Leading Blog

APRIL 11, 2025

Then, the market shifted, and we hit the wall. Product leadership taught me to zoom out and engineer systems at scale. After two more startups, I shifted into leadership roles at companies like Facebook and VEVO, then helped build Disney+ and led streaming product and engineering at TelevisaUnivision. A pivot is reactive.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Importance of CIO Leadership in the Modern Business Landscape In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, digital leadership has emerged as a critical factor for success. To start, it is essential to clearly define the specific traits and skills required for effective digital leadership within your organization.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

Navigating the complexities of leadership and management styles requires more than conventional wisdom; it requires a deep understanding of how different management styles impact an organization. Ichak Adizes provides a valuable framework that categorizes leadership into four distinct styles, each with unique strengths.

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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. Marketers want to change their customers’ minds and leaders want to change organizations. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix the systems that caused the problems. We put out fires.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Redefining Healthcare Leadership Through Executive Search Within healthcare, success hinges on clinical excellence and the caliber of leadership guiding each organization. Unraveling the Complexity of Healthcare Leadership Recruitment The search for strong healthcare leaders extends beyond standard recruitment methods.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Developing future visionary leaders is essential for sustaining organizational growth and maintaining a competitive edge in dynamic markets. Moreover, it mitigates risks associated with unexpected leadership vacancies, contributing to organizational stability.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

At least three things seem to be critical for executive leaders and their leadership teams in a BANI operating environment: agility, seamless, no drama collaboration, setting the early warning radar system to high. The post How to Navigate a BANI World: A Leadership Playbook for Turbulent Times first appeared on The Eblin Group.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Discipline requires a systemic approach. To make good decisions, we need to understand how the system works. Context, fluidity, and other nuanced behaviors are positive traits to embrace so long as they don’t serve as an excuse for a lack of discipline. It takes some work, but don't settle for anything less.

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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. From Operational Oversight to Transformational Leadership Historically, many organizations assumed their IT departments could organically steer digital growth.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Simply put, I believe that entrepreneurial is a mindset—a way of thinking—and leadership is a way of acting. Entrepreneurial leadership, then, describes the way such a leader behaves. As founding dean and professor at the Yale school of management, he taught a course on entrepreneurial leadership. They look beyond their ego.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2024

This skill goes well beyond intuition; it combines experience, strategic insight, and an acute awareness of market dynamics, customer behaviors, and organizational pressures. For example, recognizing how a surge in customer demand might stress operational systems allows leaders to act preemptively, rather than reactively.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As we approach 2025, inclusive leadership has transformed from a commendable goal into a strategic necessity for organizations aiming to thrive in a rapidly evolving global market. The Evolving Landscape of Inclusive Leadership The connection between inclusive leadership and enhanced business performance is more evident than ever.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Our markets and competitive situations never hold still. Leadership change carries a cost. Let’s explore some areas where the cost of leadership change is evident and essential. Let’s explore some areas where the cost of leadership change is evident and essential. Change is a necessity. Team members don’t sit still.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Your business now operates as part of a global digital eco-system where leveling the playing field has become a digital impossibility. Start thinking about opportunities based on insights, customers, markets, and business models. The post Leadership and Digital Transformation appeared first on The Executive Hub.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Author Matt Paese explores leadership acceleration and how organizations can convert sluggish processes into dynamic adventures that produce energy instead of burning it. Listen in as Matt Paese applies a simple framework for evaluating your organization’s systems to identify the best opportunities for rapid and practical improvements.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 6, 2021

In this episode, you’ll discover a system used by world-class athletes, performers, and CEOs to build their confidence, achieve transformational results, and overcome their limiting mindsets. 2:44 – Tina’s background caring for people and her earlier leadership memory.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Have you ever wondered how businesses can foster sustainable leadership, creating real, lasting change without sacrificing profitability? You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime [00:00] – Defining Sustainability in Leadership The episode kicks off by exploring what sustainability really means in business.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. Leadership Lessons. Southwest Airlines Fall From Grace. Invest in Technology.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 30, 2014

