N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. The fastest transition from inept to adept occurs when leaders turn the topic of change on themselves. When was the last time you changed something about you ? Not someone or something else, but your thinking, your philosophy, your vision, your approach, your attitude, or your development. Most leaders are quite skilled at embracing change – except when the focus of the change initiative happens to be on them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2012

How we label ourselves matters. Sometimes we wear old labels without even noticing. Years ago, I attended a diversity workshop with an exercise designed to get us thinking about labels. The main idea was that the more we talked about our differences in a safe environment, the better we would understand one another and get [.].

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 22, 2012

I think it’s time we all had a chat. You see, over the last 28 years, you have invaded and then permeated my life in such a subliminal way, that I didn’t even notice that you are now monopolizing my time, and the time of a lot of other people too. And that’s not in a good way. Sure, it was very cool when I first discovered your charms, in my workplace.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 24, 2012

Sally Ride, the United States’ first woman astronaut, died too soon this week at the age of 61. In 2012, it’s perhaps easy to forget what she was up against when she rode into space on the shuttle Challenger in 1983. As the New York Times pointed out in its obituary of Ride, the comedian Johnny Carson joked on the Tonight Show that Ride would probably delay the shuttle launch while looking for a purse to match her shoes.

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Women on Business

JULY 23, 2012

Girls are smarter than boys, but where are the girls in math and sciences? That’s the question asked in an infographic from EngineeringDegree.net which makes the argument that girls are smarter than boys but a gender-related lack of self confidence causes them to steer away from occupations that are traditionally dominated by men. For example, although girls have higher IQs overall, they lose confidence and self esteem in drastic numbers in the sixth and tenth grades.

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The Recovering Engineer

JULY 27, 2012

Many people rise to leadership positions because they can solve problems. That was certainly true for me. One of the reasons I quickly moved from an individual contributor role to a supervisory position in my first civilian job after the Navy was that I knew how to solve the technical problems my team faced. I’m guessing that you have a similar experience.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 26, 2012

As I’ve written here before, I’m a big fan of retired U.S. Coast Guard Commandant, Admiral Thad Allen. I’ve been fortunate enough to hear him speak a couple of times, the most recent of which was a few weeks ago at a meeting of senior U.S. government executives. Most Americans know Admiral Allen from his roles in leading the responses to Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Women on Business

JULY 25, 2012

We all need a little help along the way. Making the decision to go out on your own is difficult but a ton of fun if you do it correctly and have the right pieces to the puzzle. Women are becoming more prevalent as entrepreneurs, it can be a very empowering thing to have your own business and be successful at it. It doesn’t matter what your business is, you can make it work, but there are also times where we get the superwomen complex.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 27, 2012

As leaders, we live with much intensity. Because we care, the range of emotions is powerful. When we are deeply invested, the wins are that much sweeter. At the same time, disappointments and frustrations can run deep as well. Paying attention to the emotions we experience as both leaders and followers can be useful in [.].

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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.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 21, 2012

The best way to truly build team unity is to develop trust with individuals. The best way to develop trust is to spend time with the people on your team. In today’s technology deluge we get caught up in easy communication. Email has been the standard for years, and even as good as it is, it’s impersonal and can often lead to miscommunication. Phone calls seem to happen less these days, and though better than email, it’s still a less-than-ideal method of communication.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2012

One of the most critical skills for modern day students and professionals is ability to learn beyond the confines of a class room. We are fortunate that so much of profound learning is available for free – why do we not learn then? There is a saying, “ You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink ”. One can have presence on all sorts of social media channels but that does not ensure learning.

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Women on Business

JULY 27, 2012

As an entrepreneur I know that sales are the lifeblood of my business, so when I am approached with a sales pitch I tend to take an analytical view. Recently I was searching for a vendor to complete my website overhaul and some of the pitches that I received…well they were interesting. In reviewing the pitches, I learned five most important points if you are not a marketing professional.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 23, 2012

“The most necessary man is he with whom you are.” -Leo Tolstoy One of my son Sebastian’s favorite books is The Three Questions (Based on a Story by Leo Tolstoy). The story takes a child-friendly adventure through Tolstoy’s famous questions: Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do? When is [.].

