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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? It will be interesting to see if the next round of Google innovation will be as successful as the beauty of their initial simplicity.

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The Benefit of Dissenting Opinion | N2Growth Blog

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We can only know how to connect by listening. Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. Secondly, if we don’t go out of our way to understand other people’s perspectives, we handicap our ability to lead them. Good material as always Mike! Well stated as always Michael.

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How to Sustain Front Line Process Improvement Activities

Harvard Business Review

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. The top management team learned how to structure their time on the factory floor and how to listen. Attrition declined, saving on retraining.

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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. Be well Gwyn.

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

Strategy Driven

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. It’s a ‘sharp pencil’ capabilities system rooted in superior information. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi. Schick razors and Trident) and acquired other products (e.g.,

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

As a result, my company Frontier Strategy Group has forecasted Russia’s economy to grow at an average of around 1% YOY during the next three years (lower than its 3% YOY growth between 2006 and 2014) — not the rapid bounce-back companies are hoping for. How to create growth in a stagnating market.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

In the photography industry, Leica provides a sharp example of how adding new capabilities can help a company reverse free fall. Yet when digital photography arrived, the company was slow to embrace it, only incorporating it into its cameras in 2006. The company was in free fall.