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Business Model Architecture | N2Growth Blog

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Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., Business models must be designed with great care at the outset, but they must also be fluid in order to react to changing market conditions and avoid becoming stagnant. are also not business models.

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Efficient vs. Effective | N2Growth Blog

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This is more than a semantical issue – it’s become a systemic problem with many individuals and organizations. The mechanistic world of the industrial age continues to have a grip on our belief system. If efficiency starts diluting productivity rather than increasing it something is woefully amiss. Thanks for sharing Tom.

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Discipline & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

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Discipline requires a systemic approach. To make good decisions, we need to understand how the system works. The most productive leaders I know have the ability to be extremely nice, very civil and always polite while maintaining the ability to be direct, focused, and candid. It takes some work, but don't settle for anything less.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

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My wife has always told me that “you can’t go wrong by going right,” and as usual I find her advice to be spot on…Never compromise you value system, your character, or your integrity. Thanks for stopping by Steve… Rob Mike- Systems thinking can be of high value to leaders. I'll be sure and check it out.

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

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As an example, the marketing assistant who receives a comparatively small bonus when contrasted to that of a sales person feels that his/her contribution is minimized and feels treated unfairly. While many tend to favor this structure, it is far from perfect as well.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

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They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. On with the exam… Section I: Character. Great leaders do the right thing regardless of circumstances, situational context or other influencing factors. Section IV: Tactics.

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Vision and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

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I find that it's rarely this bolt of lighting epiphany and rather a collective result of thinking systemically about solving a key problem. Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. Vision is often misunderstood.

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