N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Negotiation isn’t all it’s cracked-up to be. In fact, I believe negotiation to be an inherently flawed business practice. Negotiation is not an art to be mastered, rather it’s a sloppy approach to be avoided. While many a consultant, author and trainer have made personal fortunes teaching the finer points of negotiation, it is my belief they have accomplished little more than to create legions of inept business people who view t

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 16, 2012

Helping our teams to learn from failure can be one of the most vital aspects of our role as leaders. Even when the situation seems devastating, how we show up can make a tremendous difference in someone’s growth. John Maxwell talks about this well in “Failing Forward.” In fact, I have bought many copies of his [.].

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 15, 2012

“There are two kinds of people in the business world, doers and thinkers. Which one will you be?” I was 27 when I was asked this question by my first boss, a very successful serial entrepreneur. He was a very impatient person, and didn’t like extended debate and discussion about big decisions. He just made them- like the time a couple of years later when he determined what to bid on a billion dollar acquisition in about 20 minutes ( no misprint, it was 20 minutes ).

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Women on Business

JULY 19, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Women are different from men, and those differences can be seen in business just as they can in other areas of life. Women in business can learn a lot from men, and men can learn a lot from women. The best teams are diverse teams, but diversity is still not the norm in the business world. Rhonda Abrams of Gannett shared the five key ways women are different from men in business — even entrepreneurs — which she has identified throughout her 20-year career.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 19, 2012

Like many others, I was surprised and saddened to learn of the passing this week of Stephen Covey, the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Saddened but also grateful for his life and work. Since it was first released in 1989, I’ve probably read The Seven Habits all the way through at least half a dozen times. I’ve dipped in and out of it for insights and ideas countless times.

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Steve Farber

JULY 17, 2012

Design by Michael Paff. Art direction by Allan Karl. Gratitude by me : Go ahead! Plaster the town with it! www.ExtremeLeadershipSummit.com.

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Women on Business

JULY 17, 2012

American Express released its second annual State of Women-Owned Businesses report that provides insights into the state of women-owned businesses in the United States. The study shows that the growth of women-owned businesses has exceeded any other group over the past 15 years — 1.5 times greater than any other business counterpart. The growth rates are impressive.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 17, 2012

Last week, former FBI director Louis Freeh released the results of his investigation into what top officials of Penn State University including its then president Graham Spanier and the late head football coach Joe Paterno knew about the child sexual abuse perpetrated by convicted felon Jerry Sandusky. Sadly, the report confirmed everyone's worst fears.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 17, 2012

“It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” ? Albert Einstein Last week, I was inspired to read The Charisma Myth, by Olivia Fox Cabane, and wrote a post on the subject, Got Charisma: and Invitation to Experiment. I am now stuck on the questions surfacing in my mind. I [.].

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 14, 2012

I rarely write about personal things on this blog, but a confluence of events caused me to change what I wanted to write about this morning: my family situation, a podcast and a blog post. I wanted to diverge a bit from writing about leadership in the business world and focus on THE most important relationship – marriage. Debbie (my wife) and our children are away this weekend, and I miss them when they’re gone.

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Women on Business

JULY 18, 2012

Support Eachother and Stand up for the Right to Choose. I recently found an article that made me start thinking about the various struggles women have in the working world, wherever that may be. Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote Why Women Still Can’t Have It All , in the Atlantic mobile. The title drew me in immediately. In short, Anne-Marie talks about her decision to leave a big government job to be at home more, she still teaches and does other things that allows her to be home with her family m

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Mills Scofield

JULY 18, 2012

Last March, Whitney Johnson and I were dining on exquisite sushi in Boston celebrating the upcoming launch of her powerful book, Dare, Dream, Do. We also discussed the lack of women in Venture Capital (VC) because I had never noticed I was the only female partner in mine ! While this subject is a blog post I been asked to, but not yet written, two things happened today, 1 in Cleveland, 1 in California, that made me write this from Maine: Neuros Medical , a company my VC firm, Glengary, invested

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2012

It had been a long night. The plane was delayed and delayed some more. The awaiting passengers were tired and the ground crew was weary of answering questions and rerouting. The rest of the airport was dark, we were the last gate in action. Finally the door opened and we were “ready to board.” Then [.].

