N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Understanding and Leveraging Executive Strengths In the realm of organizational growth, executive assessments stand as a cornerstone for identifying and nurturing leadership talent. This process is instrumental in pinpointing leadership strengths, critical for making strategic decisions in executive placements and development programs.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the dynamic world of business, leadership feedback stands as a cornerstone for team excellence and organizational growth. Constructive critiques and affirmative recognition pave the way for heightened team morale and a company culture of continuous improvement. What is Leadership Feedback?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Identifying Growth-Stage Leadership to Drive Innovation in Life Sciences Effective executive search partners play a pivotal role in identifying, attracting, and assessing the leadership best aligned to drive growth and innovation, all the more important in highly dynamic industries like life sciences.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Regular board evaluations and leadership assessments provide valuable insights into the board’s dynamics, functioning, and overall effectiveness. They act as a diagnostic tool, helping identify areas of strength and weakness within the board and its members.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

Twelve years after launching culture change consulting services, I am finally sitting down to write about six defining values of a leadership culture. No surprise that all six values rise and fall on leadership. Here are six leadership values that impact culture: Leadership Cares. Leadership Alignment.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 19, 2021

One of the big themes I’m already working on with my leader clients this year is how to keep their teams energized and engaged as we all push through this pandemic. Here are the big three followed by some resource recommendations that can help you as a leader to give your team what it needs. To have empathy, they need connection.

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 5, 2018

I first heard the term “servant leadership” in high school. The more I’ve studied business and leadership effectiveness, the more I’ve learned that servant leadership is a supportive, inclusive and empowering style of leading others. Many leaders want to grow in servant leadership. Team members.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

The second week on campus, teams of first year MBA students would have 48 hours to research and make recommendations on a real business challenge for a large, high-profile company and package and communicate their recommendation to a high-profile audience. Every team was given the same challenge, information and resources.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. Common Signals I''ve written previously about Symptoms of a Weak Development Team. Rogue developers with their own agenda. Bugs – no big deal.

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CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Developing the skills to engage team members is important. The risk of not getting leadership and culture ‘right’ are significant. As a leader you are obligated to develop your skills to influence and support each and every team member. Every employee has to own their development and situation too.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In over thirty years of either working for senior executives, being a senior executive, or coaching senior executives, I’ve come to a few conclusions. The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership.

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CO2 Business Leadership

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. Disengaged employees are bad news for your business. But without effective leadership, corporate purpose feels abstract and disconnected from an employee’s day-to-day job.

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Henrik Warne

MAY 26, 2019

DevOps in this context means things like continuous delivery, automated tests, trunk-based development, and proactive monitoring of system health. Many aspects of software development are hard to measure. The authors also found that for automated tests to be effective, they should be created by the developers themselves.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

As a CEO Coach I am often asked to provide counsel on the political hot potato de jure, and let me be perfectly clear that it is not only possible, but preferable, to successfully handle highly charged political topics without being politically correct. Are these extreme statements?

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Coveros

APRIL 29, 2021

As an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and instructor, I meet and interact with many people who have used Value Stream Mapping to successfully transform product and service delivery by focusing on value delivery to their customers and eliminating waste in delivering that value. Wikipedia – [link]. Creating a Value Stream Map.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

As a result, many of them tend to have a major blind-spot (translation: weakness ) when it comes to the anticipation of set-backs. It is possible to have both speed and planning so long as planning doesn't turn into "analysis paralysis." link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.]

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll share two a few tips on deciding which tasks, and to whom, the art of delegation should apply… As a CEO it is critical to develop a keen understanding of your value to the enterprise, and to further develop an awareness of activities that are dilutive to said value.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Whole Team. The Hole Team. Modern software development takes a lot of skills.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In heading up people, strategy, operations, and processes for the world’s seventh-largest insurance brokerage, he instills in his team the courage to challenge the status quo and explore solutions that will further differentiate the firm in the marketplace. Our leadership team thinks about that in a few ways. Jenny did it.

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OverOps

APRIL 7, 2019

How OverOps Can be Used as a Learning Platform for Junior Developers [link] pic.twitter.com/xerkcfvGur. Most of the development and operational energy is spent on creating positive customer perception and innovating in their market segment. The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). NEW POST ?? Continuous innovation.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Make the investments and ignore the practices, and your teams are still likely to improve.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In what follows, we flesh out the three assertions above with the bulk of the content explaining why it may be difficult to improve the poor success rate for business ideas. In other cases still, post hoc analysis is performed in an attempt to quantify the impact of the idea. This can lead to a habit of poor decision making.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He is reminding us that true leadership requires a degree of selflessness. IF YOU WILL LEAD, LLC Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Infrastructure Consulting IF YOU WILL LEAD recognizes that your personal and professional success depends, in large part, on your ability to effectively and powerfully lead.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2010

Have you ever realized the costs of: having an inefficient leadership team? poor communications and expectations management? analysis-and-planning-paralysis? setting wrong examples? not treating people well? not aligning middle managers with vision at the top? long unnecessary meetings and deadlocked debates?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Is conflict always a bad thing? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Jennifer Jones-Patulli, discuss how people tend to think about conflict and how they handle it. Conflict may be uncomfortable, but it is not always bad. Conflict may be uncomfortable, but it is not always bad. Episode 29. ?Is

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Igniting Commitment: Engaging Employees for Breakthrough Performance Having a mediocre team or great team all depends on you. R eward, Recognize, and Develop. Provide training and development to help employees achieve their goals. Such thought is particularly unwise as the economy improves after a downturn.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 29, 2019

Through our decades of business research, we’ve discovered that nothing elevates performance more than coaching. Any organization, division, or team can implement a coaching process that leads to greater growth and increased revenue. That is why measurement is the essential first step in our four-step coaching process.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 1, 2021

A Sprint Backlog consists of a set of Product Backlog Items (PBIs) that the Developers think they can complete in the Sprint, along with the work needed, described in small enough chunks that progress can be tracked throughout the Sprint. Most Scrum Teams simply use whatever their online Scrum tool feeds them for their Sprint Backlog.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Companies who succeed in today’s volatile business economy must learn to conquer obstacles like a championship basketball team in a ‘FastBreak’ overcoming the insecurities that hold them back and responding instantly to the flow of the game. Unleashing Genius : Leading Yourself, Teams and Corporations by Paul David Walker.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I don’t see asking for help as a sign of weakness, rather I see it as a very smart thing to do, and I therefore tend to seek out help wherever I can find it. You need to believe that one of your top priorities is team building, and consistently seek out greater numbers of people to champion your cause and scale your efforts.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Ellen Gottesdiener, President of EBG Consulting, discuss ways companies can better oversee the development and lifecycle of a product in its entirety. Engaging a product engineering team (21:58). The role of story in product development (28:35). Episode 38.

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Accenture

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Business leaders claim a deficit of skills in, “written communication, oral communication, team building, people leadership, collaboration.”. Agilists might recognize or even cheer that many of these are skills we teach through our coaching and training. Instagram] developed some machine learning algorithms to identify bullying.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2020

For this week’s Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream , I have a special show for you: the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The Art of Agile Development came out in 2007. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development. and now it’s time for an update.

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Accenture

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Agile Transformation Coaches. Because so much changes so quickly, today’s businesses need to develop a capability for learning and adapting with equal speed. Whether to bring in external support in the form of training, coaching, consulting and change management. Agile Transformation Strategy. Agile Transformation Roadmap.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Is it because everything valuable in regard to leadership has already been discovered? I believe our world is suffering greatly due to a lack of leadership.

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