N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The best leaders are focused on leading change and innovation to keep their organizations fresh, dynamic and growing. They find ways to consistently engage them and incorporate them into their innovation and planning initiatives. Bottom line – leaders who build a static business doom themselves to failure.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

I find that it's rarely this bolt of lighting epiphany and rather a collective result of thinking systemically about solving a key problem. Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. Vision is often misunderstood. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Did the attainment of your 2010 goals lead you closer to success or significance? "False" beliefs, a lack of sincerity, or any belief system that is not genuine can be harmful. Let me ask you to spend a few minutes and mull over the following questions: Do you understand the difference between success and significance?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. The leader has failed to communicate with those around him of what their system does, its current and future capabilities, and the group or individual's vision for the future. But are they?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2021

Given the intensity of the cloud marketplace today, it seems incredible to countenance that Amazon largely had the market to themselves for a number of years, before the likes of Azure launched in 2010. This allowed Amazon not only to develop a sophisticated and comprehensive system but also to expand aggressively.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Or if they do-more times than not, it’s impersonal and relies on a rating system-not the feedback itself. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. Then we look for tools and systems to manage those relationships and expand our capacity for more relationships, and they can add an additional layer of complexity. link] davidburkus Good post.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

working with one of our business partners was installing an electronic security system in the Pentagon window that was struck. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. Before those of dissenting (politically correct) opinions become too outraged with my position, let me be perfectly clear that I believe strongly in respect and compassion.

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Here are a few reasons I could think of: Checklist can be a progressive database of your knowledge on building certain type of systems. People get blinded so much by checklist that they stop innovating, experimenting and learning. In any case, the importance of experimenting, making mistakes and innovating cannot be ruled out.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. Have a great Thanksgiving Sir.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. And yet corporations and governments spend billions of dollars annually pursuing innovation. Innovation projects often fail because the resources are spent on the wrong kind of innovation.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 7, 2008

The summary, as he outlines it is: The market rarely rewards off-the-charts creativity that comes from another solar system. It’s more likely that a successful innovation is already in the works somewhere. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) Just think like them but be bolder and faster.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

world, the “real estate&# needed to do these things was the operating system. The power is slowly being taken away from the operating system. Posted in the Business Models , Innovation category. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) In the web 2.0

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I love the comment by Sally Kempton when she said…"It's hard to fight an enemy that has outposts in our heads" As we encounter challenges we are afforded invaluable opportunities to reshape our mental filters and personal belief systems. M [link] mikemyatt Hi Mark: You point about chosen beliefs is an astute one.

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Curious Cat

MAY 13, 2015

As with any system the results depend on the overall system not the performance of individual parts taken separately. Hunter: An Innovator and Catalyst for Quality Improvement. The best way to succeed is to view your entire life as a system; work is a fairly large part of that system for most people.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

Posted on July 20th, 2010 by admin in Leadership By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Leaders: born or made? Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Being a fan of Peter Senge’s book on Systems Thinking “ The Fifth Discipline “, the incident just proved (again) that it’s not learning alone but applying what you learn that makes a big difference. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I started out as a sales rep selling big systems against IBM- which provided me with an early, first-hand perspective on Gravity. I’m also creating a broad range of turnkey systems for small business and entrepreneurial endeavors to help them apply the lessons on their own. No one wanted to change the IBM status quo.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation. You make an excellent case for cultural innovation and leadership. Sounds like an interesting event and line up. I could see anyone of them serving as the foundation for a great video. As always I appreciate your thoughts. Thanks Mark.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Health care systems are transforming themselves to deliver the “Triple Aim” of providing better care and a better patient experience, improving the health of populations, and lowering the cost of care. The boards set the standards and decide whether the physicians have completed this requirement based on the results submitted to them.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Systems intelligence – sensing the big picture and how things connect. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In most organizations, front line workers don't have a mechanism to submit suggestions up the hierarchy, and the few that do have flawed suggestion systems. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

About 35-45% of health systems’ total costs stem from practices that don’t benefit and may even hurt patients — such as questionable or unjustified treatments, unproven variation in treatment delivery, redundant or otherwise unnecessary testing, and reimbursement for services that result from bad health outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Scorecards measuring compliance with a new inventory system are used to punish and sometimes terminate workers. ” Performance is subject to constant measurement and review — employees can anonymously report each other to higher-ups through an internal phone system.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The cap-and-trade program is the centerpiece of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as AB 32 — a suite of clean energy solutions that has proved to be the engine of an astounding economic transformation that drove statewide growth at twice the rate of the U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Such experience-based engagement platforms — assemblages of people, interfaces, processes, and artifacts whose configurations evolve with value-generating experiences — are the key to unlocking the next sources of value in the system.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Health systems are at a crossroads. Julio Frenk is Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and was Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

They spend long hours over the years to understand, study, apply and innovate ideas in this core area. In my experience, the key to remain innovative in your core area is to find an ‘alternative’ – a creative pursuit that you love, that is different from your normal work and where you spend at least a few hours in a week.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

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