Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Have you noticed how hard it can be to stay curious, creative, and innovative? They often express concern about a perceived lack of curiosity, creativity, and innovation in their teams. You, your team, and your organization end up doing the same old, same old. If they are, change up your mix.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Tenure Inhibits Change and Cripples Innovation : Organizations that favor tenure also tend to be prone to majoring in the minors. You see tenure is not synonymous with loyalty, but rather is more often a measure of compliance and survival.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Generation Why : How Boomers Can Lead and Learn from Millennials and Gen Z by Karl Moore Perhaps more than ever before, young people entering the workforce are searching for meaning and authenticity in their careers. Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

8 Ways To Be A Leader That Employees Want To Follow by @TanveerNaseer. Speak-up Culture: How to Encourage More (and Better) Ideas by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders People choose to hold back their ideas for a variety of reasons. 3 Career Development Questions to Stop Asking Employees by @Julie_WG.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Are we following processes? Career issues may occur. pets, kids, etc) that a company will need to address (particularly if schools go remote, etc.) Even with expenses that the company incurred to set people up at home (buildout, technology), the company saw a positive ROI. The more engaged, the more innovation.

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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. I would also add that it works at home as well. Thanks for sharing Taariq: [link].

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Ask each person to envision the highest performers in the role and privately write down their thoughts on the following, putting one competency on each card. Partnering up team members as peer support to help one another. Is c onstantly encouraging innovation and new ways to make the work more effective and efficient.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Follow Jennifer on Twitter at @NashCoaching. ” Follow David on Twitter at @ThoughtPartner. Hamel and Zanini’s book Humanocracy looks at the Bureaucratic Mass Index of organizations – and how to upgrade them to Humanocracies with freedom and responsibility ” Follow Marcella on Twitter at @MarcellaBremer.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 1, 2014

For example, in “ Seven Ways to Sell Your Ideas to Management ,” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shares how to present your ideas in order to get them implemented – a skill you need to master if you want to be an influential leader in your company. Need a little tongue-in-cheek advice? Neal Burgis, Ph.D. Character of a Leader.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The more people you have thinking strategically, even at the frontlines, the more innovative and dynamic your company will be. Oh yeah, and be sure to give the “friends” a few strategic action items for follow-up. Instead invest in your highly talent managers and teach them the art of strategy. It’s a win-win.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

As he observes, the higher up you go the crises just get bigger and come faster. Finally, he shows how collaboration, innovation, intellectual curiosity, storytelling, and creating change that lasts, helped him reach his goals. Innovation. I remind these students that great start-ups begin with great technology discoveries.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 13, 2023

What a tragic loss of innovation, not to mention the drain on morale and engagement. “I noticed you brought up the idea about in our staff meeting today. ” And then, schedule the finish “Great, let’s catch up after our staff meeting later this week to hear how that went. I’m curious.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

They deal with anxiety and health issues that weigh heavily, financial and personal matters that keep them up at night, and a host of other problems that make their day more stressful than needed. ” Follow Marcella on Twitter at @MarcellaBremer. ” Follow Bill on Twitter at @btreasurer. .

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2024

Ty Wiggins, an experienced leadership advisor specializing in CEO transitions, explains how to land well as a new CEO, accelerate your impact, and unlock the most affirming experience of your career. Alex Dang has witnessed up close how VCs’ thinking and mechanisms can create successful businesses at companies like Amazon and McKinsey.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The connection took up as if we were finishing a conversation begun only the day before. Until…there’s too much of it, and its dark side surfaces: lack of innovation, narrow-minded thinking, ingrained and unquestioned bias, outdated practices, and failure to grow as a person. Familiarity is so comforting.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. I agree that actions speak louder than words and lead by example is a great way to generate committed followers. They are the ones people turn to when things get tough. Once again, great post.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The following is a guest post by Joel A. Being a good leader — or even a great leader — is just not enough if you want to keep moving up in your career. Approach every problem with the mindset that there is a solution, and it is up to you to find it. You must be so remarkable that no one can help but notice you.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

