Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

More than two-thirds (69%) reported that they found working in person at the office to be the most effective type of team interaction followed by email (45%), online video conferencing (44%), and instant messaging (43%). Those who do so help to better engage and unlock the high achievement of different team members.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

More than two-thirds (69%) reported that they found working in person at the office to be the most effective type of team interaction followed by email (45%), online video conferencing (44%), and instant messaging (43%). Those who do so help to better engage and unlock the high achievement of different team members.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 24, 2024

While many executives pride themselves on self-reliance, this mindset can limit innovation, slow decision-making, and increase strategic risk. Yet only 31% of senior executives report feeling comfortable asking for support when facing complex challenges. Leaders who actively seek input report 40% higher team engagement scores.

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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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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 29, 2025

Why You Need ChatGPT Right Now ChatGPT isnt just a shiny new toy for tech enthusiasts; its a transformative force for productivity, decision-making, and innovation. Heres what it can do for you today: Supercharge Your Efficiency: Imagine drafting emails, creating presentations, and summarizing reports in minutes, not hours.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2025

The gap in your leadership style is costing your organization millions in lost talent and unrealized potential.Recent Deloitte analysis reveals 82% of senior executives overestimate their leadership capabilities, while only 34% of their direct reports rate them as highly effective.

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Leadership Styles Self-aware Leadership McKinsey 159

Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

This book empowers you to take the first step toward becoming the leader everyone aspires to work with by enhancing your leadership skills, boosting workplace productivity, and mastering innovative conflict-management techniques. Conquering Crisis provides a new set of tools for facing these stressful moments with poise.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 14, 2025

AI systems now handle reporting structures, performance monitoring, and resource allocation with superhuman precision. Top executives excel at guiding cross-functional innovation by connecting insights across domains. Leaders who thrive in this AI-driven environment demonstrate specific capabilities that machines cannot replicate.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2024

It breaks down barriers, fosters genuine connections, and cultivates an environment where innovation and loyalty can flourish. This openness invites team members to share ideas and concerns without fear, fostering innovation and problem-solving. Leaders should share their past mistakes and the lessons learned from them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 28, 2021

Middle managers are like the middle child of an organization; often neglected by senior managers and blamed by their reports. This refers to taking the initiative to advance innovation, to act like an entrepreneur, within your company. Practical Ideas For Becoming a Better Middle Manager. Intrapreneur.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This new national prize a collaboration between CMI, the British Academy of Management and the Chartered Association of Business Schools celebrates impactful works, cutting-edge research and innovative thinking. What is a social enterprise? Social enterprises are not solely driven by a desire to maximise profits.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 25, 2024

While it may seem intuitive that technology should enable innovation, Cisco’s State of Global Innovation research suggests that the reverse is often the case. It does suggest that technology teams need to do a better job in supporting innovation, however.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

Even better when your direct reports are all amplifying and supporting your messages with their own 5×5 plan. Build an infrastructure for courage and innovation. Build an infrastructure for courage and innovation. Of course, as the leader, you want to be a highly visible communicator. Teach your team how to think.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

thanks for this report. Even your direct reports don’t have to follow your leadership. If you’re familiar with how to Respond with Regard to fuel innovation and ideas, you’ll recognize the first step as gratitude for their process: “Thank you for thinking about how we can improve.”. It changes the game. thanks for the update.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Try it with your direct reports and then teach them how to. Even better when your direct reports are all amplifying and supporting your messages with their own 5×5 plan. Build an infrastructure for courage and innovation. As your team is growing resist the urge to solve problems FOR them and teach them how to think.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The economic literature has provided abundant evidence on how firm innovation, digitalization, and automation affect employment dynamics, yielding different and sometimes controversial conclusions. Technological innovation impacts individuals, occupations, industries, and regions in varying ways.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For enduring success, this framework must incorporate elements that foster continuity and innovation. Multiple stakeholdersfrom direct reports to board membersshould provide input through structured feedback sessions to ensure this alignment. Cultural alignment is a crucial dimension of evaluation.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Have you noticed how hard it can be to stay curious, creative, and innovative? They often express concern about a perceived lack of curiosity, creativity, and innovation in their teams. Keep the main thing the main thing – Curiosity, creativity, and innovation suffer when you focus on the wrong goal.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

