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. Something as simple as a 360 Review, or as complex as a deep psychological profile (both with weighted emphasis on leadership aptitude) can point out an individual’s leadership capabilities.

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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Book Review: The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark Businesses today are plagued by people who are "installed" in leadership positions just because of their prior performance as a "worker" I have seen some excellent technical brains failing miserably as project leaders.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Testing will be done by the QA department, like normal, and when you’re ready to deploy, you’ll file a ticket with Ops, who will be responsible for monitoring and up-time. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Whole Team. Cargo Cult Agile.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Leadership and Maintaining a Positive Outlook Conversations are at the core of good leadership and how/what a leader communicates reveals the personality of the leader. I read this on Twitter recently - conversations are the currency of leadership. Don’t Kill It!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Nothing will test your metal as CEO more than your ability to make decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision. The truth is that even leaders who don’t fail make bad decisions from time-to-time.

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QAspire

JANUARY 16, 2011

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Gandhi, Leadership And A Few Lessons On Simplicity I have been a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi - one of the greatest leaders India has ever produced. I recently visited Sabarmati Ashram , one of the residences of Gandhi, where we got a glimpse into Gandhi’s life as a national leader.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. There’s a wide variety of help available: occasional mentoring; training; help with process design and implementation; and full-time (or near-full-time) coaching. The most effective help you can get is to hire experienced practitioners to coach each team full-time.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

This is so much the case that I have never come across a great leader who has stood the test of time that has not rid themselves of this debilitating habit. Understanding how to leverage the influence factor can make a defining difference in your ability to drive change, build cohesive teams, and to successfully implement strategic vision.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices I love project management as a subject not only because it gets so much work done, but also because project management manifests how people operate. I have written before that Projects are a great opportunity to practice leadership. Don’t Kill It!

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

learning » Leadership thinking [.] truth and leadership [.] link] mikemyatt Thanks Dan…I thought we were on the same page, but was testing for clarification to be sure…As usual, I find your thinking to be spot-on. Oops, I fear spot-on is a buzzword.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Let me be clear that I’m not advocating brand snobbery, just astute brand management based on time tested success principles. Intelligent brands create at least some level of focused planning surrounding the issue of access to prevent overexposure. Once a brand is overexposed it becomes commoditized, diluted, and ultimately.

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Rapid BI

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Leadership and Management Models Download PowerPoint Slides – page 2a. At RapidBI we use many management and leadership models and through the process of using them we have developed a library of 100?s. This set contains the slides from all of our management, change, talent & leadership models slide sets.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

In answer to your question, there are any number of diagnostic tests (personality profiles, psychological evaluations, etc.) In addition to testing, developing a solid set of interviewing questions to sniff out any character flaws is also a good idea. admin Hi Ahmad: Thanks for the kind words.

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QAspire

AUGUST 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Leadership: Beware of These Nine I’s I wrote earlier about Nine I’s and Great Leadership. Ineffective : Leadership delivers performance. Tip : For a better understanding and correlation, read this post along with my earlier post Nine I’s and Great Leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

An unprepared CEO is a CEO who will not endure the test of time. If you’re going to get beat-up by your board, it’s better to have it happen in private rather than on center stage where the beating can not only be more severe, but where the results may also be recorded in the minutes.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Never sacrifice quality: Your products, services, leadership, management, culture, customer service, communication, etc. Don’t fall into the trap of resting on laurels and assuming that a great product or niche market will endure the test of time without constant attention to the shifting needs of a fluid marketplace.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer #QUALITYtweet at Reflection Leadership (Thanks to Tom Glover) Tom Glover is a “Leadership Friend” who hosts Reflection Leadership Blog. I came to know Tom via our common leadership community over at Twitter. I sent him a copy of #QUALITYtweet for review a few months back.

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James Shore

JUNE 11, 2021

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. You need collaboration skills, the ability to share leadership roles, and an understanding of how teams evolve over time. You’ve committed to a common purpose, which includes performance goals in the form of mission tests. Your feedback is appreciated!

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 26, 2021

randomized controlled trials or A/B testing). Before rolling out a business idea, you test; you try the idea out on a subset group of customers 1 while another group—a control group—is not exposed to the new idea. Streaming service Netflix believes that 90% of its ideas are wrong (Moran, 2007). The process is simple in concept.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Invisible Cost of “Toxic” Leadership Many organizations today are plagued by so-called leaders who don’t carry a leadership mindset. We all know that leadership is a mindset, a way of thinking and attitude. It has little to do with title/designation.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The litmus test for blogging is, and always will be, does your blog add value, does it make a difference, and do people benefit from the opinions espoused? The noise in this space is simply deafening…As Miller so aptly stated in his post, “The good stuff lasts, the chaff separates from the wheat, the cream rises to the top, all that.”

