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Evaluating Leadership Potential: Beyond Performance Metrics

N2Growth Blog

Olivier Prestel warns, The biggest mistake is promoting a top salesperson to manager simply because theyre good at sales. When a leader fails to inspire or manage effectively, team members may disengage or leave the organization. Such misalignments not only create frustration for the individual but also disrupt team dynamics.

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Advice: Manage Well by Leading Better

N2Growth Blog

Management is your day job; leadership is your career. That is a variation on a comment I heard recently from an executive who was speaking about the responsibilities that senior managers have to lead their organizations through change. Management is a disciplinary process while leadership is an aspirational intention.

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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2025

Leading Blog

Psychologist and organizational behavior expert Dr. Karen Bridbord offers a revolutionary guide to career success and advancement, regardless of your industry, your companys size, or your role. CEOs must constantly evolve to make it through the gauntlet of never-ending challenges. Growth is hard.

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Hackers and Hummingbirds: Leadership Lessons from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Terry Starbucker

I recently read “ Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook’s Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg ” by Ekaterina Walter (I received an advance copy). We have cultivated a unique culture and management approach that we call the Hacker Way. In that sense, everyone is equal.

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The Edge: How 10 CEOs Learned to Lead—and the Lessons for Us All

Leading Blog

In The Edge: How 10 CEOs Learned to Lead—and the Lessons for Us All , Michael Useem asks what gave ten CEOs the edge. Your task is now to acquire the skills you need in this new territory before your career or your enterprise falters as a result of your personal limitations. Think like a chief executive.

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Leadership Interview: Mehdi Tazi, CEO at Beassur Marsh Shares His Perspective on Talent Gaps

N2Growth Blog

JH: In a recent international leadership survey, over 80% of CEOs answered that they do not have the talent to execute their current corporate strategy. For example, I know that in the United States, new generations of employees may average changing jobs up tp to eleven times in a career. Interview Summary. has it right.

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

Leading Blog

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. Laurent Valosek is CEO of Peak Leadership Institute. He has worked with teams from organizations including Harvard Medical School, F5 Networks, Angellist, and Google.

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