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Leadership and Self-Awareness

N2Growth Blog

If you’re in a position of leadership and don’t feel you have any blind spots, you’re either very naïve or very arrogant. Following are 5 things all leaders should embrace if they desire to be more self-aware: Never Stop Learning : I read an article last week in Chief Executive Magazine profiling 6 leadership lessons from Mark Zuckerberg.

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Why Your Leadership Is Overrated

N2Growth Blog

How are your leadership skills? There’s no shortage of independent empirical data generated over the years supporting the fact most people tend to overrate their leadership ability. I’ve always said leaders need to get over themselves and get on to the practice of leadership. Leadership isn’t a one-size-fits-all endeavor.

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Am I A Nice Boss?

Lead Change Blog

Of course, it’s difficult to remember everything, especially if your span of control is 25 or more—let alone if you also want to remember things about all the coworkers your direct colleagues guide in the everyday operation of your organization. What are the specific qualities which make a coworker good in what they do?

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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HR Value Delivery: Power of HR to Transform Organizations

HR Digest

HR’s Unique Contributions to Business Success To truly unlock the potential of HR value delivery, HR professionals must focus on three key areas: talent, organization, and leadership. HR professionals should engage leadership teams in defining and embedding these organization capabilities.

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The “Next Practices” of Strategy-Setting

N2Growth Blog

their personal span of control) and the organization’s existing “ways of doing business” These approaches produce plans that have blinders on. Disregard the pro forma and seek rapid results, instead – many planning methods are overly dependent on the parochial interests of its senior leaders (i.e.,

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce.