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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

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Let me be as clear as I can - the phrase &# toxic work environment&# is code for bad leadership, becasue a toxic culture simply cannot co-exist in the presence of great leadership. It’s also important to understand that a toxic culture cannot exist if toxic people are not allowed to take up residence.

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Workplace Gossip | N2Growth Blog

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Gossip destroys trust, undermines credibility, and is one of the greatest adversaries of a healthy corporate culture. Nothing can claim more tainted professional reputations, destroyed friendships, and polluted corporate cultures than gossip. At its core, gossip is the highest form of disloyalty, and it is far from innocent or idle.

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

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Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. That is the question.

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Drinking the Talent Kool-Aid | N2Growth Blog

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Bottom line…if you have high employee turnover (see “ Cutting Employee Churn “), a fractured corporate culture, a lack of leadership development and mentoring programs, regressive compensation programs, and a lack of C-level focus on talent then talent cannot be your biggest asset.

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Arbisoft co-founder Yasser Bashir on building trust with early-stage startups

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Co-founded in 2007 by Yasser Bashir, Arbisoft falls on the larger end of the spectrum of software development partners that our readers have recommended in our ongoing survey. What started with three people in 2007 is now one of the most successful software companies in our region. Arbisoft is a manifestation of many of those ideas.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

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Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Which hat, or hats do you wear? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it? Priority number two is team building and talent management.

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Efficient vs. Effective | N2Growth Blog

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Clearly this endeavor will take time, and may not yield immediate results, but the payoff organizationally, relationally, culturally, and in terms of future contribution can be huge. So much so, that I have really come to cringe every time I hear the word efficiency. Bottom line…check your motivations. Thanks for stopping by James.