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Shut-up & Listen | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Being a leader should not be viewed as a license to increase the volume of rhetoric. " Thanks again for your contribution to the leadership community. the janitor, night watchman, leadership team, etc., Want to become a better leader? Talk less and listen more. one mouth. Great leaders have many counselors (e.g.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

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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Managing Designers on Two Different Tracks

Harvard Business Review

Creative professionals do fare better when they’re given flexible schedules , meaningful work, and license to fail — but then, so do the rest of us. The good news is that the curiosity-driven creatives who come out of these programs can make excellent leaders, well-suited to the kinds of collaborative teams that spur innovation.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

CEO Kenneth Samet, along with Wagner and the six other executives on the leadership team, set a long-term goal of building a major growth business from these new areas. The innovation portfolio. But to build toward its future state vision, and scale up its insurance business, the organization sought and won licenses in D.C.

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10 Communication Tips for Leaders

N2Growth Blog

Being a leader should not be viewed as a license to increase the volume of rhetoric. link] Poul Andreassen It is an amazing articles on leadership, which actually takes the meaning of leadership to new aspect. Communicate more effectively. They have the uncanny ability to understand what is not said, witnessed, or heard.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.