N2Growth Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

In today’s post I’ll look at the topic of resourcing as a key success metric for anyone in a leadership position. The essence of Leadership is not found in doing things yourself, but in teaching others how to do things better than you ever could. Leadership is about teaching, coaching, developing, and mentoring.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

In fact, I hold Marshall in such high professional regard that he is one of only three other coaches that I’ll refer people to if I’m unable to meet their needs. My business has 3 primary aspects: I write, speak and coach. On with the inteview… Mike Myatt : How would you describe your business and what do you do?

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Next Level Blog

JULY 17, 2019

One little illustrated piece I found today was on “What Coaches Say in Public and in Private.” For example, the football coach says in public, “We won because we stuck to our original game plan!” Learning at an early age to focus on what people say versus what they do served me well later in life when I started coaching leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the value of loyalty as it relates to leadership. If relationships are the currency of leadership, it is important for leaders to note that loyalty serves as the cornerstone of any healthy relationship. Leadership and loyalty go hand-in-hand.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

David asked Becky, “How come no one ever talks about love as a leadership competency?&# While l ove and leadership are certainly two words you don’t often hear in the same sentence, I can assure you that rarely does great leadership exist without love being present and practiced. I think it’s a great question.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. While leadership doesn’t require being perfect, it does require doing what is needed and necessary.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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Accenture

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Agile Transformation Coaches. Whether to bring in external support in the form of training, coaching, consulting and change management. A high-level plan for what training, coaching, and consulting will be provided to these individuals and teams to make the intended initiative results stick. Agile Transformation Strategy.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 15, 2022

Where CIOs may be able to fill in some of these gaps comes from a new breed of artificial intelligence (AI) driven coaching apps and platforms. Although AI-apps can be useful, they will never replace human coaches for managers. However, such coaches cost US$200 – $500 per hour so they don’t come cheap.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

From my vantage point as a long-time work from homer and a coach to a lot of leaders and teams who are new to the scene, what I’m seeing is a slow realization that we’re in a marathon, not a sprint. If you’re in a leadership role, so much the better as whatever you stop doing will have a positive ripple effect for the people on your team.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 29, 2012

Alignment is not a leadership assumption , as the impatient parts of our brain may love to think. A leader must take the time to make this happen, the old-fashioned way – person by person, meeting by meeting. And not just your immediate reports – the alignment has to go all the way down the line, to every employee.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

This note sums up the underlying philosophy of management and leadership. That, according to me, is the #1 challenge of leadership today. At the risk of sounding a bit of a little old-fashioned, there is nothing wrong, and everything right, with bringing more kindness into our lives (that includes our working lives).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 1, 2016

Bilging takes place in several forms and fashions some of which include: publically airing out the shortcoming of a teammate. You just finished reading Leadership Lessons from the United States Naval Academy - Don’t Bilge Your Teammates ! Bilging your teammate. How do people bilge their teammates? blaming others for team shortfalls.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In the same fashion that being the source of gossip is destructive, so is furthering the damage by ratcheting up the rhetoric by participating in gossip. Let me cut right to the chase – real leaders don’t participate in gossip, and likewise they don’t tolerate gossip from others.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. The first key in understanding how to make great decisions is learning how to synthesize the overwhelming amount incoming information leaders must deal with on a daily basis, while making the best decisions possible in a timely fashion.

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 2, 2018

Based on my observations and interactions in leadership development, here are four areas where I’ve noticed routines are particularly important: Gratitude. In some form or fashion, make a regular point of acknowledging the good things in your life. But within the details, you’ll see some common points.

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Openxcell

JANUARY 4, 2021

As DAD marches towards the goal, it provides accurate solutions fashioned for agile teams. DAD goes beyond Scrum to work on leadership, roles and responsibilities, and other essential software development nodes like architecture, design, testing, programming, documentation, deployment, and many more. Scrum vs DAD.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

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.” While inherently obvious, it should not go unnoticed that the use of the word no is 100% negative.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

[ Today’s guest post is from my friend and colleague Richard Corder Richard is a passionate advocate for patient safety and a high-level coach and consultant in the healthcare industry. He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It is precisely the dispensing of one-size fits all advice that has allowed the ranks of consultants, coaches, mentors and other professional advisers to swell to historical proportions. Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning.

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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 26, 2010

In Covey’s classic illustration below, you’ll find a simple chart to use as your guide. Another part of the art and science of delegation is understanding how to effectively delegate to others in a fashion that sets them up for success and not failure.

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 26, 2016

Don’t misunderstand, I happen to like Cam very much, and there’s no doubt that he’s an extraordinary salesman, but leadership doesn’t come as naturally to him as closing deals. What does that have to do with coaching?”. “Do Go over to your computer and Google executive coach.” What’s he doing that’s so despicable?”. Humor me.”.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Thanks in advance… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] Experience, while a great teacher, can nonetheless result in a very costly education that rarely occurs in a timely fashion. learning » Leadership thinking [.] managing the CEO-Board relationship [.]

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 24, 2012

If that isn’t bad enough, the use of vulgarity has pervaded the business world to the extent you’re hard pressed to get through the day without having to deal with it in some form or fashion. As a leader, is this acceptable to you? It is not to me.

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 17, 2014

But recognition in some form or fashion almost always works. Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer, and thought leader. It Builds a More Positive Environment. One of the big mistakes we can make as leaders is to assume we know what motivates other people. I’ve made that mistake many times.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. Actionable : A successful idea cannot remain in a strategic planning state.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Hall of Fame basketball player and coach John Wooden once wisely observed, “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” And to do that, new operating models must be fashioned to become AI-native and optimized. This is why Gates and Nadella shifted to the internet and AI in their leadership.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It builds lifelong friendships with the participants and their coaches. In true Tenable CARES fashion, team members came together to support Elizabeth and her family in raising funds and packing meals. Here are key tips for building a culture that cares in your workplace: Encourage a “never stop listening” leadership mentality.

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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. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

[ Today’s guest post is from my friend and colleague Richard Corder Richard is a passionate advocate for patient safety and a high-level coach and consultant in the healthcare industry. He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team. Hiring in a team based fashion eliminates many of the typical mistakes that can be made in the hiring process.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

That, I believed, is what made me a good leadership coach. Note: I’m excited to share my second book, The Radical Edge , in serial fashion here on SteveFarber.com ! In fact, I pride myself on my ability to look into the eyes of another human being and find something in there to like, to appreciate, maybe even to embrace.

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