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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.&# I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I love the way you have clearly differentiated between strategy and tactics – so many people get them confused and end up playing checkers instead of chess… Thanks, Landon Creasy [link] [link] Roger Martin Mike: This is an excellent tool. It is as comprehensive for leadership traits as I’ve seen in many other assessments.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

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If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it? Focus on value creation.

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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. Dr. Roger Firestien has taught more people to lead the creative process than anyone else in the world. Alan Gozdalski has taken care of the landscaping on my property for over 20 years.

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Henry Chesbrough: A second interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Chesbrough is Adjunct Professor, Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and Executive Director of its Center for Open Innovation. His landmark book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (2003) articulated a new paradigm for industrial research and development.

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Do Your Innovators Have the Right Muscle Memory?

Harvard Business Review

David Foster Wallace provided an eloquent description of how muscle memory contributes to "kinesthetic sense" in a brilliant New York Times article about Roger Federer in 2006. That's all well and good, you are probably thinking, but what does this have to do with innovation? But there is a discipline to innovation.

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New Books from HBR Press for March

Harvard Business Review

Lafley, Roger L. Lafley and Roger Martin — get to the heart of strategy, explaining what it's for, how to think about it, why you need it, and how to get it done. Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life. Most organizations approach innovation as if it were a sideline activity.

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