Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2014

Pressures, grooming, and politics all create counter-pressures to authenticity. Every year, I take time out to work on my leadership credo. How to Build a Leadership Credo. This exercise pairs well with a discussion on leadership authenticity. Operating principles (e.g. Days become months and months become years.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 1, 2024

Often good performers are put into bad processes within systems that subvert rather than support them. This showed that roughly 85% of the time the failure is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. “Turfdom” and political maneuvering. Local/department/team sub-optimization.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference. Putting political agendas and peer pressure aside (as great leaders do), leaders should not make their choices based upon public opinion.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2021. Ghosn spent two decades building a colossal partnership between Nissan and Renault that looked like a new model for a global business, but the alliance's shiny image fronted an unsteady, tense operation. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Throw in complex organizations operating in complex markets, and you’ve really got to marvel at how it all comes together every day. In the face of all this complexity, there are four basic behaviors that leaders can adopt that will drastically improve their leadership and, by extension, the experience of those they lead.

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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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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

There is friction between globalization and regional autonomy, a conflict between the desire for sustainability and the lure of rapid development, ongoing political uncertainties, and the ever-increasing impact of digital technology. These factors are redefining the shape of the global economic terrain.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

T HE leadership question is top of mind for many people here in the United States and throughout the world. The idea that leaders are trustworthy, honest, and can be relied on to operate in the best interest of the public, the employee, the student, the parishioner, or even the shareholder has been shattered.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Coaching is a collaborative process focused on individual development and improvement. Identifying Organizational Needs: Assessing Challenges and Goals Assessing the challenges and goals of an organization is a critical first step in providing effective leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Living out their own code becomes critical to that process, especially in a political environment with really no code. Comey cast doubt on the FBI when he allowed himself to be drug into the political drama of the time. A code that’s not enforced quickly becomes a lie that undermines your entire operation.

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HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

In this article, we’ll present 10 polite ways to write a layoff email to employees – each of these layoff letter templates will help you ensure that when they do happen, the redundancy feel fair and the company and the affected workforce are set up for success. Research shows that bad layoffs rarely help the leaders accomplish their goals.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The Planning Process. Knowing what''s important to the leadership of the organization and what they want to see happen allows the leadership team to focus its energy and achieve sustained high performance in taking action. Completion of this Consolidated SWOT is the first step in a visioning process.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2020

It is easy to establish a business, but to make it succeed and run its operations smoothly requires ample hard work. Whereas in politics also, smooth transmission of messages is essential, and success heavily relies on it. For example, currently, politics and business are the two leading fields. Boosts Productivity.

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Politics Skills Bond Loyalty 65

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

September 11th, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Great Recession, the COVID pandemic, and polarized politics have created our own existential worries. Ongoing innovation with new products, services, and processes through autonomy and entrepreneurship. Hands-on, value-driven leadership. Feel familiar?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Remember that most people who fail just quit a bit too early in the process.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. Thank you all. Learn more about RLI here. Let’s Get Started.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

Perhaps most interestingly is the fact that – as was the case for the my top leadership insight in 2016 – the top leadership insight I shared last year came from a piece that revolved around a personal story of mine and the lessons I learned of how to be more effective in how to lead and serve those under our care.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Under the old Friedman dictum that a company’s only responsibility is to make a return for shareholders, it would be rational for the only political engagement expected of leaders to be that which would enhance the business. of them said that leaders should be taking a stand on political issues, with 62.5% An overwhelming 77.5%

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But then as now, there is no greater attribute for a ruler than humility built on an accurate assessment of his own limits, from which the finest cunning emerges.” — Robert Kaplan, Warrior Politics. “In You have to have a team and operate as a team, and any corporation would have a training program to acculturate people.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 12, 2024

Michelle Bonam, VP of Organizational Effectiveness, Ceridian Investing in Growth The time to nurture leadership potential is not upon retirement announcements, but well before. Investing in leadership development and ongoing learning opportunities empowers employees to fill the shoes of departing leaders seamlessly.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. Beth is another former operator who really understands the business and their 37,000+ workforce.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

And when we call, a polite person apologizes and puts it on the schedule “for day after tomorrow.” The exterminating company was being totally run by a telephone operator with no power over calendar, computer, or field operators. See your operation through the lens of your customers and communicate to associates what you see.

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Airlines Hotels Operations Learning-by-Doing 279

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.” Creative Construction is the process of sustaining and rejuvenating an existing organization’s innovative capabilities.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This time each year, I select from all the leadership books I read during the year my pick for the best new leadership book of the year. Baird/Sullivan : Some signs that people’s psychological needs aren’t being met are easy to see: in-fighting, politics, hoarding information and resources. These toxic behaviors are obvious.

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Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 79

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the value of loyalty as it relates to leadership. If relationships are the currency of leadership, it is important for leaders to note that loyalty serves as the cornerstone of any healthy relationship. Leadership and loyalty go hand-in-hand. The boss will never go for that.&#

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

In Billings, I could nod and make eye contact with people while I was speaking, but there wasn’t the opportunity to really absorb and process the reactions. I’d been at my leadership role for 6 years. We had worked hard to get our operations in order and build a great team. It was time.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Take an assessment of what you do well and what you don’t and then apply rigor, process, structure and discipline to each of those areas. The most productive leaders I know have the ability to be extremely nice, very civil and always polite while maintaining the ability to be direct, focused, and candid.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

That, coupled with changes to internal systems and processes, delivered a range of services much better focused on responding to the needs of our local community. The process was painful, and at times very messy, but it eventually delivered a creative and innovative solution. Of course, we all know that change is messy.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. Thank you all. Learn more about RLI here. Let’s Get Started.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Its easy to pick out the large, juicy chunks, which have captivated most of us around the globe: political upheaval, geo-political instability, corporate scandals to name but a few. My mind is spinning around as I try to defragment and reorganize the many experiences, images and memories that have made 2016 such a fascinating year.

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Execution Trends Committee Politics 272

Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In selecting Bono, USA Gymnastics joins an unfortunate list of companies failing to conduct a basic analysis of digital media , before making critical leadership decisions. Spencer Stuart , the executive search firm retained by USA Gymnastics for the permanent replacement, may have played a role in this selection process.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Each year HR professionals undertake an annual process to determine what benefits will be offered to employees as part of their benefit package – possibly considering what benefit will be taken away or how much premiums will increase to offset growing benefit plan costs. Why are more companies not developing their own Health/Wellness Centers?

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

.” The last few years, there’s been a broader movement to applying agile principles to leadership and organization development. ’ You might say that business agility is a recognition that in order for people in an organization to operate with an Agile mindset, the entire organization needs to support that mindset.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

When something bad happens we naturally prefer to process the injustice in a way that makes us coming out as the victim; we are right, they are wrong. He chose to frame it as a "political" issue. You undermine your "ability to exhibit character and leadership traits" that could help your career, says Kaplan. Injustices happen.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 6, 2012

Welcome to the May edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! A blog "Carnival" is typically a collection of recent blog posts organized around a common theme, in this case, leadership development. She's also been a consistent Twitter supporter of Great Leadership. Jennifer V.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Anthropomorphic: With advances in natural language processing (NLP), AI agents can convincingly mimic human conversations. Another important subset of natural language processing (NLP) is something called sentiment analysis, which is a machine’s ability to identify human attitudes.”

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