Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Childish, mature. ” Next time you are making a people management decision, stop and take a critical look at how biases may be informing your choices. Workplace Issues diversity equality HR Human Resources Leadership managing people people management racism' Fit, not in shape. Beautiful, plain, ugly.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

(Terry’s Note: Hi all – Today I’m introducing a new series of posts, written by guest writer Adam Tenenbaum , called Front Line Leadership. Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2021

Leadership encompasses all of these components. John Maxwell’s book 360 Leadership is a great book. Then Jon Lockhorst’s new book, Mission-Critical Leadership , reconfirms the importance of leadership at every level with the ability to support others at different levels. Action Steps for leadership 360.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was recently asked what I consider to be the most misunderstood aspect of great leadership; in other words, what makes great leaders great? If you want to become a better leader, I suggest you become comfortable with a leadership practice very few are… it’s called surrender. Control is about power – not leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. And, emotional intelligence has been linked to successful leadership (just did a paper on this for a university class).

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 28, 2013

Guest post from Great Leadership regular contributor Paul Thornton: Management style greatly affects employees’ motivation and capacity to learn. The most effective managers vary their styles depending on the employee’s knowledge and skills, the nature of the task, time constraints, and other factors. The Three Ds.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 27, 2021

Part of the problem in leadership is we don’t give ourselves a chance to emotionally mature because we want to be right. Emotional maturity in our leadership is responsibility. Next, an important aspect of leadership, listening with curiosity. (30:52). What does courage look like?

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

To get there, she knew she had to focus on growing her leadership skills. Within a couple of months, her boss had remarked about her growing leadership competencies and suggested she might be a prime candidate for a directorial position one day. Here are the most essential traits that great leaders have. Great leaders have Integrity.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Understanding the Criticality of Leadership Transition in 2025 CEO succession represents one of the most consequential inflection points in an organizations lifecycle. Conversely, poorly managed transitions invite uncertainty that can erode employee morale, undermine client trust, and weaken competitive advantage.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2012

While there have been thousands of books written about leadership, there are a handful of leadership models that have served me well as a leader and leadership development practitioner. These are the tried and true models that have shifted my thinking about leadership and help create teachable leadership moments for others.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 13, 2011

There are simply no words that can do justice to the example of servant leadership epitomized by Command Chief Master Sergeant James Hotaling. Jim’s answers to my questions are nothing short of a leadership manifesto. Mike Myatt: Has your leadership style changed over the years, and if so, how?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Guest post By Brian Gast : What’s your leadership capacity? I had created $400 million in value from an idea, was managing a 1,500 person company that everyone wanted to work for and a public company that was a darling of Wall Street. Such conditions test your leadership capacity. Then things got tough.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I really appreciate Pete’s insights into the necessity of self-leadership and his honesty in admitting that this is his own area of struggle. His leadership is remarkable! And I agree 100% that leaders everywhere need to find ways to motivate people that go beyond money and benefits. Thanks so much for your comment Bridget.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Still, our stalemate provides an important leadership lesson. Leadership is difficult in a representative government. The President and Congressional leaders have power and authority but not enough to direct a solution so they have to exercise persuasive leadership–peer leadership—to get things done.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

It is the story of Nadia bright and adventurous meerkat who is part of a mature clan with over 150 members. This well-managed clan has done well to date but is now faced with unprecedented problems that challenge their once reliable rules and procedures. And John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber’s That’s Not How We Do It Here!

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Front Line Leadership . In my last post I introduced Part 1 of my two-part series on the the topic of Managing Millennials (the generation born roughly between 1980 and the mid 90‘s) – Treat Them Like a Celebrity. To recap my two keys to Managing Millennials: 1) Treat Them Like a Celebrity. Guest Post By Adam Tenenbaum.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2020

They provide a unique window on the impact overly controlling, self-centered leadership styles can have on others: “Regarding the letter you sent, the heart of your servant is ill, when my lord said: Don’t you know how to read a letter? What are the enduring qualities of great leadership?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

Guest post from Georg Vielmetter and Yvonne Sell: In “ Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you need to understand to lead your company into the future ,” we outline the repercussions of the convergence of globalization 2.0, The meaning of leadership is changing, as are the skills it requires. the top should be a crowded place.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2021. For the first time, Dell reveals the highs and lows of the company's evolution amidst a rapidly changing industry—and his own, as he matured into the CEO it needed. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. Certain functional leadership positions, and industry sectors, can be less strident on this question. Realize that P.E.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Here's a post that I wrote for SmartBlog on Leadership , published 10/25: The majority of popular leadership advice falls into one of two categories: 1. Leadership for the small-business owner (which usually deal with entrepreneurialism, sales, financing, and other basic management and business skills).

