talent Turnaround 2023 witnessed a seismic shift in the tech landscape, with unprecedented levels of turnover fueled by layoffs, career changes, and a resurgent job market. Potential employees also look to companies to help broaden their skill sets.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 9, 2015

Responses identified interpersonal and communication skills such as influence, listening, and empathy as key coaching topics across all levels of leadership. . 9) Working with uncertainty and ambiguity, decision skills. 9) Working with uncertainty and ambiguity, decision skills. Can''t Get Enough Leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

External factors such as economic oscillations, market volatility, and industry disruptions drastically impact succession strategies. Leadership transitions can pose a major challenge to any organization, especially in a turbulent environment. Foresight and proactive management must command the planning process.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The economic uncertainty generated by the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting businesses of every size in every industry. Managers just like you are putting their plans on pause, and training programs are often among the first line items cut. Some organizations view training—especially leadership development—as expendable.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

In a world that grows more complex every day, executives often face scrutiny as they lead through uncertainty. To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

After sharing a bit of his background, he quickly delves into his career beginning at ABC, and the lessons he’s learned and the principles that have guided him that help “nurture the good and manage the bad.”. What follows are 20 leadership lessons from the book but stripped of the stories that brought them to life.

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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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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” The best strategy when facing high degrees of uncertainty is to hedge and build options for the future.”.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Greater agility helps businesses to react more swiftly to the rise of “ industry disruptors ,” to manage the emergence of new competitors and to successfully ride the wave of any kind of dramatic shifts in overall market conditions, be they positive or negative. senior leadership, management and staff) and culture (i.e.,

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Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Many leadership qualities have been observed throughout history. Identify Areas of Growth and Improve Your Leadership Skills. What is Leadership? Leadership is the act of guiding a group of people or organization to a desired goal, result, or higher level. Download My Personal Development Plan Template Today.

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Chartered Management Institute

JUNE 14, 2023

We asked some managers how they embed horizon scanning into their practice With Covid, Brexit, the cost of living crisis and the rapid development of AI , the external environment in which organisations operate is changing faster than ever before. This involved going on very detailed Brexit-related courses.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 31, 2013

From that perspective, I’d like to share with you some of the leadership insights I’ve written about over the past 52 weeks, not just as a reminder of the lessons that were shared, but also so we can contemplate how we might apply them going forward.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 30, 2013

Unfortunately, when it comes to courage in leadership, we often have a wrong impression of what that means. When it comes to courageous leadership, the image that often comes to mind is of a leader who is not just assertive in the face of uncertainty, but who also exudes a sense of fearlessness regarding the situation before them.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

It’s about how to manage disruption, adapt to disruption, and thrive in a world and a time marked by disruption.” They note that the idea of tightly aligning an organization's people, tasks, structure, and culture is not new; it plays out differently because the conditions under which those management principles operate has changed.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Organizations are shaped as much by the personalities of their leaders as by product innovations, marketing prowess, or technical ingenuity, yet identifying personality attributes that promote or inhibit organizational effectiveness has been an elusive goal, despite the existence of assessment centers and executive coaching.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Workers who adapt and grow with the organization in a time of accelerated change will be able to launch products and services that meet market needs. When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing. When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing.

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