N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. If you know me, or have read this blog for any length of time, you know that I believe all great leaders are also voracious readers. In fact, I would go so far as to say reading is simply a necessity if you’re serious about leadership. I’m constantly asked for reading recommendations, and rather than provide you with the current best seller list du jour (you can get that anywhere), I’ve compiled a list of 20 leadership books e

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Posted in Light Your World If you have learned from Dan Rockwell If you have been encouraged by his words If you have been inspired by his wisdom If you’ve been challenged by his insights If you’ve been motivated by his coaching If you’ve received his generosity If you consider yourself a part of his community, his tribe, his online [.].

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 4, 2011

“To be really great in the little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization” – Harriet Beecher Stowe. There are leaders, and then there are LEADERS. The ones that truly inspire, and exemplify the very definition of “lead’ – showing the way.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Let me tell you about a new book that I’m recommending to leaders. It makes a great book for your leaders to read together as part of a book group. Human Value is one of the elements of a Connection Culture that I teach leaders to create if they want to engage the people they lead to give their best efforts. The definition of Human Value is when everyone in the organization understands the needs of people, appreciates them for their positive, unique contributions and helps them achieve th

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 29, 2011

During a coaching session with one of my incredible clients, I constructed a term they needed to produce to ensure success at their task. I called it ENERGETIC ENTHUSIASM. They have a marketplace-imposed deadline — they only have 30 days to get their task complete. So they have to get off their butt and get it done.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2011

This is a guest post by best-selling author and speaker, Jon Gordon about the value of developing positive relationships with the people you lead. In a world filled with busyness and stress, I find that too often leaders can act like hard-charging, fast-driving bus drivers that have a vision and goal within their sights and they’ll run over anyone – even their own employees – to reach their destination.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Posted in Self Leadership Character-based leadership is leading from who you are, not your position or power. Your character creates true influence, especially when your character also includes being competent. Your rank in the company or your title doesn’t create real leadership influence, but a substitute influence that manipulates others to do what you want done.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 26, 2011

There is always a great benefit to the 365-day calendar – the fact that it restarts at January 1, without fail. It’s an annual window of opportunity for recycling, renewal, rebirth, rejuvenation, rejiggering, retooling, rebooting, and whatever other “re-something” you can think of. I call it the “ January Effect “, and you’re darn right that as a leader, I took full advantage of it – and so should you.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Click here to view the embedded video. In the workshops we teach, we use stories of great leaders in business, government, the social sector and sports who inspired people to do what’s right. This is a best practice to strengthen the positive effects of an organization’s identity (i.e. mission, values and reputation). Check out this outstanding TED video of Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo speaking on the topic of how culture encourages or discourages evil.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 29, 2011

I think it could not be more exciting than to live today.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Great leaders know they cannot let others determine their moods and behaviors. The decision is ours. David Pollay wrote The Law of the Garbage Truck to remind us that “it is not our duty to absorb the frustrations, anxieties, and disappointments of other people. We were not put on earth to carry other people’s negative energy, nor were we created to burden others with ours.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Some people think that once they ascend to a leadership role (or to a certain level of leadership) that they are immune from doing “real work” anymore. And even if you don’t feel that way, if you spend a little time as a fly on the wall with groups of front line employees, you will [.].

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Posted in Change Management Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Value Creation Workplace Issues In recent weeks, several articles have offered worthwhile ideas on how to boost worker motivation. But experts have been sharing this counsel for years, and employee engagement continues to decline. This post focuses on nine specific things that damage engagement.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 11, 2011

The other night I thoroughly enjoyed a holiday play at the Portland Repertory Theater, and marveled at the ability of the actors to take on multiple (and quite dissimilar) roles during the course of the production. There was a cool kind of virtuosity on display, and it made me think about how leaders sometimes need to do the same thing in the workplace; that is, assume different “roles” to keep the team on the path to success.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Several writers at The New Yorker understand how important the force of human connection is to help people thrive. I’ve previously written about Ken Auletta’s masterpiece “ The Howell Doctrine ,” and, of course, there’s Jim Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds. Two other writers at The New Yorker have made significant contributions on this topic.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The past is the future for most of us. We cling to misguided notions that persistence, endurance, and more of the same will result in a new future. It won’t. 99% of the conversations I have about the future are actually about the past. People try to create a future by cling to or modifying [.].