I want leaders to see more than market share, and stack ranks. I believe strongly that helping people defend themselves against an imperfect system and regaining their power is vital. I worry about a system that over-grooms their leaders and the cycle of intimidation continues. Sure the system is imperfect.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2019. In Sailing True North , Admiral Stavridis offers a much more intimate, human accounting: the lessons of leadership and character contained in the lives and careers of history's most significant naval commanders. It’s not your marketing campaign.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Those successful in establishing a culture of innovation have addressed their organization’s “immune systems.” Just as the body’s immune system keeps it healthy, stable and tolerant of change, an organization’s immune system must be strong in order to handle the task of innovating. Assessing your organizational immune system.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. Leadership infrastructure is every bit as real as roads and bridges, electrical grids, and the Internet.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 20, 2024

I have spent decades advising CEOs, executives, and senior leadership teams globally in both Fortune 500 companies and emerging market enterprises. These insights stem from my work with diverse leadership teams across multiple industries, cultures, and business environments.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2023

” Digital Healthcare System Integrations Implementing digital solutions in healthcare is challenging due to the lack of integration between various software applications, databases, and devices used by various health providers. Some of these have occurred rapidly, forcing executives to adapt or be left behind quickly.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Often, and especially in contemporary times, the real story of innovation doesn’t involve lone geniuses or flashes of inspiration, but teams, organizations, and leaders who cultivate systems and cultures where new ideas can sprout and flourish. Its market cap is over $2 trillion. By 2023, its market cap reached $2.5

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 26, 2018

Guest post from Sander Flaum: Back in 2001, when I was asked to lead a forum in leadership at what is now the Fordham Gabelli Graduate School of Business, the concept was to bring noted leaders (business and otherwise) into a classroom where they could share their experiences and insights with MBA students.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Indian mathematicians invented a system for measuring objects. Arabic mathematicians eventually adopted the system, and it was through them that Europe would eventually learn about the numerical system we still use today. S OMETIME between the 1st and 4th century, something incredible happened.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

O NE OF THE MOST challenging leadership problems is to get people to speak up , especially as it concerns realizing the value of the “small voice in the room.”. a fairly notorious email encryption company both provoking concerns from the NSA but also putting privacy on the map as “the marketing gorilla of the Internet.”

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Preparing your Business for Unexpected Market Shifts In this volatile and unpredictable economy, businesses must prioritize resilience by taking a proactive approach to strategic planning to ensure sustainability. Despite the inherent complexities of navigating a volatile economic landscape, digital resources often provide a solution.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Understanding the Role of Embracing AI in Future Leadership Strategies As the transition towards a digital economy accelerates, Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerges as an influential element in shaping leadership strategies. Thus, the advent of AI tools induces a compelling transformation in leadership strategies.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Unlike traditional staffing solutions, the executive search process proactively addresses the organization’s long-term leadership requirements and strategic objectives. This service is particularly valuable in today’s competitive business environment, where effective leadership can significantly set an organization apart.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

The fast pace of technological advancements, business growth, and market changes demands technology leaders to possess agility in thought that enables them to anticipate changes before they occur. Balancing Technical Expertise with Leadership Skills Soft skills are still critically important…even for technology leaders.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” Each requires a different system in place to execute on it. Designing the Innovation System. Creating an Innovation Strategy.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2017

Organizations in practically every industry are struggling to attract and retain great talent, especially in senior and executive leadership roles. With average job tenures dropping at every level, Human Resource professionals may need to play a more active role in leadership development and coaching.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Market leaders consistently miss out on great new ideas because they overestimate their market dominance.” Among them are, assume you are incorrect, reward and encourage dissent, study other markets and get outsiders to suggest ideas you might be missing. Success often blinds you to opportunities. What to do? Change is a given.

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