N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits? But hey, what do I know?

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 6, 2010

Bryk and Schneider found that far and away the most powerful factor affecting school improvement during the 1990’s in Chicago was “relational trust.” In 2003, Jeffrey Dyer and Wujin Chu studied buyer-supplier relationships among eight major automakers in Japan, Korea and the U.S. Money, governance, curriculum, etc.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

And creating an innovative culture: Real innovation comes not from top-down pronouncements and narrowly defined tasks. It comes from hiring innovators focused on the big picture who can orient themselves within a problem and solve it without having their hand held the whole time. And that was Hastings strength.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Powered by WordPress. All rights reserved. Design by 12GrainStudio 9 Team Dynamics That Get Results Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 Posted by: mike Team dynamics defined as the motivating and driving forces that propel a team toward its goal and mission 1.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Kind regards, Ian 22 March Dear all, First, some breaking news: the winner of CMI's Management Book of the Year 2022 competition is… The Power of Difference: Where the Complexities of Diversity and Inclusion Meet Practical Solutions by Simon Fanshawe ( Kogan Page ). Reserved your spot? We can also learn a lot from strong female leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” In the race for relevance to future customers, the greater a company’s innovation capacity, the greater its chance of success.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

“Not all smart people work for you,” begins Henry Chesbrough’s classic 2003 HBR article on the merits of open innovation. Firms must find a way to tap into external knowledge and ideas to innovate. They attribute this to the power of intrinsic motivation. Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

Björk is the Icelandic singer-songwriter who, by 2003, had sold 15 millions albums. But they've given us cultural innovations of some interest. Björk's magnificent innovation just happens to exploit this convention as a way of getting paid. Tina Brown's innovation is the present double issue of Newsweek.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! These and many other companies are all beginning to understand the power of creating friends, fans, and followers to build their businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. As proponents of open innovation, we have examined Quirky’s initial failure in great detail (the company relaunched earlier this year). Innovation needs both new ideas and execution capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Resist the lure of strategies that depend on a single source of power. Moreover, getting bigger through mega-mergers has not proven to make big pharma companies better at their core task: producing innovative new products. market, including a powerful competitor Zocor going generic in 2006 and shifts in policy by payers like Medicaid.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Similarly, researchers at the OECD have found that markups — a measure of companies’ profits and market power — have increased more in digitally-intensive industries. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Policymakers have noticed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

A Concentration of Wealth, Value, and Power. By default, the two gold coasts have a self-sustaining edge: They have accumulated massive value, wealth, and power through the winner-take-all economics that govern many digital business models. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Now, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. They wanted power and handling near to what they would get in a sports car. When the Cayenne came to market in 2003, it was an instant hit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

One of the basic principles behind Clayton Christensen’s famous conception of disruptive innovation is that the fundamental things people try to do in their lives actually change relatively slowly. Floor-standing radios were relatively expensive and consumed a lot of power. Innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

It’s easy to assume Apple Pay is one in a long line of disruptive innovations from the master of serial disruption. The introduction of iTunes in 2003 was disruptive relative to the big four music-recording labels Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, EMI Group, and Warner Music Group. But this time that’s not the case.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

These metrics capture things such as critical acclaim and staying power in the eyes of listeners, focusing on how new and older music compare.) at its peak in 2003. Artists like Drake and Beyoncé show that the concept of an album is still relevant, in part because of innovations such as the visual album.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Remember the scene in the first Austin Powers film where Powers, attempting to escape in a steamroller, warns one of Dr. Evil''s henchman to move out of its path? Competition Disruptive innovation Strategic planning' until it''s too late. Neither response will move you out of a steamroller''s path.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

For employees to do that, they need to feel a powerful sense of purpose, reinforced by a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning. At all the companies I led, we published five or six behaviors we all expected of each other so that we could share, learn, innovate, and grow as individuals and as members of a team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. His initial concept of a solar-powered trash compactor was dismissed in favor of other ideas for environmentally friendly inventions, including a machine that would generate electricity from the movement of the ocean. "We

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The telecom industry has changed, and the industry dynamics will continue to shift under the pressure from social media and the power of the consumer. Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. But the solutions may not be housed on their own soil.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

While Amazon’s collaboration with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase would obviously leverage the purchasing power of three massive employers and could lead to innovative insurance models, it seems that the bigger opportunity would be in improving how care is delivered to patients.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

Other research suggests shared leadership can also lead to greater team interaction, increased collaboration and coordination, as well as novel and more innovative solutions. A study by Pearce and Sims (2002), published in Group Dynamics, found that shared leadership is a useful predictor of team effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My mother, Florence Rothman, was one of these patients whose complications were recognized too late; she died in 2003 in a hospital of avoidable causes. And delayed intervention means fewer treatment options and poorer outcomes. Insight Center. In sepsis cases, skin failure may be an early indicator.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

These information services, the thinking went, were better left free to innovate and compete largely exempt from FCC regulation. There is widespread agreement among economists that the current open, modular nature of the Internet has stimulated innovation and growth. the most common answer would be, “You betcha.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

They alert us to the risks of eating unhealthy foods, smoking cigarettes, taking prescription drugs, driving cars, using power tools, and performing many other activities. A 2003 U.S. A few innovations impose major risks, or even worse. Warning labels are everywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A significant part of telecom equipment maker Huawei’s leap from regional player to global leader, for example, was due to its partnerships with Motorola in 2000, 3Com in 2003, and Symantec in 2008. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Before addressing that question directly, let’s start with some basic premises: Consumers need an ample choice of innovative, well-priced insurance products. If an insurer is large enough to reap more of the reward for its own efforts, the argument goes, it should be more likely to innovate. Aim 2: Raise Quality.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

These days, most firms’ most powerful shareholders tend to benefit more from the performance of the entire industry than the performance of an individual firm. Magnifying their already large individual power, large asset managers also appear to coordinate many corporate governance activities, including those regarding compensation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. When Innovation Is Strategy. in Innovation. Innovation Strategy' An HBR Insight Center. Why Germany Dominates the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. A relatively new instrument called a social impact bond is a powerful example of how this might be done. Social enterprise Venture capital'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. First is staying power.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% If employees don't want to change, they have power. Brad Power ( bradfordpower@gmail.com ) is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform. The latest venture in employer health innovation is, of course, the alliance of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase. The first challenge is lack of purchasing power.

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