Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I need to learn to manage my time better. Yet ironically, none of us can learn to manage time. What you can do, however, is manage your energy. So here are my five tips for managing your energy levels so that you can become as productive as possible each and every day, and so get more done in less time.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Market leaders consistently miss out on great new ideas because they overestimate their market dominance.” Among them are, assume you are incorrect, reward and encourage dissent, study other markets and get outsiders to suggest ideas you might be missing. This creates blind spots and limits our creativity. What to do?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

From orchestrating integrated sales and marketing strategies to nurturing high-value customer relationships, this role extends well beyond traditional oversight of revenue goals. These proficiencies enable clear, data-driven insights into shifting consumer demands and evolving market conditions.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

At N2Growth, we approach the healthcare leadership market with a nuanced lens, drawing on decades of industry experience to ensure that leaders possess the necessary technical expertise and the resilience, strategic insight, and emotional intelligence essential for inspiring teams and shaping the future of patient care.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There are three critical steps senior leaders must take to make this vision a reality: Visibly Model Comprehensively Communicate Intentionally Amplify Lasting Business Culture Change Starts with Senior Leaders Our favorite definition of culture comes from marketing guru Seth Godin. Culture is simply “People like us, do things like this.”

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

As an experienced leadership coach, I’ve helped many organizations actively seek out and cultivate these unconventional leaders – individuals who possess a unique blend of creativity, problem-solving abilities, and the courage to challenge the status quo. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

By collaborating closely with senior management on strategic initiatives, such a board offers a unique viewpoint that can significantly influence the company’s direction. Avoiding bureaucratic entanglements allows these young advisors to freely express their creativity and innovative ideas.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

With a coach’s support, executives can dissect market trends, spot new opportunities, and position their businesses for expansion. Through one-on-one coaching sessions, leaders gain a deep understanding of their business, industry, and market dynamics. A key role of executive coaching is to instill a strategic mindset.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Strategic Planning and Decision-Making: Entrepreneurs benefit from coaches who guide them in developing strategic plans that account for market trends, competition, and industry dynamics. Coaching sharpens essential leadership skills such as decision-making, strategic thinking, and people management.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

To me, the selfie stick is a metaphor for Corporate America’s creativity dilemma. Organizations seek ways to boost creativity. But myopia is an enemy of creativity, and what is more myopic than a selfie and a tiny screen? What creative process do they use to envision and actualize their themed areas? People laugh at me.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 13, 2016

. – but how often do we describe leaders as creative? Creativity and Leadership. Although not often associated with leadership, creativity is a trait that modern leaders want to harness, as it is vitally important. It’s difficult to find the perfect balance between creativity and leadership. Creativity Killers.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. By 2019, Microsoft’s market capitalization edged past the $1 trillion mark, making it the world’s most valuable company. By 2023, its market cap reached $2.5

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2014

What can we learn from these top digital marketers, and how do we engage and influence them? Tami Cannizzaro ( @tamicann ), Vice President, Marketing, IBM. Lorena Hathaway ( @lorenahathaway ), Director, Global Product Management, Location Intelligence, Pitney Bowes Software. How do they engage on social media as humans?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Marketing is one of the most important departments in any small business. While your sales derive from the impressions you make with consumers across the world, you’ll find that it’s your marketing team that delivers these impressions, on a regular basis, to the consumers that matter most to you. Marketing goals are also company goals.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2014

We’d been meeting all week, meeting after meeting, a gaggle of senior leadership and marketing team leads, workshopping and brainstorming and collaborating over all that we’ve been, where [.] Leadership Development employee engagement Leadership talent management TalentCulture TChat' Author information Meghan M. Biro Meghan M.

