Lead from Within

MAY 22, 2024

As an executive leadership coach with years of experience, I’ve witnessed firsthand the significant impact that professional relationships can have on an individual’s career success. These connections can lead to career advancements that may have otherwise remained out of reach. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Decker Communication

MARCH 27, 2025

The most sophisticated companies understand this implicitly, which explains why many leadership development programs now focus heavily on what they call “narrative competence” the ability to create compelling stories about complex market forces, client relationships, and individual career trajectories that withstand tumultuous periods.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 22, 2020

If you enjoyed this video, you may also enjoy the upcoming webinar with Bonnie Marcus as she discusses how to stay marketable in this new virtual working world. In our current crisis, one of the biggest concerns individuals are facing is fear surrounding job security. Learn more and register here.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2018

That experience has led him to write Connecting the Dots as a way to help others to learn from the key events in his life and career as they navigate business and life. This has been a critical skill throughout his whole career. When you compete against a market transition, you learn how to see around corners.”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The difference between the two aforementioned examples is that great leaders have mastered the art of finding the right message regardless of the medium, market, or constituency being addressed. Sadly, the reality is messaging is so impactful that it will often times have a greater impact on your career than your performance.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Regardless of where you are in your life and your career, I can promise you one thing; you will consistently be faced with challenges and obstacles along the way. My question is this: have you taken the time to do the necessary planning? You will face physical, mental, financial, relational, and resource challenges among others.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link]. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader [link]. In this post, I compare the ineptitude of BP against the leadership of Rudy Giuliani during a much bigger crisis.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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Leading Blog

JULY 16, 2021

Of all the business and career memes to gain popularity, few have compromised integrity in business, leadership, and personal success more than the expression “Fake it till you make it.” Horn then takes us through her journey as the CEO of a public relations and marketing communications agency. And then there’s winning.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Organizations can no longer guarantee work and careers, even if they want to. Jettisoned employees are finding that their hard won knowledge, skills and capabilities earned while being loyal are no longer valuable in the employment market place. Longevity was a sign of employer-employee relations; turnover was a sign of dysfunction.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have only raised my voice in the workplace twice during my career and both times I have regretted it tremendously. Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. link] Summary Sunday | Guide for Lifetime Career Navigation | Career Sherpa [.]

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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HR Digest

MARCH 27, 2025

As the nation faces a persistent economic crisis, one question looms large. This interesting interplay between inflation and unemployment is a critical issue shaping the American labor market. It has left workers and employers alike wading through a tricky job market. The job market trends reveal a bigger paradox.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

The difference between the two aforementioned examples is that great leaders have mastered the art of finding the right message (the relevant message) regardless of the medium, market, or constituency being addressed. The reality is that your messaging will often times have a greater impact on your career than your performance.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career. What I can tell you is that I’ve always made my family a priority.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. What I do vehemently dispute is the assertion that a particular nuance is reasonable justification for flawed business logic to prevail.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Nowhere will you find a better model for servant leadership, vision casting, discipleship, good decisioning, discernment, self-leadership, intentional leadership, crisis management, character based leadership, etc. I find everything, in my realm on marketing, I get the best advise and insight from Christ.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

Especially disruptive technologies, the demographic trend and the digitalization are the main reasons that markets change dramatically and the customers are behaving completely different than they used to do just a few years ago. They will copy your products, your prices, maybe even your marketing. The Rules Have Changed. Change it.”,

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 7, 2014

With critical natural resources becoming scarcer and climate change more threatening, the environmental crisis will highlight the need for all organizations to demonstrate that their operations are sustainable. To take a line from the X Files, “ the future is out there.”

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 26, 2021

At a time when the careers of many of us are in significant doubt due to the uncertain economic circumstances posed by Covid-19, the ability to successfully transition from job to job, or even career to career, is hugely important so that we avoid the kind of career interruptions that are so harmful to our long-term success.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

They don’t sit idly by and watch the business lose market share, suffer margin erosion, see their competitive value propositions vaporize, or watch their brand go into decline. Current or anticipated changes in market conditions that will adversely impact your business model. They make changes.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

link] Rob Hiliard Mike: Priceless and savvy advice – If only I’d had this insight early on in my career as a CEO I would have been spared a lot of pain and suffering. Thanks in advance… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.]

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

For me, pursuing my career in financial services has always factored into my new year’s resolutions. The Catalyst report also encouraged me to reflect on my own career path, the choices I’ve made both professionally and personally, and the lessons I’ve learned that have helped me get to where I am today. 2) Sit at the table.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Most restaurant workers don’t believe that the job can become their career. The higher up the ladder you go or move to a fine establishment can be a potential career path. Would you like to use this job as a ladder to a successful career in the restaurant industry? Don’t say the job market is rough. Behavioral Round.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., Business models must be designed with great care at the outset, but they must also be fluid in order to react to changing market conditions and avoid becoming stagnant. are also not business models.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Loyalty is a missing ingredient in job market of both the secular and sacred. Would love to teach my staff this lesson with your permission. I would like to add one. I think loyalty cost us nothing, yet delivers great reward to a team. Your post are always eye-opening. I think loyalty is a great addition to the list.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Avoid controversy, maintain a high likeability factor, consistently and proactively engage your customers, be a business of character that engenders trust and confidence with your target market(s), produce a quality product or service at a competitive price point, and provide great customer service.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Among the many things that make leadership more challenging today is the global market in which leaders must compete. Marshall Goldsmith : The principles of leadership haven’t changed much, but the world in which we apply them certainly has.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

link] #30Thursday Post Number Nine (Yes it’s fine!) | Musings on Marketing and Other Morsels [.] link] mikemyatt Thanks for the kind words…You might be interested in the following posts as they deal specifically with the topics of social media and influence: [link]. and, [link].

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

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