Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What do you do to help your team shift from busy to productive? In this episode, we look at three busy day examples and what was preventing each team from being productive, even though they were busy. 05:25 You need to help your team make this shift from busy to productive and model it yourself.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

To do that, you have to show how your market is big enough (a multi-billion dollar market) to support that kind of valuation. Going all the way back to Yahoo or Microsoft, the initial products (a directory for a nascent tech called the World Wide Web, and Microsoft BASIC,) didn’t look like billion-dollar products at all.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 8, 2014

It was inspiring to get to know Nido Quebein, President of High Point University, along with his concept of Productive Failures and Unproductive Success. When you succeed at something big, was it due to the market, the price, the positioning, the long hours, the social media campaign, the right leadership, the right employees?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Godin is best known for his expertise in marketing and the Internet. project management consultant” or “productivity coach”). Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning career growth how to grow as a leader influence leadership development' Tribes by Seth Godin. Tribes” is Godin’s contribution to leadership.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 1, 2014

While working at Morgan Stanley in New York City, I met and discovered the writings of several thoughtful market analysts. The Ten Surprises, which I started doing in 1986, has been a defining product. Do the numbers crunching in the early phase of your career. Short-cuts can be construed as sloppiness, a career killer.

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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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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 24, 2023

"In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks." — Warren Buffett Ah, the career transition! A career transition isn't just about shifting from Job A to Job B. That's precisely what makes the very idea of a career change daunting.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

An inspiring and practical look inside the mind of Bill Novelli, one of the founders of social marketing, Good Business challenges all of us to change the world for the better and is a blueprint for tackling today's critical issues. Conflicted : How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes by Ian Leslie.

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General Leadership

MARCH 5, 2014

As owner and lead consultant at Maiers Educational Services , her passion for literacy and technology to discover creative ways to assist schools and organizations in meeting their learning and productivity goals. Autumn Letendre of the Golden Star USA Foundation. Lori Mixson, “the Last Angel” Twitter: @lastangel1970.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 12, 2021

Team conflict can feel like quicksand and a distraction from your work, but it’s an excellent opportunity to improve morale and productivity. Early in my career my boss Jim, the Executive Vice President, took me to lunch at a popular spot for business meetings where the dining room was packed and bustling. Reflect to Connect.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 10, 2025

Blackpool and Fylde College have made it their mission to address this with high-quality, career-focused education that supports upskilling to meet workforce priorities. They also benefit from CMI membership and exclusive Chartered Manager (CMgr) status t o accelerate their career progression.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

Your task is now to acquire the skills you need in this new territory before your career or your enterprise falters as a result of your personal limitations. Reconfigure for evolving markets. What lies beyond the edge is the opposite, an unfamiliar landscape barely coming into focus. Accelerate your flywheel for growth.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2023

An online MBA in marketing is a great way to transition into a marketing career. The business world constantly evolves, so marketers must stay current on new trends and technologies. This online MBA program in marketing prepares you to tackle the challenges of today’s fast-paced, data-fueled world.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 6, 2014

He is the author of Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity (Thomas Nelson). Katie Russell is a digital marketing specialist at E Pluribus Partners. Follow Michael on his blog , Twitter , Facebook , Google+ or on LinkedIn. Photo source: freedigitalphotos.net. Creator: stockimages. .

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Slow Productivity : The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. Slow productivity is exactly what we need. Managers keep score of a range of business metrics: market share, revenue, profit margin, growth rate.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Product management is a high-demand job prospect, with immense growth and lucrative income potential. Not surprisingly, more and more young professionals are keen to explore it to get a career head start. But the field is still nascent, and the role of a product manager may differ from organization to organization.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

It’s never too early to start thinking about your career, so we’ve put together a list of the best management careers in 2022. If you’re thinking of breaking into one of the best business management careers then we have some advice for you. What are the top management careers? An image of a man hard at work.