If the opening paragraph caused you to wince, then the text that follows is written just for you. 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.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Diana explains: “ With online communication at the virtual speed of light, many have forgotten to follow the “Newspaper Rule,” also known as “The New York Times Rule:” don’t put anything in writing you wouldn’t want to appear on the front page of. ” Follow Jim on Twitter at @JlcTaggart.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

This is best accomplished by leveraging individual talents not stiffling them. I would be less than candid if I didn’t admit that leading those inclined to follow is significantly less of a challenge than leading those who don’t want to be led. Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In the list that follows I’m going to share with you 6 leadership characteristics that require absolutely no talent or ability, but that must be present in order to succeed over the long-haul as a leader. Show-up : You can’t make a difference if you don’t show-up. I don’t ever remember dogging-it again.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating. When leaders are pressured into leadership styles that go against their natural way of operating, they are set up for failure. They end up focusing on themselves instead of the people and organization they are leading.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. Martin's Press, 2023) In The Art of Clear Thinking , Hasard Lee distills what he’s learned during his career flying some of the Air Force’s most advanced aircraft. Change is not the exception, it’s the rule.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

If you follow this advice not only will you become better informed, but you’ll also become more popular with those whom you interact with. You’ll also notice that when intelligent people do speak-up it’s not to ramble-on incoherently or incessantly, but usually to ask a question so that they can elicit even more information.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap? Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

However, while often not “planned”, our research shows that many leaders’ paths follow this pattern because they have been operating with a serendipity mindset. Successful leaders are not “just lucky”, even when their career may have some seemingly coincidental moments. They worked hard to get lucky. Psychological Safety.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

We need much more of the kind of leadership that is capable of scaling innovation, adaptability, sustainability, agility, and engagement as it is growth strategy. How do you show up as a leader? In their study, High-Creative leaders consistently demonstrated the following 10 strengths. The solution is to scale our leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In the end, we are leaders only if others choose to follow. Make sure your walk is heading to a great place; a place worthy of being followed to. link] Meredith Bell I had the opportunity to meet Kevin recently at a conference and had a follow-up phone conversation with him. How does your walk prove it? I Think Not.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 2, 2019

We’re now focused on being ‘one of the boys’ and more opportunities that may follow because of it.” Flourishing in this environment demands frequent touch points, up-to-the-minute information and perspectives, and ever-present versus episodic coaching. ” Follow Marcella on Twitter at @MarcellaBremer.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

Schulze's principles are both versatile and utterly practical to leaders of every age, career stage, and industry. Bestselling author Mark Miller says it's up to leaders to create a workplace where their employees truly want to be—and he reveals four keys to doing it. Innovation is broken.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2019

However, there’s another side to leadership that focuses on the followers: trust. As leaders, we need to actively trust our followers, teams, and employees. On the one hand, you need your employees to trust you if you want them to follow your direction enthusiastically. As the Roman poet Virgil said, “Fortune favors the bold.”

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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. Instead of beating yourself up or giving in, it is critical that you develop the ability to learn from setbacks. Don’t hide from the reality of the situation at hand.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As everyone in the US gears up to put the closing moments on a divisive political season tomorrow, I am heartened to be reminded how many great leaders there are out there, committed to helping one another be more effective and more true to themselves. ” Follow Anne on Twitter at @bizshrink. Follow Chris on Twitter at @scedmonds.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

That said, I have little use for social networking junkies who collect friends/followers/contacts just for the sake of watching the numbers go up, while adding little or no value to their network. All those followers and connections don't really have meaning except to make one feel important and/or popular.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2024

Good Judgment : Making Better Business Decisions with the Science of Human Personality by Richard Davis In Good Judgment , Dr. Davis explains what the science of personality is and how it works, and how all of us can use it to improve our working relationships, careers, and lives. Now, he is sharing it with the world.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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