Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 29, 2024

9:30-11:56: Transitioning to Dan’s current endeavors, he introduces us to his innovative approach to fostering connections within organizations, especially in a remote work environment. They are focusing on long-term growth rather than short-term productivity.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Key Trends and Considerations In the last three years, there has been a noticeable shift towards shorter, more performance-driven executive terms. Another trend is the rise of interim or acting executives, who are appointed for shorter terms to address specific challenges or transitions.

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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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N2Growth Blog

MAY 22, 2014

Yet rather than being weeded out, they seem to survive and thrive in an institutional ethic that values by choosing short term greed over longer-term value and culture. One, let’s call him the ‘seagull’, has produced great performance short term by moving in changing everything, slashing costs and people, then leaving.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Their roles are characterized by short-term tenures, typically ranging from six months to a year, during which they are expected to quickly assimilate into the company culture, diagnose issues, and implement necessary changes. These factors can limit access to talent, elongate recruitment timelines, and inflate costs.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

The authors point out that present-forward thinking innovation at most organizations is mostly incremental improvements to what they are already doing. These needed capabilities become your innovation portfolio. Set up an organizational model that protects breakthrough innovation teams from the countervailing influences of the core.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With many of us now adapting to remote working as no longer a short-term response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but as the ‘new normal’ for how our organization will function for the next few years, there’s been more focus lately on how leaders and their employees are adapting to this. Click to continue reading.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

A well-written contract defines or explains each term or condition only once. Lesson: A profitable company may be chronically short of cash. Consequently, a business may be short of cash until payment is received. Those who are adverse to theory may thrive in business as long as the parameters familiar to them remain in place.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. The Long Game : How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark. Your personal goals need a long-term strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

The term is often thrown around to depict all-encompassing fairness, and yet, many fail to understand its rich and intricate layers. This nurtures overall employee engagement and paves the way for innovation, creativity, and shared vision toward company goals.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In the ever-evolving arena of executive recruitment , the quaint notion of measuring a search firm’s prowess by the girth of their Rolodex—or the extent of their social registry, if you will—is as archaic as the term “Rolodex” itself. Real innovation doesn’t come from the same tired old pond.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

This enhances individual performance and drives collective success by empowering teams to adapt, innovate, and thrive in an ever-changing business environment. In short, executive leadership team coaching is not just a luxury but a strategic imperative for organizations striving for excellence.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Modern leaders must be adept at balancing strategic initiatives with operational needs, fostering a culture of innovation, and executing business plans that align with the company’s broader goals. A carefully selected COO can streamline processes, improve resource allocation, and foster innovation across the organization.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In countless cases, leaders have missed opportunities to tap into the enormous potential associated with the development of character to create innovation and excellence. In terms of psychological safety, how safe do employees feel when their leaders are bullies, abrasive, dogmatic, and toxic?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

“This young continent, with a median age of around twenty, is an eager adopter and innovator in all things digital and mobile.” The authors believe that companies and investors in every part of the world should take a look at Africa and its place in their long-term growth strategy because Africa is a 1.2-billion-person

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The experience of achieving short-term results motivates teams to strive for even more. Innovating for the Future. By keeping an eye on the demands of the future, leaders can continually drive innovations that will reshape the company to keep up with a changing world. Focusing on Results. Leading Yourself.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Guest post by Kris Oestergaard: Today, every business is looking to find ways to streamline its innovative abilities. Those successful in establishing a culture of innovation have addressed their organization’s “immune systems.” Organizational leaders need to address all three in order to transform into innovation champions.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

Professor Makoto Kanda from Meiji Gakuin University studied the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan Hotel and other long-term operating businesses to understand their longevity. Initiative, innovation, and risk-taking lose out because they tend to harm metrics. The long-term is sacrificed for the short-term. Impressive.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 7, 2021

Innovation is an inherently risky endeavor and failure is an inevitable bedfellow. New research from City’s Business School explores a number of approaches digital innovators can take to reduce their risk of failure. An approach of successive, incremental and temporary advantages can add up to significant long-term gains.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

