N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. "Hard to Believe But Impossible to Forget" [link].

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Every company wants “integrity,” “respect for people,” “quality,” “customer satisfaction,” “innovation,” and “return for shareholders.” Enron is a great example. We looked at the impact of leadership development programs in changing executive behavior.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

If there’s one fault that can be ascribed to Apple’s competition, it’s not their lack of innovation or creativity. Consider, for example, the release of the first iPod by Apple back in October 2001.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition to the negative impact on decision-making, diminished communications from the lack of connection reduces the marketplace of ideas inside the organization, which in turn reduces innovation. Following are a few of the ways Admiral Clark and his leadership team built bridges so that everyone felt connected and a part of the Navy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? This expectation helped foster an innovation focus throughout the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Take Cisco, for example. The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. The company’s R&D expenditures dropped by about $1.5

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For example, the now ubiquitous and much beloved Fiat 500 was first unveiled by Sergio Marchionne, no stranger to showmanship, at the Geneva Motorshow in 2004 following the buzz generated by the 2001 re-launch of the Mini-Cooper by BMW. Here is an example of the sort of visual audit that usually turns heads with executives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

innovation, engagement, creativity, and fulfillment. For example, people may use advanced communications technology to spread rumors faster or to transmit potentially embarrassing information to competitors, regulators or the media. So it goes with collaboration these days. No one works any longer, they collaborate. Sound extreme?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. As a leadership team, we strive to maintain consistency in the outcomes for each role so everyone knows exactly where the bar is and that it is not going to change unexpectedly. In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There is no doubt that Kamprad’s personal tenacity, business savvy, and leadership skills account for IKEA’s success. When we focus on the puzzle of the man, we overlook important, hidden elements of the company: the paradox of its history, its processes and routines, and its shared, embedded culture of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. Strong support from company leadership drove membership to over 1,000 by the end of 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

As these examples illustrate, CEOs not only need a new set of beliefs , they need the courage of their convictions to act on those beliefs. As former Procter & Gamble CEO A. Lafley has noted, the best time to gain market share is when your competitors are in retreat. But that's not what goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Our industry does not respect tradition—it only respects innovation.” ” Nadella was sending a clear message to look past the “sacred cows” of the organization and pursue an agenda of innovation over orthodoxy. Innovation leaders are fascinated with that road.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Principle 7 — Generate High-Velocity Decisions) in the section titled Invention Machine he explains the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 decisions and why understanding the difference is crucial to business growth through invention and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are four examples: The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative , founded in 2004, unites local governments, community colleges, and businesses in the San Francisco area. Boston-based SkillWorks , founded in 2001, has placed more than half of the 500 displaced workers it has trained in new jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. Yet at no time in American history has it been so important to come up with innovative solutions. Innovation is the use of creativity to solve real customer problems.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

It may well be why so many (incompetent) men rise ahead of women to leadership positions, as Chamorro-Premuzic argued in a recent HBR post. Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great. And in leadership, perception is reality.)

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

At Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and Owner/President Management Program. Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service. Join the conversation. With John Gourville and Elie Ofek. John Gourville, the Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

For example, you can preface a discussion by saying, “I’m talking to you as your son right now, not your employee.” If calling your mom by her first name feels too awkward, for example, don’t strain to do it, but consider using her given name when discussing her decisions with colleagues. ”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. However, classifications were mostly clear.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

To learn more about how Harvard Business School can help you prepare for the challenges of global leadership, visit the program website. Gulati, whose research explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high growth organizations in turbulent markets, is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor at Harvard Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

companies to reverse years of enhancements and innovations in secure online transactions and data storage that power the world’s largest retail e-commerce market , valued at $238 billion. For example, Carbonite now operates several directly-owned or reseller-owned data centers deployed across Europe. That was in 2001.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

It was the brainchild of Donald Clifton , the late grandfather of Positive Psychology , but is associated in the popular culture with Marcus Buckingham , Clifton''s coauthor of Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001). We''ve studied the extent of the problem with an innovative assessment tool, the Leadership Versatility Index.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. I’ll give a few examples, starting with his first HBR article but mostly concerning later work. (A Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult. The central idea is that decision making is a process, not an event. .”

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