N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. When it comes to leadership, I can share the issue of expectations is no small matter. In fact, understanding how to come out on the right-side of the expectation curve can often be the difference between being viewed as an average leader and one held in high regard. Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership.
Change Starts Here
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Successful organizational change depends on leaders – managers and bosses who have direct authority with people going through the change – to support and execute change in their span of influence. Effective leaders acknowledge that their support is crucial to success and commit to doing their part. The following are some of the roles leaders may play as they drive change in your organization.
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Terry Starbucker
OCTOBER 16, 2011
With nearly 30 years of experience in my rear view mirror, I can best describe the process of successful leadership as somehow getting a giant boulder up, and then over, a steep hill – a boulder not only filled with the accumulated weight of our talents and expectations, but with those of our teammates as well. Once that boulder gets “over the hump”, gravity takes effect and an incredible momentum carries us forward, which makes success come all the easier – and makes al
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 6, 2011
I saw a great post from Tristan Kromer Pivoting on Investor Feedback a.k.a Beware of Mentors. It was a top post on StartupRoar on Tuesday. His basic point was: If someone, including me, tells you something isn’t a great idea and there’s no market for it there are only two acceptable responses. Either: "That’s interesting. I’m going to take that thought out into the field and validate it with my customers.
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Women on Business
OCTOBER 31, 2011
Women might not get equal pay or equal leadership roles, but they’re making strides in other areas. A new infographic from EducationalLeadership.com (via Mamiverse.com ) offers a great visual representation of how women’s roles have changed in recent years. You can click on the image below (after the jump) to view it at full size. Created by: Educational Leadership.
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N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. One of the most often overlooked aspects of leadership is the need for pursuit. Great leaders are never satisfied with traditional practice, static thinking, conventional wisdom, or common performance. In fact, the best leaders are simply uncomfortable with anything that embraces the status quo. Leadership is pursuit – pursuit of excellence, of elegance, of truth, of what’s next, of what if, of change, of value, of results, of relationships, of
Change Starts Here
OCTOBER 18, 2011
My guest today is Dr. Jackie Sherman, CEO of The Jackie Sherman Group, Inc., who has been an organization development consultant for 25 years. She became deeply interested in how the brain works and how that could inform her work with organizations and leaders. Today, we’ll find out what she learned and gain practical tips for incorporating the “science of the brain” into our own work.
Terry Starbucker
OCTOBER 9, 2011
(Terry’s Note: Hi all – Today I’m introducing a new series of posts, written by guest writer Adam Tenenbaum , called Front Line Leadership. Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. He also has previous leadership experience at other prominent companies.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 24, 2011
I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications. Back in January 2010, I wrote a post that's one of the most popular on this blog: When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? That post looked at when and why you would use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. as part of your registration and authentication mechanism.
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Women on Business
OCTOBER 20, 2011
Five things I learned from the way Steve Jobs lived his practical genius: 1. Put all your assets out there. Genius happens at the intersection of our hearts and minds, that sweet spot where our hard assets (strengths, skills, expertise) and soft assets (values, passions, and creative abilities) converge. Steve Jobs the technologist was at one with Steve Jobs the artist; all of his abilities and his beliefs were seamlessly fused.
The Recovering Engineer
OCTOBER 18, 2011
One of the common questions I get as I lead workshops and work with my coaching clients is: How do I decide it a conflict is worth the effort to resolve? I think this is a great question. Honestly, resolving a conflict can take lots of emotional energy. While I think it is generally a good idea to work with other people to productively resolve conflicts, I recognize that you do not need to invest this energy to resolve every conflict you might experience.
Next Level Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2011
One of the jokes I sometimes make when I’m leading a workshop or giving a presentation is that being a coach is one of the greatest gigs in the world because you don’t have to know anything. All you. Please click the headline to read the whole story.
Change Starts Here
OCTOBER 25, 2011
When you implement change in organizations, a key factor you must consider is control. What parts of the change must be controlled (by you), and which parts can be more guided or left up to those going through the change? You can’t have it both ways. There is a Control Continuum, and for each element of the change, you can only be in one place on the Continuum at a time.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
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.
Terry Starbucker
OCTOBER 23, 2011
As Halloween approaches, I’ve been thinking about monsters lately. Leadership monsters. Not the evil ones, but the kind that have a gigantic positive impact on their workplaces – more like “ scary good “ In fact, there is a particular kind of leadership monster that is really scary good – one with three heads. It needs three heads because each one represents three distinctly different tasks and roles that are essential in having a “monster-like” impac
Steve Farber
OCTOBER 2, 2011
If you’re an educator, if you know an educator, if you’d like to influence the educators in your and/or your kids lives, please take 30 minutes and listen to this radio interview with Educator Extraordinaire and Extreme Leader, David Pinter. I’ve written about David many times on this blog , but this is the first time y’all get to hear him.