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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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QAspire

JULY 18, 2012

I recently read a fantastic book titled “ Creativity: Unconventional Wisdom from 20 Accomplished Minds ” by Herbert M. Meyers and Richard Gerstman. This book features 20 accomplished creative individuals from different walks of life and they narrate their journeys on creative path. Here are some unconventional and thought-provoking insights from the book: Money and Creativity.

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Women on Business

JULY 20, 2012

Marissa Mayer is a 37 year old executive of a technology firm that alone should create energy and excitement around leadership potential. She is joining Yahoo from Google and to be frank some rigidity is needed at Yahoo. So as we wait with bated breath to dissect her every move as CEO, here are things that I would like to see her bring to the troubled company.

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Coalfire

JULY 18, 2012

Most security professionals don’t like to boast about their good work. They would rather stay behind the scenes to keep systems and data protected from harm. However, companies also need to let customers and business partners know that they have a security program and are compliant with applicable security regulations and standards. That is why we created the Coalfire Certificate program. -- so companies can highlight that their IT controls have been independently scanned, assessed or vali

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2012

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” -Peter Drucker Having a Reflective Practice means finding a deliberate way to stop and think. It’s a ritual you do regularly to pause, consider, and learn. So, can email be a good medium on which to build a reflective [.].

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 18, 2012

'Image Credit The Tokyo Stock Exchange needs its computers to stay up…. If I asked you what a CIO’s #1 job responsibility was , what would you say? After a lot of hemming and hawing, I think that you’d probably end up telling me that at the end of the day, a CIO has the ultimate responsibility for making sure that the company’s IT resources are available for the rest of the company to use at all times – that’s almost a part of the definition of information technology.

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Women on Business

JULY 18, 2012

You know you are ready to leave your corporate job and work from home when your fed up of the commute to work, the corporate culture and the emotional strain that shows up prior to getting to work. With 85% of all new home based business created by women, the success rate and the financial freedom is a lucrative incentive to weight out the pros and cons of leaving your corporate identity.

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Rapid BI

JULY 14, 2012

How to lose up to 50 years of clients income Yesterday evening I had an interesting doorstep experience. The doorbell rang and my 18yr old daughter answered the door. The young (?student?) collector/ agent was wearing a tabard of a well known na.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 15, 2012

Leadership challenges us to anticipate what is happening in the hearts and minds of our people. This is particularly difficult when working with strong, self-directed human beings. Strong performers are self-critical by nature and when the going gets tough, the tough get going… usually starting with beating up on themselves. Leaders can help by staying [.].

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Steve Farber

JULY 17, 2012

Design by Michael Paff. Art direction by Allan Karl. Gratitude by me : Go ahead! Plaster the town with it! www.ExtremeLeadershipSummit.com.

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Women on Business

JULY 20, 2012

How do solopreneurs market their businesses, products, and services online? What’s working and what’s not? A new infographic created from data found in a 2012 study of solopreneurs in the United States is shown below. Based on this research, solopreneurs are happy with email marketing and content marketing, but there is a lot of room for improvement in web design.

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Rapid BI

JULY 19, 2012

What is the true history of the SWOT analysis?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2012

All organizations face resource constraints inhibiting the accomplishment of all proposed work. Some organizations resist prioritizing initiatives commonly resulting in the completion of lower value activities ahead of those with a higher return on investment. Such an approach diminishes the value returned to stakeholders and represents an abdication of management’s responsibilities.

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Women on Business

JULY 19, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Women still earn just $0.82 for every $1.00 that men earn, and that applies to jobs in most industries and at all levels. Forbes analyzed the median weekly earnings of full-time American workers in 2011 by occupation and gender using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.According to that data, the top 20 jobs based on pay for women in 2012 were identified (follow the link below to learn what they are).

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Women on Business

JULY 18, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Women hold 53% of entry-level jobs in Corporate America but just 14% of executive-committee level jobs. A study from McKinsey & Co reveals some possible reasons why the careers of most business women stall at middle management. Sue Shellenbarger of The Wall Street Journal shares a variety of reasons that were identified in the study.

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Women on Business

JULY 16, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Are you giving away your wealth and leadership power? Denise Duffield-Thomas shares 50 warning signs that you’re giving away too much, and her list is filled with useful information for business women. For example, following are just 10 of the warning signs she shares: Business. Letting your clients decide your working hours for you (giving in to late night or weekend appointments when you really don’t want to).

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