N2Growth Blog
MARCH 9, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. You cannot be a effective leader without influence. Let me make this as simple as I can – if you’re a leader, influence needs to be a competency. The key to developing influence is understanding that contacts and relationships are not synonymous. Don’t confuse a database with a sphere of influence.
Change Starts Here
MARCH 8, 2011
It’s a question that every change agent probably grapples with at some point: Is organization change really just a form of manipulation? After all, an individual or small group of people deciding to influence a larger group to change the way they work seems a little bit presumptuous. What gives you the right to determine what everyone else should do and then figure out how to get them to do it?
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Terry Starbucker
MARCH 20, 2011
Once a target is set in a business, for most leaders it’s a natural tendency to jump right into the business of hitting it – in other words, massing the effort and “push&# needed to achieve what Jim Collins ( “Good to Great&# ) called the “ Flywheel Effect “ I’ve always liked the flywheel analogy, because it’s a great mental image of how a business gets from Point A to Point B.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 3, 2011
I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time. And I try my best to point them to resources that can help them longer term.
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Next Level Blog
MARCH 11, 2011
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post called Five Principles for Building a Strong Network. It proved to be pretty popular and I've been practicing and coaching on those principles ever since. Today, Please click the headline to read the whole story.
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N2Growth Blog
MARCH 30, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Fact : You cannot win a chess game without moving your pieces to create strategic and tactical advantge. The same principle applies to business. The problem with conventional leadership theory is it’s littered with misunderstood and misapplied practices. The fact is that any practice, no matter how highly regarded, when taken out of context or taken to the extreme cannot only erode the intended value, but can often cause great harm.
Women on Business
MARCH 28, 2011
Gutsy women break barriers. Gutsy women lead the way. Gutsy women speak out when others remain silent. As I research the lives of women leaders who have earned the badge of being a change agent I have been curious about the down side of standing out from the crowd. I call it “the giraffe syndrome”. You know be careful about sticking your neck out, you never know what can happen.
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 27, 2011
About 6 years ago I was approached by one of my field managers about a new “callback&# program he wanted to launch in one of our cable television service areas. He wanted to have “a real person&# call a customer within 7 days of a new service installation, and have a conversation about that installation. He emphasized “conversation&# , because he wanted this to be more than just a survey call where a bunch of “check the box&# questions are asked.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 3, 2011
I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time. And I try my best to point them to resources that can help them longer term.
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Next Level Blog
MARCH 9, 2011
Every so often, a word or phrase will pick up so much buzz that everyone starts talking about it at once. This week, the catch phrase “no fly zone” has achieved that status. As the Libyan dictator. Please click the headline to read the whole story.
The Recovering Engineer
MARCH 21, 2011
The DISC Model of Human Behavior is, as the name implies, about behavior. And, to apply it well, I suggest looking beyond behavior to the needs behind the behavior to really use it to connect and communicate with other people more effectively. To illustrate the point, consider the refrigerator shown above. While this one has no food in it, I imagine you can think of a time when you opened a refrigerator door to check the contents.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 29, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. I’ve always said that if you want to learn about leadership talk to someone who has actually led something. James (Jim) Quigley, Global CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited is just such a leader, and the “something&# he leads is a global professional services juggernaut with more than $26 Billion in revenue, and 170,000 people located in more than 150 countries worldwide.
Women on Business
MARCH 30, 2011
Did you know failure is one of the biggest indicators of future success in an entrepreneur? According to an article in the April issue of Harvard Business Review , “Failing By Design,” many venture capitalists won’t invest in a new enterprise if the founder has never undergone failure. In other words, they are looking for… failures! Why?? Let me first state that there are two types of failures, the first are those that do nothing and fail, the second are those that take a risk and end up failin
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Terry Starbucker
MARCH 6, 2011
For 15 years I worked for a man named Bill Bresnan. He was a cable television pioneer and one of the legends in the industry, having built his first cable system in 1958, and quickly rising to the top in the early 70′s as the CEO of TelePrompter. He later started his own cable company, Bresnan Communications, in 1984, and continued to operate cable systems both internationally and domestically until his too-early passing in 2009.
