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A Medical Innovation Factory in the Middle of the Desert

N2Growth Blog

A surgeon, making life or death decisions during a heart transplant, for example, can see things go terribly wrong in the matter of a millisecond. This new approach began during the recruitment process when candidates were told they had to forfeit academic titles in other organizations and fully commit to their roles in Abu Dhabi.

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Developing Intentional Cultures Isn’t Easy

The Horizons Tracker

Ever since Drucker proclaimed that “culture eats strategy for breakfast” in 2006, there has been an understandable emphasis on building the right culture within organizations. The researchers cite the pandemic as an example of a significant event that changed the values, priorities, and work patterns of employees.

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Efficient vs. Effective | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

At an organizational level have you focused so much on process improvements and incremental gains that you’ve failed to recognize opportunity and innovate? Do your sophisticated screening processes do such a great job of filtering that blind you to new opportunities and critical information? Being effective is dealing with people.

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Business Model Architecture | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Developing Leaders

Next Level Blog

First released in 2006, The Next Level is now in its third edition and has sold around 50,000 copies. I remember one Fidelity Investments program manager back in 2006 or 2007 who had multiple opportunities to watch me deliver one of my early workshops on leading at the next level. I love the leverage and multiplier effect of that.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. If a newly implemented business process has design flaws, will employees follow the process or circumvent it? Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters.

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The Lost Art of Brevity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Probably the greatest example of the power of brevity comes from what is widely considered to be the greatest speech in American history: “The Gettysburg Address.&# Contrast Lincoln’s brilliant example of the power of brevity with the keynote speech that day. Thanks for adding to the discussion Randy.

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