N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

Stephan Schmitt is a digital transformation leader whose specialties include transformational leadership and change management. He has worked in global service delivery for over 15 years and has expertise in multi-cloud adoption, enterprise architecture and data management, as well as hybrid-cloud migrations, SaaS and AI.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

Key considerations for cloud strategy and modernization The what: The executive leadership team of business and IT together need to evaluate business needs and their current business challenges, global footprint and current technology landscape and define the companys Northstar, (aka, the what, the vision).

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 16, 2020

Our reader poll today asks: How rigorous are the change management practices in your organization? We manage change for big changes but less for everyday stuff. We don’t actively think about how to manage change. Change just happens and we react. We actively and effectively manage change.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

At some point in your career, you’re likely to find yourself in transition, having left an IT leadership job without a new one lined up. While you may have planned or negotiated an exit, very often such departures are beyond your direct control, due to a leadership change, acquisition, or another strategic event.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 20, 2014

Kate reminds leaders, that if you want to effect change in your organization, first change your behaviors and actions. Then watch the waterfall of change begin. Tanveer Naseer of Tanveer Naseer Leadership brings us How Leaders Can Successfully Champion Change. Leaders are supposed to embrace change, right?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 23, 2020

In The Science of Organizational Change, Paul Gibbons challenges existing theories and tools of change management and debunks management myths. By Ben Linders, Paul Gibbons.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

A 1958 Harvard Business Review article coined the term information technology, focusing their definition on rapidly processing large amounts of information, using statistical and mathematical methods in decision-making, and simulating higher order thinking through applications. What comes first: A new brand or operating model?

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CIO

MARCH 17, 2023

In addition to showcasing your executive experience and accomplishments, effective and targeted personal branding can demonstrate thought leadership and expertise within specific domain areas, as well as make a statement about your core values, character, and attitude. There’s a financial component, too.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    I love those articles because they’re great opportunities for data mining on leadership.  The article, “G.E.

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CIO

APRIL 12, 2023

In this article, I’ll share insights on aligning vision and leadership, as well as reducing complexity to make data actionable for delivering real-time AI solutions. A shared vision, driven by leadership and a unified real-time data stack, are key factors for enabling innovation with real-time AI.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As every CIO can attest, the aggregate demand for IT and data capabilities is straining their IT leadership teams. In researching this article, I found gaps where CIOs promised capabilities to stakeholders, but implementations and business impacts have lagged expectations.

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 7, 2019

A recent article at Harvard Business Review titled, “Why Visionary Leadership Fails,” describes how it is counterproductive to teach managers how to lead change if they aren’t in fact committed to leading the desired change, project, or strategy.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Leadership “puts their money where their mouth is.” Those sessions have also been integrated into various learning events for the leadership. The CoE is specifically targeted at educating Z2C’s C-suite and the senior leadership of the various martech ventures in their portfolio of companies in the MENAP region.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

This is important, as a recent article in the New York Times pondered whether AI could also threaten CEO roles! 4) Past: Lack of leadership support, cross-functional collaboration, and proper governance kept silos not only intact but fortified. New: It all comes back to leadership and strategic change management, i.e. ‘transformation.’

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In a recent HBR article, Robert Kabacoff shares his research of 60,000 managers in 40 countries. We found that a strategic approach to leadership was, on average, 10 times more important to the perception of effectiveness than other behaviors studied. Resist the urge to label and box your talent and move on.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 28, 2015

Today I saw an article that said that women leave STEM careers because they don’t see room for advancement. Ironically, once that change management project was over, I decided I wasn’t doing enough real engineering work, and so I joined another manufacturing company as an industrial engineer.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Change is inevitable and so is the resistance to change. People are often not welcoming of change unless it is implemented by leadership correctly. Change brings about fear of the unknown, which creates an atmosphere of unnecessary anxiety. Management and leadership are not synonymous.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

here’s no shortage of leadership advice on the internet, but figuring out which resources are actually valuable can feel like information overload. To help you cut through the noise, we’ve curated 10 of our favorite leadership blogs and podcasts for 2022 on leadership strategy and development. Tanveer Naseer Leadership.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Add scale of the organization, structure of teams, geographical distribution, functional barriers, remote work and disruptive waves and you have a perfect storm to face when trying to implement any meaningful change with long-term impacts. The post How to Create a Culture of Change Acceptance first appeared on QAspire. Enroll Today!

