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Red Flags at Work: Recognizing Problems and Delivering the Bad News

Leading Blog

Project management, encompassing issues that crop up during planning and issues that show up during execution, is another area that may require your overview and handling. In my career, I have always taken the approach of raising the temperature slowly, and I wholeheartedly recommend that approach as you prepare to deliver bad news.

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SOFTEN-ing Improves Your Zen but Does NOT Diminish Your Authority

Leading Blog

In high-stress interactions, our walls go up, and our armor comes on and were ready to protect ourselves in any way we can. Our bodies tense up, and were on the defensive. Since being human isnt necessarily what got them to where they are in their careers, to begin with, they arent sure if the act of softening is for them.

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What Can Leaders Learn from Elite Athletes About High-Level Performance?

Leading Blog

The bottom line: exercise is an important practice for effective leadership. During her tennis career, Serena Williams maintainedand still doesa healthy, largely plant-based diet as part of her philosophy of eating to live rather than vice-versa. They Eat Right Dont forget about nutrition.

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How to Be an Engaging Leader in a World of Robotics, AI, and Digitization

Leading Blog

Many business leaders are perplexed by the task of leading in an ever-increasing technological world. Yes, we are leaders of people, and yet it feels as if technology and other digital demands keep us from investing in our most valuable resource, our people. Prioritize the Person, as Well as the Technology. “I Listen deeply.

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. Bottom line…the way you identify leaders is not through psychological profiling or some miraculous transformative process. We must slow down the technology speed and its consequences. You identify leaders by their actions and their performance.

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The achievement of current goals and objectives free up the time & create the resources to move on to bigger and better things…Trying to do too many things at once will impede progress, dilute effort & energy, add to chaos and lead to burn-out. Bottom line…success equals focus. I Think Not.

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Loyalty vs. Tenure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

These companies have placed themselves far behind the technology curve because tenured managers hire employees with obsolete skill sets and together they create mediocre solutions. You see tenure is not synonymous with loyalty, but rather is more often a measure of compliance and survival.

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