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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.&# It also requires knowing which questions to ask in order to quickly determine the action and timing that must be taken.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

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If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. They understand the need for talent and are effective at recruiting, deployment, development and retention of tier-one talent. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.]

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Want A Better Strategy? Don’t Talk To The Same People.

Strategy Driven

When a devastating fall storm hit Buffalo, NY in October of 2006, Al was one of the first people who called me to check on how his (my) yard fared. The same is true for developing strategy. Dr. Roger Firestien has taught more people to lead the creative process than anyone else in the world. He treats my property like his own.

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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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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

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Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. If I read your definition correctly, you are limiting game-changers to positive developments or innovations. I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book. Is that the only way to think of it?

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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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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.