N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

You can deal with difficulties properly and leverage your experience (or better yet the experience of others) to enhance your confidence, or you can deal with them incorrectly and let them seriously damage your confidence, performance and ultimately your reputation. Don’t hide from the reality of the situation at hand.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Employers promised work security and a steady progress up the hierarchy in return for employees fitting in, accepting lower wages, performing in prescribed ways and sticking around. Until recently, loyalty was the cornerstone of that relationship. Longevity was a sign of employer-employee relations; turnover was a sign of dysfunction.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

A CEO’s ability to perform effectively is so closely tied to their ability to form a clearly articulated vision, evangelize the vision and then to execute on their vision, that no real discussion on executive leadership should take place without an emphasis on vision.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

Think of any top performing CEO and you’ll find that to the one, they possess an uncanny ability to focus on highest and best use activities. The most productive, high-performance organizations have the ability to deliver fairly complex solutions, and complete difficult tasks at the lowest levels within their organization.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Much like you have performance reviews for your employees you should conduct an analysis of how your customers are performing. I am constantly looking to upgrade the bottom tier of my clientele either by improving account performance or by releasing the client and replacing that business with a better quality account.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Looking past trust, and then expecting to be able to perform in its absence is wreckless at best. It's sad that many potential leaders look past this and end up frustrated when they can't get people to act, little do they know they haven't developed trust. Thanx [link] mikemyatt Hi Charles: Thanks for the astute observation.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Leadership is about performance…Intentions must be aligned with results for leaders to be effective. Someone who has consistently experienced success in leadership roles has a much better chance of success than someone who has not.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

It is essential for organizational health and performance that conflict be accepted and addressed through effective conflict resolution processes. It is the foundation that supports high performance teams, partnerships, superior and subordinate relationships, and peer-to-peer relationships.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

It means your vision is not understood, your team is not aligned and your talent is not performing up to par. " Saying no doesn't imply that your "team is not aligned and your talent is not performing up to par," or that "it means you’re not teaching, mentoring, communicating, or leading."

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO? Why would you ever want the person in charge of corporate leadership, vision and strategy to be a lame duck right from the get go?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths. On with the exam… Section I: Character.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

In a perfect world professionals would only be judged solely on their character, skill sets, competencies, and performance. In today’s post I’ll examine how managing appearances can have a substantial impact on your personal brand and your success.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Since you can’t please all the people please the people that matter – those that perform. Smart leaders leverage influencers by involving them in modeling, mentoring and coaching. Great people with the right training and opportunity will become better than you – hire great people.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Put simply; the most productive teams have the best leadership. To further my point, you can examine any organization and you’ll consistently find that the the best performing units have the best leadership, and the worst performing units have leadership challenges to overcome.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

When this happens performance shoots through the roof! link] Una Doyle I completely agree – and further to what you've said, it is only possible to work to your strengths when you truly collaborate with others from a place of trust and integrity.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

“My way or the highway&# thinking, and/or positional dictatorships rarely create the culture and performance demonstrated by winning organizations. “My way or the highway” thinking, and/or positional dictatorships rarely create the culture and performance demonstrated by winning organizations.”

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

When I look at top performing organizations, many of them rely on “smart talent&# and relatively complex business models. Also it strike me that the time it takes from you realize something is too complicated until you stop and come up with another way is always too long. link] Mark Vickers Do you have any data to support this?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

CEOs with bad attitudes will not only fail to engage their workforce, but they will quickly find themselves shown the door as their attitude’s impact on performance becomes visible to the board. The simple answer is that you can’t…it just won’t work. Thanks for the great and important post!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The following six tips will help you successfully become skilled at managing board relations, which will lessen your burdens, extend your shelf-life, and improve your performance: Understand the Landscape : Regardless of make up, your board is likely composed of successful and influential people.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Sadly, the reality is messaging is so impactful that it will often times have a greater impact on your career than your performance. I have witnessed on numerous occasions CEOs with average, or even sub-par performance histories fare well because they possessed great messaging skills.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Values based hiring increases performance, enhances collaboration, reduces turnover, increases morale, and creates a stable culture. You see, any of the traits identified in the 98 other answers absent character and integrity will eventually lead to some type of disconnect or debacle.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