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Rapid BI

JULY 22, 2012

FRIDGES AND ANIMALS…?!?! Ask the delegates to answer the following questions on paper, reviewing the answers to each question before moving on to ask the next question QUESTION 1: How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator? ANSWER: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door This question tests whether they [.].

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 25, 2012

'Image Credit. Caption: Boo! That SaaS monster is going to get you CIO…. Yea Cloud Computing! Everyone is in the process of falling in love with cloud computing and its sister Software-As-A-Service (SaaS). What CIO wouldn’t love an opportunity to no longer have to buy and pay to maintain computing hardware that was only going to become obsolete overtime (this is almost a part of the definition of information technology)?

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Women on Business

JULY 27, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: For the third year, Working Mother Magazine, along with the nonprofit organization Corporate Voices for Working Families, has created a tool to identify congressional candidates who support issues of importance to women. “As election day approaches, it’s easy to forget that there’s more than the presidency at stake: All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate are up for grabs as well. “The outcome of these races will,

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 22, 2012

The conversational thread following my post last week on Email as a Reflective Practice led me to a fantastic post from Germane Consulting group, Dear Leader: Do We Have a Deal? They imagine a letter written by an employee to a CEO, looking for all they need spiritually and developmentally from the relationship. Here are a few key points [.].

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Ruminations of a Programmer

JULY 22, 2012

One of the challenges that we face building a non trivial domain model is to write proper tests that verify the domain rules that the model implements. The domain rules can be quite complex, may have a number of edge cases which the developer himself may fail to take care of. When you use an implementation language that supports a decent type system, many of the rules and invariants can be encoded statically within the type system itself.

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Rapid BI

JULY 25, 2012

Ok so you have done your training and in so doing bought your coaching toolbox, now how do you use these things? Before we get into the meaning of life (coaching) lets go back in time a little. One day while sitting in the office you suddenly notice that the world is talking about coaching. [.].

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Women on Business

JULY 27, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: At The Wall Street Journal’s recent Women in the Economy Conference , leading female business executives from around the world gathered to discuss women in business and identify action items for the future. Jeanine Prime, PhD, Vice President of Research for Catalyst.org was surprised by comments made by former Fortune 500 CEO Jack Welch who addressed the audience by telling them their list of action items were all wrong.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2012

“ Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. ”. Thomas Murner (1475 – 1537). German satirist and poet. Author of Appeal to Fools. Many business professionals almost singularly focused on identifying and fixing ‘the ugly’ – shortcomings that result in their organization’s most adverse outcomes. This focus is understandable as extremely poor performance can cause irreparable damage.

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Nutanix

JULY 24, 2012

The title of this entry is an actual quote from a recent meeting I had with a customer.

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Rapid BI

JULY 24, 2012

RapidBI is an organizational effectiveness consultancy based in the UK but working internationally. © RapidBI & Mike Morrison 2011 - this article/ page is free to copy and use on the condition that an active link back and reference is made to this site and page. Thank you for your understanding and co-operation.

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Women on Business

JULY 24, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: As a company grows, communication across the organization falters. Executives understand the business strategy and assume that employees understand it, too. That’s not often the case. Carmen Noble of Harvard Business School shares the four properties of effective conversational leadership from Boris Groysberg, professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, that business men and women can learn from: Intimacy.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 25, 2012

What is a Customer Focused Team? The word ‘team’ is overused in business; it gets applied to any group of humans in a work setting. However, when you define a team as everything, you end up with nothing. The best and most concise definition for corporate teams I have found comes from The Wisdom of Teams by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I received a great question via LinkedIn: I'm the founding engineer and working hard to launch my startup. I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit.

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Rapid BI

JULY 21, 2012

Are the #Olympics killing freedom of speech in the UK We are now less than a week away from the start of the greatest sporting event on the planet, but at what cost? It seems that Lord Coe is dictating what visitors to events are wearing, and what.

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Women on Business

JULY 25, 2012

Companies that engage employees and the community through employee volunteerism are making a difference to more than the bottom line. Incorporating programs for social good into their culture helps companies stand out in their community, enhances recruiting opportunities and leads to greater satisfaction among employees. Additionally according to the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College and Business Civic Leadership Center in 2005 64% of executives surveyed say that corporate ci

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