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

From the 2008 global financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing, devastating effects of war and conflict, real leadership is required to navigate these challenging times. What is VUCA Leadership? If businesses are to get through difficult experiences, strong leadership is essential.

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Perficient

MARCH 8, 2025

Purpose of This Framework This article examines the essential components of responsible design, showcases institutions that have successfully implemented ethical design practices, and provides practical strategies for navigating the challenges of organizational transformation.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

To help you find the best resources amidst the endless maze of information, here are our top podcasts focusing on leadership strategy and development. Why Listen to Leadership Podcasts? These podcasts are a valuable resource for anyone looking to refine their leadership skills and strategies.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MARCH 4, 2021

Our reader poll today asks: How effectively do the leaders in your organization manage change? Extremely: We’re change management experts. 8% Very well: We do a solid job of managing change. 36% Not well: We struggle with managing change.14% 10% Change requires focused effort.

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QAspire

APRIL 21, 2013

We often see humans behaving like ostriches in families, teams and in leadership positions. and I am glad to have contributed to the first edition in form of my article “The Passion Equation” (read web version or read full article in magazine , page 24). - – – – -. Photo Courtesy: National Geographic.

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

In a 2022 article for Harvard Business Review , authors and business leaders Nathan Furr, Andrew Shipilov, Didier Rouillard, and Antoine Hemon-Laurens discussed what they see as the four pillars of successful digital transformation. Of course, leadership matters. Sometimes the roles CIO and CDO roles are distinctly bifurcated.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Though I’m keen to agree with the Big Think article that, instead, science-fiction inspires the people who shape the future. Have Leadership Backing Any effort toward innovation is going to fail without approval and commitment from leadership. Comedy removes our worries. Drama keeps us nervously intrigued.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The book Impact by Paul Gibbons explores how to lead and manage change in the 21st century to support digital transformations while taking the needs of millennials and Gen Z into account. It describes how we can humanize change and use pull models and dialogs to support behavior change. By Ben Linders, Paul Gibbons.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Many companies reach a point where the rate of complexity exceeds the ability of data engineers and architects to support the data change management speed required for the business. All this change requires technology leadership to refocus vision and strategy. For data warehouses, it can be a wide column analytical table.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

If you are undergoing a large scale transformation or planning for one, I highly recommend ThoughtWorks article titled “ Seven Pitfalls to Avoid During Organizational Transformation ” with insights from Anupam Kundu and Tarang Baxi. This article also features my sketch note summarizing the ideas presented. Related Posts at QAspire.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Article Series on Quality – A Round-Up As announced earlier , I am writing a very exciting series of articles on QUALITY over at ActiveGarage.com – it is a 12-part series that touches upon some of the most critical aspects of building a quality-centric organization culture. Don’t Kill It!

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Perficient

MARCH 26, 2025

At Perficient , we manage two levels of delight: our clients and their customers. In this article, Ill share best practices for delighting clients and how to foster client feedback when they are not delighted. A delighted customer becomes loyal with brand affinity and drives long-term growth through positive word-of-mouth.

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CIO

JUNE 21, 2023

Anderson said in the same Wired article. “If Starting over Technology leadership augmented with AI will unite stakeholders who have traditionally been separated by functional specialization and technical limitations, using proven strategies for change management and silo-unifying technologies.

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Perficient

APRIL 29, 2024

We’ve all heard of servant leadership. Instead of diving deep into the theories, practices, and benefits of servant leadership, I will focus on a specific, related principle or mind-set: being unobtrusive. Then I’ll provide five obtrusive blockers to avoid as a servant leader or manager.

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Accenture

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In this Forbes article “Why Agile is Eating the World,” Steve Denning puts it this way: “Agile organizations are connecting everyone and everything, everywhere, all the time. A communication and change management process to gain and maintain momentum and to facilitate feedback loops. Is transforming to Agile necessary?

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Mentormate

MAY 1, 2023

While Agile transformation accounts for how the engineering delivery is managed, it has to move in tandem with design thinking and good strategy to unleash the product’s full potential. Of course, this won’t be possible without the organization’s leadership leading the way to change.

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Change Starts Here

JULY 9, 2013

This article is also available as a 1-page pdf document. A revolving leadership door had ushered four CEOs in and out in two years. In December 2011, Ricco enlisted Heather Stagl, change management facilitator and founder of Enclaria LLC, to help the management team transform the company.

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