N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Is it likely that you would learn something "game-changing" at the conference last week? It transformed my business and career. A few random thoughts (I need to keep thinking about the issues you've raised in this post): 1. You're one of the top experts in the field!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

A lot of talented people grapple with the disruption of having to switch jobs or careers and figuring out how their current profession’s skills can be applied in a fulfilling new way. Since then, many friends and strangers have sought my advice about career paths outside of newspaper journalism. Confer with outsiders.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. It is like hiring the most expensive consultant while ignoring more accessible talent. The choice of alliance will color the depth of exchange. Align with similar initiatives. To reinvent the wheel is time-consuming.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2010

That insight changed my perspective on leadership and set the course for my career as a leader and teacher of leadership. I've seen John in person at few of our conferences teaching leadership to us and I am really do admired the knowledge and wisdom he gained. Hope I can attend one of his conferences on leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

Sumeet Goel, who founded HighPoint Associates , a professional advisory firm that staffs independent consultants at companies ranging from midsize ones to the Fortune 500, agrees that many freelancers often happen into it: “I’d say 90% go down this path because of circumstance. Make sure your network includes fellow freelancers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. Shortly thereafter, the pace of her career progress began to stall. Carla's an actual executive whose name has been changed.).

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Great communicators can tailor a message such that they can speak to 10 people in a conference room or 1,000 people in an auditorium and have them feel as if you were speaking directly to each one of them as an individual. Speak to groups as individuals : Leaders don’t always have the luxury of speaking to individuals in an intimate setting.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

You can build one even before you leave your job by attending relevant conferences, reaching out to people through LinkedIn or Twitter, or joining a group of freelancers or small business owners in your area. As with any career transition, it’s important to seek advice from those with more experience and expertise than you.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

People who have bad attitudes have more career turnover. As the officers and men are not permitted to visit their wives and families, I ought not to see my esposita — as it might make the men feel that I consult my own comfort regardless of theirs.&# People with bad attitudes have a 50% higher divorce rate.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Who wouldn’t want a meaningful career and better balance between work and home? For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. We worry and wonder: What would a career change do to our bank accounts? But Steve, Amanda, and Brandon all left those jobs and made a mid-career transition.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

It sounds like your conference offers a great message to those in need of hearing it. For C1400 this is not a style as much as some areas for reflection ( they call it a “code&# ) and are Awareness, Focus, Creativity, Integrity, Perseverance and Service. Understanding how I related to each of those helped me see what else was possible.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

. “It’s probably a frustration you haven’t had for a while — and if you’re a relatively new manager, you might not have ever experienced this before,” says Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Most leaders practice some aspects of the following representative leadership styles: authoritative, analytical, charismatic, emotional, intuitive, opportunistic, servant, benevolent, instructional, collaborative, delegatory, inspirational, consultative, visionary, coaching, and democratic. Which type of leader are you?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Nando Parrado - Nando was the only speaker at the conference to receive a standing ovation, but this is not why I ranked him #1. PS In case your wondering, yes, both of the recap videos contain our original footage which was shot, produced and uploaded on the fly while attending the conference. Love to receive your thoughts.

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