N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Importance of Effective Leadership in Business Schools Effective leadership is as crucial in an academic environment as in any organization, playing a vital role in shaping the institution’s culture and direction. First and foremost, a successful business dean should demonstrate real leadership capabilities.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Recently, a large study ranked empathy as the most important leadership skill in the workplace. When leaders expressed empathy for their team, it increased a team’s innovation and engagement, improved customer service, and helped them balance their home and work life. Empathic leadership is not only for supersensitive types.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 23, 2012

There is an inherent fear for people that aren’t entrepreneurs. They believe that hiring an entrepreneur will somehow infect the rest of the staff and cause them to defect. While this may be true to a degree, there is so much more your company can gain from having an entrepreneur in its presence. They want to learn.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Entrepreneur coaching can be a transformative experience for both emerging and seasoned business leaders. Through the guidance of experienced professionals who have successfully built and scaled businesses, entrepreneurs gain access to invaluable knowledge that can reshape how they approach challenges and make decisions. The result?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Y OU don’t have to be an entrepreneur to be an entrepreneurial leader. Entrepreneurial leadership is a mindset. It is a mindset that is even more critical in today’s unstable world and is the sine qua non of crisis leadership. Five Types of Leadership. Develop Your Leadership Around Four Activities. Build Trust 2.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 29, 2020

At present, it’s hard to tackle any issue pertaining to leadership or management without addressing Covid-19, which is impacting on marketplaces and workplaces across the globe. With this in mind, the Coronavirus outbreak arguably represents an opportunity for growth and innovation, and good leadership will be central to ushering this in.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

So why does maintaining practices that yield a high-performance state of mind matter so much for leadership? It means identifying key skills that will benefit your overall leadership effectivenesssuch as inviting more input from your teamand then practicing in a deliberate manner. They Eat Right Dont forget about nutrition.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2023 curated just for you. Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 31, 2014

I still wanted to practice and study my vocation of leadership. There was an entrepreneurial spirit that sprung from all the makers, foodies, techies, innovators, dreamers, and groundbreakers that lived in the city and throughout the state of Oregon. We’re doing it because we believe in, and are inspired by, Oregon entrepreneurs.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Importance of Executive Coaching for the Entrepreneur Regardless of their industry or background, the entrepreneur faces unique challenges on their entrepreneurial journey. It is said that big doors swing on small hinges; this metaphor is especially true for the entrepreneur.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” There are leaders and there are entrepreneurs, but not all leaders are entrepreneurs, and not all entrepreneurs are leaders. They look beyond their ego.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Isn’t that for directors of nonprofits and starry-eyed Millennial entrepreneurs with idealistic dreams? Benefits of Empathetic Leadership. When you start to explore the benefits of empathetic leadership on a deeper level, it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2023 curated just for you. Leadership is engaging others to solve daunting challenges. Because, leadership is an activity―small actions taken in moments of opportunity. Finding the Way : The Entrepreneur's Tale by Cap Treeger. They are not.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2024

The Benefits of Executive Coaching for Start-Up Entrepreneurs Executive coaching has become increasingly popular among start-up entrepreneurs, and for good reason. By working with a seasoned coach, start-up entrepreneurs gain invaluable guidance and support that help them navigate the complexities of building a successful business.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2020. Entrepreneurial Leadership : The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff by Joel Peterson. They need to learn to launch new initiatives, inspire others, and champion innovative approaches.

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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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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A S A PROFESSOR, an entrepreneur, the president of Stanford University, and now the Chairman of the Board of Alphabet (Google’s Parent company) and Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, John Hennessy has had a lot of leadership experience. Leadership as Service. Innovation. Leading Matters is about the journey.

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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. You were born to be an entrepreneur. Aspiring entrepreneurs are instinctively driven to be the master of their own fate and to explore the limits of their potential. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

At N2Growth , we’ve had the privilege of working with top executives from some of the world’s largest companies, and we’ve seen firsthand how leadership coaching can truly transform strategic thinking. Nurturing Leadership Skills Leadership skills are essential for the success and growth of any enterprise.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2021

They watch the highlight reels of great leaders and think: “I’m no entrepreneur like [insert name here].” Before they even get started down the path of innovation, they decide coming up with fresh ideas and/or securing funding isn’t in their wheelhouse. You don’t have to make it big in business to be an entrepreneur.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

While this sounds simple enough at face value, I have consistently found that one of the most often overlooked leadership attributes is that of a positive attitude. If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. The simple answer is that you can’t…it just won’t work.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

When I looked back into history to track the origins of some of the everyday innovations we take for granted today, I found that every inventor tended to embody some or all of these same traits. It took a financial entrepreneur, Charles Flint, to merge several of these companies, creating International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2023 curated just for you. Leadership coaching legends David Noble and Carol Kauffman show you how with their innovative new framework—MOVE—which equips you with the tactics you need to slow down high-stakes situations before they speed you up.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. Stephen M.R. Blog Post ). The first is panic.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 14, 2019

The more traditional forms of leadership that are based on static hierarchies and professional distance between leaders and followers are growing increasingly outdated and ineffective. In today’s complex world, leadership must rely on high levels of trust and openness throughout the organization. Learn more and register here.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

If you’re willing to strip away all the excuses, explanations, rationalizations, and justifications for business failures, and be really honest in your analysis, you’ll find only one plausible reason - poor leadership. Poor Branding : A poor brand generally means leadership has failed.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2024 curated just for you. Bringing your authentic self to your leadership takes courage and commitment, but you reap profound benefits from heart-led generous acts. No, it’s not a health or financial crisis; it’s a leadership crisis.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Innovation doesn’t happen by one person having an aha moment. Leadership should shift from hierarchy to hustle. The CEO needs to take up the leadership challenge to help others respond to that. Leadership is a distributed capability throughout the organization. Andrew Keen, Entrepreneur and Author. ?

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Engaging Leader

MARCH 27, 2014

The post 082: Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability | with Faisal Hoque appeared first on Engaging Leader. In their new book, Faisal Hoque and co-author Drake Baer explain how these seeming opposites are actually connected … in fact, everything is connected. And they […].

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

W E LIVE IN the age of the entrepreneur. Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Welcome to the August 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Ken Byler of Higher Ground Consulting Group contributed Introverted Leadership in a Pandemic.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Blog Post ) Going on Offense : A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation by Behnam Tabrizi (Ideapress Publishing, 2023) Going on Offense is a powerful resource for anyone looking to transform their organization and their people into a perpetual innovator. This is the key to pursuing smart risks and preventing avoidable harm.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

What if our next generation of researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and academics fail to challenge conventional thinking? The burden and privilege of leadership simply demands more. My thesis is a simple one: “The plausibility of impossibility only becomes a probability in the absence of leadership.”

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

The most impactful and underappreciated aspect of innovation is challenging common and long-held assumptions about how things work. Rossman adds, “If you’re going to innovate, you not only have to be willing to be misunderstood but you must have a thick skin. “As Are You Willing to Be Misunderstood?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The Mind of the Leader : How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018) The Mind of the Leader offers a radical, yet practical, solution to solve the leadership crisis. Blog Post ). We fear rejection. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur. Once my leadership blog started gaining traction, I began paying attention to who else was in this human centered leadership space. Does it align with my values?

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business.

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