Next Level Blog

JUNE 24, 2020

This week, I want to start with three basic physical routines that are essential to stress management – eating, moving and sleeping. While my regular fitness classes have been closed during the first months of the pandemic, I’ve been amazed and pleased by the range of online resources that help me check these boxes. No screens in bed.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 5, 2014

Three concerns crucial to human capital management leadership over the next few years are: 1. Being transparent about where the company is going and what it takes to be successful is an approach managers will have to embrace to regain that trust. So the relationship between talent quality and financial success isn’t just causal.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 12, 2010

It’s definitely a definition of class.   More importantly, listen to and look at the way so many Yankee greats express their affection and appreciation for what Sheppard did and how he did it. It wasn’t about him, it was about the work and facilitating the work of others. That’s one definition of leadership. So, what’s your take?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Best-in-class organizations require best-in-class leaders because nothing impacts a company’s trajectory more than the people in executive positions. Leading executive search firms operate in very specific ways to find top leaders who can take a company to its desired future state. How do executive search firms work?

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Next Level Blog

JULY 13, 2010

Operation Mincemeat is a true story that reads like a novel.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

The Manager excels at managing teams and delivering results without a limited focus on organizational strategy or trajectory. The Administrator manages process with predictability and efficiency. What is your personal operating system? And ask are any of these values getting in the way of your effectiveness.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“I would caution that size is not always an indicator of success, and more importantly, not a risk mitigator,” said Kelli Vukelic, CEO of N2Growth, a Philadelphia-based management consulting and executive search firm. “A Vukelic served as the chief operating officer of N2Growth. Earlier, Ms. Greater Executive Candidate Pool.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 13, 2011

When a mistake gets pointed out, the typical response is taking appropriate measures to attempt to resolve it, with the degree of intensity behind the effort being correlated to how much impact the error has on our day-to-day operations.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2018

To quote a recap from Sonia Nieto, In this study, several classes of children in grades one through six were given a nonverbal intelligence test (the researchers called it the “Harvard Test of Influenced Acquisition”), which researchers claimed would measure the students’ potential for intellectual growth. Garbage in, garbage out.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Even solid world class institutions like the University of California Berkeley under the leadership of Chancellor Birgeneau & Provost Breslauer are firing employees, staff, faculty and part-time lecturers through “Operational Excellence (OE) initiative”: last year 600 were fired, this year 300.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2017

If you’re a senior leader, mid-level manager or, simply, a company change agent struggling to determine ways in which to ensure the long-term success of your business, you may find value in what I call the Back-To-Basics Prescription. There 7 central programs that comprise the Back-To-Basics Prescription. The 7 programs include: 1.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Later, I was teaching a capstone MBA class and the topic was evaluating company vision statements. He elaborated (and I paraphrase), calling it just corporate jargon so senior management can tell people a bunch of feel-good stuff that they don’t believe. Traditional vision statements do not energize or align today’s workers.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2014

They say that the biggest barriers to innovation are manager’s attitude, operational structure and procedures, and lack of diversity. Sixty-seven percent believe that there is a reluctance to take risks, a reliance on existing products, services, and ways of doing business from managers. They Are Influenced By Innovation.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 16, 2019

She was the chief operating officer of a large company, and this was the leadership conference for her company. One of my fun questions used in leadership classes is posed by this scenario: Pretend you go away on vacation for a couple of weeks. Your tools of influence are relationship management rather than power wielding.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 28, 2013

Managers as Mentors. Now that we have an idea of the needed skilled-knowledge and selected who should be involved in the leadership development process; our planning turned to long term implementation and creating a community of mentors that can serve as guides for the high potential managers and employees. How did we do that?

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

We all have our issues with authority, “the man” or management – I know I do. In the ‘ Managing Organizational Complexity Class’ the idea of determining individual capacity to work with ambiguity and the amount of ambiguity within the work role are discussed and evaluated, for better organization development.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

They were your class presidents, team captains, club leaders, and the people who held virtually all the available leadership positions you can imagine early in life. They were those unflappable individuals that seemed to just have that “it&# factor.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Forbes Councils combines an innovative, high-touch approach to community management perfected by the team behind Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) with the extensive resources and global reach of Forbes. Liz Pieters serves as Chief People Officer at N2Growth and is responsible for N2Growth’s people strategy and operations worldwide.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Don’t just manage people, coach your people. When most companies were forced to have employees to work from home, certain aspects of their processes, culture, and operations were greatly improved, but they also discovered that adopting a more hybrid approach would further improve the overall health and performance of the company.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

We see some of the best candidates coming from startups and thinking first about mobile technology, automated supply chain management, and data analytics. This has enabled a vital e-commerce channel infrastructure with retail stores implementing a “click and collect” delivery model. Agility is key. Why or why not?

