N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As enterprises at every stage of maturity strengthen their digital capabilities, the Chief Digital Officer has emerged as a strategic force within the executive suite. Instead, it has evolved into an indispensable leadership position encompassing digital innovation, organizational change, and business model reinvention.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Posted in Leadership Development Everything has a life cycle. Plants, animals, humans, businesses, products – all have a time of birth, growth, maturity, and death. Leadership has a life cycle. There is a time when a leader is “born,” a time when he or she grows, matures, and finally reaches legacy.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

You’ll rarely encounter the words leadership and surrender used together in complementary fashion. Society has labeled surrender as a sign of leadership weakness, when in fact, it can be among the greatest of leadership strengths. Control is about power – not leadership. ” Thoughts?

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General Leadership

AUGUST 6, 2014

Leadership matters! Most people at least implicitly understand this concept and people that have studied and practiced leadership understand this concept at a deeper level. Developing and selecting individuals for positions of authority is therefore one of the most important tasks that leaders are responsible for.…

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 24, 2011

They don’t want to be right, they want the right outcome – they want to learn, grow, develop, and mature. A leader’s ability to change their mind demonstrates humility, confidence, and maturity. The smartest people I know are the most willing to change their mind.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

Leadership and mentoring go hand-in-hand. If you accept this premise as correct, then why is it that so many in positions of leadership fall woefully short in successfully transferring the benefits of their wisdom and experience to others? Leadership is not about the leader, but rather about those being led.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 27, 2021

Part of the problem in leadership is we don’t give ourselves a chance to emotionally mature because we want to be right. Emotional maturity in our leadership is responsibility. It’s taking responsibility for ourselves, for our own development, for our growth, for where we are today. (18:41).

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Today’s post on the SmartBlog for Leadership is by Mike Myatt, writer, speaker and author, offering advice on the topics of leadership, strategy and innovation. “Leaders and their ability to change their mind demonstrates humility, confidence and maturity.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Adversity and hardship contribute to character development when they cause personal reflection and introspection about a leader’s behavior and influence. There is also a maturing element to hardship. Mature means being seasoned, tested, hardened, weathered, ready, and fully developed.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2021

Leadership encompasses all of these components. John Maxwell’s book 360 Leadership is a great book. Then Jon Lockhorst’s new book, Mission-Critical Leadership , reconfirms the importance of leadership at every level with the ability to support others at different levels. Action Steps for leadership 360.

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

To get there, she knew she had to focus on growing her leadership skills. Within a couple of months, her boss had remarked about her growing leadership competencies and suggested she might be a prime candidate for a directorial position one day. Here are the most essential traits that great leaders have. Great leaders have Integrity.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Welcome to the April 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I read through this month’s Leadership Development Carnival entries, I felt a bit of the same. What unites them is their love of leadership and their ability to articulate their outstanding ideas. .”

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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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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In Leadership in Turbulent Times , she brings them together to study the development of their leadership potential and the mark they left on history. With perseverance and hard work, they all essentially made themselves leaders by enhancing and developing the qualities they were given.” He combined the two.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Is your leadership a competitive advantage—or is it costing you? Today, escalating global complexity puts leadership effectiveness at a premium. Leadership mastery shows a well-honed outer game arising from a highly mature inner game, while the inner game matures through sequential structures, like operating systems.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

One vaguely controversial, age-old discussion is around the numerical age and corresponding maturity of CEOs and how age, which translates to experience, can impact the trajectory and level of success of a company. . As we grow and learn, our neural networks become more developed. So, what’s the takeaway for investors?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Guest post By Brian Gast : What’s your leadership capacity? It took getting fired to wake up and realize that I was not going to sustain effective leadership by relying on an MBA and my natural talent. Such conditions test your leadership capacity. Executive Development and the Quadrant Model. Then things got tough.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2012

While there have been thousands of books written about leadership, there are a handful of leadership models that have served me well as a leader and leadership development practitioner. Situation Leadership. Developed by Ken Blanchard and Paul Hersey, it’s a timeless classic. Servant Leadership.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 11, 2013

The coach knew one of his most important jobs was to recruit and develop leaders. For the Cherokee Nation and most organizations and governments, the greatest adversity is lack of leadership and the greatest opportunity, of course, is to develop leadership, in other words, to get some “horses and fishes.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2020

They provide a unique window on the impact overly controlling, self-centered leadership styles can have on others: “Regarding the letter you sent, the heart of your servant is ill, when my lord said: Don’t you know how to read a letter? What are the enduring qualities of great leadership?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 8, 2016

Does this influence the effectiveness and maturity of your leadership? Maturity is underrated, i.e. we need more adulting. In looking for definitions of the word mature I am attracted to these: Based on slow careful consideration [= thoughtfulness]. Qualities of an adult: developed, grown, advanced.).

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Still, our stalemate provides an important leadership lesson. The checks and balances our founders developed created a firewall against passionate governing and called for cooperation to get things done. Leadership is difficult in a representative government.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. And, emotional intelligence has been linked to successful leadership (just did a paper on this for a university class).

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Understanding the Criticality of Leadership Transition in 2025 CEO succession represents one of the most consequential inflection points in an organizations lifecycle. The boards dedicated stewardship ensures the proper identification and cultivation of individuals whose leadership styles harmonize with the organizations vision.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 10, 2011

Here’s the thing – leadership begins and ends with trust. People who display the clarity and confidence to consistently do the right thing regardless of the current situation have reached a level of leadership maturity to be applauded not mocked. The real trick is to focus on issues larger than ourselves.

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Leading Blog

JULY 8, 2021

Peter Drucker on personal responsibility: “It is the mark of a mature person to ask: ‘What do I want to get out of life?’—and Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.”.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I really appreciate Pete’s insights into the necessity of self-leadership and his honesty in admitting that this is his own area of struggle. His leadership is remarkable! I think the most important one, however, was his comment on 'Self Leadership' I agree 100%. Thanks so much for your comment Bridget.

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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. The company was harvesting its mature and declining business in order to pump cash into its growth bets. This company had a proud tradition of investing in the development of its employees. But so is training.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 2, 2019

And while individual leaders are key to an organization’s success, collective leadership effectiveness carries the day. This means that companies are poised for even greater success when they scale their leadership, that is, when they grow leaders throughout the organization and align them into a collectively effective leadership system.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2021. For the first time, Dell reveals the highs and lows of the company's evolution amidst a rapidly changing industry—and his own, as he matured into the CEO it needed. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Navigating the tension between two contrasting qualities takes maturity. The Ten Tensions of Leadership: Tenacity and kindness. Communication Leading Listening Marks of leaders Personal Growth Taking others higher Leadership Leadership Development organizational success Questions' Either/or is easier than both/and.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

It is the story of Nadia bright and adventurous meerkat who is part of a mature clan with over 150 members. The story parallels the evolution of organizations of all types as they grow and mature. Accelerate (XLR8). * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leadership Schizophrenia: The Fine Line Between Hubris and Humility by Starbucker on September 19, 2010 Leadership is a balancing act. Were there times that your hubris actually got in the way of progress? I am not sure!

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Posted in Leadership Development What we love in childhood often comes back to us with an “ah-ha!” weaving a tighter pattern when we look back over the tapestry of our life and finally see where that pretty colorful thread we once played with has lead us in maturity. Speak Your Truth To Power.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 27, 2012

Although the executive education debate still rages on whether leadership is learned or innate , there is no doubt that the subject is being taught. . Back in October 2003, BusinessWeek reported that 134 companies from 20 nations spent $210 million to enroll 21,000 employees in executive leadership programs.

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