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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. Of course subordinating one's ego to more productive traits never hurts.:)

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

Increasing shareholder value, company market share, or worker productivity just doesn’t jazz the average worker. What matters to the average worker includes career opportunity, meaningful work, a balanced life, a fair wage, and being treated with respect—not increasing output. It doesn’t matter what your company peddles.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

At Facebook, allegiance to the hacker way permeates every aspect of the business, from product innovation to organizational structure to management and training. 2) Offer your employees a nontraditional career path that is based on their contributions and value-based behaviors, and not on their age or credentials.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement Organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of evolving into learning organizations to remain competitive and adapt to continuous market changes. A McKinsey report suggests that organizations embracing continual improvement experience 20-30% productivity gains.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As a leader, you can decrease discomfort and increase productivity by increasing your awareness of personal style and organizational culture and how they interrelate. Mission/Market: Executing the action plan that creates bottom-line results and move the organization toward realizing its goals. Corresponds with “Dominant/Different.”).

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

External factors such as economic oscillations, market volatility, and industry disruptions drastically impact succession strategies. Evaluating the current market scenario, company status, and anticipated future changes is central to this process. Inflexible plans are the hidden Achilles heel of many organizations.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. Or else, you took on the hard work of growing the entire market. It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. I’ve learned this is not always true.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve experienced that plenty of times in my career, at one moment preaching about a “BHAG” – the Big, Hairy Audacious Goal – and just a few moments later drilling down and coming to terms on a missed quarterly target) .

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 15, 2024

In this podcast episode, Andre Martin discusses the importance of finding the right fit in your career and building a culture that supports employee motivation, engagement, and satisfaction. He emphasizes the need to reflect on values, goals, and ideal work environment before making career decisions.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

If ignored or met with intolerance or indifference, these dissimilarities can be divisive, even lethal for career or business success. I once had a boss who had an imaginary grid on his desktop—financials had a certain resting spot as did staff reports and marketing news. People do the same thing. Aaron Dignan.

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2019

In 2016, the Society for Human Resource Management made a compelling case about the benefits that come from an engaging leadership approach: • 22 percent greater profitability • 21 percent greater productivity • 65 percent lower turnover. I want leadership that values my opinion and is geared to my career development opportunities.”.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

This si a post by Ken Goldstein, author of Endless Encores : Repeating Success Through People, Products, and Profits. I've written the words People, Products, Profits (In That Order!) Like the words Think Different, People-Products-Profits is part management philosophy, part rallying cry, and in an aspirational context, part religion.

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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?

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2019

In my long career, 45 years of it as a CEO, I’ve lived that change. We give each business unit as many resources – tech support, product management, marketing – as we can to enable them to operate as autonomously as possible. Or should there be a single product management group within the business unit?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

It is imperative to probe candidates into the delicate subtleties of your business, for instance, how return on capital is impacted by elements deep down in the production stage. Sales and marketing positions appear to provide broader sector hunting grounds, but reality can be different, and there are still many constraints.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Personal Disruption (n.): The act of using a practice employed by companies — wherein a product deemed inferior by the market leader (Amazon v. Yellow Cab) eventually upends the industry — and applying it to yourself and your career. Borders, Uber v.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 31, 2014

But there might be an additional service or product you can provide where your client will acknowledge the price change but won’t care because of the extra service. The product or service might not cost you a lot, but over the long run, the up-charge on services will bring in mucho dollars. Position differently.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 29, 2022

While I have been notably skeptical about the various claims that robots and AI will destroy vast swathes of the jobs we know today, there is an understandable concern about the impact technology is likely to have on the labor market, and especially about how one can go about making our own job as disruption proof as possible.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

Professional roles of introverts vs. extroverts Introverts and extroverts tend to migrate to career fields that play to their dispositions, says Moore. Yet it can be a difficult place for introverts since they are most productive working alone and prefer quiet to noise. That’s no doubt coming.

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