N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . The sustainability of any organization hinges on leadership’s ability to understand, embrace, and implement change. Whenever leaders are surveyed about what keeps them awake at night, “change” is usually at or near the top of the list. When change initiatives fail, so do leaders. When brands fall into decline, and organizations implode, it’s often due to a company’s inability to change.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 1, 2012

There are times when a leadership vacuum can sneak up on you and your organization, one that can quickly erase all the hard work and success that preceded it. It’s helpful to know and understand what I consider to be the nine telltale signs that leadership is headed into this black hole, so quick remedial action can be taken before it’s too late.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 6, 2012

Growing Leaders of All Ages: Part of my mission for this blog is engaging leaders of all ages in the leadership conversation. Today, I present a guest post from Jared Herr, age 12. If you are a leader of any age, interested in collaborating on a guest post on leadership, let’s talk more. Kermit is [.].

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Women on Business

JULY 6, 2012

There are things in life that are inevitable, love, death, taxes and the failure of a business. Knowing that doesn’t make the pain any easier to deal with so if you are facing the decision of when to quit and when to hang on, I have four pearls of wisdom (ahem, at least in my mind) for you to consider. Did you give it your best shot? Hindsight is 20/20 and when making the decision to close your business you seem to see all of your mistakes with the clarity of a blinking neon sign.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 3, 2012

One of the most memorable conversations I’ve had in 12 years of leadership coaching came about six years ago this month when I was talking with a client who was a World Bank country manager in Africa. Since he was a French citizen and August was approaching, I asked him what he was planning to do during his upcoming month. Click headline to continue.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 3, 2012

My favorite work as a leader is the time spent one on one, digging deep, helping to bring out the best in someone. The other fun part is motivating large teams toward a vision and strategy to get something important done. And then there is the in-between. What I find most difficult as I have [.].

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Women on Business

JULY 4, 2012

Want to find the best candidates for open jobs at your company? Social recruiting can help you do it. Using tools like Twitter and LinkedIn, hiring managers have access to information, referrals, and even job seekers that puts them in a strong position to find highly qualified job candidates. Job seekers are active on the social web. You just need to look for them, interact with them, and build relationships with them.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 5, 2012

When you’re taking on the work of becoming a more effective leader, you usually will want to focus on adopting or changing one or two behaviors that will make the biggest difference. You also, though, need to focus on the perceptions that others have of your behaviors. Because you work and lead in a system full of people, your overall effectiveness will depend as much on changing their perception as on changing your behavior.

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2012

Managers often end up in a situation when they are hired to take charge of a team/department that already exists and performs to a certain level. New leaders often find it difficult to generate acceptance because a team/organization is a complex network of emotions, relationships and issues. The history comes along, but is invisible to this new manager.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 5, 2012

Want more success and fun for your team? Try picking one BIG goal. When looking to make a difference for the business, I always look for the “one big goal” that we can accomplish that will really make an impact. As Covey would say, what is your most “Wildly Important Goal”? What will be dramatically different [.].

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Women on Business

JULY 3, 2012

Thanks to the amazing creative and development site from Zel Creative , Women on Business has undergone an extensive makeover, and our new site design has finally launched! The new Women on Business design is streamlined, making it easier than ever for you to find content that interests you, discuss that content, and share it with your own social media audiences!

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Rapid BI

JULY 2, 2012

Managers engage, so do we as ‘community’ champions Having a community or network (intranet or social network) is one thing, growing it and building trust is quite another. Engagement of users, be they employees or customers is vital for the strategy to be sustainable and successful. Remember the 90:9:1 rule, our goal must be to beat [.].

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2012

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Episode 40 – The Big Picture of Business: Learning from the Recession and Moving Forward explores the actions business leaders can take in order to position their organizations to achieve market

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 3, 2012

“Do a good day’s work and act like somebody” -Andy Griffith What Would Andy Do? Like so many Americans, I am feeling a bit of sadness and a touch of nostalgia at the news of Andy Griffith’s death today. His most famous role as Mayberry’s old-fashioned leader, makes us think of (or long for) [.].

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Women on Business

JULY 5, 2012

Do you know of an upcoming virtual or in-person event for business women? Are you leading an upcoming event for business women and want to spread the word? Now, you can add your events to the new Women on Business Event Calendar or browse through the events for and by business women that are listed in the calendar. This is a new feature for business women, so be sure to bookmark the calendar and view it frequently.

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Rapid BI

JULY 4, 2012

Using 360 assessments for selection in redundancy situations. We know that we are in increasingly difficult times for many businesses and organisations. With many having to both “down size” and “right size”. This means identifying the roles that have to go.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2012

“ A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. ”. George S. Patton (1885 – 1945). General, U.S. Army. There is no such thing as the perfect project plan. Sometimes a project manager will find him or herself with excess resources and, as is more often the case, fewer resources than are required to complete a task.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 2, 2012

The words we choose as leaders are powerful. Helping our teams find the right words to clarify their thinking, can be even more powerful. As with so much else in leadership and life, less can be more. Sometimes, reducing the thought down to one powerful word can create vision and focus. I have [.].

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Nutanix

JULY 6, 2012

Nutanix is adding new product features at a rapid pace. I want to pause and take some time to talk about the advancements our engineering team has made.

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Rapid BI

JUNE 30, 2012

Action Learning for Leadership Development Introduction When devising any leadership programme, it is important to ensure that as participants students are not only ‘taught’ or trained, but that they have the opportunity to put learning into action. Experience has shown us that unless we practice new skills and ideas soon after a programme we tend [.].

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Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2012

You have been making value perceptions and value judgments your entire life. You may call them decisions, moments of truth, or actions. Intuitively they focus around value – and your perception of it – or the weight you put toward it as these decisions or actions are taken or made. It’s the same in sales, but in the selling process there are two values of perception and two value judgments.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 30, 2012

There is a man who walks slowly down the trolley path near my home each morning. I often see him on my morning run. He ritualistically tips his cane to everyone as he passes, and says, “God Bless You.” When he is not there, the crickets seem to sing more loudly. Perhaps they are filling [.].

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2012

A couple of months back, I wrote that it is important to shorten the results cycle - the time in which teams accomplish business-meaningful things - before shortening the reporting cycle - the time in which we report progress. Doing the opposite generates more heat than light: it increases the magnification with which we scrutinize effort while doing nothing to improve the frequency or fidelity of results.

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Rapid BI

JULY 5, 2012

10 easy steps to grow your business (for freelance workers) With more and more people starting their own businesses, its becoming increasingly important for us all to focus on growing and developing our business. Here are ten simple steps to do t.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2012

The Miami Heat just won the NBA title, and LeBron James, aka ‘King James,’ won the most valuable player award. He completed a nine-year mission. A reporter asked him what his first thoughts were. He instantly replied with a HUGE smile, “It’s about damn time.”. As most know, the game of basketball is a team effort and a team victory, but LeBron James’ individual performance ranks as one of the all time greats.

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Rapid BI

JULY 1, 2012

#socatwalk - a collaboration story of social media into social business.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2012

Compliance Management in Environment, Health & Safety. by SAP. Aberdeen research report on how best in class companies manage Environmental, Health & Safety processes and technology while outperforming their peers. Organizations are often challenged with the myriad of Environmental, Health, and Safety regulations that need to be complied with across the enterprise.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 30, 2012

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