N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Today, organizations face multifaceted challenges that demand agile and decisive leadership. The increasing demand for interim executives reflects a broader shift toward flexible leadership models. For example, consider a technology company undergoing a digital transformation.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In Voyager, women finally had a realistic representation of female leadership aboard a Star Trek vessel, one that was determined and decisive but also empathic and willing to listen. In fact, she’s almost a prescient paragon of what good leadership looks like in the 21st century. Someone who sees the system.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Additionally, training employees to work alongside AI systems and utilize their Building Trust Through Transparent Communication About AI Transparent communication about AI’s role and impact within the organization is vital for building trust among employees and stakeholders. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Source: Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work II. Roger Martin on our personal knowledge system dynamics: “Personal knowledge systems are highly path-dependent. When a person starts in a given direction, that direction is likely to be reinforced and amplified, not diminished or altered.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

E LEVATING your leadership game is a mindset. In Peak Leadership Fitness , author Timothy Tobin writes, “A leadership mindset is essentially the belief in yourself and your abilities as a leader. A negative leadership mindset is rooted in self-doubt, uncertainty, and lack of inquiry. You are in control of your mindset.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

T HE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE of leading in an increasingly complex world is that we will have developmental gaps in our leadership. In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

James Kouzes and Barry Posner emphasize this point in Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership. To help you develop confidence and grow as a leader, the authors present an operating system of leadership practices based on their time-tested Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. But good leadership goes beyond that.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Welcome to the August 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Ken Byler of Higher Ground Consulting Group contributed Introverted Leadership in a Pandemic.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A fter reading Gartner’s report on How to Build Leadership Bench Strength , these are my conclusions: HR already invests 23% of its Training and Development budget in Leadership and 27% on the high potential professionals. How do they affect Leadership? First, leadership is more complex.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

Navigating the complexities of leadership and management styles requires more than conventional wisdom; it requires a deep understanding of how different management styles impact an organization. Ichak Adizes provides a valuable framework that categorizes leadership into four distinct styles, each with unique strengths.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2024

The authority to solve complex problems and challenges will reside in the system of stakeholders, not in the leader. Source: The Decision to Trust: How Leaders Create High-Trust Organizations * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. The leader’s job is to energize and facilitate, not dominate and control.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Entrepreneurial leadership is a mindset. It is a mindset that is even more critical in today’s unstable world and is the sine qua non of crisis leadership. He shares these in Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff. Five Types of Leadership. Build Trust 2.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2020. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix the systems that caused the problems. The Blueprint : 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights by Doug Conant. We put out fires.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2019. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth. Bedtime Stories for Managers : Farewell, Lofty Leadership. In Leadershift, John C.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Today, we will explore some of the key strategies we’ve noted at our firm that have proven successful in maximizing the attraction and retention of top leadership talent. Understanding the Modern Recruitment Landscape Recent technological advancements and evolving workforce demographics have revolutionized recruitment processes.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Importance of CIO Leadership in the Modern Business Landscape In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, digital leadership has emerged as a critical factor for success. To start, it is essential to clearly define the specific traits and skills required for effective digital leadership within your organization.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2021. The Five Graces of Life and Leadership by Gary Burnison. Five simple qualities that captures the essence of outstanding leadership today. The Net Promoter System shines as their guiding star. With Amy Herman’s Fixed., This is NPS 3.0

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2024

Military Units Can Teach Business About Leadership and Team Performance II. The others is that the authority to solve complex problems and challenges will reside the system of stakeholders, not in the deader. You have to leave your ego at the door, create a safe environment for everyone, and be sincere.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 4, 2024

It’s my pleasure to host this month’s Leadership Development Carnival, sponsored by Weaving Influence. So, without further ado, I present to you the December 2024 Leadership Development Carnival! Connect with Priscilla ) The post Leadership Development Carnival appeared first on Leading with Trust.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Systemizing communication. Holding regular informative meetings, engaging in active listening, and instilling trust were among the top strategies for systemizing effective communication. Learn more at stevengaffney.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Humanizing Leadership Mentors. During the book writing process, I reflected on the multitude of individuals who graciously shared their time, words, wisdom, and encouragement with me along my personal leadership journey. How they showed up as leaders and how they engaged was critical to my leadership development.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In fact, the human biological alert system cant tell the difference between a saber-tooth tiger encounter, a critical table tennis match at the US Open, or a high-stakes sales presentation. This activates your parasympathetic nervous system, engaging a calming, rest and digest mode. So, denying fear or trying to block it out is futile.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

At least three things seem to be critical for executive leaders and their leadership teams in a BANI operating environment: agility, seamless, no drama collaboration, setting the early warning radar system to high. The post How to Navigate a BANI World: A Leadership Playbook for Turbulent Times first appeared on The Eblin Group.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Moore’s behavior captured the essence of strategic leadership. Fred Kofman on transcendent leadership: “Transcendent leaders work to align the individual purposes of those under them into a larger collective purpose that makes each individual larger as well. What is not happening? How can I influence the action?”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2023 curated just for you. Come Up for Air : How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work by Nick Sonnenberg “There just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done!” Sound familiar? You can, too.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Systemizing communication. Holding regular informative meetings, engaging in active listening, and instilling trust were among the top strategies for systemizing effective communication. Learn more at stevengaffney.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Liz Wiseman describes a practice of Impact Players: “Impact Players practice a fluid model of leadership—leading on demand rather than by command. Peter Senge on getting to the root of the issue: “The bottom line of systems thinking is leverage—seeing where actions and changes in structures can lead to significant, enduring improvements.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The composition of C-suite leadership across the spectrum is notably different than it used to be ten or so years ago. I believe female executives will leverage lessons learned this year to emerge into 2021 stronger and more supportive, pulling more women back to organizations into leadership roles. . a decade ago.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 14, 2025

Artificial Intelligence is methodically eliminating leadership positionsand your role could be next. Organizations implementing AI management tools eliminate mid-level leadership positions at accelerating rates, with projections indicating 37% of current management roles become obsolete by 2026.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Redefining Healthcare Leadership Through Executive Search Within healthcare, success hinges on clinical excellence and the caliber of leadership guiding each organization. Unraveling the Complexity of Healthcare Leadership Recruitment The search for strong healthcare leaders extends beyond standard recruitment methods.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

Books, podcasts, journals, and eventually online meetings were helpful, but my turning point came from a familiar yet forgotten resource that became the crossroads where my recovery journey and my leadership journey became one and the same. Getting lost in addiction had caused me to lose my love for leadership, or so I thought.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2021. In The Aristocracy of Talent , esteemed journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge looks outside western cultures and shows what transformative effects it has had everywhere it has been adopted, especially once women were brought into the meritocratic system.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

Source: Becoming a Coaching Leader: The Proven System for Building Your Own Team of Champions II. Source: Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2021. the undercurrents of radical, systemic change?are Being adaptable and flexible have always been hallmarks of effective leadership and a fulfilling life. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Niccolò Machiavelli on resistance to change: “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. Source: The Crisis We Face: Automation and the Cold War * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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