N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

While most C-level execs have a general idea of what I’m referring to, it is also quite clear that most can’t even begin to define it, much less articulate the specific constructs of a sound business model. I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

As I stated above, having an underexposed brand, or what I like to refer to as having a brand in stealth mode, means that you really don’t have much of a brand. Whether you’re assessing the strength of a personal or corporate brand, finding the appropriate level of brand exposure is key to sustainable growth in brand equity.

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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. Others include a lack of focus on culture, failure to question assumptions, and poor innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

In addition to testing, developing a solid set of interviewing questions to sniff out any character flaws is also a good idea. Lastly, conducting a background check and thoroughly vetting references is also something that should not be glossed over. that can be administered as part of the hiring process. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” While inherently obvious, it should not go unnoticed that the use of the word no is 100% negative.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

There has been no shortage of information published on the topic of Emotional IQ or what’s referred to as EQ in recent years. 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

DECEMBER 22, 2010

What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process. I have always found that rapport is quickly developed when you listen, care, and attempt to help people succeed.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# … Executive Development Opportunities. Inc.com Inc.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

We are in the midst of what research from Erasmus University refers to as the “entrepreneurial economy”, with governments, VCs, and others pumping record sums into the creation of new startups, and the entrepreneurial ecosystems that are supposed to support them. Engines of creation. in 1985 to 5.3%

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Develop and focus on One Operations Team. Creating a culture where people are comfortable taking risks and failing with a focus on innovation…’Forgive and Remember’. Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, & Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management (2006) by Jeff Pfeffer and Bob Sutton p. 1.716.629.3678.

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QAspire

JULY 27, 2010

So, quality is a moving target – each time a customer comes back to you, you need to deliver similar or better quality (of products, services and experience), you need to demonstrate improvement, care enough about them, stay on top of market trends and keep changing the rules of the game (innovation). Check it out if you haven’t already !

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QAspire

JANUARY 3, 2010

He shared some of his best work with me in 2009, in form of his books and innovatively done cards. I have taken a print-out of this to refer it often. More than that, he is a wonderful friend. Selling Without Tears ” – A fantastic selling guide with practical ideas. “

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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. It is this type of issue that pollutes our culture, stifles innovation, undermines our productivity, and sentences those who embrace politically correct thinking to mediocrity.

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QAspire

MARCH 10, 2010

Some ways to build differentiation : Focus on unique area of work and be the best there or do the routine work very differently or have world-class processes/methodologies to deliver excellence or have world class people or have fantastic set of tools that enable you to be different or constantly innovate new ways of work to push the envelope.

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Checklists can serve as a training/reference material for new comers. People get blinded so much by checklist that they stop innovating, experimenting and learning. However, the focus still has to be on situational thinking, innovation and assessing the variables in the process of managing/leading people.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters). This is a leadership issue in which diversity, and the awareness of it, will play a key role in the development of future leaders. Have a great Thanksgiving Sir. LeRoyD Amen! We are all biased.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Who are your strongest leaders and how are you developing them to handle more responsibility? My guess is that the more people spend developing and sharing their questions, the more we'll all be surprised at the numerous things we should be asking that we're not. Are all your resources properly aligned and connected?

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Women in the LEAD

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Putting Our Differences to Work The Fastest Way to Innovation, Leadership and High Performance by Debbe Kennedy   ? Posted by: Butterfly | December 22, 2006 at 12:38 AM Verify your Comment Previewing your Comment Posted by: | This is only a preview. Berrett -Koehler ? May 2008 – Hardcover Foreword by Joel A.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Remember that connections are not the same thing as relationships, but that connections can develop into relationships with the proper effort on your part. link] mikemyatt Interesting questions Awinash – What Seth refers to as Tribes are really nothing more than very passionate constituencies.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2010

In fact, while these three individuals wouldn’t necessarily refer to themselves as such, I believe it’s vey fair to call them thought leaders on the subject of leadership. professing leadership acumen and expertise that it can be tough to distinguish between the posers and the players. I Think Not.

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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. For what it's worth, I'm a big fan of all three leaders cited in your comment and appreciate your reference. Sounds like an interesting event and line up. Thanks Mark.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation. Create opportunities for people to engage in professional development and acquire new skills. References: Bandura, A. Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. I refer, of course, to what must have been the unsatisfactory board of directors. The simple truth is that people strongly desire to work with and for great leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A decade ago, the Mach 3 razor was Gillette’s premium offering for men, until the Fusion line was launched in 2006 at a 40% price increase, followed by the Fusion ProGlide in 2010 and the Fusion Proshield Flexball in 2016—to name a few of the brand’s major releases.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

I refer to this as receiving “the gift of ears.” Your comment about the ability to develop as a leader by gleaning insights via social media from other leaders whom you've never met gives validity to three things: 1.) that other leaders looking to develop and improve will grow as a result of their efforts. They humbled me.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. But one innovation pitfall is particularly insidious because it doesn’t involve an outright failure; in fact, these product launches actually do well in the marketplace. Most definitely.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

. “Social design,” a term whose roots go back several decades, fully entered the lexicon around 2006. It refers to the design of relationships, including those that are invisible and intangible. Planning, especially facilities planning, almost inevitably stifles ongoing innovation. Experiment continually.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Its innovative design, user interface, and ecosystem make it a titan in any category it enters. Gates committed his talents to eliminating diseases, increasing development standards, and generally fighting inequality. Apple is undoubtedly the gold standard of today's tech world. Those aren't trivial numbers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Since achieving first-year sales of $175,000 in 2006, it has increased that number by four orders of magnitude: in 2013, Etsy sold $1.35 cut of sales.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

While Medicare has led the development of bundles in the U.S., It is little surprise that direct employer-purchasing of bundled care is a burgeoning area of healthcare payment innovation. In 2006 Geisinger embarked on a broad care delivery reengineering initiative around cardiac surgery called ProvenCare.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

At Philips, where I direct our customer experience efforts, we began using Net Promoter Scores during an initial pilot in late 2006. Products indicating high NPS rating potential are allowed to continue down the development chain. To achieve this we launched the Reference Promoter program.

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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. Despite these gloomy headlines, three developments in the sector give us hope that the revolution in clean energy production is far from dead: 1.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

During a recent interview I was asked how I felt about the coaching profession - I jokingly referred to myself as a coaching heretic, and went on to say that I really don’t like the word “ coach &# as a descriptor for what I do. Honesty is a big issue for me. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Rule number two: When in doubt refer to rule number one.&# Don’t let your intellect stand in your way, but rather use it as an asset to develop those around you to their full potential thereby increasing your chances for long-term success. It is not an excuse to be lazy, arrogant, mean-spirited or delusional. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

In the 2004-2006 period the major failure-related characteristic of the data is the CEO , namely CEO succession , CEO and board relationships, and mechanisms to support CEOs taking up their posts. Haydn Shaughnessy is editor of Innovation Management , and a Visiting Fellow at nGenera Insight where he writes on ecosystem management.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Policymakers have noticed.

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