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2012

Shelton, leadership coach, speaker, blogger, and author: As a leadership coach and consultant I am considered a thought resource in the area of developmental leadership. That is to say I spend my time working with reactive and unconscious behaviors that create unseen and unwanted outcomes within personal leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

leadership style. In mature markets, banks are rushing to play catch up with this kind of mobile service before smart new competitors outwit them. In the US, new online firm Betterment has made it remarkably easy for ordinary customers to set up and manage investment portfolios. One thing’s for sure: the old ways won’t work.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 23, 2022

Each year I debrief leadership assessment results with hundreds of C-Suite candidates as an Executive Coach & Consultant at N2Growth. These two facets are critical in managing our overall health and how effectively we perform in a specific role, regardless of our position in the organization.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2025

Questions of where, how, and why we work loom large, and trust in traditional leadership models has plummeted. Now, theres essential evidence that proves humanity in leadership is needed to save our work. Weve dedicated our careers to empowering and enabling companies to thrive through a human-powered approach to leadership.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 6, 2013

This statement sums up one of the key indicators to sustainable and effective leadership as taught in the book The Leader’s Climb: A Business Tale of Rising to the New Leadership Challenge by Bob Parsanko and Paul Heagen. Acceptance is the mature and reasoned embrace of our current realities.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

Too often, managers put their heads down and focus only on their own departments. Sales and marketing leaders become more mature in their thinking about the demand plan. When upper management leaders play their positions and trust their teammates to do what they say they’re going to do in their plans, something else happens.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

One of the great leadership challenges is making the transition from subject matter expert (SME) to leading teams of SMEs. So you’ll need a more collaborative style of leadership. So you’ll need a more collaborative style of leadership. But now the question becomes, “As I mature in leadership, can I move from ME to WE?”.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Moreover, depending on how a business is positioned, where it is in its maturation lifecycle, or what its current financial condition looks like, will dictate which factors may be most important to measure. The best managed companies measure all 5 categories (as well as various subsets) with their focus being on items 3 and 5.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 2, 2023

Emotional intelligence, also known as EQ, is the ability to understand and manage emotions of self and others. It is an important trait for leaders, as it enables them to effectively interact with and manage others. By understanding and managing their own emotional awareness, leaders can effectively navigate conflicts.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Mastery in anything, from sports to the arts to leadership, requires well-practiced capability mediated by a highly mature interiority—a well-honed Outer Game arising on a highly evolved Inner Game. Masterful leadership is Conscious Competence. How mature is your inner game for the stage you are playing on, or aspire to play on?

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Welcome to the April 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! ” In other words, someone who stocked the dairy section was as empowered to share positivity through leaving a note on a store-wide gratitude board as was the manager. .” Gordon Leidner answers these questions in his guest post on Great Leadership!”

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

It’s the final installment of my five-week series outlining my 25 timeless (and time tested) leadership lessons that just plain work. Practice Full Spectrum Management . “It is Solved by Walking” Take the Leadership Litmus Test. What I got in return was one of the best leadership lessons I have ever received.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 2, 2012

Product managers in coalition organizations know this all too well. Instead, product and brand managers are organized into coalitions that serve as a resource one to another. So, how does leadership really play out in this type of non-hierarchical organization? SHELTON is a leadership coach, speaker, blogger, and author.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

I’ve seen this problem manifest itself several times – I’ll give you a (fictionalized) example: Joe is a young mid-level executive who is hired to be a staff manager. They can mature. He’s smart, talented, enthusiastic, and a hard charger (otherwise known as someone who doesn’t suffer fools very gladly).

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