Change Starts Here
MARCH 22, 2011
The Change Agent’s Dilemma is back! After a three-month hiatus, I’m back to hosting the half-hour radio show to provide tips on how to influence change without authority. In today’s episode, I shared some influence techniques from my book 99 Ways to Influence Change – specifically those things that anyone in a change agent role should be doing every day if they want to make an impact at work.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 28, 2011
Last week, I got a call from an executive in a client organization. He had just had a conversation with an important customer who said his team wasn't showing up like they used to and didn't have. Please click the headline to read the whole story.
The Recovering Engineer
MARCH 28, 2011
In a recent post, I presented a simple model for understanding what drives our behavior. According to the model, punishments (negative or unpleasant consequences) can reduce the likelihood that a behavior will repeat in the future. This observation implies that leaders can hope to eliminate “bad&# behaviors by using punishment and discipline strategies.
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N2Growth Blog
MARCH 10, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. First the bad news : If you’re not willing to embrace change you’re not ready to lead. Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Now the good news : As much as some people want to create complexity around the topic of leading change for personal gain, the reality is that creating, managing and leadi
Women on Business
MARCH 1, 2011
A Classic Lesson in What NOT to Do. I’ve read about all the people in the news complaining about our nation’s protectors of the air – the TSA. I’ve listened to the fears people have of the dreaded full body scanner, some resorting to alternate means of travel just to avoid enduring a full body pat down. Really I didn’t pay much attention…until yesterday.
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 16, 2011
As leaders, we utter a lot of words, and in doing so, we trust that those who follow us will process them in just the way we intended. That can be quite difficult to do, given today’s short attention spans, and the usual times we do our talking. Take first thing in the morning, for example. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stared into everyone’s morning “fog&# and tried to get a message across (sometimes I was just better off declaring “time for coffee&# a
Steve Farber
MARCH 9, 2011
Unfortunately, the word “empowerment&# has, for many, become nothing more than a tired, old cliche–something that I’ve been teasing people about for years ( like in this video clip, for example ). Even though the value of empowerment is, ostensibly, conventional wisdom by now, it’s still the rare leader that does it and does it well.
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Change Starts Here
MARCH 17, 2011
When you implement change in organizations, most people in the organization have a full-time job they are already doing. Especially at a time when companies are doing more work with fewer people, a common issue for change agents is trying to add more tasks to already full to-do lists. Some people will tell you they don’t have time. Others seem to ignore your e-mails or meeting requests.
The Recovering Engineer
MARCH 4, 2011
People frequently ask me why I use the DISC model in my work. Today, I’ll offer some of my reasons. I use the DISC model because: It is simple enough that… I can work with someone for only a few minutes and help them gain perspective they have never seen before. I can use it to help me when I am tired, stressed or angry. I don’t need assessment results to understand another person.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 27, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. What if you could improve your leadership effectiveness in only 5 days? No really – what if? What if there were no costs, no strings attached, no hidden agendas, no complex curriculum, but just a simple set of instructions for you to follow over the next 5 days that will change your world as a leader?
Women on Business
MARCH 8, 2011
Guest post by LaMae Allen deJongh, managing director for US Human Capital and Diversity for Accenture (learn more about LaMae at the end of this post). LaMae Allen deJongh, Managing Director for US Human Capital and Diversity for Accenture. Experience tells us that when employees are unhappy they look for new jobs. But what if that’s no longer true?
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Terry Starbucker
MARCH 3, 2011
It’s time. It’s time to merge two worlds together. The world of “Terry Starbucker&# the blogger, Social Media, and SOBCon person, and the world of the other Terry – the one who came up with Terry Starbucker in the first place. Starbucker started out as no more than a screen name on a Blogger page back on December 25, 2005 (named after a certain brand of coffee).
Next Level Blog
MARCH 4, 2011
If you've been around organizations for any length of time, you don't need a research study to tell you that newly hired or promoted executives often struggle in their new roles. You've likely seen. Please click the headline to read the whole story.
Change Starts Here
MARCH 1, 2011
After a recent client workshop on The Proper Care of Leaders (So They Help You Implement Change) , a participant pointed out two ways someone winds up in the change agent role: A change agent is the instigator or advocate for the change or. The project is assigned or delegated to the change agent to implement. The participant then wondered if the approach to gaining leadership support differed depending on how the change agent came to be in the role.
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