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Fostering Agile Leaders: N2Growth’s Five Lens Approach to Leadership Development

N2Growth Blog

While we acknowledge the contributions of models like Robert Quinn and Ichak Adizes as historical benchmarks in leadership development, our Five Lens assessment uniquely addresses the challenges and opportunities faced by today’s leaders. Administrator: Focuses on structure, rules, and operational efficiency.

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Leading Thoughts for March 5, 2020

Leading Blog

Quinn on the connection between changing a system and understanding it: “Kurt Lewin argued that we cannot really begin to understand a system until we try to change it. He understood that individual as well as collective scripts would stay hidden until the normal way that the organization operates is challenged.

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Time For Women to Compete

Women on Business

In Donald Quinns article on winning he wrote, “When winning becomes important enough to focus on, when we have the talent and skills needed we are primed to win.” If, as this study suggests, women are deterred by competition no wonder there are more men in power positions! ” That is the first step. Make your goal specific.

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Thought-full Thursday: Purpose and Confidence

Persuasive Powerhouse

Quinn What is your leadership purpose? Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. Quinn write “It is no longer news that over the past five years. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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Planning Maternity or Paternity Leave: A Professional’s Guide

Harvard Business Review

Very few organizations have “a standard operating procedure” for employees taking parental time off, says Joan C. You want to start thinking about how you will manage your leave — how much time you will take, whether you’ll be in contact, how you will transition back ­— well in advance.

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Case Study: When Should A Rising Star Make Her Pregnancy Public?

Harvard Business Review

There's no reason why the head of overseas operations can't also be a mom.". Tom DeHart, the president of Caston's international division, wanted a short-term director of overseas operations, someone who would spend the next 18 to 24 months traveling frequently to Caston's non-U.S. And yes, I know, it's never exactly the right time.