N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

A leader simply operates at their best when they understand their ability to influence is much more fruitful than their ability to control. 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?

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

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. Real development requires a strategic, long-term, integrated approach in order to forge more effective leaders and enhanced business performance.

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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. While analyzing these drivers will give you some basic operating information, they are also somewhat myopic.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

The reality is in maturing and complex market environments clients’ demand more from their service providers. 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.

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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. As a strategic leader, you cannot operate in the smaller space that defined you as an expert. How do we want to attack this as a team?”

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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. James Hotaling : Call it maturity, but I would be lying if I said I haven’t learned from my mistakes and frustrations.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 30, 2011

As I noted on my last post , each generation is a result of the dominant events, personalities and technologies that were popularized during their maturation. As I complete my monthly, quarterly and yearly strategic planning for my retail operations, I break down each larger strategy to tactics and then actions.

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Leading Blog

JULY 24, 2014

Enlisting the help of others is critical. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. He discusses these ideas in Startup Leadership and is based on his popular course at Princeton University. General Business'

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

However, as an organization matures, its leadership requirements evolve, necessitating a thoughtful transition to ensure sustained success. For example, an entrepreneur who excels in the startup phase may find that scaling operations globally requires a different skill set.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? I have witnessed disruption occur at every level of corporate maturation and I believe it's important to note that disruption isn't necessarily reserved for the privileged or mature entity.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. He also has previous leadership experience at other prominent companies. His primary focuses have been talent selection, employee engagement, and leadership development.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 26, 2011

Guest post by John Mattone , Business Author, Senior Faculty Member of Talent Management Alliance and President of Executive Development Associates (EDA), a global leadership consulting firm that specializes in executive assessment, development, and coaching. Loyalty Where is the loyalty? Where has all the loyalty gone?

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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. We often hear from our clients that they are afraid of “losing part of their culture” as the business grows and scales. Probably, yes.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 2, 2019

Creative leaders, on the other hand, are less self-centric and are much more about developing the capacity and capability of others and the organization. They are approachable and skillful in working with people, listen well, build high-performing teams, mentor and develop capability in others, and empower their people.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable. Beginning with Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologists have discovered that ethical competence tends to develop in stages that parallel social and cognitive development.

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Leading Blog

MAY 16, 2020

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. To streamline operations and control costs. He was born in the U.K.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2024

To foster tech-driven efficiencies or market-centric metamorphoses, their clients develop a growing reliance on these service maestros, thus augmenting their value proposition over time. More prominent, mature entities may witness private equity intervention to bolster the operational platform for sustained scaling.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Learning and Development teams of companies are working overtime to figure out ways to keep the organizations functioning in these difficult times. Training Industry research found that over half of learning and development (L&D) professionals have retooled or repurposed learning programs in response to the Pandemic.

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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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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

A brilliant (but oh so eccentric) entrepreneur who had already amassed a large fortune was looking for more, and tapped me to oversee the operations of his latest acquisition. The immature think of themselves first; the mature think of others. The servant is merely the mature master of the ever-present inner-tyrant.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

Just because an opinion is expressed boldly, and even when data can be developed to support the opinion, opinion doesn’t become fact – it’s still an opinion. Fortune 500 companies are mature, well branded, well capitalized, already successful companies.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

But that is because they don’t understand that there are two parts to servant leadership: a visionary/direction, or strategic role—the leadership aspect of servant leadership and an implementation, or operational role—the servant aspect of servant leadership. He explains, “The servant leader is a whole person, not a fragmented being.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Mastery in anything, from sports to the arts to leadership, requires well-practiced capability mediated by a highly mature interiority—a well-honed Outer Game arising on a highly evolved Inner Game. Most efforts to develop mastery in leadership focus on the outer game of competence with little focus on the inner game of consciousness.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Rather asking for help is a sign of maturity as a leader. My clients hire me not solely on the basis of what I can personally do for them in a vacuum, but rather what the collective influence of my network and resources can accomplish for them when I operate outside of my own personal bubble. It paramount and necessary.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Our Universal Model of Leadership helps explain how extraordinary leadership develops and how to accelerate its development. Our Universal Model includes five stages of progressive leadership development: Egocentric, Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitive. Each stage is more mature, more effective and higher performing.

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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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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

In this territory of maturity, where old fear-based pattern no longer hold us back, we will, I wager, do what we now think of as remarkable, even magical, things.” When we are operating from the adult narrative: We know we survived childhood and staying alive is no longer a present issue.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This framework involves a systematic approachidentifying leadership gaps, assessing candidate readiness, designing tailored development plans, and positioning top talent to assume critical roles. It anticipates the organizations trajectory and readies it for future challenges. Another obstacle lies in ensuring cultural compatibility.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 30, 2012

Whether we talk about entrepreneurial growth or renewing a mature company, the wrong move can break the firm. Their reliance on alliances and licenses has increased in both product development and marketing and they have become aggressive acquirers. Guest post by Laurence Capron. The dangers of relying on one single growth strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. As startups grow, leaders build and mature a HR/People strategy that is informed by and aligned with the overall business strategy. And, you operate in a fishbowl. How do you avoid this fate? Make the turn. You’d be wrong.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

While developing an understanding of great communication skills is easier than one might think, being able to appropriately draw upon said skills when the chips are down is not always as easy as one might hope for. So how do you know when your skills have matured to the point that you’ve become an excellent communicator?

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Managers in particular play an important “sense-making” role in times of change, helping employees understand new developments in the organization and their implications for teams and job responsibilities. To respond, you need to develop and reinforce strong employer brands, showcasing the unique attractions of working for your organization.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

All great leaders develop a sense of their blind-spots and weaknesses as they mature. Most of us when going through our academic years simply aren't experienced enough to understand the gravity and totality of what we're being fed, or not fed as the case may be…Thanks as always for sharing Dan.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

In mature markets, banks are rushing to play catch up with this kind of mobile service before smart new competitors outwit them. Today, its separate and highly successful online banking and broking operation Boursorama has attracted nearly half a million customers. In any industry it’s hard to innovate and change from within.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Only the mature and those who have a measure of success truly learn the niche to proper branding. Thanks Deborah. pastortom2022 Great post Mike and especially to many of us who have not experienced a great level of success or notoriety. Many of us are victims of our own over-branding and actually have little to offer.

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Building Personal Strength

APRIL 18, 2012

So throughout childhood, the outer layer of the brain, the cerebral cortex - where "programs" and "data" are stored - programs its "operating system." Each area of the cortex begins a window of development in which the foundation for that function gets wired up. Scientists now know that this area begins development at puberty.

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