Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

“Talent management deserves as much focus as financial capital management in corporations.” ~ Jack Welch One of the best ways to strengthen your company as a whole is to devote attention to developing your employee talent. Talent identification and management begin with The Four P’s.

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General Leadership

MAY 7, 2014

The practice of EQ, and particularly our capacity for exercising self-regulation over emotional reaction, is literally where the rubber of our inner fortitude meets the hard long or short road of our effective leadership. In short…to reign in our emotional reactions. You lose all around. It’s just that simple.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

He highlighted the need for change as the main prerequisite of a successful transformation; being ex-McKinsey and a public official before this current role, Boris’s whole career revolved around extensive transformation processes. Despite an effort to implement these changes, many organizations still fall short of a successful transformation.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We’re changing jobs more than ever and pursuing multiple careers and projects simultaneously. Take a moment to consider how many jobs you’ve had and how many careers you’re yet to embark upon? Despite all this, Short still demonstrates an unparalleled joie de vivre —he just keeps moving forward. Today, it’s more akin to five.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. As founding dean and professor at the Yale school of management, he taught a course on entrepreneurial leadership. Of course, an entrepreneurial leader needs to know about subjects like financial management, competitive strategy, market analysis, and the like.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It leads to short-term thinking. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. While fear can drive short-term results, it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. That’s not the way to lead.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

According to David Grossman of The Grossman Group great leaders don’t just manage employees; they make sure employees are motivated, engaged and inspired when coming to work. David Chaudron of Organized Change recalls that Traditional Management theory had managers dictating work and assigning tasks to workers.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

Gallup scientists have determined that there are five universal and interdependent elements of wellbeing that differentiate a thriving life from one spent suffering: Career : liking what you do every day (Tip: Every day, use your strengths.). Any time you help your-short-term self work with your long-term self, you have an opportunity.

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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. Galetti is the highest-ranking woman at Amazon and the only woman on the 18-person “S-Team” (short for “Senior Team”) that reports directly to founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

This is a guest post by Joel Garfinkle, author of Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level. Whether it’s internal forces that cause us to sell ourselves short or it’s a matter of having been conditioned not to “toot our own horn,” people have a marked tendency to avoid the limelight when in truth they belong in it.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Now the good news : As much as some people want to create complexity around the topic of leading change for personal gain, the reality is that creating, managing and leading change is really quite simple. There you have it; the 3 pillars of change in three short paragraphs.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2020

These are things in your control, like how you set goals, behave, develop, network, present yourself, and manage your sleep. We manage impressions all the time. “As As your career evolves, your continued high performance will require you to show new behaviors. And the two certainly play into long-term performance.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 9, 2022

I’ve struggled with setting goals throughout my career and life. Goals that are short-term will push you to get things done: Our goals don’t have to be long-term goals. Long-term goals often never end, because we lose sight of the goal. Once your list is manageable, then you can set more goals.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 4, 2016

Managers who win well bring confidence and humility in equal measure and focus on both results and relationships. What distinguishes a Winning Well manager from a “User,” “Pleaser,” or “Gamer” manager type you discuss in your Winning Well model? How did you know? Thank you!”.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. But are these really our only choices?

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 27, 2014

There are some moments in your career that leave an indelible imprint – moments that end up defining WHO you are. There, at an annual budget meeting with the entire operations management group in attendance, an important decision was made. Leading vs. Managing - This is the big one- the ultimate battle. We’ve won.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Guest post from Miles Anthony Smith: If we go into management to earn more, have more power/prestige, and work less, we are either naïve or ignorant. And let’s admit right now that those are precisely the reasons most of us go into management.). Prepare to be Hated. Wise leaders accept that some decisions will be unpopular.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2011

I know this well because early in my business career I was that kind of leader and I have had to work hard to change my approach. I realized that any hard-charging leader can create success in the short term, but it would take a positive leader with a people and process-driven approach to build a successful organization for the long term.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). An entrepreneur should be able to summarize an idea in one short sentence.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Moreover, COOs are the gatekeepers of risk management, ensuring that all operations adhere to legal and regulatory standards. Project Management: Mastering the art of overseeing projects from start to finish. Financial Acumen: Managing budgets and resources efficiently. But the financials are only one piece of the puzzle.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

I experienced this personally in my corporate career. It was “slash and burn” our way to a “profitable exit” over a very short term. Take the time to LEAD before you manage business execution, and you’ll hugely increase your odds of hitting that trifecta. EVERY time. Go for it, and lead well!

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 7, 2019

Erik summarizes: “ Research shows that high-performance organizations view ERG participation to be more effective than formal development programs in terms of developing a variety of leadership skills. Here’s how to manage yourself to choose kindness over the alternatives. “ Find Erik on Twitter at @i4cp.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 12, 2017

While I don’t think she intended it this way, her factual style of asking and telling was a good life lesson for dealing with bosses who managed by command-and-control and wanted answers straight up. A few years into my career, I worked for a boss who asked a whole new style of questions. My mom told me how it was going to be.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2021

It’s never too early or too late to start thinking about ways to improve your professional skill set and give your career a boost. With that in mind, here are six tips that could help give your career a boost. Ask yourself these questions and figure out what your career goals are. Manage Your Time. Know What You Want.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

While I’ve often addressed what it really takes to create a talent driven organization, few companies seem willing to make the requisite investments needed to successfully align their actions with their management speak. If your company doesn’t have a Chief Talent Officer, Chief People Officer etc.,

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 6, 2021

I managed large teams for over 15 years in corporate and have been coaching C-Level clients for 15 more. During this time, I've probably run into every scenario a manager can experience. Translate upper management's vague directives into things your team can understand and take action on. Motivate people, don't command them.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Something as simple as a 360 Review, or as complex as a deep psychological profile (both with weighted emphasis on leadership aptitude) can point out an individual’s leadership capabilities.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Those professionals that have self respect, and demonstrate a true respect for others regardless of their station in life, are much more likely to be successful over the long-term than those that use the tactics of disrespect to humiliate and intimidate. I wanted to put this question out there: Can humility be learned? Greenleaf in 1970.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. will go into decline.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 27, 2017

Everyone has a manager/boss. Even if you are in business on your own, someone is out there plucking the puppet strings of your career. I work with a myriad of people who have incredible success and terrible issues with their manager. Short — make it a 10-15 minute meeting; the shorter, the better — focus on the tactical.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 10, 2024

In business, the adage "penny wise and pound foolish" often describes a short-sighted approach to cost management that undermines long-term success. However, this short-term focus can lead to long-term losses.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 30, 2013

Other than this handful of critical executive positions, succession planning for the rest of the organizations is usually managed by identifying “pools” of candidates that are considered to have potential to move into any number of senior leadership roles. Well, that’s OK if you want to do the same job for the rest of your career.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2021

One of the best ways that you can achieve career success is for you to try and keep assessing your performance. If you can do this, and follow the below tips then there’s no reason why you can’t achieve success in your career. If you want to excel in your chosen career, then you have to be willing to learn. Do it yourself!

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

While the emotional distress associated with gossip can be dealt with fairly easily, the political discord that can erupt in an organization can be nothing short of disastrous. If you want to be a long-term survivor in business I would suggest that you not participate in gossip and get rid of those that do.

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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.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Sure, you care about your career and the conversation in the next talent review, but when presenting to executives, the best way to showcase your leadership is extraordinary execution. I’ve always wrestled with the term “fake it till you make it,” because there’s a difference between faking expertise and confidence.

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