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. One of them is that, too often, there’s an overemphasis on strategy and an underemphasis on culture. Culture needs constant attention. Behaviors lead to outcomes.

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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. These are factors I’ve learned that define whether an organization can improve their Culture or not. How does that define one’s culture?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

If I could go back to when we launched in 2014, there are a lot of things I’d do very differently in terms of how we set up our culture — understood as the type of behavior that is rewarded and encouraged versus discouraged and penalized — and developed management practices. You also need coaching — early!

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

Let’s firstly look at the environment and culture you are about to step into, including the induction process. This will give you a better understanding of the company’s culture, values and goals. Take part in team-building activities or social events to help build relationships and learn more about your colleagues.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Furthermore, successful CPOs are exceptional leaders who inspire and motivate their teams to achieve excellence. An effective CPO values diversity and inclusion, creating a culture of inclusivity that attracts and retains top talent.

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

Let’s firstly look at the environment and culture you are about to step into, including the induction process. This will give you a better understanding of the company’s culture, values and goals. Take part in team-building activities or social events to help build relationships and learn more about your colleagues.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

So why — when presented with the task of developing new “normal” hybrid workplaces — are we allowing the same systemic problems that boxed generations of Black and brown people out of the workforce to exist? Their children are three times as likely to grow up in poverty and stay poor throughout their lifetimes.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

Managers who match the classic bad boss stereotypes of the prior era—managing by fiat, feeding their own ego, giving orders with no context, seagulling with unexpected changes, treating employees like “resources”—will often see their teams evaporate quickly out from under them, or even find their own job at risk.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2022

IT organizations are increasingly shifting from project-based organizational structures to product-based methodologies , which involve cross-functional teams. We spoke to a host of experts, including product managers and those who supervise, hire, and mentor them, about what you should be looking for if you’re hiring a new PM for your team.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If your organization’s culture sits on either end of two extremes, you don’t need an engagement survey or a high-priced consultant to confirm your reality. In the meantime, here are three danger signs that will tell you if your culture is in trouble: You’re experiencing MEGO. You’re begging for recruits. You hear mixed messages.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

Agile asks for cross-functional teams, and therefore companies start to build teams around different people with different skills within the organisation. The team in this situation is a bunch of individuals from different parts of the organisation that are brought together to deliver something. Blame Culture.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

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. From my perspective there is no such thing as a toxic asset.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

David Conley found himself on a team of experts who were attempting to design satellite superstructures, a challenge not specifically covered while earning his college degree in nuclear engineering. The other team members already had thought of 20 of the ideas, but it had taken them five years, not one day. Analyze the tradeoffs.

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Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

When it comes to building high-performing teams, your relationship with your developers is more important than their technical skills. While technical skills are important, strong developer–manager relationships are the keys to everything you want. I’ve got old developers stuck in their outdated ways.”. “I

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

Identifying and recruiting talent requires much more than screening a resume and having a set of standard interviewing questions to guide you. There are issues of values, vision, culture, context etc., I can’t do that anymore, but I still invest a significant amount of time in insuring that we’re recruiting the best people.

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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. She did it.

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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. I strongly suggest that whomever is doing the hiring within your organization utilize a values based recruiting model.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

This type of behavior is proof certain that the entrepreneur is not being effective at leading, team building, delegation, leveraging process and a variety of other highest and best use activities for CEOs. Priority number two is team building and talent management.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

APRIL 30, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus talks with Rich Archbold, vice president of engineering at Intercom.io, about developing an inclusion and diversity plan for his company. He says that this responsibility falls largely on managers, who are the most important factor in an employee’s growth and development.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Finally, it has forced me to think about and clearly articulate answers to the excellent questions that Maddy had developed. To explain this concept, Sinek has developed what he calls the “Golden Circle,”. 1) When developing, maintaining and growing my business, I have focused heavily on the ‘why’. What does that even mean?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

What if we could create a trade culture that allowed for change rather than relying on mechanical thinking? Drawing on his 40 years in the software industry, GeePaw’s solution is to develop a thick culture in which certain standards are established across the industry. Defining Thick Culture, Thin Culture, and the Frame (4:01).

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? When was the last time your executive team brought in some new blood by recruiting a rock star? Does anyone on your executive team have a coach or mentor? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They are just underperformers who don’t have the skills to work with us.”. They leave because of unorganized company culture, failed growth, and hampered emotional health. To do this, assign training to team leaders of each department where they talk about how their department functions. They weren’t ready to work 12+ hours.”.

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Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. People need to grow and develop skills in order to move within the framework.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 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. You’ve decided that Agile will make your teams more successful. Second Edition cover.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 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. For a team to be Agile, they need to change their method to reflect the Agile philosophy.

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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. Demonstrate positive work values that build a productive work culture.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

what you’re ultimately trying to do is build teams of Michael Jordan’s, so that they can do huge impact things, but that they’re easy for them. I see most of the challenges with my teams are when people don’t have the empathy to see the state from other people’s point of view. Transcript. I’m Marcus.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. In another scenario, a CEO had one executive on his team whom he really trusted and in whom he could confide. One day, a couple of other members of that company’s executive team made a presentation at a board meeting that didn’t go so well.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 28, 2016

The issues typically appear in three specific areas: their choice in sales leadership, hiring standards for the salespeople, and how they coach and hold the salespeople accountable. Many sales teams are made up of the combination of a handful of superstars: those in the middle who are floating along and those holding up the rear of the pack.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 25, 2020

Coaching: [link]. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy, high performing software teams. Kim is a business strategist and tech leader coach. So, that’s about recruitment. Main site: [link]. Twitter: [link]. Transcript.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 15, 2014

Chair, Cultural Transformation – President, N2Growth Europe, N2Growth. I must confess I am not a great fan of the popular focus on long lists of leadership competencies and their use in everything from leadership training to executive recruiting. Building a Successful Team. Contributing to Team Success. Applied Learning.

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CO2 Business Leadership

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Developing Leadership Skills: What Do Great Leaders Have in Common? Inspire a shared vision As a leader with a vision for the future, it’s your job to recruit others into that vision like Dorothy, from The Wizard of Oz , does as she follows the yellow brick road. What is our organization bad at?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes? I would venture to say that there are literally tens of thousands of consultants and coaches who bill themselves as leadership subject matter experts.

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