N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh? Do you have great vision?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters). LeRoyD Amen!

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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. If you believe the hype, social media will immediately solve all your problems and require no time, energy or effort on your part. As I said above, your yield usually directly correlates to your efforts.

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QAspire

AUGUST 17, 2010

You spend efforts and energy on preventing the errors (prevention cost) and then checking your work (appraisal cost). When we research or try to innovate, we essentially do that with the objective of learning. On a second thought, you can only innovate when you don’t have to worry about doing the routine stuff right.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: In 2006, Disney bought Pixar to boost its struggling Walt Disney Animation Studios unit. Care about people first.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Invisible Cost of “Toxic” Leadership Many organizations today are plagued by so-called leaders who don’t carry a leadership mindset. We all know that leadership is a mindset, a way of thinking and attitude. It has little to do with title/designation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. In addition to a stripped-down, modern design, Logan is reliable and energy efficient.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

Brian Paradis was the Chief Financial Officer for Florida Hospital when he was tasked with leading the troubled organization in 2006. Once you commit to the principle of love, a high hurdle presents itself when leaning into authenticity in your leadership. It gives us energy and capacity to handle stress and challenge.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 14, 2008

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. Being able to discern and debate subjective positions with objectivity is an art form that must be present for effective leadership.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. Lost a little energy towards the end. Not innovative, but always valuable to revisit. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog. Its even 100% free! Interesting concepts.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 12, 2008

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. Never confuse power with leadership. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric. The bottom line is that I really like him, I just wished he had more new material to share. Most overnight successes are 20 years in the making.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Being a leader at home requires a different set of learnable competencies.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

.” When I see just how difficult and challenging it is for so many smart and talented organizations to innovate and adapt under pressure, I see people who are overeducated and undertrained. Is “above average” training really worth the time, energy and expense? That scares me. This was a precarious time.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

The time, energy, and cost associated with acquiring a customer are substantial, the benefits of retaining customers are considerable, and the costs associated with customer churn are significant. I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca. Our Freedom.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. None of them succeeded.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In our most recent Breakthrough Innovation Report , Taddy Hall and I cite that 49 percent of the growth in U.S. More often than not, these brands are small not because they can’t grow, but because there aren’t enough financial resources and leadership mindshare left over to truly explore their upside.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

.” To start, the Pathbuilder team undertook establishing a new company purpose and values along with the design of a group-wide process for how to implement disruptive innovations and digitalization. On a larger scale, the Pathbuilder group supported Stora Enso’s transformation into a global renewable materials company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Back in 2006, my colleague Huggy Rao and I launched an executive education program at Stanford called “Customer-focused Innovation.” The most effective campaigns stir up “hot” emotions in people (pride and anger are especially effective) and then channel that energy and passion into “cool” (clear and step-wise) actions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

To be innovative, we need to be gender balanced," he says. "In In Italy, the classic leadership style is pushy and directive. It's an innovative internal culture in Italy.". Senior management in Italy has gone from 86/14% male/female ratio in 2006 to 70/30 today. We needed to understand our consumers better.

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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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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I have watched companies spend tremendous amounts of money, time and energy debating logos, taglines, color pallets, font styles, ad campaigns, positioning strategies, marketing messages, brand promises, etc., with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams. Thanks for sharing Tom.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

President Obama gave a stirring speech last night, saying "We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world." He used the word "innovate" more times in his State of the Union than any other U.S. But the obstacles to boosting innovation in the US are far higher than the President acknowledged.

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