Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Childish, mature. ” Next time you are making a people management decision, stop and take a critical look at how biases may be informing your choices. Workplace Issues diversity equality HR Human Resources Leadership managing people people management racism' Fit, not in shape. Beautiful, plain, ugly.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was recently asked what I consider to be the most misunderstood aspect of great leadership; in other words, what makes great leaders great? If you want to become a better leader, I suggest you become comfortable with a leadership practice very few are… it’s called surrender. Control is about power – not leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. Certain functional leadership positions, and industry sectors, can be less strident on this question. Realize that P.E.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2021. For the first time, Dell reveals the highs and lows of the company's evolution amidst a rapidly changing industry—and his own, as he matured into the CEO it needed. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In Leadership in Turbulent Times , she brings them together to study the development of their leadership potential and the mark they left on history. By the time these men were 30 they had developed the stuff of leadership. These events became crucibles in their lives that deepened and redefined their leadership approaches.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

Too often, managers put their heads down and focus only on their own departments. Sales and marketing leaders become more mature in their thinking about the demand plan. When upper management leaders play their positions and trust their teammates to do what they say they’re going to do in their plans, something else happens.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 28, 2013

Guest post from Great Leadership regular contributor Paul Thornton: Management style greatly affects employees’ motivation and capacity to learn. The most effective managers vary their styles depending on the employee’s knowledge and skills, the nature of the task, time constraints, and other factors. The Three Ds.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the journey of your career, the phrase "Put on your big-boy pants" (or big-girl pants) is more than just a call to maturity; it's an invitation to step into the realm of personal growth and professional excellence. Pushing beyond these boundaries is essential for skill development, innovation, and leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Mastery in anything, from sports to the arts to leadership, requires well-practiced capability mediated by a highly mature interiority—a well-honed Outer Game arising on a highly evolved Inner Game. Masterful leadership is Conscious Competence. How mature is your inner game for the stage you are playing on, or aspire to play on?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

It is the story of Nadia bright and adventurous meerkat who is part of a mature clan with over 150 members. This well-managed clan has done well to date but is now faced with unprecedented problems that challenge their once reliable rules and procedures. And John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber’s That’s Not How We Do It Here!

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2019

With 80% of executives considering their businesses to be at risk for being disrupted in the near future, they are under tremendous pressure to transform their organizations towards becoming more innovative. However, any organizational change, let alone a major transformation, is always very difficult to implement successfully.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 23, 2022

Each year I debrief leadership assessment results with hundreds of C-Suite candidates as an Executive Coach & Consultant at N2Growth. These two facets are critical in managing our overall health and how effectively we perform in a specific role, regardless of our position in the organization.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 10, 2023

One tool you receive when you participate in our foundational leadership development program is the Confidence Competence Model. A decade of leading high-potential leadership programs around the world confirms—people who are good at what they do (and know it), yearn to be seen and challenged. You joined your company as a kid (Tommy).

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

The reality is in maturing and complex market environments clients’ demand more from their service providers. While my personal practice is focused on providing leadership advice and counsel to Fortune 500 CEOs, as the senior operating executive at our firm I also have oversight responsibility for our talent management practice.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

There are lots of traits that can harm your leadership. No one enjoys taking criticism, but if you can’t listen to others and take in what those around you are saying, you’re slowly eroding your leadership, even if you don’t realize it. When you fail to connect with and show your authentic self, you cast your leadership into question.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

You’ll rarely encounter the words leadership and surrender used together in complementary fashion. Society has labeled surrender as a sign of leadership weakness, when in fact, it can be among the greatest of leadership strengths. Control is about power – not leadership. ” Thoughts?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Servant leadership is a philosophy that was developed in the early 1970s by Robert Greenleaf. Suffice to say, when servant leadership was unveiled, it caused quite a stir. Servant leadership fundamentally challenged that convention. The Situational Leadership ® Model was developed in the early 1970s by Paul Hersey.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

What the heck does a dishwasher have to do with management? Think about how many managers (including us!) It takes maturity, desire and compassion to unlearn these habits. So, what management lessons can we learn from the above 4 options? How would you want to be managed ? Everything – stick with me.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

(Terry’s Note: Hi all – Today I’m introducing a new series of posts, written by guest writer Adam Tenenbaum , called Front Line Leadership. Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 3, 2012

Rembrandt’s genius came only with maturity. Like great artists, great leaders change and mature over time. As students of leadership, we find that the most powerful lessons come from mature leaders. Truly effective leadership is built on this kind of authenticity. Their experience with employees is long and deep.

