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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Having such a sharp focus ensures you can better whittle down the complexity of processes/interactions, as well as ensuring you don't become too dependent either on your top talent or even on your bigger customers, which can cause you to shift your goals to better suit their needs instead of your purpose.

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The Benefit of Dissenting Opinion | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you don’t engage those who hold dissenting opinions and viewpoints in candid and open discussions you will struggle in developing to your true intellectual potential. Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. SD : It sounds logical to develop strategy by starting with one’s capabilities.

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Family Matters | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. I had to learn that lesson, and almost blew it many years ago. link] mikemyatt Thanks for stopping by Bert.

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How to Sustain Front Line Process Improvement Activities

Harvard Business Review

After Bodek left, the suggestion system was led by Yorke, Technicolor's manager of organizational development. Some departments started trying it and some developed a few sharp ideas, which generated excitement. After 2006 it reduced its attention and energy on the front-line improvement.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. In the photography industry, Leica provides a sharp example of how adding new capabilities can help a company reverse free fall. Enter Andreas Kaufmann, an Austrian investor who acquired a controlling stake in Leica in 2006.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. Collins worked primarily on IT related work, such as systems integration and software development.