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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&#

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I love the way you have clearly differentiated between strategy and tactics – so many people get them confused and end up playing checkers instead of chess… Thanks, Landon Creasy [link] [link] Roger Martin Mike: This is an excellent tool. It is as comprehensive for leadership traits as I’ve seen in many other assessments.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the kind words Dan, and I hope you enjoy the book. One example from my latest book, Ruthless Focus, is Staples.

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Quality and Quantity – The Conversation Continues

QAspire

On 11th Jan 2010, Harvard Business Review’s blog featured a post titled “ Why Good Spreadsheets Make Bad Strategies ” by Roger Martin. It is almost easy to figure out “What” and “How” of processes once you have addressed “Why”. The ideas presented in the post complements my views.

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Henry Chesbrough: A second interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

His landmark book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (2003) articulated a new paradigm for industrial research and development. His more recent book, Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape (2006), carries the open approach a step further, arguing that business [.].

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New Books from HBR Press for March

Harvard Business Review

Check out these new, and forthcoming books from HBR Press: Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works. Lafley, Roger L. Lafley and Roger Martin — get to the heart of strategy, explaining what it's for, how to think about it, why you need it, and how to get it done. Check out the newest books in the series.

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Market Correction? Try Perma-Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Let me recap my take of what's happened over the past several years: In 2006-7, the prevailing narrative discussed a never-ending boom thanks to hyperfinancialization. check out my book , or read back through this blog). Why does everything we try to fix this crisis seem not to work?

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