HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2025

The golden state of California is making waves with its innovative approach to workforce development. At the heart of this significant move is the Digital Career Passport, a key component of Governor Gavin Newsoms bold vision to redefine how people gain skills and work. But what exactly are Career Passports?

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

A strong north wind has rapidly shaped the industry’s evolution through innovation. These innovations have revolutionized various industries and have the potential to continue shaping our future. One of the most crucial skills for future tech leaders is adaptability.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 17, 2020

In every career path, there’s a level at which leadership skills and visibility play a much stronger role in promotions than job skills. Resourceful” and “innovative” topped the list. His expertise on the promotion process through visibility will propel your career to the next level.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While AI can enhance decision-making, streamline operations, and drive innovation, it also brings challenges such as ethical concerns, job displacement, and data privacy issues. By doing so, they maintain a competitive edge and foster a culture of innovation.

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Career Advancement

MAY 10, 2021

The favorites know how to work the system in their favor, which ultimately means building a strong support base throughout all corners of the organization. Take risks, stepping outside of your comfort zone and proposing innovative ideas that you feel could benefit the company. Here are some tips for doing just that.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2019

Roberto Leaders do not have to conceive innovative ideas, but rather open the path for curious and creative employees within their organization. Unlocking Creativity aids organizations in removing obstacles to the creative process and helps to form an atmosphere of imagination and innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2012

Turn Innovation Inward. Innovation continues to be a hot topic, and rightly so. Few things can change the course of a project, career, company, category, or industry like successful efforts in innovation. So, how do we get leaders to change – we demand it. It’s less about structure and more about vision and philosophy.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” Donaldson and Karl Weber extract relevant lessons for leaders in Entrepreneurial Leader.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

As such, women executives should position themselves for success in these new roles, from chief data officer, chief digital officer, and chief innovation officer to chief sustainability officer and chief transformation officer. Not just that, their efforts offer the business world an innovative blueprint for pulling through crises.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

When the systems crash, the calls back up, the customer starts screaming, s/he takes a deep breath and moves into action. Is c onstantly encouraging innovation and new ways to make the work more effective and efficient. His energy toward great service serves as a charismatic contagious vortex that inspires daily action.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face. Develops People: Shares experience and provides mentoring, coaching, career planning, and development experience to ensure growth and development.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 20, 2024

It requires creating sophisticated systems that identify potential, nurture growth, and provide meaningful challenges. When leaders prioritize developing future innovators, they create sustainable competitive advantages. Your performance sets the tone for organizational achievement and innovation.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Intuitively, yes, entrepreneurship is a risky career path. One of the assessment tools we use a great deal is the Basadur Innovation Profile. This instrument measures one’s preferences for engaging the innovation process. According to the Small Business Administration, about half of all businesses fail within five years ( PDF ).

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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 20, 2021

In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” Strategic messages got through just as well (if not better) than if we had rented a fancy room at a gigantic sound system and tee-shirt blasters.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

This is more than a semantical issue – it’s become a systemic problem with many individuals and organizations. The mechanistic world of the industrial age continues to have a grip on our belief system. Are you efficient or effective, or do you know? They are however clearly the investments that produce the greatest contributions.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

His book The Innovators Dilemma has impacted the business world perhaps more than any other book in recent history. He has expanded his research and applied his theories to other industries like health care, higher education and even governments and tax systems. Integrity Leadership Purpose change Clayton Christensen Innovation'

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2019

To make matters worse, many leaders and managers work in organizations layered with forced hierarchies and inherently distrustful systems. It’s more difficult to instill trust in your workers if you’re an extension of a system that doesn’t trust them. “Oh, It will take courage to let employees do their jobs.

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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.

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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. I Think Not.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Rich has a fascinating backstory – he found his career calling at age 13, when he typed in a two-line program into a Teletype and the computer came back and typed back “HI RICH”.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

My wife has always told me that “you can’t go wrong by going right,” and as usual I find her advice to be spot on…Never compromise you value system, your character, or your integrity. Thanks for stopping by Steve… Rob Mike- Systems thinking can be of high value to leaders. I'll be sure and check it out. I Think Not.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 3, 2021

When we start out in our career we’re often placed in the perverse situation of expecting to know exactly what we want to do for the next 40/50 years while having no real experience of any career, let alone the multiple careers that might give us a realistic ability to appraise which one suits us best.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MARCH 2, 2014

Career Advancement Blog author Joel Garfinkle gives us 5 Tips on Recruiting & Retaining Managerial Talent. Miller asks about Career Conversations: Leaders, Are You Getting it Right? Why leaders should read this: Normally there are weaknesses in the system that make failure more likely than it should be.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 18, 2014

His “ chocolate and peanut butter ” moment in his career when he left a high-paying Silicon Valley job, and created the Taproot Foundation. Why purpose has to be an organizing principle for innovation and growth for today’s businesses. So far, they’ve delivered over $128 Million in pro-bono services.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2024

The focus is not only on experience and skills but also on the ability to drive innovation, handle crises, and inspire teams — qualities that genuinely define exceptional leadership. It is the process of acquiring top leadership talent that shapes corporate strategy, improves operational efficiency, and drives innovation.

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HR Digest

JULY 19, 2020

The performance management system is the process used to measure the performance of employees in an organization. The performance management system helps an organization arrange its mission, goals, and objectives with the available resources. SMART Performance Management System. Management of Performance.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Discipline requires a systemic approach. To make good decisions, we need to understand how the system works. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

It helps to have people that like and know how to lead (like is the born part), but born leaders without knowledge, goals and belief system are leaders for leaders sake and often end up creating a lot of trouble for themselves and those they lead. link] mikemyatt We are in agreement on all points Dan. I Think Not.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 8, 2023

Inequality in the science profession remains an unfortunate reality, and research from the University of Pittsburgh highlights how systemic racism is causing significant psychological distress for scientists from underrepresented backgrounds.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

It sets apart organizations that simply survive from those that turn challenges into opportunities, encouraging innovation and growth. The responsibility lies with these leaders to navigate uncertainty and foster a culture emphasizing adaptability and innovation. To foster innovation, it’s essential to adopt a strategic mindset.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Master of Change : How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You by Brad Stulberg From social disruptions like economic recessions, pandemics, and new technologies to individual disruptions like getting married, career transitions, and becoming a parent, we undergo change and transformation—both good and bad—regularly.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Shouldn't your reward system recognize efforts by the 98% who are trying to better themselves, and not just the 2% who are already at the top? My early career was as a sales manager for Southwestern Company, which involved recruiting college students to sell educational books door-to-door. Yet, despite setbacks, he never gave up.

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Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2019

It’s better to have office hours, set ground rules, have weekly one-on-one meetings, and a scheduled system of communication. Great leaders take the time to identify each person’s strengths and then align opportunities and career path options to take advantage of them.”. It is a passive solution to trust and information flow.

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