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Investors and business leaders: It’s time to take coaching mainstream

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Ariane de Bonvoisin is an executive coach to top CEOs, startup founders and VCs. The business world has a love-hate relationship with coaching. In any other industry, when someone with raw talent — an athlete, a singer, an actor — furthers their career, the first thing they receive is a coach. Should I trust my gut?

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. One of my favorite examples of what I described in the paragraph above is the weak leader who cannot deal with subordinates who use emotional deceit as a weapon of destruction.

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Unicorns wanted: Navigating the Product Owner shortage in IT

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You’ve seen the virtues of transforming from a project to a product operating model: value-driven work, delivered by dedicated teams rather than through projects led by disparate team members. Without these variables at play it will be difficult to develop someone internally. Why are they unicorns?

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8 Traits of Ineffective Leaders | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Poor Communication Skills : Show me a leader with poor communication skills and I’ll show you someone who will be short-lived in their position. Any leader is only as good as his or her team’s desire to be led by them. Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium.

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The Fallacy of No | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” The perception that strong leaders say no and weak leaders say yes is simply flawed thinking.

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Love and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. So why then is it that so many leaders seem to struggle with seeing a tender heart as a strength and not a weakness? They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out.

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

only to fail in miserable fashion. By that I mean practice areas that serve no real purpose other than to generate a revenue stream for a coach or consultant, or justify headcount within a department. I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential.