N2Growth Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

Twelve years after launching culture change consulting services, I am finally sitting down to write about six defining values of a leadership culture. These are factors I’ve learned that define whether an organization can improve their Culture or not. No surprise that all six values rise and fall on leadership.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2025

Despite the many concerns around generative AI, businesses are continuing to explore the technology and put it into production, the 2025 AI and Data Leadership Executive Benchmark Survey revealed. saying technology leadership holds the reins, and 16.5% There are still data and AI leadership challenges to deal with too.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 21, 2021

Copying in-person interactions to digital tools does not cultivate a great culture nor does it contribute to better collaboration. This article aims to give you an idea of what the move to remote leadership entails and why it is essential for the success of any business in the remote work era. By Molood Ceccarelli.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

FinOps initiatives often prioritize implementing cost-management tools over cultivating a culture of accountability and collaboration, which is essential for lasting change. For the same reasons we all separate our recycling from our trash, engineers, particularly Millennials and Gen-Z, buy into the cultural transformation of GreenOps.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

Your Favorite Leadership Blog Posts So Far This Year. One of the interesting parts of being regular leadership writers (we’ve been blogging here at Let’s Grow Leaders since 2012), is to see which of our leadership blog posts resonate the most with our readers and why. Read the article here. Read more here.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 5, 2021

The most significant impact on culture and methods in 2021 is the disruption caused by COVID-19. We see what's needed for good remote and the impact of bad remote bad, how management practices are evolving and the importance of people skills for technologists.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This article delves into the six steps of delivering a successful IT strategy. These principles directly influence the organization’s culture and strategic moves. Step 1: Understanding the business Strategy, goals, and objectives The foundation of any effective IT strategy lies in understanding business strategy.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

To be clear, many women leave for better opportunities or because of a mismatch with their current employers workplace culture factors that arent related to gender and likewise prompt men to leave their roles, says Kristen Lamoreaux, president and CEO of Lamoreaux Search. Workplace discrimination and sexual harassment play roles, too.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 2, 2021

There are many styles and forms of leadership. In this article we explore social leadership. A form of leadership that has helped to challenge views on what leadership truly is and find out what behaviours can help create collaborative cultures and spaces where learning and meaningful engagement matter the most.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

Moving to Shift-Left security is a significant cultural change. This means proactively understanding both the business objectives and planned delivery paths, then integrating security seamlessly into those journeys. Security is no longer expressed as a gate at the end of development but as an integral part of the entire delivery process.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2025

While walking up the stairs of that prestigious stage, I realized the immense responsibility I carried on my shoulders representing several women in tech who are walking their paths on their leadership journey while navigating their own complex inner worlds. But even being a finalist was an immense honor! Simply put: Everyone needs them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Overcoming an Outdated Leadership Brand. You’ve worked hard to build your leadership brand, but the negative perceptions linger. You can improve your reputation and your leadership brand with this proactive approach. What is a leadership brand? Imagine a meme or a billboard on the highway describing your leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A Retrospective: Santa’s Big Leadership and Culture Change Is there anyone more beloved than Santa Claus? Today, the North Pole is a paragon of human-centered leadership and culture. In fact, Santa has a lot to teach us about leadership. Santa’s leadership led to dysfunction at every level.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

5 Ways to Scale Your Leadership and Motivate Your Large Team. But, now your team is bigger and you need to scale your leadership. How do you scale your leadership, motivate your large team, and continue to get the results you need? How I Learned About Scaling Leadership the Hard Way. Here are a few tips that can help.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 2, 2021

If you want to improve your leadership skills and don’t know where to start, begin with these 6 fundamental concepts you can’t lead without. These very practical leadership skills will serve you across contexts and work at every level of the business. Start Here to Improve Your Leadership Skills. Schedule the finish.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 9, 2024

The Culture and Methods trends report discusses evolving roles within teams, the way the staff plus roles are able to add value, the use and misuse of DevEx metrics, how remote work continues to evolve, a lack of diversity is still a challenge, and the need to move from climate change awareness to climate conscious software engineering By Shane Hastie, (..)

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Yaron has previously held leadership roles at Visa, SVB and Google, where he was instrumental in managing large-scale architecture and engineering organizations and driving digital transformation and innovation. This article was made possible by our partnership with the IASA Chief Architect Forum.