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2011

You can’t do it alone. We often try to, imagining that we can see and know the things we need to know without the discerning eye of a outside point of view. Bill George and Doug Baker remind us in True North Groups that, “We need people around us to whom we can look for support and advice, who can help us develop as human beings. We need them to help us become better leaders in our work, our communities, and our families.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The following is a guest post by Jon Gordon. “To build a winning a team and a successful organization you must create a culture of greatness.” It’s the most important thing a leader can do because culture drives behavior, behavior drives habits and habits create the future. As the leaders at Apple say, “Culture beats strategy all day long.” When you create a culture of greatness you create a collective mindset in your organization that expects great things to happen—even during challenging times

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Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership. By this time you’ve heard story after story of Black Friday gone wrong. Shoppers with a laser focus on “making the season bright” allowed themselves to be willing to hurt another to achieve their prized purchase. What a way to start off the holiday season wrong on so many levels… “Leaders” at work face [.].

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 18, 2011

“The days of leading countries or companies via a one-way conversation are over. The old system of ‘command and control’ — using carrots and sticks — to exert power over people is fast being replaced by ‘connect and collaborate’ — to generate power through people.” - Dov Seidman. When I became an executive for the first time back in 1987, my boss was a classic “command and control” leader.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 23, 2011

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Part of my mission is to spread servant leadership awareness. Therefore, I greatly appreciate folks on Twitter who spread servant leadership content. Last year, I highlighted 5 individuals to whom I was especially grateful for their ongoing support and promotion of these principles. This year, I’ve expanded the list to 10 and created a more formal recognition.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Mostly people say they want big, new, creative ideas. But when you come up with one, they seem to go out of their way to kill it. They act like creative people must be stopped. Wouldn’t it be nice to know where the opposition is going to come from before you ever present it? In Creative People Must Be Stopped , David Owens suggests that it will come from at least one of six different areas: Individual —your idea may not be that good Group —your group criticizes it out of existence Organizational

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The following is a guest post by Joel A. Garfinkle. Being a good leader — or even a great leader — is just not enough if you want to keep moving up in your career. You must be so remarkable that no one can help but notice you. You must do great things — not once or twice, but continuously — in order to stand out, get noticed, and propel yourself to the top of your company.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Posted in Leadership Development “Once upon a time, two frogs were sitting on a log in the middle of a lake, and one frog decided to jump off, how many frogs were left sitting on the log?” Answer: Two frogs. Why? The same reason only 3% of the population set and actually achieve their goals or maintain positive, well-intentioned [.].

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Back in 2005, when I was SVP of Operations for a cable television company (Bresnan Communications), I started hearing whispers… They were telling me things about the business that needed our attention. Things that weren’t working. And things that were working beautifully. They were also telling me about the people that provided our customer service.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2011

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The Scenario: Overconfident. I was hired to deliver a new back office software suite. Prior to my arrival, the project had struggled to get off the ground, so expectations were high. They placed a lot of hope in me and perceived me as the “hero” outside hire. What was worse, I knew and believed the hype (insert foreshadow music here). After meeting with our customers, I compiled a business requirements document (to tell programmers what the software must do).

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Most companies are asking employees to do more with less. These demands may produce positive results in the short term, but they are not sustainable in the long term. “Organizations can do more with less simply by not leaving so much untapped performance on the table.” The frustration people often face in these conditions is not an engagement problem; it is more often an enablement problem.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Have you ever had an employee come to you with an idea or proposal to address a particular situation to which you answered with one of the following replies? “ That’s a great idea, but let’s shop this around a bit first.” “ I agree that we need to change this, but I’m not sure now is the best time.” “ It’d be nice if we could offer this, but I don’t think we can afford to right now.

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