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Leadership and Resourcing

N2Growth Blog

Let me be clear that I’m not advocating an abdication of responsibility, but rather an understanding of highest and best use of financial, human, and technology resources. Furthermore, the best CEOs consistently spend time contemplating how not to do things themselves. Leadership is about teaching, coaching, developing, and mentoring.

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

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. That’s nice, but how much time do you spend evaluating people, entities or technology that might not be competition presently, but that could be down the road?

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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

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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Leveraging Down for CEOs | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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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Workplace Gossip | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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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When Tech gets too Much: How to Lead Analogue-Style

Lead Change Blog

Despite this, I do have my limits when it comes to technology. I’m reminded of this when I head to local, traditional networking events , pick up a pen and paper or simply take a quiet stroll with my four-legged friend; sometimes, life without technology is absolutely blissful. Sometimes, it really can get too much. Wrapping up.

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