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OverOps

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Marc Andreessen’s article, “Why Software Is Eating the World”, tells the story and uncovers why all companies are now software companies. Shifting to a software-driven mentality has caused a lot of challenges as net new competition and pace of innovation creates pressure and stress on leadership, line of business, and IT organizations.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 7, 2021

In this article we will discuss which metrics are appropriate based on the stage of the culture change. Coupling these metrics with strong support from leadership will ensure the best improvements in team measures such as cycle time, deployment frequency, and software quality.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year, we count down the best leadership articles of the year, according to your reading and sharing. Thanks so much for being a part of our human-centered leadership development community and for all you do to encourage courage! Click here for more information.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 14, 2021

The Flow System elevates Lean Thinking in an age of complexity by combining complexity thinking, distributed leadership, and team science into the Triple Helix of Flow, which organizations can use to become more innovative, adaptive, and resilient. By Ben Linders, John Turner, Nigel Thurlow, Brian Rivera.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers. But that also provides opportunities for engineers to invent and shape the role of principal engineers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 24, 2023

The Power of Workplace Culture in an AI Universe: A virtual conversation about Empathy and Innovation Note: This article on Workplace Culture is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of our book, Courageous Culture: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates. What’s your perspective on that?”

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

And to ensure a strong bench of leaders, Neudesic makes a conscious effort to identify high performers and give them hands-on leadership training through coaching and by exposing them to cross-functional teams and projects. “But for practical learning of the same technologies, we rely on the internal learning academy we’ve established.”

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 30, 2021

A recent Software Delivery Leadership Forum panel discussion shared approaches and tactics for creating a successful DevOps culture. The panel stressed the importance of an aligned culture around the DevOps adoption. By Shaaron A Alvares.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Key challenges include cultural resistance to change, talent gap and skills shortage, presence of legacy systems and costs considerations. The insights in this article draw from his experience scaling software businesses in the data protection and cybersecurity domain as well as investing in startups.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In the past several year’s workplaces have started to feel the effects of “Toxic Leadership.” None of us are born toxic leaders, but anyone can easily become one. Now is the time to educate everyone on the importance of speaking right, doing right, treating each other right in the workplace, and above all, being a nontoxic leader.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Martin Fowler wrote an article in 2003 titled Cannot Measure Productivity. If you did this exercise with your leadership team, youd probably get different answers. So were looking for people who have peer leadership skills, who are great at teamwork , who will take ownership and make decisions on their own. Not possible.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 10, 2023

We inventory the most-read leadership articles of 2023 and here’s what you’re most interested in so far. Which of our leadership articles, Leadership Without Losing Your Sou l podcast episodes, and Asking-for-a-Friend videos resonate most with you and why? We would love to hear from you.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 20, 2021

Test Leadership means focusing more on raising the awareness of testing across an organisation, and coaching/mentoring your team to be passionate advocates for quality. As a test leader, you need to learn to adapt to remain relevant, take time to self-reflect on what is important to you, building personal leadership values.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

And as someone who has worked at places that had zero education and sensitization on this subject, I know firsthand the hit their workplace culture would take. . Make your workplace culture inclusive for the people inside your organization. Key to an inclusive leadership. You could be chasing the wrong goals too.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

By Alex Omeyer, Nicolas Carlo, Maaren Dalmijn.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One of the first steps you can take to create a high-performing culture is to assess what is and isn’t working in your current culture. An assessment of your current culture gives you an understanding of the starting point for your journey toward building a high performance culture.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 16, 2023

Learn how an award-winning CEO transformed a once struggling organization by improving its workplace culture. In this article I will tell you an interesting story about how I became a successful CEO and what I believe was my biggest lesson. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

This article delves into developing FinOps solutions tailored for AI services, highlighting the unique considerations and strategic approaches necessary. The accessibility of GenAI services has led to non-traditional user groups, such as product, marketing, sales and leadership, directly contributing to AI-driven cloud expenses.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Learn how to build and maintain your organization’s culture by studying these six components of high-performing cultures. A high-performing culture is one where people drive performance because of the right behaviors. People in high-performing cultures require less supervision.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Maxwell In the Harvard Business Review article How CEOs Manage Time, the authors report CEOs spend a quarter of their work on people and relationships, another quarter on functional and business unit reviews, 16% on organization and culture, and 21% on strategy.

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