At N2Growth, we believe that fostering an inclusive environment is not just ethically sound— it’s a critical driver of innovation and sustainable growth. Organizations that cultivate environments where everyone feels valued and heard are better positioned to foster innovation, boost employee engagement, and inspire loyalty.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Pirate innovators The report investigates how these informal disruptors transition to legality by formalizing their operations. It also examines how established firms can counter the threat of these innovators through collective lobbying and consumer education. ”

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 21, 2024

Many companies are falling short in reporting on key categories known as Scope 3. Even though companies might boast about being environmentally conscious, the study indicates that many are neglecting the comprehensive reporting of their carbon footprint, especially in the crucial Scope 3 areas. ”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

One of the assessment tools we use a great deal is the Basadur Innovation Profile. This instrument measures one’s preferences for engaging the innovation process. As you can imagine, according to our research, evaluative people are much more hesitant to take risks, and thus report much lower intentions to start a new venture.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Meanwhile, organizations investing in future-focused leadership development report 34% higher adaptability to market changes. Leaders who master emerging competencies consistently outperform their peers in organizational innovation and talent retention.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

You can explore reports, dashboards and working with specific people to generate the relevant data. Innovation needs to be consciously thought through and carried out. Look at Great Britain’s efforts for funding innovation. Leaders are ahead of the pack, trying to scout these innovation opportunities.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Avoid These Intimidating Questions That Can Silence Innovation and Problem Solving When someone on your team screws up or has one of those “what were they thinking” moments, particularly when the stakes are high. Related Articles: No More Vague Reports: How to Get Your Team to Give You More Useful Information.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 2, 2024

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and nowhere is that more true than in innovation. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton That’s one of the insights I took away from InnoLead’s Q1 report on corporate innovation priorities.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 22, 2023

This meant around 70% of gig workers reported feeling insecure about their reputations. ” The post 70% Of Gig Workers Report Reputational Insecurity first appeared on The Horizons Tracker. . ” The post 70% Of Gig Workers Report Reputational Insecurity first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These leaders bear the weight of resource constraints, must consistently engage diverse constituencies, and often navigate strict regulatory and reporting requirements. Compensation models, while improving, may not always match those of corporate entities, and the need for specialized sector knowledge can restrict candidate pools.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating. Typically, evaluation scores are determined subjectively, which can often lead to disagreements between managers and direct reports on whether expectations are being met. There is no one way to be a leader.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2019

As great as that idea sounds it is not realistic and leaders must decide what to do when one of their reports is not acting accountably. Wouldn’t life be great if everyone exhibited accountable behavior 100% of the time? This action is generally known as holding someone accountable.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Read the full report Key Findings Management apprenticeships deliver at every level and need to be a key part of the skills mix across the UK, both now and into the future. Productivity Gains 7000 Apprentices contribute to higher efficiency, better leadership, and workplace innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

With CFOs having to supervise their company’s digital activities and resolve issues outside the traditional finance function, the number of their direct reports is on the rise. This is where cloud platforms and new technologies play an essential source of CFO innovation and value-added to their business. .

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 9, 2024

According to a recent report by the World Economic Forum, 50% of all employees will need reskilling due to technological disruption. Leaders who promote this mindset inspire employees to embrace change, innovate, and take calculated riskskey components of thriving in an ever-evolving work environment.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

In Wellbeing at Work , Jim Clifton and Jim Harter report that beginning in the late 1950s, Gallup sought to discover and quantify the difference between the best possible life and the worst possible life. If you follow this blog, it is obvious to you that this impacts relationship, creativity and innovation, energy, and trust.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A recent survey across the mining sector in Southern Africa shows that Mining companies have not yet hit the targeted 30% gender mark on boards, and innovation and technology skills are not represented at the board level either. This trend seems to be replicated in Australia, reporting only 19.6%

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

How Innovation Works : And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley. Innovation is crucially different from invention, because it is the turning of inventions into things of practical and affordable use to people. Far from there being too much innovation, we may be on the brink of an innovation famine.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

For example, a report by McKinsey & Company found that companies with diverse executive boards outperform their peers in profitability, generating approximately 10% higher return on equity. Strengthened Innovation: Diverse teams are more likely to generate innovative solutions.

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