N2Growth Blog
JUNE 9, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. This video applies to us all – especially those in leadership. I highly recommend watching this video as a recommencement of sorts – to being grounded in humility, reality, authenticity, and transparency. The reason people want to be led by you is not because your special, but because you understand you’re not.
Terry Starbucker
JUNE 3, 2012
“Things change.” Yes, they do. And leaders who fail to absorb this concept into their core being are perfect candidates to be left behind the pack in a cloud of business dust. As change happens, we must change. We must adapt to new technologies, new theories, new business models, new people and attitudes – sometimes within weeks, or even a day.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 12, 2012
“Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, causal blessings, and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition. Expect that through the right lens, all our encounters will appear full of thunderbolts and instructions; every bush will be a [.].
Change Starts Here
JUNE 5, 2012
During an all-day client meeting last week, I noticed at one point they were focused more on implementing a change program than implementing the change itself. The group of more than 20 executives and senior managers were discussing an objective to Foster Innovation. The initiative they came up with was to conduct idea contests for all employees every 18 months.
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Next Level Blog
JUNE 5, 2012
The past few days in London have marked the Diamond Jubilee celebrating the 60th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. It’s been a pomp and circumstance extravaganza, and the members of the Royal Family have all had parts to play. One thing the Windsors appear to understand better than anyone is that appearances matter for people in leadership. Click headline to continue.
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N2Growth Blog
JUNE 12, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . I recently participated in a panel discussion about the future of the recruiting industry, and quite frankly, I was surprised with many of the prevailing attitudes and thoughts surrounding the topic at hand. As is often the case, I was the contrarian on the panel, and while I probably shouldn’t have been shocked, it was the fact most recruiters seemed to believe the status quo was fine, the future was bright, and they didn’t see the need for ch
Terry Starbucker
JUNE 10, 2012
Starbucker Graduates, 1982. Dear Business School Graduates of 1982: Congratulations! It’s graduation time, and I always get a bit nostalgic this time of year, remembering my good old days at college. For me, college was this cool utopia, where I had all the trappings of adulthood, but not quite all the responsibility that came with it. The professors tried to teach us as much as they could about business and #leadership, and in turn, I tried to absorb as much as I could.
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 16, 2012
I believe that after integrity, listening is the second most important leadership skill. And… it is also one of the most difficult. Listening well is hard. Listening well, consistently, is even harder. Lately, I have been paying more attention to what is happening when the listening is good. The key is having some good buckets– [.].
Women on Business
JUNE 6, 2012
I just received an email letting me know that I can download over a $1,000,000 as a gift if I put my name into a poll to see if I was to be chosen. Really? There is already such an overwhelming amount of information consuming our sacred time and vying for our attention, that the amount of overwhelm is consuming us. The first time I recognized this online was a book launch claiming that I would receive $10,000 in bonuses to purchase a book for $19.00, I was disappointed in the author and her appr
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Next Level Blog
JUNE 19, 2012
It was 7:30 on a Sunday night on the campus of one of the world’s best-known companies, and I was the guest speaker for a group of about 70 of the company’s top high potentials. They had just finished the first week of a two-week program that had wrapped up with a weekend project two hours earlier. Week two was. Click headline to continue.
Steve Farber
JUNE 16, 2012
I’ve crafted The Extreme Leadership Summit to be something unique, something special, something…well…extreme. And it’s unlike any leadership or personal development “event” you’ve been to before. The Summit is not a pitch fest (where a bunch of speakers try to sell you stuff), and it’s not a parade of talking heads, to mix a metaphor, where you passively sit, watch the show, take notes, and go home.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 20, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . I love history, and have always enjoyed being a student of history. Earlier this week we launched a new project: The History of Leadership. The project consists of an interactive historical timeline of the world’s greatest leaders dating as far back as 2000 BC. Since history has been recorded, so have great lessons in leadership.
Terry Starbucker
JUNE 24, 2012
You’ve framed your vision, set your strategy, built your model, hired your team, designed your processes, set expectations, and pushed confidently forward on executing your path to success. And yet, there’s one last thing that you need to do to get it all to true greatness. It’s gut check time. How do you really FEEL about this road you’re on?
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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 19, 2012
One of my favorite mentors always asks… “are you skipping to work?” When you are skipping to work, you wake up before the alarm, and are excited about the day. When skipping, the most challenging part is juggling and prioritizing all the creative things you want to accomplish. I find that when I am skipping, [.].
