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Investors and business leaders: It’s time to take coaching mainstream

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Ariane de Bonvoisin is an executive coach to top CEOs, startup founders and VCs. The business world has a love-hate relationship with coaching. In any other industry, when someone with raw talent — an athlete, a singer, an actor — furthers their career, the first thing they receive is a coach. Should I trust my gut?

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Agile Transformation mistakes you must avoid at any cost!

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Agile Transformation Executed Only On the Team Level Most organizations make this mistake. They believe that Agile transformation means simply implementing Agile only on the team level. And more importantly, you are ready to change the organization as a whole, not only the development teams.

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. One of my favorite examples of what I described in the paragraph above is the weak leader who cannot deal with subordinates who use emotional deceit as a weapon of destruction.

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The Fallacy of No | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” The perception that strong leaders say no and weak leaders say yes is simply flawed thinking.

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8 Traits of Ineffective Leaders | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. Any leader is only as good as his or her team’s desire to be led by them. Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium.

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Love and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. So why then is it that so many leaders seem to struggle with seeing a tender heart as a strength and not a weakness? They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out.

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Leadership & Loyalty | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Remember that great CEOs see themselves not as masters of the universe, but as inspirational servants, catalysts, teachers, and team builders…Again, I would strongly encourage you to think “leader&# and not “dictator.&# Reflect back to your time as a student…which educators brought out the best in you?