In a highly productive organization the power and influence of your voice is earned through trust and performance, and not entitlement. Leaders must clearly communicate to team members what their duties, roles, and responsibilities are, as well as setting forth a road map for performance expectations.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The good news is that there is a cure for all four of the preceding problems: Items one through three can be solved with an emphasis on leadership development and talent management, and item four can be solved by holding the board of directors accountable for CEO performance and firing an apathetic CEO.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The pair was helped by other actors in the performance. link] Becky McCray When I was in high school, a pair of actors fell off the stage right into the space in front of the front row. The audience gasped, and then talked to each other. Not one person stood up to help. This happened in the late 1980's.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

An executive team that actually embraces the concept of collaboration will substantially out perform a silo-centric executive team focused on empire building. Great CEOs not only view their interactions with team members as coaching and mentoring opportunities, but also as learning opportunities for themselves. What motivates >?

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Perform the practices and ignore the investments? There’s no objective measure of software productivity [Fowler 2003], but from experience, I’d estimate a 10-20% performance dip at first. Agile teams’ performance changes in other ways, too.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

As a CEO Coach I am often asked to provide counsel on the political hot potato de jure, and let me be perfectly clear that it is not only possible, but preferable, to successfully handle highly charged political topics without being politically correct. Yes, Leaders need to be role models for commpassion, mentorship, coaching, etc.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

They might well be negative events or prospects that elicit extraordinary performance. WSC then rose to become one of the great leaders of history, spurring many others to extraordinary performance. Things that are game changers are often visible but not comprehended. An extreme example: the rise of Hitler.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Oarabile hello Mike Its good to have high performers and when measure brings good challenge to those who are learing from the advanced ones. I am happy to add a month’s worth of my coaching to your prize package if you wish to add that. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

Zynga is an American social game development company established in 2007. He called the OKRs of his employees “individual roadmaps” and checks them every Friday to see their performance. The sub-headings talking about which companies use OKR have proven that the framework can boost team performance, growth and success in various ways.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

OKRs took a big part of this system because it helps managers easily measure performance. Zynga is an American social game development company founded in 2007. These and many other companies have proven that OKRs can fuel growth, team performance, and success in many ways. It’s free and won’t take you five minutes.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 14, 2013

On the other side is “ Full Accountability “ That’s the ability of a manager to see and acknowledge that someone is under performing their responsibilities, and taking appropriate and decisive action to either change that behavior or let that person go altogether. Leaders HAVE to stay out of the Comfortable Middle.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In the text that follows I’ll make my case for resting on your qualifications and performance not your ethnicity, gender, age, sexual preference, etc. In fact, let me take it up even another notch…diversity should be a non-issue altogether.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Leaders must: Practice “Full Spectrum” management , where high performers get the recognition they deserve, AND underperformers either get coached or let go. In the end, what worked then can and will work now, because I don’t even have to think about these 10 things any more. They’re just part of me.

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Agile42

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Q: How did you first start your agile path and end up coaching with agile42? Then in 2007, I worked for a financial institution which was practicing Scrum, and to date this was the best experience I ever had as a developer. Instead, teams need to be coached in order to attain sustainable performance.

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Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Each year, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence is presented to a small handful of organizations who have proven themselves worthy by being consistently superior on seven criteria for overall performance excellence. In 2007, a northwest Ohio company, Pro-Tec Coating Company (a division of U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Blog Review Get you blog reviewed and add your URL to our blog directory Business NLP Blogs Authored and moderated by NLP expert Micael Beale this blog gives advice and commentary that produce measureable increases in performance. b2bYellowpages.com – Comprehensive local and international business and phone directory.

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