Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 15, 2024

Stop Asking “Do You Understand?” But one of the worst ways to waste these precious moments is by asking, “Do you understand?” Maybe they think they understand (and whether they do or not, you don’t know). And you rarely learn about problems in understanding until later when things go wrong. What’s happening now?”

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2017

Here are four key ways in which you can help managers become better leaders: 1. Helping both current and future leaders develop their leadership skills New managers are often promoted without receiving any training or support that helps them build the skills they will need in their new position.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

At N2Growth, we approach the healthcare leadership market with a nuanced lens, drawing on decades of industry experience to ensure that leaders possess the necessary technical expertise and the resilience, strategic insight, and emotional intelligence essential for inspiring teams and shaping the future of patient care.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

It’s going to be hard to teach your team to think like entrepreneurs if they’ve always been a “just tell me what to do-er.” What did you do with it and what happened as a result? Tell me about a time that you strongly disagreed with your manager. What did you learn? . – Seth Godin.

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Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 28, 2025

To stand out in a crowded market, independent management consultants can leverage their unique strengths, focus on delivering value and build an authentic, compelling personal brand. You choose the types of work you do or the industry sector you work in, so strengthen your credentials in that area, she notes.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: Learn an organization’s culture before working with or for it. Lesson: Moral Hazard.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

They are responsible for managing and optimizing all revenue generation processes within an organization, and their decisions can significantly impact the company’s financial success. CROs oversee marketing, sales, and customer relationship teams to ensure they work together effectively.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

Too often, managers put their heads down and focus only on their own departments. Doing so ensures that what they’re doing as an entire team will enable the achievement of the company’s overall business objectives — which often represents the difference between success and failure. Doing so creates agility.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It has called on us to learn to think better. In the list below, you will find resources to help you do just that—think better. DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020) Teaching by Heart summarizes the author’s key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. Certainty is out. Complexity is in.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It takes work and knowing what we do to sabotage it. We reduce our ability to do just that by falling into some or all of these seven traps. Market leaders consistently miss out on great new ideas because they overestimate their market dominance.” What to do? What to do? What to do? What to do?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Technological advancements, such as artificial intelligence , machine learning, and the Internet of Things, have significantly changed how we live and work. This requires a mindset that is open to learning and a willingness to continuously upgrade skills to stay relevant.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn. Isn’t it time we gave more thought to how to do it well?

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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. It’s that sense of meaning that inspires us to think of new, innovative ways to do the work. Additionally, great leaders can spot the fire in us and learn to harness that fire for the company.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I N MY THIRTY YEARS as an executive coach, I have seen a lot of change — the complete digital transformation of the workplace, increased diversity of the labor market, the shifting role of employers. Yet, many learning and development strategies are built towards forcing leaders to fit themselves into a restrictive mold.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. By 2023, its market cap reached $2.5 You know this company.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. It will most likely overcome cross-cultural barriers as it expands into new markets.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 30, 2014

That’s where the disconnect was for me, at what point do leaders really need to understand, and act on how their behaviors, their decisions affect the masses below them? I want leaders to see more than market share, and stack ranks. In doing this leaders improve the lives and careers of their employees. The short answer is: Yes.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Science, math, and data do not excuse us from thinking. Instead, they make it imperative that we learn to think more critically and combine it with our humanness to come to more measured conclusions. Successful people and companies combine the story and the spreadsheet, and by doing so, restore the soul of business.”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This position is often seen as the linchpin of a company’s commercial strategy, controlling marketing, sales, and customer service efforts to achieve optimal success. In addition, the CCO manages and implements strategies to drive revenue growth, break into new market segments, and foster customer engagement.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

No matter which industry your organization operates it, there’s a pretty high chance that you’re grappling with how to motivate and engage your employees in the daily work they do. Steve Curtin is an expert on customer service management and leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Answering the question “which five people do I spend the most time with” is the easiest way to understand your influences. Godin is best known for his expertise in marketing and the Internet. The only barrier is you – do you have the skills and commitment to lead? In some cases, it is clear who influenced Weber’s work.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

They argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. Startup Myths and Models : What You Won't Learn in Business School by Rizwan Virk. frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing, and selling a business.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 28, 2023

Do You Tolerate Poor Performance or Let the Slackers Slide? In this article, we address the common reasons so many managers tolerate poor performance, and what to do instead. 6 Reasons Managers Tolerate Poor Performance Here’s a gut check if addressing performance issues is hard for you. Stop feeling guilty.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 5, 2024

S AY you have a manufacturing location with problems — three plant managers in two years, unusual variation in quality and/or safety, seemingly unpredictable swings in productivity. A common meaning is “how we do things around here.” A good way to do this is to analyze decisions related to some seriously negative outcomes.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 15, 2013

In fact, in research reported in the Strategic Management Journal (February 2006), Henderson, Miller and Hambrick found “in the dynamic computer industry, CEOs were at their best when they started their jobs, and firm performance declined steadily across their tenures, presumably as their paradigms grew obsolete more quickly than they could learn.”.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

This is where I do a lot of my coaching; helping leaders leverage the expertise and wisdom of others as they make the shift. How do we want to attack this as a team?” She was not a leader who needs all the praise, even when others do most of the real work. Rising leaders do NOT learn by failure, they learn by processing failure!

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2021

Uncertainty is now a workplace norm, and quickly managing new circumstances is a must-have survival and success capability. The biggest challenge most leaders and managers face is deciding what to do when confronted with a new situation. Managing Uncertainty. Managing Me: Managing the Unknown.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2019 that you don't want to miss: 14 Things Smart Leaders Do to Boost Their Own Confidence by @LollyDaskal. Leadership and Management Book Podcast with @ArtPetty: Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead from @wallybock. Mental Habits that Support Lifelong Learning by @tnvora.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The other choice is to learn to speak our truth effectively, in a way that doesn’t contribute to fear and dysfunction on a team. The first part of speaking effectively in difficult conversations is learning to speak from a place of ownership. These people also recognize that they will always have more to learn about a situation.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Why do companies use executive search firms? How do executive search firms work? Recruiters might also be inclined to let a company’s hiring managers bear the brunt of vetting with little transparency on why this candidate was even selected. What exactly is a leading executive search firm, and how can it help businesses?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

These models aren’t the sexy, headline-grabbing side of AI, but they are profoundly affecting how we do business and the way leaders of the twenty-first century must think. And thus, how we think about the work we do and how we compete in the marketplace. If a business can grow in these areas it can increase its value.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

N OW that almost everyone is working from home, startup founders looking to raise money from investors will need to do so remotely. So, what do I mean by the story? This was because the market for mobile games had become more competitive, making it difficult to acquire users cheaply. The pitch is the story that you are telling.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 Subsequently, its market share plummeted by 90 percent. Subsequently, its market share plummeted by 90 percent. First, why do these programs fail? Nokia just couldn’t keep up.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Robust supply chain leadership ensures effective oversight and management of the end-to-end supply chain processes, from procurement to delivery. Moreover, strong leadership in supply chain management ensures cost efficiency. A strategic-minded CPO deeply understands market trends, supplier dynamics, and emerging technologies.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 25, 2025

Case Study From Accidental Manager to Inspiring Leader Deon Pillayi CMgr MCMI is Head of Marketing Technology, Enablement and Governance at Legal and General Investment Management. Accidental to inspirational Deon Pillayi has seen many accidental managers throughout his career. In fact, he was one.

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2019

How do I keep the digital demands of today from overwhelming my business? In the midst of managing these exponential leaps in technology, there is a war for talent. Do we need to choose between attracting and engaging top millennial talent and installing new, state-of-the-art technology? Listen deeply.

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