N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization. The sad fact is that many business people are absolutists in that they only see things in terms of rights and wrongs.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

He then proceeded to communicate in no uncertain terms that he wasn’t nearly as concerned about the faults he would find, as he was about how our leader (guess who?) The most important decision a leader can make with regard to any implementation, initiative, project, objective, goal, task, etc. link] Mike Henry Sr.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 20, 2010

However, the true — and more telling — measure of leadership is long-term and cannot easily be seen. if we keep a long-term perspective and focus on how we can help them and make a difference in what they do, the long-term benefit will remain with us as we move forward.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. And what are your strategic goals? For our manufacturing organization mentioned above, what value is there in pursuing next practice innovation in their payroll process?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If a leader’s primary obligation is for the care and well being of those under their charge, then I would suggest that you cannot be an effective leader over the long-term without love, compassion and empathy. While being motivated solely by conquest may allow you to achieve a stated goal or objective, the cost will be great.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

The report also concluded that the downward trend began long before the Great Recession. Billion, a truly global business, a worldwide workforce in excess of 11,000 and an enviable long-term record of revenue and profit growth. When most entrepreneurs would have gone public long ago, Goodnight decided it didn’t make sense.

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QAspire

JULY 27, 2010

So, quality is a moving target – each time a customer comes back to you, you need to deliver similar or better quality (of products, services and experience), you need to demonstrate improvement, care enough about them, stay on top of market trends and keep changing the rules of the game (innovation). It is a long-term differentiators&#.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. These issues are referred to as strategic alignment and employee engagement.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Identify, find or create one question each day (starting now) – this is the best long term collection strategy. Since I’ve been in collection mode for so long, it was hard to answer at first, but let me share at least a few ideas here: Listen to other people’s questions. Create a place to collect them.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Spaulding describes relationships in terms of a five-floor building. We share common interests, goals, beliefs and causes. He cites as proof a 2007 Gallop Management Journal survey that estimates that “actively disengaged workers&# cost the U.S. economy about $382 billion annually.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Before you make productivity decisions you must have: Clear goals. The starting point for making decisions that lead to higher productivity is a clear goal. If you are clear on your short and long term goals, and consider them in your thinking, you make more effective and productive decisions. A clear why.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I have no doubt he will achieve that goal. In other words, instead of viewing this as something to be kept under her control, she reaches out the parents to help participate in succeeding to reach a goal they both share – of helping their child learn how to read. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

When he had asked why she had done this for so long, she replied, “It’s a gift I’ve been given. When I asked about her life, he explained that she was a wonderful singer and musician who had sung in a church choir for much of her life. I must give it away to others”. All Rights Reserved.

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 23, 2010

But, are those the salespeople that create long term success for themselves and their Customers? Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! Are there manipulative, short-sighted salespeople? Not at all.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 27, 2008

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Quought for the Day 2008 Quought for the Day #15 – Dave Taylor RSS Feed 2008 Quought for the Day #15 – Dave Taylor By Rajesh Setty on Wed 27 Aug 2008, 4:00 AM - View Comments Background: This is part of the Quought for the Day – 2008 Series.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

In fact, most of the great ideas took a long time and a lot of hard work to develop into the useful products they are today. She also wants to prevent more space debris [Bartzs term for ailing products] from launching in the future. In many cases, these great products have developed into product lines, companies and even industries.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 7, 2011

At least three things: You can’t “get&# or “make&# people do anything (at least not for very long or without unintended consequences). “Lazy&# is a relative term – one person’s lazy might be another person’s normal (or even motivated). What is wrong with the question you ask?

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Deming Institute

MARCH 6, 2017

Rather than focusing on sales goals or credit, they would measure system inputs — number of new leads, number of opportunities, etc., — trying to reach certain metrics, and then all share in the results. “The performance has been great and I would never consider going back,” he says.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Most do not realize how strong a role this dominating emotion can play in their everyday actions, but once it enters, the results can be catastrophic to the person’s short- and long-term goals. By keeping the overall goal in mind, the little obstacles and stresses will be easy to get through.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. As an idea, strategic intent is about setting a bold and ambitious goal, out of all proportion to a firm's current resources and capabilities.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy. Don’t be timid.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Second, the main goal of PE investors is to increase a firm’s value so that it can be sold for profit. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Harvard Business School Professor (and former IBM and Kodak executive) Willy Shih poses an intriguing question: "Let's say your goal is to average 60 miles per hour in a journey across a one-mile bridge," he said. How fast do you have to go over the remaining half-mile to achieve your goal?". Careful leadership can avoid this problem.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology also rightly points out that leaders and followers can often have quite different goals and agendas. In terms of the underlying psychological driver, leaders need to understand that Self-Starters fundamentally lack patience and are always thinking – in the shower, during a run or over their Saturday morning coffee.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Main Page A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo RSS Feed A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo By Rajesh Setty on Thu 04 Dec 2008, 8:02 PM - View Comments More often than not people use buzzwords without fully understanding what they actually mean.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

During the 2008 Summer Olympics, China dazzled the world with Beijing's posh athletic venues and revamped urban landscapes. China is now experiencing a middle income trap — losing their competitive edge in labor-intensive industries and not yet gaining new sources of growth from innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Remember that most people will go to great lengths to help someone who has been of assistance to them. Publish quality content that adds value – what you produce in terms of content will be become synonymous with your online reputation. So long, [link] mikemyatt Hi Justino: Thanks for your comment. Long road ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. On routine tasks where learning is not necessary, highlighting performance goals works great. Of course, the task of a top manager is not a routine one.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Perspective – ability to see or sense the big picture, long-term thinking. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. 4) Knowledge Sharing -.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". There can be no contradiction, or so the theory goes.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

A taxi showed up not long after with the pizza, and Palmieri delivered it to the table. But when we think in terms of “could,” we stay open-minded and the trade-offs involved inspire us to come up with creative solutions. ” Osteria Francescana is not the kind of place that offers pizza. “What if…?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s were dominated by legendary players such as Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, and Diego Maradona, who, thanks to their skill and speed, found empty spaces in midfield, created the time to take the ball to the box, and then decided to pass or shoot at the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

This was obvious during the financial crisis in 2008, when the government invested about 4 trillion RMB to enhance growth. Such investments might not be sustainable in the long term. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. China, too, needs more technological innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Between 65% and 75% miss their revenue or profit goals, depending on whose research you look at. Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. That’s a recipe for missing out on an innovation with huge profit potential.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Typically people can’t define or describe better morale in terms of behaviors very well. Once the desired morale is defined in behavioral terms, then you can begin expecting it, inspecting for it and coaching to those skills and behaviors. Make it a long term goal. Make it an expectation.

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