Remove Book Remove Coaching Remove Development Team Review Remove Weak Development Team
article thumbnail

The Senior Leader’s Checklist for Shaping Company Culture

Next Level Blog

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. Back in my own days as an executive, I was hugely influenced by a book called The Discipline of Market Leaders. The book was written a long time ago and things change.

Culture 97
article thumbnail

Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The articles should have been written on the topic of poor leadership. Let me be as clear as I can - the phrase &# toxic work environment&# is code for bad leadership, becasue a toxic culture simply cannot co-exist in the presence of great leadership. A bad attitude isn’t something good leaders take lightly.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Daily Crunch: Revolut advises users to take caution after hacker breach triggers phishing campaign

TechCrunch

The TechCrunch team got so competitive in this season of the Great Tech Bake-off, cooking up an incredible amount of scrumptious news over the past 24 hours, that it has taken us damn near 24 hours just to ingest the full tasting menu. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.

article thumbnail

The Sobering Truth About the Impact of Your Business Ideas

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

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. That is, the team responsible for doing the analysis often is motivated either implicitly or explicitly to find evidence of success. Late pickups increase further.

article thumbnail

Connecting the Dots

A List Apart

Beyond functioning in this manner because “it’s the right thing to do,” quality of work, loyalty internally (team) and externally (users), and product innovation are all benefits to reap. Without hesitation, Sara (a former Northwestern University instructor) extended me an offer to join the team for observation.

article thumbnail

Leaders: Born or Made? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They were your class presidents, team captains, club leaders, and the people who held virtually all the available leadership positions you can imagine early in life. If those three qualities are present, everything else can be developed. They were those unflappable individuals that seemed to just have that “it&# factor.