N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

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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

MARCH 4, 2012

Leadership is about teaching, coaching, developing, and mentoring. The trick is to throw the right talent, and the appropriate investment at a challenge in a fashion that creates a certainty of execution while still generating return on investment.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 13, 2011

A highly decorated member of the special operations community earning the Bronze Star with Valor for actions during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, Jim is a true American hero. You see, in order to be effectiveduring good times and bad are to embrace and develop a resilient force. I think of terms of where I need to improve.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll share two a few tips on deciding which tasks, and to whom, the art of delegation should apply… As a CEO it is critical to develop a keen understanding of your value to the enterprise, and to further develop an awareness of activities that are dilutive to said value.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. The first key in understanding how to make great decisions is learning how to synthesize the overwhelming amount incoming information leaders must deal with on a daily basis, while making the best decisions possible in a timely fashion.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Good character development is evident in Call Sign Chaos. His call sign, CHAOS , was given to him by his operations officer, John Toolan.” Although Mattis resigned halfway through his appointment as Secretary of Defense at the end of 2018, he writes, “I’m old-fashioned: I don’t write about sitting presidents.” “Old-fashioned”

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

He asked a question and then went around the table in an orderly fashion getting input from the attendees. Before we blame the CEO as a bad, old-fashioned leader, let’s check again: all other people complied. The following is a guest piece by Marcella Bremer. They accepted the CEO’s rules and proceeded with the meeting.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. Should the traits mentioned above be more formally cultivated in leadership development programs? The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue. What do you think?

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

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. DaVita operates more than 1,800 dialysis centers and employs over 40,000 people domestically. He called it carefrontation. www.shortcuttoprosperity.com.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In the same fashion that being the source of gossip is destructive, so is furthering the damage by ratcheting up the rhetoric by participating in gossip. If someone comes to you about a problem with another person, immediately redirect that individual back to the person in question.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 3, 2012

With the huge menu of communication technologies available to companies, messages should be delivered in person, electronically in written, audio, and video, as well as the old fashioned way, printed hard copy. And what is your plan of action to develop a way of avoiding these mistakes in the future? Ineffective Feedback.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

only to fail in miserable fashion. I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. I’ve never been a fan of what I refer to as “make-work” disciplines.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. Lastly, there are a number of strategies to build engagement and develop a loyal following, and several social media consultants who will be happy to help you. Good content will rise above the noise.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Learn to serve as your organization’s rudder instead of its anchor Neurological studies have found that our brain processes information every five seconds in a binary fashion where it labels the new data as either a reward or a threat.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Thanks in advance… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] 2 Tweets 5/6/10: Top Talent Development Posts this Week 2 Tweets Managing Board Relations | N2Growth Blog By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Over the years I've met more than a few CEOs [.]

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 20, 2012

It is only as a result of leaders’ executing PPM with unwavering character and purpose that an organization—your organization—can lay the groundwork for achieving breakthrough-operating performance. John Mattone is widely regarded as the world's leading authority on the Future Trends of Leadership Development & Talent Management.

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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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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

To do that, we had to lean into a “brand renegade” mindset and apply it to our daily operations. Learn more at www.clubtattoo.com. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. How it’s always been done” was never our standard. There is something for everyone at Club Tattoo!

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 7, 2017

This is where building relationships with our employees comes into play, as it will help us to not only understand what they hope to accomplish, but also what would make them feel like they’re contributing in a meaningful fashion, and how we can connect these measures with the shared purpose of our organization.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. Where there is disagreement there is an inherent potential for growth and development.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Lack of Focus and Follow-Through : Those leaders who lack the focus and attention to detail needed to apply leverage and resources in an aggressive and committed fashion will perish. Only those leaders who can quickly recognize and adapt their methods to the situation at hand will be successful over the long haul.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 9, 2012

In many ways this manifests itself with the leader (and sometimes other team members) trying to press changes for how the team operates to better suit their needs/interests. Some other posts you may enjoy: The Role Leaders Play In Developing Great Teams Is Your ‘But’ Getting In The Way Of Your Team’s Success?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 31, 2018

Instead of being locked into an unconscious force that operates in the background and guides you automatically, you can use the learning cycle as a guide to help you learn deliberately. In uncharacteristic fashion, Lynne did not try to diagnose or fix a problem. © 2017 Kay Peterson and David A. Kolb All Rights Reserved.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion. Marshall Goldsmith : I could not possibly personally coach or speak to everybody who has an interest in my work. Mike Myatt : What’s been the most rewarding aspect of your work in the leadership field?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

They are unusually smart (Ralph Lauren looked for people with a kind of fashion sense), creative (people who see things differently), extremely flexible (people who can do more than one thing). Operating a masters, they forge sustained, all-encompassing, intense, and intimate” relationships with the people that work for them.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 30, 2013

The reality, though, is that these thoughts are only serving to fuel our fears about the current situation, thereby limiting our willingness or capacity to address it in an appropriate fashion. The Role Leaders Play In Developing Great Teams.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

Participative Similar to the service leadership style in that team members are involved in decision making, this style is characterized by a leadership that makes decisions in joint fashion. Art Gould is a division manager with Self Storage Company, which operates a group of websites, including a Nashville self-storage locator.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. I do agree with your basic premise though.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” Great leaders help people get to a yes - in other words, they teach them how not to receive a no.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 28, 2016

Most of us operate in some formal fashion with others in professional alliance. Whether we are part of an organized and recognized group, such as a real estate agency or function in looser fashion with a group of trusted others, we are social and communal beings. COMMUNITY DISCIPLINE. We did not build this ourselves ….

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Last week I had an old-fashioned, too-much-cholesterol breakfast at an out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere diner. ” It operates with the faith that wisdom lies within us all, and opts for the inefficient fostering of discovery rather than the expeditious pronouncement of the solution. The walls were adorned with ads from yesteryear.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 23, 2013

However, there’s another reason behind this tendency to view conflict negatively that has to do with how our brains operate. Neuroscience has shown that our brain processes information as either a threat or a benefit, with a stronger focus directed to those things we define as a threat.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 27, 2013

However, in addition to these, there also 3 important skills leaders can learn and develop from being active on social media; skills that social leaders have demonstrated as being critical to their organization’s success in today’s highly competitive and interconnected global economy.

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