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

JULY 1, 2019

A mature bonsai tree commands attention. With a single tree, a master evokes an entire landscape and tells a story of power, perseverance, struggle, or abundance. As I’ve studied bonsai, I realized there are many leadership secrets available for leaders who want […].

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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. Ask yourself the question, is what I’m doing in alignment with my soul so that we’re not sacrificing our humanity along the way. (10:03).

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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

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. Front Line Leadership . Guest Post By Adam Tenenbaum.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Maturity: It is not our nature to follow children. With the exception of entertainment and sports where youth is over served, we defer to age, experience, and maturity in most facets of our life. The leader who emerges will be one who has not sacrificed their “maturity cred” by acting like a child when things got difficult.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Rather than radio, television, automobiles, or wars defining their worldview, the Millennials matured in the age of the internet, social networking, and the pursuit of individualism via consumerism (more on this later). Millennials matured during the era of super-celebrities and reality television.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 26, 2021

It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that a recent survey from SolarWinds found that just over half of organizations regard their cybersecurity functions as mature, with budget constraints and a lack of skills and capability to keep abreast of the ever-evolving threat landscape the key barriers to progression. You can’t buy maturity.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Conversely, poorly managed transitions invite uncertainty that can erode employee morale, undermine client trust, and weaken competitive advantage. Overcoming Common Obstacles in CEO Succession CEO succession can encounter significant headwinds if not proactively managed.

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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. You will find it difficult to move between functional management roles.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I can’t tell you how many times a manager has come to me for advice after they’ve made a technically authentic, but clumsy move: Storming out of a staff meeting in anger. I once had a manager who would start each staff meeting telling us all about her boyfriend, Charlie, and his dog Guss. If Gus had worms, we knew it.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

According to the study, Millenials (age 18-33) are the most stressed, followed by Gen Xers (age 34-47), Boomers (age 48-66), and Matures (age 67 and older), respectively. Of course, many people in the Matures demographic aren’t working, so the decrease in work-related stress reported by study participants isn’t surprising.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

When you experience weak teams, micro-management, frequent turf wars, high stress, operational strain, and a culture of fear, you are experiencing what control has to offer – not very attractive is it? Controlling leaders create bottlenecks rather than increase throughput.

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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

JULY 2, 2021

Lead Self first- to lead in all directions, begin with mastering self-management. 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. The qualities and attributes of leaders identified as 360 leaders include: Adaptability.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

One vaguely controversial, age-old discussion is around the numerical age and corresponding maturity of CEOs and how age, which translates to experience, can impact the trajectory and level of success of a company. . As the brain becomes more mature, it develops patterns and neural networks that are hard to erase or reprogram.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 23, 2022

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. The research found that those inclined to stress easily (high neuroticism), and an unorganized mindset (low conscientiousness), are associated with a negative impact on health.

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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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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Although most C-suite executives, mid-level managers, and data practitioners aren’t AI experts — no one is at this pace of change — they shouldn’t implement AI for the sake of implementing AI. The simple truth is if you don’t update your business processes to reap the rewards of growth, quality, or both that AI brings, your competitor will.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2019

With 80% of executives considering their businesses to be at risk for being disrupted in the near future, they are under tremendous pressure to transform their organizations towards becoming more innovative. However, any organizational change, let alone a major transformation, is always very difficult to implement successfully.

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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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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 11, 2013

If any of these components are missing, it’s not an indictment of the platform, but it should be a reflection on the worker and their manager. However, if she’s to have any chance of success over the long haul, she’ll need to understand her company, the people who work for her, and most of all, she’ll need to mature as a leader.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 3, 2012

Rembrandt’s genius came only with maturity. Like great artists, great leaders change and mature over time. As students of leadership, we find that the most powerful lessons come from mature leaders. But as his sufferings became greater, so did his paintings. They have learned how to cope with both failure and success.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? Are your management and executive ranks void of youth?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 13, 2012

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. Each quadrant has a mature or healthy state and each has “shadow” sides. Guest post By Brian Gast : What’s your leadership capacity? Then things got tough.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 24, 2024

Managing polarizing issues in the workplace can be left to the workers to resolve among themselves, but such a strategy often ends badly for the organization as tensions rise and others begin to take sides. Provide training on conflict resolution for all employees and additional training for managers on de-escalation of conflict.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

Organizations are born, they mature, they age, and they die. Organizationally, we create rigidities like structures, performance management and reward systems, supporting cultures and capabilities that while necessary to some degree, often prevent us from adapting rapidly. Build on self-managed performance cells.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When you experience weak teams, micro-management, frequent turf wars, high stress, operational strain, and a culture of fear, you are experiencing what control has to offer – not very attractive is it? Controlling leaders create bottlenecks rather than increase throughput.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2021

One manager I know instructed team leaders to say, “Thank you for coming to work today,” as a way of reducing absenteeism. Be sure the managers participating in your employee recognition program can offer a sincere celebration with no “yeah, buts.” If showing up is the best behavior you can find to recognize, keep looking.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

It is rife with struggles related to managing the emerging responsibilities of adult life. If ownership or management of a family enterprise is an expectation, the pressures only mount. Family enterprise ownership requires deep commitment and responsibility. This entails: 1.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

But now the question becomes, “As I mature in leadership, can I move from ME to WE?”. The Chairman and President left town while managers communicated the bad news. How do we want to attack this as a team?” Sure, there was a day it was all about “me” …you were the smartest gal or the best guy in the room.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2013

10 Reasons why Managers are Clueless about Leadership by @greatleadership. Maturing as a leader includes shedding your mask of certainty by @recoveringleadr. Smoothing the Creases : 5 Ways to Manage Conflict in the Workplace by Eunisse De Leon. Leading, When You Are Not The Leader by @toddbnielsen. by @DougConant.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. will go into decline.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It is my opinion that when you start to define your personal success by the value you add to the lives of others you have arrived as a mature human being who possesses true influence and has become a person of significance. I concur that it is of no use to sit in judgment of others, and applaud you for the maturity that position displays.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2012

If I could only teach one model to a new manager, it might be this one. It’s all about adapting your leadership style to the developmental needs, or “maturity level”, of your employees. OK, so it’s really more of a management model, but it’s another timeless classic. Situation Leadership. Blake and Mouton’s Leadership Grid.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2024

More prominent, mature entities may witness private equity intervention to bolster the operational platform for sustained scaling. ” This sentiment reverberates across nearly half of PE firms and portfolio companies expressing reservations about their current management.

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