N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

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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Terry Starbucker

JULY 7, 2013

They need to be able to develop both the human side and product side of a business – if you have just one or the other, you greatly limit yourself and the success of your business.” Channeling personal ambition into making a difference for a team. “Nowadays, leaders need to wear many hats.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

by Starbucker on November 29, 2009 “It’s the most powerful thing there is&# – John Wooden John Wooden is a basketball coaching legend – in his 27 years at UCLA, his teams had a winning percentage of 81%, and they won a unfathomable 10 NCAA titles. Thank you for the post, Terry. He puts others first.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

As much as it may be politically incorrect to say so, it’s not nearly as much about the team, as it is the leader’s ability to assemble and lead the team. In all but the rarest of circumstances, teams simply don’t function well in the absence of sound leadership. is who they are going to put in charge?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Most HR teams today have their hands tied to basic employee engagement, motivation, and retention programs. The Leadership Gap: Why Strong Leaders Are Needed Now More Than Ever This drives home the critical importance of finding, developing, and retaining the best leaders you possibly can. Those first few weeks of practice were brutal.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2022

On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , we unpacked some of the unique moments from her career, the challenges and lessons learned, and why she believes CIOs need to focus on developing the human side of technology to accomplish big, bold things. 2: ‘Know Your Team.’ But my team had been through a lot of Hail Marys.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By which I mean it can make developers produce more. The question is whether those developers are producing something good or not. The difference between an experienced developer and a junior is that an experienced developer knows: There’s more than one good solution to every problem. This is great!

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Sports metaphors are everywhere in the workplace, but there’s no denying that the leadership and teamwork skills found in the sports setting teach important lessons. Follow these tips to promote a successful workplace that motivates team members and ultimately drives up productivity and profits. Avoid micromanaging.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Make the investments and ignore the practices, and your teams are still likely to improve.

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James Shore

JUNE 11, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Team Dynamics. Whole Team. Together, these skills determine your team dynamics.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

APRIL 2, 2020

Is your team running so smoothly that it hums? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Ron Lichty, discuss what makes high-performance teams versus what makes low-performance teams. Most teams already know which category they fall into, but the solution to a low-performing team isn’t always clear.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

While not all leaders will develop their talents and abilities to the same level, all successful leaders more or less begin with the same foundation. Clearly the difference possessed by all great leaders is that they refine, develop and build from their foundation – they don’t ignore it or take it for granted.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team. Team Based Hiring : While I’m not generally in favor of management by committee, hiring based upon a team approach works very well.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce.

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Experience to Lead

MARCH 29, 2021

USA Archery Training and Education Manager Richard “Guy” Krueger specializes in encouraging athletes and coaches alike to be uncomfortable and grow. For business leaders focused on how to develop a growth mindset, it can be painful at times, but it is a powerful driver of success. He shared his insights, tips and stories of leadership.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

The NBA’s full-court press on digital technologies has revolutionized the fan, player, and team experience, thanks to accelerated deployment of cloud, analytics, AI, and computer vision technologies since the association launched its digital transformation in 2020. Craig Powers, an analyst at IDC, sees no end in sight to that trend.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Make the investments and ignore the practices, and your teams are still likely to improve.

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Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. People need to grow and develop skills in order to move within the framework.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 7, 2019

Recently retired Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder famously crafted 16 Goals for Success which he used with his football teams over his decades of coaching. ” According to Coach Snyder, one of the root causes of success was belief itself. ” He estimated that 70% of his job was developing people.

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scruminc

APRIL 24, 2020

This post is part of our new ScrumCast series of conversations with thought leaders who have successfully helped transform organizations and empower teams and individuals. Team Member? . They may actually end up being quite often team members themselves or the equivalent. Are they a Product Owner? Scrum Master?

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CircleCI

JANUARY 10, 2020

I’m a software engineer on the X Team. I’ve been with the X Team for more than half the year, but I’ve been at CircleCI for almost a year and a half now. Do I understand how it will affect other teams? How do you build confidence on your team? How does pair programming work on your team? We hope you enjoy it.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2016

The game will be a battle of offensive and defensive forces – with the winning team ultimately lifting the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Throughout the Big Game, coaches will be breaking down and dissecting the playbooks and game plans as the action unfolds. Application developers create code for an app – the offense.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 30, 2018

If you pay any attention at all to sports, you’ve probably noticed that the Golden State Warriors are a really good basketball team. For instance, some of the players on the team tend to draw more than their share of technical fouls. ’ It was bad. Still, as good as they are, the Warriors aren’t perfect.

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Capgemini

JUNE 19, 2019

Let’s take sports for example. To take home the trophy, each player must be able to share any information they have with the rest of the team. A good partner is able to handle the different phases of the product development. A digital and data-driven approach to product innovation and engineering.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

While not all leaders will develop their talents and abilities to the same level, all successful leaders more or less begin with the same foundation. Clearly the difference possessed by all great leaders is that they refine, develop and build from their foundation – they don’t ignore it or take it for granted.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). Where does product management fit between sales and development? (26:31).

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Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

But what happens when a team or an organization hangs in the balance? Each of us have a different level of experience and development. It’s the candid sharing of our opinions and feedback (in appropriate ways) that provide enough input for the team to make informed decisions. We probably learn to live with most of it.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

That post, which mainly focused on team owner Dan Snyder, went a little viral.    And, of course, he hired a Super Bowl winning coach in Mike Shanahan to lead the team from the sidelines and a five time Pro Bowler in Donovan McNabb to lead the team on the field.   He’s the face of the team. 

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. They may also include executive coaching and mentoring to provide personalized support and guidance.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). Where does product management fit between sales and development? (26:31).

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2017

Almost every sales manager was, at one point in their career, a peak-performing sales professional, top dog on the team. This presents a problem because managing and leading a sales team requires a completely different mindset from selling. Great sales managers see themselves as observers and coaches , not players.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Coaches, Whole Team. What is a “team?” It’s what makes teams so successful.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MAY 28, 2020

According to Doody, the key is to stop thinking in binary terms of “good” and “bad” outcomes and optimize for learning, instead. Thinking of outcomes as a spectrum rather than “good” or “bad” (5:13). Good” and “bad” are subjective terms when it comes to experimentation (32:39). Marcus: I love the sports metaphor.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. We offer: Expert individual communication coaching for professional development or critical public events. What should you do if it’s necessary to present bad news? Answer with assurance.

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Datica

JULY 1, 2019

It will be important for the team to be able to determine the potential peripheral effects of redesigning workflows. Take a lesson from successful professional sports teams that require impeccable cooperation and efficiency to win games. Teams don’t just show up to games and expect to click on all cylinders.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. Using a sports analogy, the author breaks the work of leaders into three parts: pregame: a matter of character; game day: a matter of competence; and post-game: a matter of consequence. MISTAKE #4: Squelching the flow of bad news.

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