N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

Posted on July 20th, 2010 by admin in Leadership By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Leaders: born or made? Both – some people are born with innate qualities that predispose them to being leaders, and other people while not naturally gifted with leadership ability can acquire it.

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Wednesday, November 24, 2010 Angel Capital vs. Venture Capital Angels and VCs are often very synergistic. Their background in operations of a business often makes them more suitable to do the detail work. I call it CEO Blog - Time Leadership because of my keen interest in time.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

It prepares for the inevitability of change and ensures that operations will remain uninterrupted while minimizing potential hiccups that may come with the transition of power. Developing an internal culture fosters dedicated leadership that is aligned with the organization’s mission and operations.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Gravitas is similar to charisma in that it captivates us, but it is less about how you physically show up and attract attention and more about how you compel others to lean in and listen with extreme interest to what you have to say because it is expected to be insightful and is delivered with meaningful wisdom. www.ericapeitler.com.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Employees and managers in the autonomy stage are ready for mature leadership. Those in the ideological stage may have charisma but are best avoided when top leadership responsibilities are assigned. Training in ethical analysis can play a key role in developing ethical leadership. John Hooker is a T.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 1, 2025

Trust isn’t an engagement score or a leadership philosophy; it is the byproduct of good organizational design. In this environment, employees don’t have to “trust leadership” as an act of faith; they trust the system because they see how decisions are made and how they contribute to outcomes.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 26, 2017

S AM WALKER revisits the popular idea of leadership. In The Captain Class , Walker describes what makes an elite captain by analyzing the leadership of sixteen of the most dominate teams in history. While the captains of Tier One often did ugly things, they did so while operating within the fuzzy confines of the rules of sports.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2022

You are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. The prospective CxO will have a leadership presence, which is hard to quantify. Again, the bar is set high as the investor leader, and private equity firms’ dynamics are fast, aggressive, and all-conquering.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Leadership theory has always been an attempt to understand what make a leader effective and distill and share those lessons with others. Leadership theory has evolved and continues to evolve over time. Another important leadership theory is Servant Leadership popularized by Robert Greenleaf in the seventies.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 20, 2015

When it comes to studying leadership, the natural tendency is to focus on those leaders whose successes and achievements continue to inspire us and drive so many to emulate them in the hopes of replicating their accomplishments.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Leadership is Command Presence. Bender was describing a vital feature of leadership—command presence. Leadership is Being Spirit-Full. Leadership is the act of influencing another to achieve important goals. Leadership is about being–the conveyance of a clear and present spirit. “You Leaders are present.

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CO2

JUNE 17, 2013

It used to be that superior intelligence was all leaders needed–that and some charisma. Leaders need to operate from a perspective of Not Knowing. The post Three Ways Leaders Outsmart Themselves appeared first on | Elements of Leadership Blog. In doing so, however, leaders outsmart themselves.

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QAspire

MARCH 15, 2016

Before leadership be effective, it has to be true. And the truth of leadership is essentially human. If we have to raise the bar of leadership, we need to first cultivate truer leadership at the core. In the same post, he offers 5 timeless qualities of true leadership.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Transformational leadership. One of the popular frameworks of leadership is that of transforming leadership. Initially coined by James Downton in 1973 following his research into charismatic leadership, it was influenced largely by Bernard Bass, and his instrumental book Leadership and Performance Beyond Expectations (1985).

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

After all, when it comes to leadership, our ability to succeed in this role involves more than just one skill set or approach, something that’s particularly evident when we consider the increasing demands and ever-changing conditions that shape and define today’s workplace environment.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Granted, this might seem like an obvious answer from someone who regularly writes and speaks about leadership. ” Listening to Qahtani’s words, I was reminded of two leaders and how their words served to shape how others viewed and responded to their leadership.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2017

You can be reached from anywhere and find the market you need instantly with a few search engine terms, and then operate on a larger scale than you ever would have been able to in the past. It Affects Our Operating Size. As a result, it’s such a powerful time to run a business.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Can Charisma Be Taught? I’ve also been fortunate to work for two CEO’s that had plenty of charisma, and I always marveled at their ability to project such “presence” in any public space they inhabited. The theory?

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Mark Sanborn

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I instantly connected with their gregariousness, love of life, and desire to learn and grow their business, but it wasn’t until some years later that I visited their operation and my suspicions were confirmed. . The post Envisioning Green: An Extraordinary Small Business appeared first on Mark Sanborn Keynote Leadership Speaker.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

That's not leadership, I explained. In more than four decades of studying businesses and consulting to organizations on how to implement new strategies, I can't tell you how many times I've heard people use the words "leadership" and "management" synonymously, and it drives me crazy every time. Leadership is entirely different.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

But our research shows that while having at least a moderate level of charisma is important, having too much may hinder a leader’s effectiveness. First, it’s important to understand what charisma is. In other words, charisma is attributed to someone , as opposed to being grounded in one’s personality.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. When the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

Unlike brick-and-mortar operations replicated in a cheaper clime, a virtual call center is a fluidly shifting amalgam of individual operators, each working from his or her own home, not employees of the company but agents controlling their schedules and the calls they choose to do.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2024

It requires a relentless commitment to results, unwavering clarity in leadership, and a culture where everyone is held accountable to the highest standards. When goals are unclear, team members operate on assumptions, and chaos ensues. Ultimately, retaining A-players comes down to your leadership.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s hard to escape this view of leaders and leadership. It can, however, be edified through examining tangible illustrations of leaders and leadership from history. How leaders operated within, or pushed against, the constraints of their time illustrate characteristics of responsibility, vision, sacrifice, and more.

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Leading Blog

MAY 20, 2020

But these days a maverick CEO is often at the center of board and executive consternation and investors’ claims that leadership failed to protect the company. Travis Kalanick 's brash operating style and the toxic working environment he created led him to be tossed out of the company. Be contrarian.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh? Do you have great vision?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Founders tend to use their personal charisma and technical smarts to rally their teams, and that can work while a business is small. But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. Founders who recognize this bring in partners whose skills complement their own.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

As one senior manager noted, “he knew the operations and its numbers better than many business unit heads.” Despite her charisma and strategic acumen, I believe Fiorina ultimately failed in several ways. ” During Fiorina’s tenure, HP stock dropped 65%, while during the same period the S&P 500 dropped 15%.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes, those concrete instructions and processes will not work. The culture can emerge from the leader’s own personal charisma or ethos. Cautionary tales abound. If so, how?

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes those concrete instructions and processes will not work. The culture can emerge from the leader’s own personal charisma or ethos. Leadership Innovation (Work different). If so, how?

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CO2

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Developing Leadership Skills: What Do Great Leaders Have in Common? The Leadership Challenge From their research, Kouzes and Posner identified five common factors in taking approaches to leadership. These are: Model the way As the leader, you need to model the behavior, values, and operating processes for all the stakeholders.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Developing Leadership Skills: What Do Great Leaders Have in Common? The Leadership Challenge From their research, Kouzes and Posner identified five common factors in taking approaches to leadership. These are: Model the way As the leader, you need to model the behavior, values, and operating processes for all the stakeholders.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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CO2

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Developing Leadership Skills: What Do Great Leaders Have in Common? The Leadership Challenge. From their research, Kouzes and Posner identified five common factors in taking approaches to leadership. As the leader, you need to model the behavior, values, and operating processes for all the stakeholders. PEAK Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further.

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