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Leading in the Age of Non-Stop VUCA

Next Level Blog

Uncertainty Uncertain environments are typically ones where there arent a lot of historical precedents to draw on for comparison and guidance. Creating space gives you the opportunity to calm yourself and focus your efforts. The data gathering is a focused effort on learning what you can from reliable sources.

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5 Leadership Lessons: The Pursuit of Excellence

Leading Blog

Here are just five ideas he shares from those on his podcast: Success is based on a comparison with others. It is a process. It is filled with practical thoughts and behaviors that will make you think and potentially set you on a path to sustained growth. Excellence is measured against your own potential. This is upsetting and hard.

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Nonprofit CEO Search: Strategies for Finding Mission-Driven Leaders

N2Growth Blog

Executive Search Process for Nonprofit Organizations Finding the right leader for a nonprofit is a crucial milestone for any organization, as it directly impacts the future trajectory and impact of its mission. A critical part of this process is crafting an innovative, forward-thinking search strategy.

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9 Tips to Avoid Getting Sidetracked

Leading Blog

Check your reference points to consider the motives—social comparisons and emotions—behind your decisions. The way we define and understand ourselves is an inherently social process….Our Our decisions are biased by the comparisons we strategically choose in order to alter how we see ourselves."

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Leadership as Provocative Competence

Leading Blog

Even while people are learning on old habits, they have to attend to new cues and new options, and start to manage and process information within a new, broader context.” Fifth, provocative competence involves analogic sharpening of perspectives and thought processes.

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Although digitization has a significant catalytic effect on these processes, a successful diversification strategy would still need a solid basis and a set of scalable growth patterns that could apply to target markets. Undoubtedly, this is putting added pressure on FinTech executives. Two questions remain: What problem(s) am I solving?

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Employee Engagement: Energizing and Mobilizing People

Great Leadership By Dan

By comparison, in companies with average performance, only 33 percent are engaged, 49 percent are not engaged, and disturbingly high 18 percentage of employees are actively disengaged -- coasting along and picking up their pay checks, gaming the system, and sucking the energy out everyone around them. In its workplace studies, Gallup, Inc.