N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . The sustainability of any organization hinges on leadership’s ability to understand, embrace, and implement change. Whenever leaders are surveyed about what keeps them awake at night, “change” is usually at or near the top of the list. When change initiatives fail, so do leaders. When brands fall into decline, and organizations implode, it’s often due to a company’s inability to change.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 16, 2012

Helping our teams to learn from failure can be one of the most vital aspects of our role as leaders. Even when the situation seems devastating, how we show up can make a tremendous difference in someone’s growth. John Maxwell talks about this well in “Failing Forward.” In fact, I have bought many copies of his [.].

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 1, 2012

There are times when a leadership vacuum can sneak up on you and your organization, one that can quickly erase all the hard work and success that preceded it. It’s helpful to know and understand what I consider to be the nine telltale signs that leadership is headed into this black hole, so quick remedial action can be taken before it’s too late.

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Change Starts Here

JULY 11, 2012

Organizational silos, the invisible walls between functional groups that prevent effective collaboration, can undermine any change initiative. At best, the result is local optimization at the expense of system effectiveness. At worst, silos generate animosity between departments and may lead to full-on feuds and even sabotage. Take the following three steps to break down silos and improve collaboration in your organization.

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Women on Business

JULY 24, 2012

Did you know that women-owned businesses in the United States employ 40% more people than the top three employers (McDonald’s, IBM, and Walmart) combined? That’s just one of the statistics from the American Express OPEN State of Women-Owned Businesses Report. In total, 7.7 million people are employed by women-owned businesses in the United States, which is a 9% increase over the past 15 years.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Negotiation isn’t all it’s cracked-up to be. In fact, I believe negotiation to be an inherently flawed business practice. Negotiation is not an art to be mastered, rather it’s a sloppy approach to be avoided. While many a consultant, author and trainer have made personal fortunes teaching the finer points of negotiation, it is my belief they have accomplished little more than to create legions of inept business people who view t

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2012

How we label ourselves matters. Sometimes we wear old labels without even noticing. Years ago, I attended a diversity workshop with an exercise designed to get us thinking about labels. The main idea was that the more we talked about our differences in a safe environment, the better we would understand one another and get [.].

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 8, 2012

I was 5 years old, and I already wanted to be a grown up. Grown ups were cool – they did grown up things with grown up toys. So, at 5, I already was trying to imitate my parents, “playing house”, imagining myself behind the wheel of my Hot Wheels sports car, putting on one of my dad’s ties, and even sampling a couple of spirits from the liquor cabinet (that didn’t work out too well!).

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Change Starts Here

JULY 31, 2012

This weekend I attended my 20-year high school reunion. It was fun to see everyone, now quite a bit older and wiser. Here are a few lessons I took away from the event. Time changes everyone, albeit in different ways. The rigors of life leave an imprint on all of us that no one can escape. People remain themselves. What you will become is already in you.

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Women on Business

JULY 11, 2012

Woman Entrepreneur Working From Home. I have been working at home and running a business for quite a few years now. I have a husband and two small children. So far we are all still alive and the house hasn’t burned down. This is only because I have figured out a few things. Having talked to other women who work from home I discovered similar challenges and concerns are shared whether they have a family, are single, just starting out or have been at it for years.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I received a great question via LinkedIn: I'm the founding engineer and working hard to launch my startup. I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. The fastest transition from inept to adept occurs when leaders turn the topic of change on themselves. When was the last time you changed something about you ? Not someone or something else, but your thinking, your philosophy, your vision, your approach, your attitude, or your development. Most leaders are quite skilled at embracing change – except when the focus of the change initiative happens to be on them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 20, 2012

It was mile 65 of the Devilman Triathlon. My wet hair was strung with seaweed. I had several layers of mud and grime on my face, arms and legs. I was sick from too many caffeinated gels, and slugging through the final miles of the run. The only time I have looked and felt worse, was [.].

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 15, 2012

“There are two kinds of people in the business world, doers and thinkers. Which one will you be?” I was 27 when I was asked this question by my first boss, a very successful serial entrepreneur. He was a very impatient person, and didn’t like extended debate and discussion about big decisions. He just made them- like the time a couple of years later when he determined what to bid on a billion dollar acquisition in about 20 minutes ( no misprint, it was 20 minutes ).

