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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works. Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Team building, group dynamics, talent management, leadership development, and any number of other functional areas are much more about clarity, focus, aligning expectations, and defining roles than creating equality. It reminds me of Drucker’s first rule of decision making: one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

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The ROLE of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership Today

The Center For Leadership Studies

Peter Drucker in “Management Challenges for the 21 st Century” stresses that, “Self-awareness and the capacity to build mutually satisfying relationships provide the backbone of strong management.” They are resources to be highly respected and wisely stewarded.

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Pricing Strategy: Pricking the Veil of Value Exchange

Strategy Driven

The book draws the best thinking from numerous disciplines, including marketing, economics, and finance, to deliver a comprehensive presentation that comes alive through numerous case studies, memorable examples, and graphs. Evaluating the willingness to pay of millions of customers requires the development of a new corporate capability.

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Become an Extraordinary Leader

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker was writing about it nearly 50 years ago, and over the last decade it has come back in vogue. Developing weak technical skills is a matter of attending training classes, reading relevant publications, taking on job assignments in which you can hone your expertise, and so on. Not if you want to be an extraordinary leader.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage.

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