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

link] air tightness test Thats a good article… would use it and link back. link] mikemyatt Hi Allan: Thanks for the comments as well as the mention on your blog. I appreciate the value added to the discussion with the detail outlined above. Great thoughts Allan and thanks for stopping by. I always enjoy reading your blolgs.

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QAspire

AUGUST 24, 2010

Note: My book ‘ #QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project ’ explores the people, process and leadership aspects to build a constantly improving organization culture. Check it out if you haven’t already ! Bonus: QAspire Blog was recently featured on Community of Program and Project Managers (PPM Community).

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QAspire

AUGUST 26, 2010

To complement this effort, give them the URL’s of some of the best leadership blogs out there. Share other useful resources like free presentations, eBooks, podcasts and videos that would help them get into a leadership mindset. Explore more articles tagged under “Leadership” at QAspire Blog. Thanks for adding that.

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QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2011

"The HR Carnival" by Mike Haberman (at Omega HR Solutions) features my post " Don’t Just Punish Them If They Don’t Comply " along with 32 other great posts on HR, Leadership and Organization Development. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. Dan [link] Liz Strauss Mike, You're always pointing to game changing ideas and true insights into how leadership can affect growth. " <– that's my test of a great idea.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Life Lesson on Endurance What I learned from my daughter about “Persistence” Tags: Leadership , Persistence Leadership , Managing People , Managing Projects , Process Improvement , Self Growth | Tanmay September 13, 2010 No Comments No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2011

Getting people to exercise their choice of delivering excellence is #1 leadership challenge. Secondly, excellence has a lot to do with people’s motivation to do a great job. It is their choice. It starts with getting the right people and building the right culture. Finally, just like quality , excellence is a moving target. Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

A man’s character is tested in adverse conditions and difficulties. By Joe@Leadership blog , September 21, 2010 @ 11:14 pm Fantastic looking plant, not one we have in the UK unfortunately it would seem. Reading from the top, I was amazed to read that the flowers bloomed at their best in dry sunny climate. Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

AUGUST 2, 2010

Robin’s Blog Seth s Blog Steve Yastrow’s blog - new article Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching TerryStarbucker.com The Tom Peters Weblog Utpal Writes QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management, Leadership and Improvement is powered by WordPress WordPress Themes Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer On Delivering In software world, delivering is generally associated with painful process of testing, rework, defect fixing, perfecting, packaging and then shipping. We build our reputation as professionals by the stuff we deliver, quality of what we deliver and timeliness of our shipments.

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QAspire

AUGUST 15, 2010

Robin’s Blog Seth s Blog Steve Yastrow’s blog - new article Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching TerryStarbucker.com The Tom Peters Weblog Utpal Writes QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management, Leadership and Improvement is powered by WordPress WordPress Themes Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

JANUARY 2, 2011

“Striving for excellence” should be a call to action for us to renew our focus on developing a culture of excellence, great leadership, adopting best practices, making them work in our context, continual improvement and superior service to our customers/peers. Very truely said - “Striving for excellence” should be a call to action for us.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Quotes: Gems from Subroto Bagchi on Leadership I have always enjoyed reading thoughts of Subroto Bagchi , one of India’s most well known and respected leaders from the IT industry who operates as a “Gardener” and Vice Chairman at MindTree.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2010

Have you ever realized the costs of: having an inefficient leadership team? Tags: costs , hidden costs , improvement Leadership , Managing People , Managing Projects , Process Improvement | Tanmay July 23, 2010 8 Comments By ajay, July 23, 2010 @ 8:17 am Excellent, Who would have thought about middle manager’s vision.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

This book is a brilliant compilation of great thoughts from all time great authors and coaches. Why not now?” – James Allen (Success Coach) “It is important to remember that we are energy. Why not me? Einstein told us that. Have a super-productive week ahead! Stay tuned for more posts this week. Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Robin’s Blog Seth s Blog Steve Yastrow’s blog - new article Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching TerryStarbucker.com The Tom Peters Weblog Utpal Writes QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management, Leadership and Improvement is powered by WordPress WordPress Themes Don’t Kill It!

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