N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In today’s digitized business era, where artificial intelligence (AI) continually reshapes industry dynamics, a new breed of executive leadership emerges at the forefront. While some see it as a job disruptor, others recognize its potential as a catalyst for innovation. Tapping into this requires a distinctive leadership mindset.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

5 Ways to Scale Your Leadership and Motivate Your Large Team. But, now your team is bigger and you need to scale your leadership. How do you scale your leadership, motivate your large team, and continue to get the results you need? How I Learned About Scaling Leadership the Hard Way. Here are a few tips that can help.

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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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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. I NNOVATION has always been important. New technology will change the way we work.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Role of High-Impact Performance Coaching in Leadership Development of Executives Performance coaching is pivotal in developing executive leaders in today’s dynamic business environment. Leaders face an array of complex challenges, from navigating organizational change to driving innovation and performance.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Importance of CIO Leadership in the Modern Business Landscape In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, digital leadership has emerged as a critical factor for success. As organizations increasingly rely on technology to drive growth and innovation, the role of digital leaders has become paramount.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

D ISRUPTION has become synonymous with innovation. In contrast, nondisruptive innovation is “achieved without disrupting a preexisting market and its associated companies and jobs.” In Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries , Blue Ocean Strategy authors W. Stay focused on value innovation.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

James Kouzes and Barry Posner emphasize this point in Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership. To help you develop confidence and grow as a leader, the authors present an operating system of leadership practices based on their time-tested Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. But good leadership goes beyond that.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2024

I N THE HIGH-STAKES world of leadership, where every decision can be scrutinized and every failure magnified, the concept of vulnerability often takes on a negative connotation, especially among men, who are taught to equate emotional openness with weakness. Leaders should share their past mistakes and the lessons learned from them.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

Organizations, particularly startups, require changes in executive leadership talent in the business lifecycle to capitalize on growth potential. Today, I’d like to share some examples and critical considerations for companies that fit in this category. You could look at another impressive example in Spotify.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 5, 2020

We see another example today, presented by Comcast’s subsidiary, NBC Universal, while launching the new streaming service, Peacock. What is True Diversity in Leadership. Welcome to 2020. Please don’t expect major corporations to grasp the concept of true diversity, unless you help. What Happened.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Facing a whirlwind of change in our era, the essence of leadership remains constant. It is embodied in the timeless mandate of “leading by example.” The sobering answer is that such paragons of leadership are scarce. The traditional notions of leadership are no longer sufficient to meet the demands of our time.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 17, 2022

Compassionate leadership is not weak. In this episode, Donato Tramuto, recognized CEO, business leader, innovator, and philanthropist makes the case that compassion is a key leadership principle that drives trust, success, and innovation while raising morale, building stronger teams, and improving overall performance.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

T HE INNOVATION WE PRIZE at successful start-ups is a mindset that is brought into the start-up and not necessarily the inherent quality of every start-up. Innovation isn’t something that just happens; we create the conditions for it. Big organizations can innovate like small start-ups. Creating an Innovation Strategy.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. For example, all facets of selection, promotion, and rewards must be undertaken through the lens of character.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 3, 2024

While CEOs are often admired for their leadership, vision, and decision-making abilities, they are not immune to making mistakes. In this blog post, we will explore seven powerful examples of common CEO mistakes and the valuable lessons that can be learned from them. Ethical leadership is not a choice but a responsibility for CEOs.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

We are witnessing the creation of an entirely new paradigm, a fierce wave of technological innovation boosting generations of new businesses and business leaders. The pace of technological applications and innovations has increased significantly in recent years. Innovation is doing new things.” – Theodore Levitt.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I am a passionate advocate for honoring the people who work hard, persevere, and show dedication and loyalty. Here are some examples of appreciation and recognition messages that I have written in the past few years to assist my leadership clients. Thank you for all that you do!”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

T HE leadership question is top of mind for many people here in the United States and throughout the world. No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CDO’s mandate extends beyond mere technology implementation; it encompasses the development of comprehensive digital strategies and the cultivation of a culture that embraces continuous innovation. Leadership capabilities are paramount, as the CDO must inspire and guide teams through transformative changes.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2021. This innovative resource features real-life examples of how today’s most successful companies are building upstanding character while increasing employee engagement, happiness, and performance. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2024

It represents a fundamental change in the business ethos that necessitates leadership at the highest level. The leadership’s commitment demonstrates the importance of aligning the corporate world with the natural one, promoting the idea that business growth and ecological health can complement each other rather than conflict.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And we find that the leadership approaches and the language used aligned itself with that goal. We don’t innovate. It is this need that David Marquet thoroughly discusses in Leadership Is Language. This is the subject of Leadership Is Language. Reducing variability was the key to a great manufacturing environment.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

Cross cultural leadership to build better teams Cross cultural leadership is a fantastic chance to broaden your impact and develop teams that excel in performance and innovative problem-solving. It was an early lesson in cross cultural leadership, and I am so grateful for Jack having that conversation with me.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

T HE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE of leading in an increasingly complex world is that we will have developmental gaps in our leadership. In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 30, 2021

3:55 – The importance of self-awareness and progress in your leadership development. 13:10 – Four ways that giving yourself unscheduled time will benefit your leadership, your team, your health, and your productivity. But he lost his creativity when he joined the innovation team. A Minute to Think.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

These firms’ expertise and extensive networks help organizations identify and attract top talent for critical leadership roles. This can result in longevity, higher job satisfaction, increased productivity, and better overall performance in finance leadership roles.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2020

Inner Peace enables heightened awareness, reflective listening, and high emotional engagement with others and the highest levels of critical, innovative, and emergent thinking, all of which are needed to lead in disruptive times. Visualize, for example, how you would behave to be kind. Inner Peace does not come easily.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2021. Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. They catch “product diseases” that often kill innovation.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in November 2023 curated just for you. The Heart of Innovation : A Field Guide for Navigating to Authentic Demand by Matt Chanoff, Merrick Furst, Daniel Sabbah and Mark Wegman Books on innovation mostly focus on how to nurture innovative cultures and brainstorm ideas.

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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. Read this post for examples, and tips to regulate your reactions. Communication.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 2, 2019

Welcome to the April Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team building, and more. Linda Fisher Thornton of Leading in Context provided 16 Answers to What is Good Leadership? Development.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Most of the organizations I’m talking to and observing during the pandemic recognize the need to up their levels of innovation and agility. It’s a lot of things, actually, but one of the big ones is whether or not the organization has created a permission structure for innovation. What’s the difference between the two groups?

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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. He assesses its profound impact on business and education, using dozens of real-time examples of AI in action. No, it’s not a health or financial crisis; it’s a leadership crisis. Why is having a mentor crucial to success?

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

For example, “Pat is just our assistant,” “You need to just figure it out,” or “Just wondering if you’ve looked at the proposal.” The words we use matter, especially in a leadership role where our teams regularly react and listen closely to what we share. This word becomes problematic when we use it in the context of people.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Practical ways to engage your team (or leadership book club) as you read Courageous Cultures together. One of the real joys of being authors is hearing from leadership book clubs and teams who are reading our books together. And, you don’t get better at leadership or building culture just by reading a book.

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