N2Growth Blog
MAY 16, 2010
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.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 21, 2010
Being able to discern and debate subjective positions with objectivity is an art form that must be present for effective leadership. Understanding and respecting other’s perceptions is such a critical part of being an effective leader that absent this ability I truly believe you cannot be effective in a leadership role.
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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.
Strategy Driven
MARCH 18, 2011
Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. Those companies that ‘sweat’ their capabilities continuously improve them and sustainably capture the top-line growth in their industries and, ultimately, market leadership. It’s a ‘sharp pencil’ capabilities system rooted in superior information.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 4, 2012
Both CEOs initially failed to act — some years ago, during the 2005-2006 period. Lee Scott, then Walmart CEO, apparently did not respond to initial reports of illegal bribery in Mexico. These failures have created towering problems for their respective companies.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2016
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.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 11, 2012
But that kind of leadership also has its limitations. Here are three reasons the new leadership imperative is all about transparency. In 2006, he launched a blog , then called "Running a Hospital," which took the bold step of putting his unvarnished thoughts into the public realm, sans PR gloss. To know you is to love you.
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