Women on Business
OCTOBER 14, 2011
Practical genius is your jillion-dollar personal portfolio of brilliance. It’s the secret code within you that only you can crack. But once you do, the possibilities are endless. Contrary to the traditional beliefs around genius, practical genius is based on the truth that each of us possesses genius deep inside, and it’s just waiting to be activated and set in motion.
The Recovering Engineer
OCTOBER 10, 2011
Today, as I sat in an airport business lounge waiting for a flight, I overheard bits and pieces of another traveler’s conversation. I wasn’t trying to overhear. I just couldn’t help but overhear because his volume kept getting progressively louder. From what I could tell, he was engaged in a bit of a conflict conversation. I could also tell that he was making a common mistake that rarely, if ever, leads to conflict resolution and almost always leads to conflict escalation.
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Next Level Blog
OCTOBER 14, 2011
One of the many intelligent things that Socrates said is “An unexamined life is not worth living.” In an era when many professionals are running flat out until they crash, taking time for self. Please click the headline to read the whole story.
QAspire
OCTOBER 7, 2011
The primary focus of lean organizations/teams is to “eliminate waste”. In an increasingly complex work environment where execution is distributed between teams and geographies, one of the biggest wastes I have seen is “following-up on things”. A typical manager’s task list will feature about 30% (or even more) tasks which are simply following up (read [.
Terry Starbucker
OCTOBER 30, 2011
Front Line Leadership . Guest Post By Adam Tenenbaum. In my last post I introduced Part 1 of my two-part series on the the topic of Managing Millennials (the generation born roughly between 1980 and the mid 90‘s) – Treat Them Like a Celebrity. Today in Part 2, I’m presenting the other key tactic – Create The Progress Bar Effect. As I noted on my last post , each generation is a result of the dominant events, personalities and technologies that were popularized during their maturation
Steve Farber
OCTOBER 12, 2011
The other day, I had the great pleasure (sounds like a cliche, but it’s true!) of being interviewed in the Countermeasures studio by the exceedingly brilliant, Rebecca Costa. She’s a sociobiologist ( look it up ) and the author of the phenomenal book The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction. We talked about Extreme Leadership, and how The Radical Leap applies everywhere from the corporate world, to social movements (like Occupy Wall Street, for example), to edu
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Women on Business
OCTOBER 17, 2011
Have you ever wondered where your resume goes after you submit it through an electronic system? Lisa Vaas explains the process in detail, including tips to make sure your resume gets noticed, in a report for The Ladders. You can read the complete report here. In the meantime, check out the flowchart infographic (which is part of the full report) below.
Lead on Purpose
OCTOBER 1, 2011
I had the opportunity recently to go up to Sundance , a local ski resort, to go mountain biking with my team. This is the type of mountain biking where you ride up a ski lift and bike down one of many trails to the bottom, load up and do it again. The mountains are absolutely beautiful this time of year and the weather could not have been better. The great thing about activities like mountain biking is they give you a chance to get away and help you put life into perspective.
Next Level Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings must be feeling a little bit like a team that ended up on the cover of Sports Illustrated and then started losing games. Last year, Hastings was on the cover of Fortune as. Please click the headline to read the whole story.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2011
As I was reading David F. Carr’s latest piece on The Brainyard today , it drove home again for me some of the practically insurmountable challenges that many organizations have in avoiding the growing forces of digital disruption. David’s piece talked about Don Tapscott ‘s proposition that we have to fundamentally remake the way our organizations engage with the world and produce useful work.
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Terry Starbucker
OCTOBER 2, 2011
Imagine the quest for leadership success as an episode of Wheel of Fortune – there’s a puzzle put in front of you, with just a couple of clues on how to solve it. You work your way though a lot of it on your own, but then you get stuck. You can’t do it by yourself any longer – you have to get some help. “Pat, I’d like to buy a vowel – let’s try “E” Vanna turns around 4 of them, and Pat declares “ that letter is important –
Steve Farber
OCTOBER 9, 2011
As the publisher of Success Magazine , Darren Hardy, has, in my opinion, brought the venerable business staple back into the limelight with the intelligence and class it deserves (and, frankly, had lost for the years before he came along). Darren’s recent best-selling book, The Compound Effect , is about to release in a new, hardcover edition.
Women on Business
OCTOBER 4, 2011
This week is “The Girl Effect Blogging Campaign” week. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of women around the world are blogging about The Girl Effect this week. [link]. The campaign is asking women to use their voice… asking women to add their voice to the many voices working to raise awareness about the connection between the development of girls and the development of a peaceful thriving world.
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