N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. The checks and balances our founders developed created a firewall against passionate governing and called for cooperation to get things done. Maturity: It is not our nature to follow children. Still, our stalemate provides an important leadership lesson.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2014

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. That is, projects, books, discussions with your manager, just about anything could and should be counted towards those 40 hours.

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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. This well-managed clan has done well to date but is now faced with unprecedented problems that challenge their once reliable rules and procedures. And John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber’s That’s Not How We Do It Here!

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 30, 2011

In my last post I introduced Part 1 of my two-part series on the the topic of Managing Millennials (the generation born roughly between 1980 and the mid 90‘s) – Treat Them Like a Celebrity. To recap my two keys to Managing Millennials: 1) Treat Them Like a Celebrity. Front Line Leadership . Guest Post By Adam Tenenbaum.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. You will find it difficult to move between functional management roles. The post Executive Hiring For a P.E.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Welcome to the April 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! ” In other words, someone who stocked the dairy section was as empowered to share positivity through leaving a note on a store-wide gratitude board as was the manager. .” Jesse recaps, “There are many things leaders can (and should) manage.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Here is a selection of Posts from October 2024 that you will want to check out: Making the Career Move to Manager (or not) by @artpetty U of V Men's Basketball Coach Tony Bennett Retirement Press Conference “I've been here for 15 years as the head coach, and I thought it would be a little longer, to be honest, but that's been on loan.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

He also has previous leadership experience at other prominent companies. His primary focuses have been talent selection, employee engagement, and leadership development. Millennials matured during the era of super-celebrities and reality television.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

When you experience weak teams, micro-management, frequent turf wars, high stress, operational strain, and a culture of fear, you are experiencing what control has to offer – not very attractive is it? Controlling leaders create bottlenecks rather than increase throughput.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 23, 2022

These two facets are critical in managing our overall health and how effectively we perform in a specific role, regardless of our position in the organization. The willingness to acknowledge areas we must improve and grow is imperative in personal and professional development.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

Organizations are born, they mature, they age, and they die. They begin with an innovative idea—even developing beyond all expectations—but eventually they begin to show signs of aging. Some develop dysfunctional organizational cultures.” Rigidities are not going to go away, but we can learn to manage them better.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

Too often, managers put their heads down and focus only on their own departments. Sales and marketing leaders become more mature in their thinking about the demand plan. When upper management leaders play their positions and trust their teammates to do what they say they’re going to do in their plans, something else happens.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2021

Lead Self first- to lead in all directions, begin with mastering self-management. Lead in the middle-across- Leading in this position is a consistent state of developing and maintaining credibility. The qualities and attributes of leaders identified as 360 leaders include: Adaptability. Discernment. Perspective. Communication.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 27, 2012

Since leadership development is not an event, that's a significant investment in classroom activities that may or may not produce company leaders or even better managers. The paradox of spending more on what's not working is due to leadership development being seen as a classroom event.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I had created $400 million in value from an idea, was managing a 1,500 person company that everyone wanted to work for and a public company that was a darling of Wall Street. Executive Development and the Quadrant Model. Each quadrant has a mature or healthy state and each has “shadow” sides. Then things got tough.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 22, 2013

An earlier post listed the 7 Principles of Leadership Development in no specific order of importance : Necessary Skilled-Knowledge. Strategy for Leadership Development. Exploring lessons learned and how an organization and I developed a leadership development process for high potential employees. Education for Leadership.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

I’ve seen this problem manifest itself several times – I’ll give you a (fictionalized) example: Joe is a young mid-level executive who is hired to be a staff manager. They can mature. He’s smart, talented, enthusiastic, and a hard charger (otherwise known as someone who doesn’t suffer fools very gladly).

