N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

How healthy is the quality of your business culture? When I engage business leaders in discussion about their culture, most shrug their shoulders. Our culture is OK,” most of them say. The reality is that most leaders don’t pay attention to the quality of their culture. 54 percent believe culture is very important.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. Some employers believe in providing a little something extra to all employees during the Holiday Season as an expression of gratitude for their loyalty and contributions during the year without regard to performance.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2018

A company’s culture says a lot about who they are, what they value, and what their beliefs are. For this reason, any business should take the time to really think about what their company culture is and how to ensure it’s pervasive throughout their business operations and employee behavior. Better Performance. Brand Identity.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

How healthy is your company’s culture? Your company has a culture whether you make the effort to shape it or not, and as you might expect, it’s better to make the effort to create the culture that will lead you to success than to simply hope a great corporate culture will organically generate itself.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2012

If culture was a pyramid there would be four cornerstones: staff, teams, purpose & values, and strategic planning. At the apex of the pyramid would be a work culture that attains performance beyond expectations. Teams that are high performance teams. This is the mantra of a high performance culture.

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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. 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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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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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. These are personal traits of a leader that have a direct impact on a team/organization’s performance. Ineffective : Leadership delivers performance.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Posted on August 31st, 2010 by admin in Leadership By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth “Who the * is in charge around here? In all but the rarest of circumstances, teams simply don’t function well in the absence of sound leadership.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

While employers have started to offer several policies that facilitate better work-life balance, there is scant evidence that they are helping organisations foster a healthier work-life culture. Transforming the culture of an organisation to one that encourages a better work-life balance is often very challenging. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2012

A high performance work culture needs a system that makes sure that employee goals are aligned and everyone is focused on the right stuff. So there you have it four steps towards building a high performance culture. You just finished reading The Four Cornerstones of a High Performance Culture, part 4 !

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2012

Have High Performance Work Teams throughout your company. Teams are powerful constructs, and high-performance ones do not spring up by magic. By the same token, business teams are not the answer for every performance issue. For the most part, there is no formal practice designed to enhance or improve group performance.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2012

The corporate mission and values are created by the senior leadership team, captured on posters, and strategically tacked up around the building. When working with your leadership team to create values, know that you only need to create between four and six. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Powerful questions evoke insight, stir creativity, inspire collaboration and help craft a culture of accountability. When leaders allow team members to own the process rather than simply comply with the dictates of a command and control style of leadership, people are energized. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

At whatever level one enters the ladder, he-she is trained, measured for performance and fits into the organization’s overall Big Picture. Culture and Mission. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. Philosophy.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Values based hiring increases performance, enhances collaboration, reduces turnover, increases morale, and creates a stable culture. Don’t be quick to hire based upon gut feel, but rather take time in the interviewing process to let the prospective new hire get a feel for your culture and your company.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

In a perfect world professionals would only be judged solely on their character, skill sets, competencies, and performance. In today’s post I’ll examine how managing appearances can have a substantial impact on your personal brand and your success.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Human performance within an organization is commonly motivated the stimulus unique to its workplace environment; generating a unique culture and way of behaving. You just finished reading Human Performance Management - Behavioral Drivers ! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2016

An authentic broker-investor relationship is a microcosm of transparent leadership because a fiduciary duty epitomizes the highest of standards. At the risk of sounding negative, I do not think most people in leadership positions are transparent. I believe that transparent leadership embraces this truth. You are not a leader.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. In a highly productive organization the power and influence of your voice is earned through trust and performance, and not entitlement. The business world is not fair…it is regrettably most times rather merciless.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability.

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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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

You would think that an Ivy League institution like Cornell University would be a model of the best practices of leadership throughout its organization since Cornell and most universities believe they are growing the next generation of leaders for our country and our world. not necessarily and not always. That got everyone’s attention!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2012

You just finished reading Corporate Cultures - Why Policies Don't Match Actions ! Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. The post Corporate Cultures – Why Policies Don’t Match Actions appeared first on StrategyDriven. Corporate Cultures – Supervisor Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment.

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QAspire

AUGUST 8, 2010

This is also a great way to ensure that all your operational processes are aligned to perform in a way that it satisfies at least one or more business objectives. Establish operational procedures : You can now establish processes and methods to collect the data, frequency and consolidation mechanism. Check it out if you haven’t already !

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

Above that, corporate cultures need to be fine-tuned, in order to avoid situations where customers are put on the defensive or made angry. Corporate cultures are rarely nurtured. Warning signs for sluggish corporate cultures: Where people take on negative attitudes. Copyright 2007-2018 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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QAspire

JULY 14, 2010

To ensure this, a leader has to get best people, work on them, understand them, share the vision, align their actions, get the best of them, communicate often and nurture their performance with great care. Selflessness is at the core of great leadership. Excellent Post. Must read for all the leaders.

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QAspire

AUGUST 24, 2010

You can ask your team member to perform a task or you can ask them to complete a deliverable (complete with all product and process requirements). 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.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Register for the complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter and receive instant access to our Organizational Performance Measures whitepaper series. Confucius (551 – 479 BC) Chinese thinker and social philosopher Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2013

StrategyDriven Leadership Conversations focus on the values and behaviors characteristic of highly effective leaders. Episode 7 – Sixteen Sources of Leadership examines the sixteen leadership practices and how these help individuals at all levels become more effective leaders. Additional Information. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

The call for greater diversity at senior leadership levels is not new, although it has itself become more inclusive, extending beyond gender, race and ethnicity, to encompass age, education, socioeconomic background and sexual orientation, as well as experience, skills and talent. As early as 2004, research by Catalyst, Inc.

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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. Thanks for chiming in!

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 23, 2013

The Next Step in Performance Management : Blending Formal and Social Approaches. How can traditional performance reviews be made better, without losing the proven benefits they bring? Why you still need a formal employee performance review process. Ways to balance employee evaluation and performance coaching.

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QAspire

AUGUST 20, 2010

.&# How to Discuss an Employee Performance Problem - by Dan McCarthy Dan reminds us, “Knowing how to sit down with an employee and have an effective conversation about a performance problem is one of the hardest things for any manager to do, new or experienced, and should never be taken for granted.&# You take a shot at it.

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