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Ruminations of a Programmer

JULY 29, 2012

How much of category theory knowledge should a working programmer have ? I guess this depends on what kind of language the programmer uses in his daily life. Given the proliferation of functional languages today, specifically typed functional languages (Haskell, Scala etc.) that embeds the typed lambda calculus in some form or the other, the question looks relevant to me.

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Women on Business

JULY 11, 2012

Woman Entrepreneur Working From Home. I have been working at home and running a business for quite a few years now. I have a husband and two small children. So far we are all still alive and the house hasn’t burned down. This is only because I have figured out a few things. Having talked to other women who work from home I discovered similar challenges and concerns are shared whether they have a family, are single, just starting out or have been at it for years.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 31, 2012

Last year, I wrote a post about how to avoid being fired in five months. It was inspired by the departure of a fellow named Jack Griffin who lasted less than six months as the CEO of Time, Inc. Today, I’m very happy to give equal time to the positive lessons that can be learned from the current CEO of. Click headline to continue.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 30, 2012

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 17, 2012

“It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” ? Albert Einstein Last week, I was inspired to read The Charisma Myth, by Olivia Fox Cabane, and wrote a post on the subject, Got Charisma: and Invitation to Experiment. I am now stuck on the questions surfacing in my mind. I [.].

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 29, 2012

The decision’s been made, and now, as a leader, you are anxious to start executing. After all, time is money, and the competition never rests. The pressure is on. At those moments there’s a natural tendency to immediately start forging ahead – after all, YOU are all up to speed on the vision, the plan, and now, the strategies and tactics that will be needed to get to the mountaintop.

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The Recovering Engineer

JULY 27, 2012

Many people rise to leadership positions because they can solve problems. That was certainly true for me. One of the reasons I quickly moved from an individual contributor role to a supervisory position in my first civilian job after the Navy was that I knew how to solve the technical problems my team faced. I’m guessing that you have a similar experience.

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Women on Business

JULY 23, 2012

Girls are smarter than boys, but where are the girls in math and sciences? That’s the question asked in an infographic from EngineeringDegree.net which makes the argument that girls are smarter than boys but a gender-related lack of self confidence causes them to steer away from occupations that are traditionally dominated by men. For example, although girls have higher IQs overall, they lose confidence and self esteem in drastic numbers in the sixth and tenth grades.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 19, 2012

Like many others, I was surprised and saddened to learn of the passing this week of Stephen Covey, the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Saddened but also grateful for his life and work. Since it was first released in 1989, I’ve probably read The Seven Habits all the way through at least half a dozen times. I’ve dipped in and out of it for insights and ideas countless times.

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Steve Farber

JULY 17, 2012

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2012

It had been a long night. The plane was delayed and delayed some more. The awaiting passengers were tired and the ground crew was weary of answering questions and rerouting. The rest of the airport was dark, we were the last gate in action. Finally the door opened and we were “ready to board.” Then [.].

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 22, 2012

I think it’s time we all had a chat. You see, over the last 28 years, you have invaded and then permeated my life in such a subliminal way, that I didn’t even notice that you are now monopolizing my time, and the time of a lot of other people too. And that’s not in a good way. Sure, it was very cool when I first discovered your charms, in my workplace.

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The Recovering Engineer

JULY 8, 2012

My daughter shared a short poem with me today that struck me with its simplicity and wisdom. While it’s not the first time I have seen it, it did resonate strongly with me when she read it. It pretty much sums up my general philosophy and approach to conflict resolution. I. Here it is… Charity. There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the rest of us, That it ill behooves any of us.

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Women on Business

JULY 19, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Women are different from men, and those differences can be seen in business just as they can in other areas of life. Women in business can learn a lot from men, and men can learn a lot from women. The best teams are diverse teams, but diversity is still not the norm in the business world. Rhonda Abrams of Gannett shared the five key ways women are different from men in business — even entrepreneurs — which she has identified throughout her 20-year career.

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