Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. Remarkably, the most consistent area of incompetence pertains to developing leaders. Then, consider: External Development. People leave managers, not companies.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology. If the position is operational, hire an operations manager and a finance head. . It’s likely your organization has access to mature development and talent tools to support your new best friend. Realize that P.E.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. For example, many effective leaders have the following strengths: •Coaching others. Why do you, or would you, follow them? An assessment should be done of the high potential employees to determine their current strengths and development needs.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Following are just a few representative non-financial questions that I recommend my clients ask of potential investors: What can you do for my company besides invest in it? The moral of this story is don’t get so hung-up on valuation that you fail to get the in the trenches expertise your company will need in future.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Clearly the difference possessed by all great leaders is that they refine, develop and build from their foundation – they don’t ignore it or take it for granted. Show-up : You can’t make a difference if you don’t show-up. It requires zero talent to be present mentally and physically.

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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. The following are some of the key skills of the future workforce that employees across a broad range of organizations will need to develop.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Leadership Engagement Well-Being needs to be on the leadership agenda along with everything else like finance and customer service. Well-being is not an expense, it is an investment, and without it, you’ll end up with ‘No People, No Profit.’” Participate in well-being initiatives. Leaders need to eliminate organizational speed-bumps.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 29, 2014

I recently sat down with Sarah at a local coffee shop up the street from her boutique, to drink some locally roasted espresso and talk about SaySay Boutique, which she started 10 years ago, and the lessons she’s learned along the way. You can do it without outside financing. She’s still a customer. The business needs a higher purpose.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Finance is the backbone of any business. As such, ensuring that your business’s finance department is up to par is important. Here are the top ways to enhance your company’s finance department: Implement Financial Software. Develop Strong Internal Controls. Develop Policies And Procedures.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 2, 2014

She’s tried everything: more recognition, contests, she even came in dressed as a superhero to try to get the team riled up. Each of these stunts worked for a day or so, but then the results returned to their normal mediocre state and the stress levels creeped right back up. After all, big picture thinking is for execs, right?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

You need to develop some form of leadership flight simulator that you can immerse yourself in to design the best-case solutions to complex problems. Home, or your personal life, is the reason you go to work, because it is work that finances your personal life. You might every once in awhile; however, you cannot on a lasting basis.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

This is best accomplished by leveraging individual talents not stiffling them. I would be less than candid if I didn’t admit that leading those inclined to follow is significantly less of a challenge than leading those who don’t want to be led.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Did you wake up eager and ready for the learning and relationship challenges that were there each day? Please let me know what you think of the following video. Were you a social butterfly or more prone to stand on the sidelines? Click this link to view Brene Brown video on YouTube. 1, 2010 – To address.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

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’m just not a believer in attempting to label someone as a leader, and develop them as such when they are clearly not.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. To understand how aviation has achieved process excellence, we need to back up a bit. logistics, and finance. finance, I.T., They result in information hoarding and lack of communication. This issue can become a major performance barrier.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

If the individuals placed in charge of executing key objectives, deliverables & results are not excellent leaders, you are simply setting yourself up for failure. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] What say you??? 2 Tweets Who’s In Charge?

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Will it be a full-service shop or simply a place where customers can pick up online orders? Prepare Your Finances and Analyze the Market: Before opening a retail store, you will need to analyze the market and prepare your finances. – to set up your store correctly.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Instead of beating yourself up or giving in, it is critical that you develop the ability to learn from setbacks. Following are 4 things to consider when setbacks do occur: Be honest enough to acknowledge what has happened. Rob [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] }*/.feedback_prompt

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

I have known many entrepreneurs that are exceptional CEO’s, but I have known many more that don’t measure-up and shouldn’t be fulfilling the role of CEO. I’ve heard it said that the role of a leader is to create and manage good followers. Original post by leadershipcoach [.] I Think Not.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In doing so, they help their most creative people to develop exciting new ideas. The finance website NerdWallet creates a “Fail Wall” where mistakes are posted, emphasizing that everyone fails and honoring outside-the-box thinking. Why not set up a “Fail Wall” in your own workplace? Hold a “F— Up Night”.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Do you say you believe that your people can develop, grow and have tremendous potential? In the end, we are leaders only if others choose to follow. Make sure your walk is heading to a great place; a place worthy of being followed to. How does your walk prove it? Do you say that listening is important? Thanks for stopping by.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Following is the methodology used in selecting this year’s winners: Peer recommendations and interviews. Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. But you’d be woefully mistaken if you think UP is a legacy based company from a bygone era.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

In today’s post I’ll quickly examine the merits of developing your listening skills. If you follow this advice not only will you become better informed, but you’ll also become more popular with those whom you interact with. They have the uncanny ability to understand what is not said, witnessed, or heard.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. Want to find out? If you possess no competency whatsoever give yourself 0 points. Section VI: Persuasiveness.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If you take what follows to heart, it might just change your world. In the text that follows I’ll examine the softer sides of leadership – love, compassion, humility, kindness and empathy. Should the traits mentioned above be more formally cultivated in leadership development programs? Starting to get my drift?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

You can structure your finances to minimize the worry caused by debt. And you can make commitments to community, religious, or volunteer groups, knowing that you will follow through once you’ve signed up in advance. You can make exercise a standard part of your routine. Like us on Facebook.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In the text that follows you’ll find the truth about toxic cultures… A toxic work environment thrives off of everything that great leadership stands in opposition to. It’s also important to understand that a toxic culture cannot exist if toxic people are not allowed to take up residence.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. As much as you may wish it wasn’t so, as a CEO you’re really only as good as your last decision.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you’re still asking these questions WAKE-UP – get your head out of the sand, and stop broadcasting your ignorance. Anybody can amass tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of followers just by following as many people as they can and waiting for them to reciprocate. News Flash: you can’t.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

That said, I have little use for social networking junkies who collect friends/followers/contacts just for the sake of watching the numbers go up, while adding little or no value to their network. All those followers and connections don't really have meaning except to make one feel important and/or popular.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Following are a few links to other posts that deal with these topics in greater detail. maybe sincerity [link] Taariq Lewis Mike, as always, a great follow-up with great insight and additional resources. Many times some followers look for reasons to judge or excuse their lack of honor. Thanks for sharing Taariq: [link].

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The following fundamental concepts of influence, which if properly understood and implemented, can help anyone become more efficient, productive and successful: 1. It's sad that many potential leaders look past this and end up frustrated when they can't get people to act, little do they know they haven't developed trust.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2014

She wanted to ask her new boss for a later start date so she would have more time to “tie up loose ends.”. Consider these thoughts: It is ironic this issue tripped me up so badly because I believe my normally rigorous adherence to my Golden Rule was a major reason, from early on, I was viewed as a leader at Greenwich Capital.

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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.” No is not all it’s cracked-up to be…Still don’t believe me?

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 14, 2013

The following is a guest post by Doug Sundheim. I followed up. “I There were 5-10 elements of the goal plan that should have gone through a much more rigorous vetting and consultation process before they ended up on the list. I agree these are critically important to strengthening goals. But they’re not the whole story.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

From my perspective, the issues surrounding conflict resolution can be best summed-up in three words…&# Deal With It. &# While you can try and avoid conflict (bad idea), you cannot escape conflict…The fact of the matter is that conflict in the workplace is unavoidable.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

These CEOs can often go undiscovered for great lengths of time before their poorly constructed vision bubbles-up to the surface, by which time it is often too late to repair the damage. It is seen my the followers ABOUT the followers. However worse than the CEO with no vision, is a CEO with the wrong vision. Thank Bridget.

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