Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Most of us have seen fear drive short-term results, but it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. 06:10 – Consequences when you operate from a reactive place. 09:27 – Why fear works in the short term. They create resilient cultures of unfear.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

When he took over, Honeywell was plagued by short-termism. The problem was that he had to deliver something in the short-term to the investors for survival but had to set the company up for tomorrow too. Short- and long-term goals were more tightly intertwined than they appeared. He did both. It is a process.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Setting the right targets and goals over the short and long terms is a fine art that requires a delicate blend of unbridled optimism and cold-eyed realism, sometimes bordering on schizophrenia. (I’ve 2) Dream aggressively quantitatively over a long-term horizon, tempered by economic factors at the “macro” level.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

N2Growth, as a premier executive search and leadership advisory firm, recognizes the transformative influence a skilled Commercial Leader can wieldone who interlaces strategic vision, operational excellence, and people-centric leadership into a cohesive path toward profitability and innovation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2014

Team leaders operate under constant pressure- up-down-and sideways- coupled with limited control. Short-Term Focus - It’s always urgent, and there’s never time for the long-term investment in people and processes that will impact the business. Ensure every day includes real work toward longer-term goals.

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General Leadership

MAY 7, 2014

Consider the following: If EQ is to us, what an engine is to a car – then self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate. “…self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate…” Our capacity for self-regulation acts in the same way. Lose brand power. Lose situational power.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Winning Now, Winning Later : How Companies Can Win in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term by David Cote. Short-termism is rampant among executives and managers today, causing many companies to underperform and even go out of business. Dave Cote is intimately familiar with this problem.

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Books Short-term Leadership Long-term 419

N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Interim executives are highly skilled and experienced individuals brought in at short notice to lead organizations during times of crisis, management transitions, or to spearhead major strategic initiatives. They provide rapid and effective leadership solutions during uncertain times and offer guidance to organizations.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Chief Operating Officer is an organization’s powerhouse, ensuring every process and experience in your business runs like a well-oiled machine. This key executive monitors daily operations, ensuring efficient and effective methods. Tech Savviness: Leveraging technology to boost operational efficiency.

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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. A well-written contract defines or explains each term or condition only once. Lesson: Write it Once.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2014

From their ongoing work they have concluded that organizations with a focus on long-term value creation share three principles: 1. No one operates in a vacuum. In other words, Hoque says, “we’re responsible for our long term growth in each short-term situation.” A long-term mindset that we manifest every day.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

The hotel opened in 705 AD and is still operating. Professor Makoto Kanda from Meiji Gakuin University studied the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan Hotel and other long-term operating businesses to understand their longevity. The long-term is sacrificed for the short-term. Impressive. His findings?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It means creating a dynamic team excited to drive the organization forward, energized by new challenges, and aligned with the company’s long-term vision. Conversely, organizational strategy provides the roadmap for achieving business objectives and long-term aspirations. The magic happens where succession planning meets this roadmap.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In terms of psychological safety, how safe do employees feel when their leaders are bullies, abrasive, dogmatic, and toxic? The space for innovation and growth relies on dimensions of character that are often in short supply, like transcendence — being appreciative, inspired, purposive, optimistic, creative, and future-oriented.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

To achieve this, an effective CTO needs “to strike the right balance between a carrot and a stick; short-term impact on numbers vs. long term value, or feel-good effects vs. profound change.”. Step 4: Operations alignment. However, four main steps are proven to be effective: Step 1: Leadership alignment. And why is that?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2024

Their efforts represent a transformative approach to business that acknowledges the importance of balancing short-term financial gains with long-term ecological responsibility. This involves integrating sustainable practices into daily operations, decision-making, and long-term planning.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2017

You aren’t likely to be affected by any team bias or prejudice, and probably find it easy to remain objective about the organization’s short-term and long-term needs. As a result, they may focus on solving short-term, operational problems while losing sight of long-term objectives.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 1, 2025