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Obtaining a Master’s of Human Resource Management will increase your business knowledge. If you are interested in operations management and the administrative side of business, a MBA could be for you. Classes are held in the evenings and on weekends. This degree also teaches you about international business operations.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

This book helps managers understand the postmodern worldview held by generation Z and younger millennials, how it influences their behaviour at work, and how they want to be led in the workplace. Alarmed managers are responding with harsh top-down edicts, layoffs, surveillance and mandatory meetings.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2012

Cellular communications, the laser, digitized and synthesized music, the solar battery cell, the first orbiting communications satellite, and the UNIX operating system, are all products of Bell Labs. A great way to spend an hour in science class.) AT&T officially created Bell Telephone Laboratories on January 1, 1925.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 26, 2012

Leadership is the "glue" that connects the WMACs' business strategy, operations and program changes, and ultimately, their commitment to human capital. In fact, executives at the WMACs say they devote as much as 30% of their time to “developing the next class of leaders.” In fact, I mean quite the opposite.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Yesterday as I watched an old episode of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ the story line was about how the kindergarten teacher enacted lessons in kindness using lessons from her Kindergarten class resonated with me. In business we operate under the old adage of the loudest person is the one that gets heard. Say Please and Thank You.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In fact, if you examine failed leaders as a class you’ll find that a lack of love, misplaced love, or misguided love were a contributing cause of said failures, if not the root cause. The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue. Thanks for the astute observations Mark. Mike Henry Sr.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

In particular, when it comes to improving the customer service experience and streamlining operations, today’s call center agents now have a wide array of tech solutions to resolve these matters. Here are three proven ways today’s call centers can better streamline operations and achieve greater success. Employee Benefits.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2012

reports that the typical world-class company has a high percentage of engaged employees (67 percent), a smaller cadre of "not engaged" people (25 percent), and a tiny group (7 percent) of what it calls "actively disengaged" personnel. Keep people continually connected to the environment in which they operate. You are managing change.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

The first thing I’m sure of is that effective leadership in this new era begins with effective self-management. edition of The Next Level in 2018, I summarized a lot of what I’d learned in the 6 years since writing the 2 nd edition with three leadership imperatives: Manage Yourself Leverage Your Team Engage Your Colleagues.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Guest Post By Mary Kinney, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Ginnie Mae, a cornerstone of the U.S. During the early years of my career, while I was at a small community savings bank, my manager sat me down and told me I needed a little bit of the “H word.” I am a very demanding manager.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2024

Understanding the Concept of Succession Planning Succession planning is a critical aspect of organizational management. The first step is to identify the key roles within the organization that are essential for its smooth operation and determine the necessary competencies and skills for each role.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Episode 237: Do you ever get frustrated that your manager wastes time with bad delegation? Alright, today’s question comes from a manager named Declan, and that is not Declan’s real name, but we’re going to use the name Declan here. She’s a world-class, bad delegator. And conversation with Declan.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

And, emotional intelligence has been linked to successful leadership (just did a paper on this for a university class). Is your article title really about anger management or appropriate emotional expression in business? Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. The good news? A blog post?

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 3, 2011

Managing Across Generations. Further discussion surfaced these issues: Within 5-8 years the majority of the agency’s management team would retire. They created a unified theme under which the agency would operate, key objectives that aligned to the theme, and operational objectives for each department that would enhance the theme.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. It includes the board of directors, the management team, subject matter experts, and consultants.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Here are ten of the most proven tactics that have helped countless managers inspire their team to achieve greatness each and every day: Be a positive thinker. Every great manager knows that it’s impossible to create a positive work environment if they aren’t positive themselves. Yes, even managers are known to make mistakes.

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