Change Starts Here
JUNE 12, 2012
Quite often in the role of a change agent, a change-related issue must be brought to the attention of people higher-up on the organization chart. A decision must be made, funds approved, change communicated or behaviors adopted, among many ways leaders must become involved in the change. When you are implementing change from the middle of an organization, often there is more than one layer of hierarchy to navigate.
Women on Business
JUNE 8, 2012
David Castillo Dominici/freedigitalphoto.net. Yesterday I had the wonderful experience of attending a STEM collaboration workshop and the one question that kept running through my mind was, is it really a lack of talented applicants or are small businesses just inept at using technology to help us recruit the right people? Here are the three things that stuck.
The Recovering Engineer
JUNE 25, 2012
Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778. In a conflict, it is often tempting to go on the attack in an effort to make your point. In fact, it’s a natural response to a situation you perceive as physically or emotionally threatening in some way. In most workplace situations, none of us will be in an imminent physical threat situation when we are in conflict.
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Next Level Blog
JUNE 21, 2012
Way back in the day, I was a part-time announcer for my college radio station, WDAV. My favorite shift was the late night show, Flipsides, but I spent many a Sunday afternoon spinning the primary staple of the station, classical music. That was when I learned the names of many of the great conductors of the 20th century such as. Click headline to continue.
Terry Starbucker
JUNE 17, 2012
(Writers note: It’s ironic that this post about embarrassment was the first one in 7 years where I hit the “publish” button prematurely. Apologies to my RSS feed readers for the “blank” post yesterday). It was December 16th, 1993, my 34th Birthday. I was in suburban Washington DC, working for a certain professional football team that was looking to build a new stadium.
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 13, 2012
Yesterday I attended an important meeting with important people. I was not scheduled to speak. Until… a good friend of mine in Finance (p.s. always have a good friend in Finance) batted the conversation my way. A gift. What’s our channel’s mission? How are our results? What’s our team best at? How have we improved? The [.].
Change Starts Here
JUNE 27, 2012
Facebook is in the news again, drawing ire for making a switcharoo right under users noses. No communication (or perhaps one note that was ignored by most everyone), no buy-in, no reason. Just make a change and expect everyone to accept it and move on. Yet despite Facebook being held up as an example of what not to do, companies use the same approach to make organizational changes all the time.
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Women on Business
JUNE 13, 2012
Guest post by business strategy and management education expert Trish Gorman (learn more about Trish at the end of this post). Most of us realize that high-performing teams are not really “managed.” Instead, they are inspired, connected, directed, motivated and rewarded. But in today’s global workforce, the task of managing virtual teams complicates the management process and throws additional challenges into the mix.
Lead on Purpose
JUNE 2, 2012
By Alan E. Shelton. Perhaps one of the thorniest problems in business today, is how to create quality output without being specifically in charge. Product managers in coalition organizations know this all too well. How do you drive your goals when you are not in a line on an organizational chart? My largest client is in the apparel industry with a multiplicity of brand names.
Next Level Blog
JUNE 12, 2012
On the way home from visiting a U.S. Department of Defense client organization today, I heard a story on NPR that I have to share with you. It’s about how a community college counselor named Catherine Morris took it upon herself to help veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan get the educational benefits they’ve earned. As the wars have wound down, Click headline to continue.
The Recovering Engineer
JUNE 21, 2012
“What religion are you?” The question hung in the air between the two teenagers engaged in a conversation about family rules and expectations. While I do not know this to be true, it appeared to me that they come from families with different expectations and limits in the area of movie and media consumption. As I observed the interaction, I heard a question asked out of genuine curiosity.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 26, 2012
One of my early bosses and mentors, Gail Parsons, said this to me almost daily. I was young and newly promoted in an HR role in the midst of a big merger. There was much organizational realignment. Everyone had a new boss and a new team. Most leaders were in the midst of relocating their [.].
Mills Scofield
JUNE 17, 2012
This is just a quick post on something that hit me yesterday. In preparing for a strategic planning session this week, I realized that no matter how many of these I do, there is always a paradoxical feeling of being nervous about doing an excellent job for my client and being confident (hopefully not arrogance) in being great at what I do. After all, the stakes are pretty high: people’s livelihoods, families, safe working environments, taxes paid to schools, police, etc. and the rest of a
Women on Business
JUNE 13, 2012
In my last post I discussed how women need to compete in the workplace in order to push past the almost invisible barriers that seem to exist. Having a competitive attitude is definitely the first step in winning because it says “I’m here and I’m ready to play”. It puts you at the starting block and gives you an understanding that yes you are in a competition for your job, for your raise, for your promotion, and for the success of your company in the marketplace.
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