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CoachStation

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Generations of employees and leaders have been exposed to varying cultures, leadership styles and business practices. Understanding how generational change impacts leadership and organisational learning has become an interest of mine. Is generational change impacting the need for different types of leadership?

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The responsibility for navigating this uncharted terrain rests on the shoulders of those in leadership positions. The Rise of Holacracy: The trend towards decentralized leadership—sometimes known as holacracy—challenges the traditional hierarchy of organizations. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

One of the great leadership challenges is making the transition from subject matter expert (SME) to leading teams of SMEs. So you’ll need a more collaborative style of leadership. So you’ll need a more collaborative style of leadership. But now the question becomes, “As I mature in leadership, can I move from ME to WE?”.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 8, 2024

In one of my first vocational leadership roles, I managed a large retail division of a major department store. The division had several departments within it and each department had a separate department manager. Most of the departments were efficient, profitable, and easy to manage. It’s a people problem.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2012

While there have been thousands of books written about leadership, there are a handful of leadership models that have served me well as a leader and leadership development practitioner. These are the tried and true models that have shifted my thinking about leadership and help create teachable leadership moments for others.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Our Universal Model of Leadership helps explain how extraordinary leadership develops and how to accelerate its development. Our Universal Model includes five stages of progressive leadership development: Egocentric, Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitive. Each stage is more mature, more effective and higher performing.

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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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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

What the heck does a dishwasher have to do with management? Think about how many managers (including us!) It takes maturity, desire and compassion to unlearn these habits. So, what management lessons can we learn from the above 4 options? How would you want to be managed ? Everything – stick with me.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

One vaguely controversial, age-old discussion is around the numerical age and corresponding maturity of CEOs and how age, which translates to experience, can impact the trajectory and level of success of a company. . As the brain becomes more mature, it develops patterns and neural networks that are hard to erase or reprogram.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 23, 2022

Each year I debrief leadership assessment results with hundreds of C-Suite candidates as an Executive Coach & Consultant at N2Growth. These two facets are critical in managing our overall health and how effectively we perform in a specific role, regardless of our position in the organization.

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Execution Self-aware Executive Coaching Stress 195

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Newest in the series is the HBR Project Management Handbook. If you are a project manager , “This book will help you better understand project fundamentals. And, if you are a CEO or in a leadership role , “This book will help you weigh the importance of projects and strategically align and prioritize your project portfolio.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Front Line Leadership . In my last post I introduced Part 1 of my two-part series on the the topic of Managing Millennials (the generation born roughly between 1980 and the mid 90‘s) – Treat Them Like a Celebrity. To recap my two keys to Managing Millennials: 1) Treat Them Like a Celebrity. Guest Post By Adam Tenenbaum.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 6, 2013

This statement sums up one of the key indicators to sustainable and effective leadership as taught in the book The Leader’s Climb: A Business Tale of Rising to the New Leadership Challenge by Bob Parsanko and Paul Heagen. Acceptance is the mature and reasoned embrace of our current realities.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Still, our stalemate provides an important leadership lesson. Leadership is difficult in a representative government. The President and Congressional leaders have power and authority but not enough to direct a solution so they have to exercise persuasive leadership–peer leadership—to get things done.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Strengths of the Situational Leadership ® Model Organizations have an ever-expanding spectrum of criteria that determines why they adopt one leadership methodology over another. What would explain the popularity of this model over the last six decades with all those people? Accessibility is a big one these days. Same for translations.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

One of the managers involved in the affair was an idealistic young man named Dennis Gioia, who went into the auto industry to make a contribution to society. It arrives in mature adulthood, if at all. Employees and managers in the autonomy stage are ready for mature leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

After further thought and research I wrote a soon-to-be launched book that essentially teaches people how to rewrite their leadership story. If Frankl were to be asked what his six-word leadership story would be, he’d likely reply with a quote he used in the beginning of his book: “A Why Bear’s Almost Any How” ~ Nietzsche.

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