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

According to the study, Millenials (age 18-33) are the most stressed, followed by Gen Xers (age 34-47), Boomers (age 48-66), and Matures (age 67 and older), respectively. Of course, many people in the Matures demographic aren’t working, so the decrease in work-related stress reported by study participants isn’t surprising.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

It is rife with struggles related to managing the emerging responsibilities of adult life. If ownership or management of a family enterprise is an expectation, the pressures only mount. Those in the emerging adult stage (ages 18 to 28) are in a critical time for ownership development. This entails: 1.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Moreover, depending on how a business is positioned, where it is in its maturation lifecycle, or what its current financial condition looks like, will dictate which factors may be most important to measure. The best managed companies measure all 5 categories (as well as various subsets) with their focus being on items 3 and 5.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A lot of the personality traits that make for highly effective leaders are built on a solid foundation of emotional maturity and drive. If you want to aspire toward a career in leadership, work toward building and developing these characteristics. Here are the most essential traits that great leaders have. Great leaders have Integrity.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team. Rather in most instances, I believe HR should be a compliance, training and risk management function.

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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. Developed by Ken Blanchard and Paul Hersey, it’s a timeless classic. If I could only teach one model to a new manager, it might be this one.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When you experience weak teams, micro-management, frequent turf wars, high stress, operational strain, and a culture of fear, you are experiencing what control has to offer – not very attractive is it? Controlling leaders create bottlenecks rather than increase throughput.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Although most C-suite executives, mid-level managers, and data practitioners aren’t AI experts — no one is at this pace of change — they shouldn’t implement AI for the sake of implementing AI. Learn more at solrashidi.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 3, 2012

Now you’re doing what the most successful company’s do , you’re investing in the development of those high potentials. You’ve got managed stretch assignments, coaching, mentoring, and leadership development programs. Percentage of HiPos with Development Plans. Learning Management Systems can automate this for you.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I F YOU want to make a difference in the world, go further, faster by developing other leaders. Of course, we talk about developing more leaders, but if we actually made it a priority, we would have more leaders. To help make this more practical and intentional, Maxwell has laid out a ten-step process for developing leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

But now the question becomes, “As I mature in leadership, can I move from ME to WE?”. You want a climate of faith and hope, not fear, in leadership development. The Chairman and President left town while managers communicated the bad news. How do we want to attack this as a team?” Face the Facts – Whether Bad or Good.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 25, 2019

With all the emphasis on leadership development, I always find it interesting so many companies continue to struggle with being able to retain their best people. Ask any CEO if they have a process for retaining and developing talented people and they’ll quickly answer in the affirmative.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The fast-paced expansion of FinTech companies into long-distance geographies has increased the Penrose effect , thus escalating the managerial constraints affecting organizational growth and development. Another aspect of the challenges faced by FinTech leaders is managing teams through a series of transformations successfully.

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QAspire

AUGUST 26, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Training Middle Managers On People Management Basics Here is a simple idea: Whenever you have a new manager (project manager/departmental leader) joining in your organization, put him/her through a simple training program on how to manage people.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2013

10 Reasons why Managers are Clueless about Leadership by @greatleadership. Maturing as a leader includes shedding your mask of certainty by @recoveringleadr. Smoothing the Creases : 5 Ways to Manage Conflict in the Workplace by Eunisse De Leon. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 22, 2013

People cannot be taught, coached, developed and/or trained to work at a level of complexity above what they are capable of doing. The only way that people grow into their potential is through; maturation (growing older). having a manager who is able to determine the persons capacity and allow them to work at their full capacity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Leadership for the small-business owner (which usually deal with entrepreneurialism, sales, financing, and other basic management and business skills). Leadership for managers in big organizations. I was fortunate enough to work at one of those companies for five years, and was responsible for the development of its leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It is my opinion that when you start to define your personal success by the value you add to the lives of others you have arrived as a mature human being who possesses true influence and has become a person of significance. I concur that it is of no use to sit in judgment of others, and applaud you for the maturity that position displays.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. There was also a room full of talent management practitioners, so it was a lively dialog. For example, if you are looking to expand into a new market, are your succession and development discussions aligned towards achieving that goal?

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