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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement.

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Who's In Charge?

N2Growth Blog

He then proceeded to communicate in no uncertain terms that he wasn’t nearly as concerned about the faults he would find, as he was about how our leader (guess who?) No one remains a leader long without being competent. People will not long support someone who's going nowhere. 2 Tweets Who’s In Charge?

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Love and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If a leader’s primary obligation is for the care and well being of those under their charge, then I would suggest that you cannot be an effective leader over the long-term without love, compassion and empathy. link] Dan Collins Mike, This is a very, very important post.

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Q&A With Millennial CEO And Book Author Rick Lindquist

Eric Jacobson

He was promoted to Director of Sales in 2009 and took over as President in 2011. Lindquist : Professional will, which is defined in Jim Collins’ famous book, Good to Great. First, you must do whatever must be done to produce the best long-term results for the company, regardless of how difficult it may be.

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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

link] Dan Collins Mike, Leaders inspire us by their example. Covey has garnered the loyalty and love of her students, something that she still evokes in my daughters even though they have long since left her classroom. but you’ll not find that here. For me, Ms. Peter has been the manager at Mologne since it opened 14 years ago.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation. It was a game changer!

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Which Companies Are Worth Admiring?

Harvard Business Review

Who are the Top Five organization's on Fortune's list for 2011? There are plenty of organizations with cool technology or hot products. The organizations I admire don't just lead their industries in terms of innovation or financial performance or market share. Anybody shocked? Who were the Top Five in 2010 ?

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