N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 20, 2011

This past Tuesday I was honored to be the co-host of Lolly Daskal ‘s ( @lollydaskal ) popular weekly Twitter chat, “Lead From Within&# (#leadfromwithin). The theme was “Leadership and Attitude&# , and Lolly’s first question was: “What are the key attitudes of a leader?&#. In case you missed my take on this question on Twitter, here are what I consider to be the 5 most important attitudes that a great leader must have: Positivity – “ Looking at the lite

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 12, 2011

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 The Most Inspirational Social Media I’ve Ever Seen. Every so often, a good friend sends you a story, an article, or a video in this case, that not only gives you hope and inspires you, it knocks your social media socks off.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2011

When it comes to teaching people to communicate we have historically focused a lot more on effective speaking, writing and presenting than on effective listening.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 9, 2011

Check out this great article entitled “ Channelling Churchill, Ryan Inspires His Team “ on New York Jets’ football coach Rex Ryan The article makes several important points that support the conclusion we came to from our research on leaders who produce sustainable superior performance. Our research concluded that sustainable superior performance comes when leaders develop task excellence and relationship excellence.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at MIT says, “ Success has a much greater influence on the brain than failure.” Ned Hallowell comments in Shine : While of course mistakes need to be acknowledged and, one hopes, learned from, it may be more likely, from a purely neurological point of view, that a person will learn more from a success than a failure.” Hallowell points out that acknowledgment or recognition serves two important functions.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 2, 2011

Ready, set, GO! The calendar has once again given us a “new lease on life&# – a chance to restart and renew. So what are we going to do with this opportunity? Plenty. That is, if we have the desire and the will to want to improve, or climb another rung up the ladder, or make a change. And that’s the first step in quickly getting ahead in this New Year, and staying there – Setting Your Intent, and WRITING IT DOWN.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 4, 2011

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Do You Deliver Good Or Bad Customer Service? Two things happened to me during the time between Christmas and New Year’s Eve that clearly defined what I call Good & Bad Customer Service.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2011

I’ve often heard it said that the one constant in business is change. While change is certainly always present I think that there is at least one additional constant.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 21, 2011

Congratulations to SAS Institute for being recognized the second year in a row as #1 on Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Places to Work list. Last year I met with Jim Goodnight, SAS Institute’s founder and CEO, to learn more about his leadership and SAS Institute’s culture. You can read the article I wrote at The Economic Times ‘ website or below.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Social Media. Nobody really understands it, but we know it’s important. How can we use it to influence others? How can we use it to do some good? The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, is a playbook on how to use social media to achieve a single, focused, concrete goal. They use the metaphor of the dragonfly—“the only insect able to propel itself in any direction—with tremendous speed and force—when its four wings are working in concert.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 23, 2011

…Then Hold Themselves Accountable To. Trust. Credibility. Every leader wants these things, because if they can get them, it sets the stage for extraordinary achievement. If they cannot, it almost always leads to middling mediocrity or outright failure. Establishing trust and credibility takes some time to do, but the process has to start (or re-start) with what I call a “ declaration of principles &# to those you are leading- a public statement of the things that YOU will do (or n

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 11, 2011

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Are You A Super-Connector? Keith Ferrazzi uses a term in his book, Never Eat Alone , called the ‘Super Connector’ His definition (paraphrased from his book & site): “ Super Connectors are people who maintain contact with thousands of people in many different worlds and know them well enough to give them a call.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

People HATE change. They loathe and despise it. They see it, abhor it and team up to fight it. Mind you, not all people, all the time. But certainly most people, much of the time. People rebuke change. People will mock change. … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 29, 2011

A couple years ago I had the good fortune to meet Malcolm Gladwell at a Rotman Business School event and tell him how much I enjoyed his work. One of my favorite stories in Malcolm’s latest book entitled Outliers is about Roseto, Pennsylvania. As it turns out, residents of Roseto were outliers in terms of their good health. A curious doctor set out to understand why.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

What leader wouldn’t want to lead a “great workplace?” I’ve never run across anyone that wouldn’t. So why aren’t we able to point to more of them? I suspect that, in the main, it’s because many of those leaders that don’t lead great workplaces, don’t know they aren’t. They have never taken the time to ask. From their point of view it’s hard to imagine what they could be doing differently.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

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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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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 16, 2011

As I was learning my way through my leadership journey, I made my share of mistakes. When you get a chance to look at all of them in your rear view mirror, as I recently did as a result of my company being sold, it’s very illuminating to put all these errors in some kind of overall perspective, to see if there are any revealing common themes and traits that jump out.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 23, 2011

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." – John F. Kennedy. How often do we let this happen to us at work? We go with the vagaries of the loudest shouters without sitting down, truly thinking about the issue and doing what is the right path for you, your organization, and your customers?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you aspire to be a leader, what would that look like for you? Do you imagine it? Do you strive for it every day? Of course, you might be attracted to the LeadChange group because you already have a … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 24, 2011

My favorite leaders are genuinely humble. They know they don’t know it all, and they know they have much to learn. They dive into learning with gusto. They make mistakes and try again. If they are in one of those boxes on the organization chart that gives them authority over others, they don’t take it [.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2011

Making a difference requires a different kind of thinking. Making a difference means doing something different. To not be taken for granted means that you have to do things that are not expected—to step out of your comfort zone. Do more. Experience more. Serve more. A leader’s legacy doesn’t come easily. While a leader may be focused on tomorrow, that future will be based on what they do today.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 17, 2011

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 27, 2011

I live in Connecticut. Over the past 24 hours, we received another two feet of snow (I was out shoveling the walk this morning). The highways are closed and most (if not all) people can’t get to work. So many of us will be working at home today.

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Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR

Compensation can be tricky, few things carry as much emotional weight as comp. And with the increased transparency in the market, combined with our collective propensity to rate ourselves against others, the frequency of these very difficult conversations is increasing. In this webinar, we will deconstruct some of the psychology around comp. We’ll take an analytic look at comp’s role in the employee experience, and then we’ll get really tactical with guidance on very specific compensation conver

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

There is an intrinsic reward that is received by the giver. We all know this is true. When you help someone who can’t possibly repay you, an immeasurable benefit, almost a force, provides benefit back to you.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 27, 2011

Many thanks to Deborah Mills-Scofield for complementing Fired Up or Burned Out in her Forbes.com blog post entitled “ Personal Connections are the New Currency.&#.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 17, 2011

Considering the pressure on us today, Laura Stack says it’s not enough to be only competent, we need to be super-competent. By that she means that SuperCompetent people “possess a consistent, all-encompassing ability to be good at everything they do, no matter how general or specific.” While that definition may sound super-human (wouldn’t it be nice to be perfect), the thinking behind it is solid and attainable.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth When it come to leadership age doesn’t matter – competency does. History is full of examples of leaders who have succeeded and failed at every age. The intangibles of passion, character, commitment, discernment, and talent are of infinitely greater importance than someones date of birth. I don’t care about your generational [.

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