N2Growth Blog

JULY 13, 2011

There are simply no words that can do justice to the example of servant leadership epitomized by Command Chief Master Sergeant James Hotaling. Jim’s answers to my questions are nothing short of a leadership manifesto. Mike Myatt: Has your leadership style changed over the years, and if so, how?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was recently asked what I consider to be the most misunderstood aspect of great leadership; in other words, what makes great leaders great? If you want to become a better leader, I suggest you become comfortable with a leadership practice very few are… it’s called surrender. Control is about power – not leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

David asked Becky, “How come no one ever talks about love as a leadership competency?&# While l ove and leadership are certainly two words you don’t often hear in the same sentence, I can assure you that rarely does great leadership exist without love being present and practiced. I think it’s a great question.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2011

Initiative Overload - Biting-off more than you can chew is a sure way to over-complicate things in a completely unproductive fashion. Using yes or no improperly simply because it’s the easy thing to do is not good leadership. Real leaders understand that questions deserve more than an answer – they deserve the correct answer.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2021. The CEO Test is the authoritative, no-nonsense insider's guide to navigating leadership's toughest challenges, brought to you by authors uniquely qualified to tell the stories. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

In today’s post I’ll look at the topic of resourcing as a key success metric for anyone in a leadership position. The essence of Leadership is not found in doing things yourself, but in teaching others how to do things better than you ever could. Leadership is about teaching, coaching, developing, and mentoring.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

Welcome to the August Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, creativity and inspiration, development, productivity, team building, and more. Development. Communication. Find Jon on Twitter at @jonverbeck1.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

While some companies talk a good game with regard to competitive strategy, in my experience very few businesses actually address the issue in adequate fashion. If we didn’t study films and scouting reports, develop plays that would exploit match-ups, and execute our game plan we would lose…it was as simple as that.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Michael Soupios and Panos Mourdoukoutas have reviewed the writings of the Classical philosophers and selected ten ideas that will positively impact our leadership effectiveness in The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership. Further, the “special qualities of genuine leadership are remarkably complex and rare.” It’s lifelong.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2014

A slightly abbreviated version of this post was recently published in Smartblog on Leadership : True confession time. This company had a proud tradition of investing in the development of its employees. The Center for Creative Leadership is known for its “ 70-20-10 ” model of leadership development.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Fashion designer Rachel Zoe on career goals: “I never made a blueprint for my future, and I don’t believe in setting rigid career goals. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 12, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development There is no “I” in team, and if anyone else has anything to say about it, there aren’t any weak links in “team” either. For any company to be successful, all of its members must work in sync to accomplish tasks in the most efficient fashion.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2019. Too many leaders approach complexity the wrong way—they push their people harder and harder and tackle problems one at a time over months, sometimes even years, and nearly always in a linear fashion. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2013

An earlier post listed the 7 Principles of Leadership Development in no specific order of importance : Necessary Skilled-Knowledge. Education for Leadership. Strategy for Leadership Development. Like every term within organization development we started by developing a shared definition of Skill and Knowledge.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. It should come as no surprise; gratitude went out of fashion years ago. This change of attitude is not just a cultural problem; it’s a leadership problem too. Keep your leadership priorities straight. Follow me on Twitter @brianlayer.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : I don’t specifically work in the area of strategy or leadership, but my work often affects those areas as what I do is help people change behavior. Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

“It is critical that you build a pool of recognized, well developed and prepared talent for the organization, and that you identify and build future leadership.”. ~ Not only does investing in the development of your people increase your internal talent pool, a key driver of employee engagement is the opportunity for development.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

Guest post by Mark Hopkins : The best leadership tip I ever received came from a pastor’s sermon during a non-denominational service in Yosemite Valley Chapel. He went on to explain that this kind of feedback was confrontational and would only be accepted and processed by the recipient if it was delivered in an extremely caring fashion.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Nearly everyday we hear or see reports of prominent leaders who have been caught in a scandal, violated the law, or broken trust with their followers in some form or fashion. Sadly, the enemies of trustworthy leadership come from within; within each one of us. The Five Enemies of Trustworthy Leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 12, 2016

