Lead from Within

JANUARY 28, 2025

Traditional leadership approaches are destroying innovation potential at an alarming rate, with 76% of employees reporting their best ideas die in bureaucratic approval processes. The insights that follow reveal why conventional leadership approaches fail and what successful organizations do differently.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 16, 2021

“Karl,” a CEO we spoke with that same day, related the story of a recent in-person meeting for his national leadership team, their first face-to-face meeting in two years. As the pandemic and uncertainty persist, we invite you to consider putting people before projects. We’re not saying people instead of projects.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

To attract and retain top-tier talent in a competitive market, organizations must adopt innovative strategies that help identify the right candidates and create a cultural environment where they can thrive. Investing in innovative talent acquisition strategies is a necessity and a competitive advantage.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Today, organizations face multifaceted challenges that demand agile and decisive leadership. The increasing demand for interim executives reflects a broader shift toward flexible leadership models. Their ability to swiftly assess internal and external environments allows them to identify areas for improvement and innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This multifaceted role requires rapid decision-making and strong leadership capabilities, enabling the COO to manage day-to-day activities while enhancing operational efficiency effectively. This ensures a robust alignment between the candidate’s leadership style and the company’s strategic objectives.

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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 from Within

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To truly harness their potential and drive organizational success, leaders must employ innovative and thoughtful strategies. As an executive leadership coach, my role is to help leaders develop the skills and strategies needed to effectively manage and inspire their smartest team members.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2020. Leading with Gratitude : Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton. The Blueprint : 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights by Doug Conant. Friedman and Alyssa F.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

In the years leading up to 2018, I have spent my time bringing innovation to the financial services space. As such it is all about innovation. And now, from a distance, my optimism regarding the sector’s ability to innovate and capture opportunities has not changed. Let’s study a bit about Innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Emerging leaders empower their teams to achieve operational excellence and drive innovation by continuously refining culture, tactics, and strategy. Moreover, it mitigates risks associated with unexpected leadership vacancies, contributing to organizational stability.

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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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Decker Communication

MARCH 27, 2025

When a senior leader entered the all-hands meeting at a major pharmaceutical company, he faced a room of scientists whose research project had just been shelved after two years of work. Rather, they were led by individuals who excelled at contextualizing setbacks within larger innovation narratives.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Effective engineering leadership lies at the heart of a premier academic institutions ability to differentiate itself in a competitive market. Leadership marked by empathy, transparency, and the courage to navigate complex institutional challenges is what sets truly exceptional candidates apart.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Unexpected changes and challenges are inevitable in leadership. 05:38] – How Resistance Creates Stress and Kills Innovation Leaders often encounter resistance from employees and within themselves. 14:37] – How Leaders Can Encourage Innovation Without Losing Control Worried about letting go of control?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It requires intentional, visible leadership and a clear, consistent message that speaks louder than words. For example, if “innovation” is a core value, consider how you can visibly invite new ideas, tolerate a reasonable level of risk in pursuit of innovation, and respond with regard —even when you can’t use an idea.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Welcome to the July 2021 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. You may have a leadership dysfunction problem. Communication. Creativity/Inspiration.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 20, 2014

In my last article, “ 3 Practices CEOs Should Adopt from this Rock Star ,” I credited Bono’s leadership of U2 as a key factor behind the band’s success. His leadership approach can be described in one sentence: Bono communicates an inspiring vision and lives it, values people, and gives them a voice.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 31, 2024

However, with strategic actions and innovative approaches, leaders can turn things around. My approach includes thorough organizational assessments, equipping leaders with tools to foster a supportive and positive environment, and guiding the implementation of innovative morale-boosting practices.

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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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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Effective leadership is about more than just managing tasks and projects; it’s about connecting with and leading people in a way that inspires, motivates, and brings out their best. Whether you’re leading a small team or an entire organization, mastering the art of people leadership will set you apart and drive lasting success.

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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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Instead, it has evolved into an indispensable leadership position encompassing digital innovation, organizational change, and business model reinvention. Initially, these executives tended to come from technical backgrounds, overseeing projects focused on e-commerce platforms, social media engagement, and data integration.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 14, 2025

Artificial Intelligence is methodically eliminating leadership positionsand your role could be next. Organizations implementing AI management tools eliminate mid-level leadership positions at accelerating rates, with projections indicating 37% of current management roles become obsolete by 2026.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

How Big Things Get Done : The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner (Currency, 2023) Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. These are wonderful stories.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Welcome to the June 2021 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. Robyn McLeod provided The Do’s and Dont’s of Inclusive Leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 5, 2021

So we’ve created this delegation decision-making tool (we call it the strategic empowerment tool) and incorporated it into many of our leadership development programs. WHY this tool works: Strategic empowerment provides clear definitions and removes the guesswork about where to innovate. RELATIONSHIPS.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

So to get the most out of innovation processes such as design thinking, truly creative leaders also need to master the social dynamics of… [wait for the punchline}…humor! But in the world of leadership, humor has typically been typecast as a manifestation of individual personalities and thereby a spontaneous and non-replicable activity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Genuine gratitude transforms your leadership. An Inexhaustible Source of Leadership Gratitude. Even your direct reports don’t have to follow your leadership. When you embrace this fundamental truth – that everyone is a volunteer – it will change your leadership forever. They choose to. Outcome: “You did it!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Businesses simply have run out of time to embark on multi-year transformation projects – that window has closed. Again, innovation requires deviation from the norm in all areas, but mostly in what you do and how you do it. The post Leadership and Digital Transformation appeared first on The Executive Hub.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2022

I was six months into a new job and my boss’s boss asked me to take on a major project. I worked hard and gave the project my evenings and weekends until it was done. When I returned the completed project to my boss’s boss (ahead of schedule and with better quality than anything he’d seen), he frowned. That’s life.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Inspire team innovation with an idea garden, saving great ideas for future growth. I don’t want to crush team innovation, but I can’t possibly use them all. You’re doing a lot of things right when it comes to fostering psychological safety and encouraging team innovation.

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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

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. Rasmus Hougaard, Managing Director, Potential Project. ?

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

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. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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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's a good time to innovate. * * * Peter H. The moral of the story: discovery is thrilling, but a good idea is just the beginning.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The disconnect between leadership success and help-seeking behavior creates a critical vulnerability in organizational effectiveness. While many executives pride themselves on self-reliance, this mindset can limit innovation, slow decision-making, and increase strategic risk. times faster.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?” ” As you can imagine, the answer was often.

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