While such an approach certainly has its merits, research from Bocconi University highlights how it could also harm innovation. This is because pay-for-performance schemes can often encourage a short-term and quantitative approach to assessing work. Firstly, innovators became far more goal-oriented. Put to the test.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 13, 2019

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interactions, conflict, argument, debate.” — Margaret Heffernan. Avoidance is the best short-term strategy to escape conflict, and the best long-term strategy to ensure suffering.” — Brendon Burchard . You were probably trying to maintain harmony and relationship.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 25, 2021

The last decade has seen a gradual rise in the practice of open innovation, such that recent data suggested nearly all organizations engage in at least some form of it. The researchers compiled survey data from 2015 and 2018, with the surveys measuring innovation activity in manufacturing companies across Russia.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2017

You aren’t likely to be affected by any team bias or prejudice, and probably find it easy to remain objective about the organization’s short-term and long-term needs. As a result, they may focus on solving short-term, operational problems while losing sight of long-term objectives.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Identifying, attracting, and retaining top healthcare executives who can harmonize quality care, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and long-term growth is no small task. Fostering Innovation to Navigate Industry Transformation Few industries are as dynamically innovative as healthcare.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” Donaldson and Karl Weber extract relevant lessons for leaders in Entrepreneurial Leader. The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2020

In it, he suggests that business leaders should stop focusing on short-term (finite) gains and instead focus on the long-term (infinite) game of the business. The challenge for leaders in the West today has become the fixation on short-term results. If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 10, 2024

In business, the adage "penny wise and pound foolish" often describes a short-sighted approach to cost management that undermines long-term success. However, this short-term focus can lead to long-term losses. Investing in Employee Development Investing in employee development yields substantial returns.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Innovation involves trying out new things, making improvements, and seeing what works in the market. Many CEOs, the top leaders of companies, often focus on short-term goals because that’s how they’re rewarded in their jobs. This can make it tough for company leaders to push for innovation.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

He had to sacrifice short-term gains, endure public criticism, and hold onto his vision while navigating immense turmoil to get there. Here’s the truth: real innovation is uncomfortable. He wasn’t playing for short-term comfort; he was building an empire. No more playing it safe. No more playing it safe.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

L ONG-TERM THINKING is the key to what goes on at Amazon. Jeff Bezos has said, “ What we’re really focused on is thinking long-term, putting the customer at the center of our universe and inventing. Those are the three big ideas to think long-term because a lot of invention doesn’t work. Reset Your Clocks.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Interim executives are highly skilled and experienced individuals brought in at short notice to lead organizations during times of crisis, management transitions, or to spearhead major strategic initiatives. They provide rapid and effective leadership solutions during uncertain times and offer guidance to organizations.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

C REATING an innovative culture is not easy. Organizations that continuously innovate have common characteristics. It not really about always day one , but I presume he chose the title because day one is a mindset that is foundational to sustaining an innovative culture. It often defies convention. Always Day One.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Making these types of connections helps you take the data one step further, determining if it’s going to have a short-term or long-term impact, if it’s suggesting the end of a trend or the beginning of a new one.” Within many organizations, highly innovative, potentially game-changing ideas are born regularly.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A critical part of this process is crafting an innovative, forward-thinking search strategy. These leaders have a clear sense of purpose, aligning every decision and action with the organization’s core values and long-term goals. It takes a thoughtful, strategic approach that recognizes the unique challenges of the nonprofit world.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Short answer – they wouldn’t. What do you need to provide in terms of space, guidance, equipment, support, and your own involvement to successfully execute on your plan? Yes, for sure, but the long-term results will be worth it. That’s where leadership lesson plans come in.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

A high premium is placed on collaboration, with the understanding that pooling diverse perspectives encourages innovation and creativity. The best leaders can influence their team’s behavior and work ethics, promoting a positive atmosphere that encourages productivity and innovation.

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