While companies provide wages in exchange for work, less care is taken with providing training and development, minimizing bias, not expecting 24 x 7 email availability, and consulting employees on issues that concern them. Six people volunteered to develop a workbook for a nonprofit workshop. What’s Being Pondered.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 12, 2013

In his usual no-nonsense fashion, Jack said, “If your employees don’t know where they stand, you have no right to call yourself a manager.” It didn’t take long for the topic of candor to come up at the dinner I attended after the Chick-fil-A Leadercast. Here’s […].

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Leading Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

These mark our leadership. If we respond in a fashion contrary to our Aspiration, we can unwittingly undermine our efforts to create the culture we’ve been dreaming of. It’s important to recognize the power of mundane moments, the seemingly trivial actions, and the ordinary encounters. These moments happen all day, every day.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, January 28, 2011 5 Leadership Styles that Work A guest post by Art Gould Recipes for Success: 5 Different Leadership Styles That All Work! But when you look more closely and study their leadership styles, you tend to notice more differences than similarities.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It’s rare for me to get as enthused about a leadership book as I am about Mike Myatt’s Hacking Leadership. I honestly think this leadership book is one of the most relevant and honest to come along in years. What prompted you to write this book, Hacking Leadership , now?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

More than that, we had confidence in the idea that we were truly going to be introducing a new kind of shopping experience to the fashion-forward customer. This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

There are very few great things that come quickly in life and leadership. Great leadership requires strategy, and that must be cultivated with good old fashioned thinking. Most of this “doing” is busy work that has nothing to do with leadership or being strategic. It feels good.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2017

” frustration in the middle of our high-potential leadership development program. We’ve got a lot of old-fashioned ways of thinking and being around here… but you’re bigger than all that. Here are five ways to make a leadership impact before you have a team. Stay the course. ” And so I did.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Let’s call this methodology what it is: a recipe for leadership. We seek these quick fixes to leadership dilemmas like we’re shopping on Amazon.com and expecting next-day delivery, especially if we’re new leaders. So, we rely on the leadership recipe. This “formula for leadership” approach occurs at all levels.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

While my personal practice is focused on providing leadership advice and counsel to Fortune 500 CEOs, as the senior operating executive at our firm I also have oversight responsibility for our talent management practice. From my perspective, I can’t imagine not integrating services throughout the talent management lifecycle.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 27, 2011

It matters to an even greater degree for those in positions of leadership. Leaders simply don’t have the luxury of choosing their words in cavalier fashion. Regardless of your station in life, both what you say, and how you say it matters. Whether in written or oral form your vocabulary matters.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

John Baldoni, author of MOXIE , says that “Leadership post-crash is not really any different from leadership pre-crash, except for one thing: resilience.” Baldoni breaks moxie down into five characteristics that you can practice and develop to be a leader that demonstrates moxie. Personal Development' Third is X-Factor.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 27, 2018

A Reel Leadership Article What do you get when you cross My Big Fat Greek Wedding with a cast of Asians? Crazy Rich Asians is also a great movie to learn leadership lessons from. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Crazy Rich Asians. – Leadership lessons from Crazy Rich Asians Click To Tweet. He was in to not lose.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 9, 2018

For many, thinking of leadership as a relationship is difficult. Too many people consider leadership a position, a role to play. Yet leadership is much more than the day to day activities you partake in to run your organization. Maxwell often says: Leadership is influence —nothing more, nothing less. What Is Influence?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

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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Mike Cardus

JUNE 6, 2013

I just read a GREAT blog post from John Hunter of Curious Cat Management – Leadership and Management. Having also written about my concern separating leadership from management. Management vs. Leadership. 10 Managerial Leadership Practices. Strong management is exercising leadership within your role. John Hunter.

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