Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

O NE OF THE MOST challenging leadership problems is to get people to speak up , especially as it concerns realizing the value of the “small voice in the room.”. a fairly notorious email encryption company both provoking concerns from the NSA but also putting privacy on the map as “the marketing gorilla of the Internet.” They aren’t.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. Or else, you took on the hard work of growing the entire market. It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. I’ve learned this is not always true.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Hess and Katherine Ludwig Smart technologies will become ubiquitous, invading and changing many aspects of our professional and personal lives and in many ways challenging our fundamental beliefs about success, opportunity, and the American Dream. It’s typically not the player with the highest market value. New skills will be needed.

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2019

M ANY of today’s leaders are saying: I know leadership is about people, not tasks; effectiveness, not efficiency. Many business leaders are perplexed by the task of leading in an ever-increasing technological world. In the midst of managing these exponential leaps in technology, there is a war for talent. Listen deeply.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Kevin Eikenberry ( @kevineikenberry ) opened-up voting for The Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 yesterday , and the N2growth blog was one of 11 blogs nominated for the award. I know all but one of the other nominees and would highly recommend any of them as a high quality source of leadership information.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Advances in technology have allowed countless individuals to pursue interests that extend beyond the standard classroom, on their own time, and often for little to no cost. did, and wisely said) that “leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other,” this is true.

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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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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

In this captivating interview with The HR Digest , Josh Bersin opens up about the transformative milestones that have defined his remarkable career. As the CEO of The Josh Bersin Company, he anticipates monumental shifts in the HR landscape and urges organizations to embrace systemic HR and AI technologies.

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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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

He is the Senior Pastor at CrossPoint Church , one of the fastest growing churches in the country, is the author of the bestselling book Plan B , and is one of the the most candid, insightful and humble leaders you’ll ever have the opportunity to listen to – we all have a lot to learn from Pete Wilson.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

Leadership is shifting as we grapple with technology changes, shifting market realities, new business models, and unpredictable outside forces. Tom has over three decades of experience as a leadership and organizational culture consultant. What’s the Goodell definition of leadership? . Tom Goodell. .

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

They require great technological conversions. But technology may, in fact, be a minor part of the task. This is where the successful startups have excelled -- taking what exists and challenging it to either create something new with more value or open up to new target groups. These augmentations are not small matters.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

They hired an expensive consulting firm to design and install millions of dollars’ worth of new technologies. This was based on a strategic plan that took months of senior management time, market studies, financial analysis, and more expensive consultants. Managers needed to take more leadership and empower people.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 8, 2010

Eric Hoffer Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. — The Product Management Perspective: Technology continues to evolve ever more rapidly. . — The Product Management Perspective: Technology continues to evolve ever more rapidly. Markets change quickly. Great leaders are learners.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

The same principles apply to e-marketing: before rolling out a campaign to a large audience, test it on a small one. How does their e-marketing supplement their traditional marketing? Create a Benchmark Traditional direct marketing always uses a control piece as the benchmark, generally with an A/B split test.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 3, 2013

My new book releases Tuesday, December 10th. At the bottom of this post , I tell you how to get an advance copy of half the book, a 50% discount off the full book when it releases next week and a copy of Mark Sanborn’s Doing Leadership eBook - all FREE. About the Book. Who this Book is For.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

David asked Becky, “How come no one ever talks about love as a leadership competency?&# While l ove and leadership are certainly two words you don’t often hear in the same sentence, I can assure you that rarely does great leadership exist without love being present and practiced. I think it’s a great question.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The Modern Servant Leader Servant Leadership & Technology. Leadership. Technology. September 20, 2011 Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership Intro. Servant Leadership Academic Programs & Education Opportunities. Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership. Technology.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

He simplified the design and construction of the automobile, narrowed the choices available (“any color you want, so long as it’s black”) and marketed it toward what we would today call the “down market.” And as assembly-line technology improved, so too did its speed, which soon became a source of great stress. For good or ill.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 27, 2018

We often dedicate time to challenges requiring immediate attention—we wait until a layoff, merger, or burnout before we dust off the resume, only to find that the market and required skills have shifted since we last interviewed. As technology advances, social media is becoming increasingly critical to careers across all industries.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 7, 2012

One of the key tenets of leadership is learning. Tip 5 in Management Tips: Harvard Business Review states the following: Successful leaders keep their minds open to new things because they know that no matter how high their level of mastery, there is always more to discover…. Great leaders are learners. They read voraciously.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

Understanding how to tap your own entrepreneurial superpowers is the premise of The Entrepreneur’s Faces: How Makers, Visionaries and Outsiders Succeed , a new book by Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. Tell us about the background of your book collaboration.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Often overlooked by great leaders is that very successful organizational level innovation requires a willingness to take risks, cultural openness to external ideas, and a structure to protect non-traditional ideas as they develop and prove value through proofs of concept testing. In some industries that is daunting.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

In the end, leadership that adopts politically correct behavior and thinking places themselves and their organizations at great peril. OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference. You cannot be an effective leader subordinating right thinking to popular thinking.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. How did the brick and mortar book stores let Amazon get the jump on them?

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Headhunter, Rob Barnett , distills everything he’s learned about getting hired into his new book, Next Job, Best Job. Candidly and step-by-step, with a book chapter devoted to each of the 11 strategies, Barnett teaches you how to: Regain confidence and optimism after a job loss. Barnett : Chapter 11 in my book is not about bankruptcy.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

Thirty-five years ago at a ceremony in Vancouver, BC, I accepted AMA’s Marketer-of-the-Year Award on behalf of Nabob Foods. This company earned that honor by re-staging a tired coffee brand with innovative packing technology and breakthrough advertising. As marketers well know, unfilled needs create opportunities to meet the need.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 14, 2010

The book helped me understand more clearly how the Internet has changed the way we interact and get information. We are being pushed rapidly down a route largely determined by the technological environment.&# “Anything that raises the cost of doing something reduces what gets done.&# And soon after I started, I found the time.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Poor practices such as ignoring safe distancing, insufficient sanitation, and not mandating mask-wearing open the door to infection of customers and staff and threaten the viability of a business. As technology has evolved over time from main frame to client server to the Internet and now the cloud, the impact of a new Tech Debt 2.0

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2021

Headhunter, Rob Barnett , distills everything he’s learned about getting hired into his new book, Next Job, Best Job. Candidly and step-by-step, with a book chapter devoted to each of the 11 strategies, Barnett teaches you how to: Regain confidence and optimism after a job loss. Barnett : Chapter 11 in my book is not about bankruptcy.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2020

SaaS lead generation in a B2B environment can be quite challenging, and SaaS marketing is famous for being very data-driven with extremely little margin of error. In B2B marketing, your website is a very important marketing asset more than in a B2C environment. Effective B2B Content Marketing. A Performing Website.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 20, 2012

Guest post by Mark Mueller-Eberstein, co-author of “No Fear: Business Leadership in the Age of Digital Cowboys”. For us here, there are enough “old school” managers available to fill the open positions in the second and third tiers of management. Organizations and society are transforming at radical speed. How can leaders keep up?

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