N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

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. From my perspective, I can’t imagine not integrating services throughout the talent management lifecycle.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 3, 2021

And since none of us operate in a vacuum, it means gathering my team around me so that I can model and create a space for their loss. Encourage your team—on an optional basis– to share in a similar fashion. As I pondered these questions for myself, certain thoughts arose. Start with me. Simple things connect us as humans.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

The trick is to throw the right talent, and the appropriate investment at a challenge in a fashion that creates a certainty of execution while still generating return on investment.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

These employees have to be led in a systematic fashion to ensure that all efforts are channeled towards a common goal. On the other hand, an organization whose leadership has a proper communication flow ensures that the information reaches its destination in a timely and orderly fashion such that the message is not distorted in any way.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

In Covey’s classic illustration below, you’ll find a simple chart to use as your guide. Another part of the art and science of delegation is understanding how to effectively delegate to others in a fashion that sets them up for success and not failure.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

His call sign, CHAOS , was given to him by his operations officer, John Toolan.” Although Mattis resigned halfway through his appointment as Secretary of Defense at the end of 2018, he writes, “I’m old-fashioned: I don’t write about sitting presidents.” “Old-fashioned” Old-fashioned” is often another way of saying character.

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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. To serve amongst special operators has taught me many things in leadership. Mike Myatt: What do you see as the primary role of a leader?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors? As an example, Look at Apple! But manufacturing?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2014

They insisted that there was no room for learning when someone is flatlining on the operating table. The best feedback comes in small doses and quick bursts, typically delivered in drive-by fashion rather than formal meetings. I agreed and asked, “What percentage of your time is spent in these situations?”

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

To do that, we had to lean into a “brand renegade” mindset and apply it to our daily operations. As we built our business, we realized that we had a unique opportunity to reset common perceptions of the industry and take our brand to a national level. How it’s always been done” was never our standard.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

He went on to explain that this kind of feedback was confrontational and would only be accepted and processed by the recipient if it was delivered in an extremely caring fashion. DaVita operates more than 1,800 dialysis centers and employs over 40,000 people domestically. He called it carefrontation.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In the same fashion that being the source of gossip is destructive, so is furthering the damage by ratcheting up the rhetoric by participating in gossip. If someone comes to you about a problem with another person, immediately redirect that individual back to the person in question.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor. They make bad decisions.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

He asked a question and then went around the table in an orderly fashion getting input from the attendees. Before we blame the CEO as a bad, old-fashioned leader, let’s check again: all other people complied. The following is a guest piece by Marcella Bremer. They accepted the CEO’s rules and proceeded with the meeting.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 3, 2012

With the huge menu of communication technologies available to companies, messages should be delivered in person, electronically in written, audio, and video, as well as the old fashioned way, printed hard copy. For more on this topic from Harvard Business Review [link]. Ineffective Feedback. Misunderstanding Motivation.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Sometimes business was lost to brick and mortar operations because of the “unprofessional” assumptions people had about work-from-home professionals. There’s no bigger bottleneck in your operation than yourself. But it wasn’t long ago that working from home was not looked upon so keenly. Build A Team.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 9, 2012

In many ways this manifests itself with the leader (and sometimes other team members) trying to press changes for how the team operates to better suit their needs/interests. For everyone else on the team, such efforts often come across as a power grab or marking off territory of who’s in charge or in control of what.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue. Thanks for the astute observations Mark. Mike Henry Sr. Thanks for the great post. You're right on regarding love.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Learn to serve as your organization’s rudder instead of its anchor Neurological studies have found that our brain processes information every five seconds in a binary fashion where it labels the new data as either a reward or a threat.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 20, 2012

It is only as a result of leaders’ executing PPM with unwavering character and purpose that an organization—your organization—can lay the groundwork for achieving breakthrough-operating performance. What If the Truth Is Not Told? they tell them that they are performing worse than they are in reality).

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 7, 2017

This is where building relationships with our employees comes into play, as it will help us to not only understand what they hope to accomplish, but also what would make them feel like they’re contributing in a meaningful fashion, and how we can connect these measures with the shared purpose of our organization.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’re still on the fence, I would request you try and answer the following question: If you can engage those with whom you conduct business, or otherwise desire to interact with in a meaningful and value added fashion why wouldn’t you do so? Thoughts? Also, It seems like a ton of time needs to be devoted to it all.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2019

Because no matter how much more complex the world seems to become and no matter how much more quickly we race to outrun others, great leaders operate from a set of principles they use daily as filters for making decisions. At the heart of sound decision-making is being crystal clear about what you stand for.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Experience, while a great teacher, can nonetheless result in a very costly education that rarely occurs in a timely fashion. Great work Mike… [link] mikemyatt Hi Rob: Thanks for the kind words Rob. Hopefully this piece will spare others unnecessary brain damage. Thanks for stopping by Rob… [link] Principal (le?)

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2018

No serious strategic moves will be made without them being part of the decision-making; however, markets, customers, supply chains, manufacturing processes and everything else in the age of “digital connectivity” changes too fast for a traditional organization to react in a timely fashion. This is leadership!

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

While some companies talk a good game with regard to competitive strategy, in my experience very few businesses actually address the issue in adequate fashion. In business you can either choose to deal with your competition (even if that means partnering with them), or you can opt to stand idly by and let the competition eat your lunch.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Lack of Focus and Follow-Through : Those leaders who lack the focus and attention to detail needed to apply leverage and resources in an aggressive and committed fashion will perish. Only those leaders who can quickly recognize and adapt their methods to the situation at hand will be successful over the long haul.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion. Marshall Goldsmith : I could not possibly personally coach or speak to everybody who has an interest in my work. Mike Myatt : What’s been the most rewarding aspect of your work in the leadership field?

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

Participative Similar to the service leadership style in that team members are involved in decision making, this style is characterized by a leadership that makes decisions in joint fashion. Art Gould is a division manager with Self Storage Company, which operates a group of websites, including a Nashville self-storage locator.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict and proactively intervening in a well reasoned and decisive fashion you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 28, 2016

Most of us operate in some formal fashion with others in professional alliance. Whether we are part of an organized and recognized group, such as a real estate agency or function in looser fashion with a group of trusted others, we are social and communal beings. COMMUNITY DISCIPLINE. We did not build this ourselves ….

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

They are unusually smart (Ralph Lauren looked for people with a kind of fashion sense), creative (people who see things differently), extremely flexible (people who can do more than one thing). Operating a masters, they forge sustained, all-encompassing, intense, and intimate” relationships with the people that work for them.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2018

This is pretty easy to do when you work in the same office, but if you’re a business that largely operates remotely, getting together in a room might be viewed as a chore people would rather dispense with. It might be convenient, but it’s far nicer and more likely to foster a great working relationship if you focus more on meeting in person.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 31, 2018

Instead of being locked into an unconscious force that operates in the background and guides you automatically, you can use the learning cycle as a guide to help you learn deliberately. In uncharacteristic fashion, Lynne did not try to diagnose or fix a problem.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. Thanks again for stopping by Dan.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 30, 2013

The reality, though, is that these thoughts are only serving to fuel our fears about the current situation, thereby limiting our willingness or capacity to address it in an appropriate fashion.

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