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Career Advancement

JUNE 15, 2020

As a manager, take action now to make sure your organization maximizes the potential of all its people, helping them develop the most vital skills for their shifting roles and functions. Creative thinking skills. The workforce of the future will heavily rely on creativity as well. A high emotional IQ.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 4, 2021

While part of this productivity is due to a lack of familiarity and status in the local labor markets, there is also a strong element of the fresh thinking that they can bring to their adopted home, as they adopt the norms of their homeland to their new abode. New people in the network spur creativity,” the authors continue.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

If the numbers show that your product category isn’t doing as well as it once did in Market Z, is there an emerging opportunity because the market still has potential and competition will be reduced because of this data?”. Unleash Creativity by Inserting Poetry into the PowerPoint. Creativity is how we manage our own change.”.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Many brands focus their marketing strategies on out-of-home consumption, socializing with friends and family, and humor to generate engagement. We see some of the best candidates coming from startups and thinking first about mobile technology, automated supply chain management, and data analytics. Agility is key.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 15, 2013

We know the PC market is in a free fall and we know the financials of the company ad nauseum, but what about the brainpower, ingenuity and creativity that is needed to steer this behemoth in the right direction? Some guidance and information along these lines is becoming unavoidable.

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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. This ongoing approach to improvement allows businesses to adjust to market shifts and customer demands quickly.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Whether expanding into new markets, managing crises, or driving innovation , they bring insight and clarity, combining data with intuition. By championing a culture of creativity and inclusivity, the CEO creates a dynamic environment where people are eager to contribute.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” Creative Construction is the process of sustaining and rejuvenating an existing organization’s innovative capabilities.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020) Teaching by Heart summarizes the author’s key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. In this fun and provocative page-turner, Michael Fanuele, one of the world’s most successful marketing strategists, shares The Six Skills of Inspiration. Blog Post ).

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

Discoveries in this field have demonstrated that humor, laughter and fun releases physical and cognitive tension, which can lead to perceptual flexibility—a required component of creativity, ideation, and problem solving. Even the most absurd perspectives are embraced, and people are encouraged to “defer judgement”.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 13, 2024

The Intersection of Creativity and Regulatory Compliance In the 21st century, businesses are primarily driven by data-centric operations. These specialized operations require a unique combination of creative innovation and strict regulatory compliance. This balance is crucial, and managing it effectively is complex.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2024

The journey of a creative entrepreneur is both exhilarating and challenging, requiring a unique blend of artistry and business acumen. Navigating the entrepreneurial landscape demands innovative thinking, strategic planning, and a keen understanding of the market.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 2, 2020

In my work with SalesGlobe I’ve developed Sales Design Thinking SM to help sales leaders solve problems around any sales or business challenge, like sales strategy, organization design, sales capacity, sales compensation, change management, and of course quota setting. As I’m fond of saying, “You can’t offshore, automate, or AI creativity.”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models. To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 Nokia just couldn’t keep up.

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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. Yet these “Power Moms” still struggle with balancing their management responsibilities with raising children.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Instead, Alibaba is what you get if you take every function associated with retail and coordinate them online into a sprawling, data-driven network of sellers, marketers, service providers, logistics companies, and manufacturers. The Creativity Revolution is here. This cannot be managed in the traditional way.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2022

As a marketing manager, you have a lot of responsibilities on your plate. You are in charge of creating and executing marketing plans, overseeing campaigns, developing and managing budgets, and more. In this blog post, we will take an in-depth look at the many tasks that marketing managers are responsible for.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 26, 2017

Many years ago, I worked for a manager who told me, “Your job isn’t to make me look good, it’s to do your job to the best of your ability. Also, when you dictate the details, you miss out on creativity and alternative paths and solutions. If it doesn’t get done and get done right, it’s your head. Treating the team like Tinker Toys™ .

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2023

In today’s rapidly changing job market , companies are struggling to find the right words to describe new and emerging roles, leading to the invention of creative job titles. ” With creative job titles ranging from “Hero” to “Jedi,” it seems you really can be anything you want when you grow up.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In a hiring market like the one we’re currently experiencing, finding a true game-changing leader is extremely challenging. Or should you consider a new emerging category of super elite boutiques that give you the best of both worlds, international reach, and creative, disruptive thinking? “I Generalists over Specialists in Search.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

They bridge the gap between different departments, such as sales, marketing, and customer service, ensuring a harmonized approach toward fulfilling revenue objectives. Aside from the requisite academic background and high-level experience, candidates should exhibit exceptional strategic thinking, leadership, and creativity abilities.

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