What I suggest to my readers and clients who create their own Life GPS is that they identify a short and memorable list of words that describe them when theyre operating in their unique version of personal peak performance. Does the process still make a positive difference in terms of helping me create positive outcomes?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The CEO also balances immediate needs with long-term goals, transforming strategic ideas into actions everyone can support. A negative environment affects daily operations and hampers long-term growth and success. Every CEO’s impact is most visible in company decision-making.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Making these types of connections helps you take the data one step further, determining if it’s going to have a short-term or long-term impact, if it’s suggesting the end of a trend or the beginning of a new one.” It is a mistake to allocate and measure time only in economic terms or numeric ways. Give it context.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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HR Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

The Fairfax Assembly plant, which has been producing the Chevrolet Malibu, is now halting operations to retool the next-generation Chevrolet Bolt EV. The GM job cuts in 2025 echo that playbook: sacrifice short-term stability for long-term gain. Why are the General Motors layoffs happening?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They have the drive to innovate—the willingness to continually experiment, to test new ways of organizing and deploying resources, to abandon outmoded approaches when circumstances change; in short, to “make all things new.”. By integrity, he means that they transcend themselves.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Key point: When people get smug, operate on autopilot, take shortcuts, and chose the path of least resistance too often, they lose site of the essence of their excellence. Link Short-Term Realities to Long-Term Dreams. While scaling is often thought of in terms of growing a company, it is also about spreading an idea.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 30, 2012

The team didn’t live up to its expectations, and your operating division is going to miss its budget target. Your new “you” may get you some short-term benefit, from a team that is now jumping through hoops out of fear instead of true inspiration, but in the longer run you’re headed for bigger troubles.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 5, 2014

Alas, something so logical can become lost in the morass of short-term profitability, or a belief that marketing magic that could somehow hide product and service deficiencies. Quality and Service. Think about that for a second – it seems so elementary, doesn’t it? It IS basic.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Ambiguity is a condition we sink into because it is automatic and it provides short-term benefits that manifest in a number of ways. The short-term benefits of ambiguous organizational behaviors come at enormous long-term cost. Ambiguity prevents organizations from operating with focus, discipline, and engagement.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 11, 2024

Results vs. Relationships : The rapid processing power of fluid intelligence can cause leaders to over index on driving results and under index on the relationships that make long-term results possible. Wise leaders engage in and encourage long-term thinking as a guide for short-term action.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

L ONG-TERM THINKING is the key to what goes on at Amazon. Jeff Bezos has said, “ What we’re really focused on is thinking long-term, putting the customer at the center of our universe and inventing. Those are the three big ideas to think long-term because a lot of invention doesn’t work. Reset Your Clocks.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. In servant-leadership terms, this is a failure of the principle, THOROUGHNESS. To be thorough means putting long-term results ahead of short-term gains. This was the main root of their problem. Overcompensate.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 27, 2014

There, at an annual budget meeting with the entire operations management group in attendance, an important decision was made. Trust vs. Fear - Leading by instilling fear, while it can get things done in the short term, simply doesn’t work over the long haul. “Will you follow me??” Leading vs.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Poor Communication Skills : Show me a leader with poor communication skills and I’ll show you someone who will be short-lived in their position. Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 13, 2011

A highly decorated member of the special operations community earning the Bronze Star with Valor for actions during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, Jim is a true American hero. Jim’s answers to my questions are nothing short of a leadership manifesto. James Hotaling : I never try to think in terms of weakness.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 19, 2018

A family-owned business for more than 60 years, the company has 13 operating entities throughout North America and is headquartered in Ashtabula, Ohio. Fortunately, on December 28, 2017 MFG of South Dakota was granted a reprieve, of sorts, as a new order was received that will sustain operations into the third quarter of 2018.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Susan Fowler—top leadership researcher, consultant, coach, and author of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does —says that you can’t actually motivate people: they are already motivated, but generally in superficial and short-term ways. However, Mark’s influence has not been limited to chicken.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2021

Many factors can make or break your business, including scaling your operations towards growth. Before you scale your operations, you need to plan your growth in that regard and set goals. What are the short and long-term funding requirements you need to execute your strategy? Plan your success. Housekeeping.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 28, 2021

To navigate more demanding customer expectations , an acute distrust of business and so much remote working, leaders need to find new ways of operating. When we operate from a sense of our presence, we are in a state of absorbed relaxation. Guest post from Sarah Rozenthuler: In our rapidly changing world, new pressures are emerging.

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