N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. This isn’t rocket science, rather it’s just plain-old, good leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Then we have to deconstruct our abilities in each area, map a tactical plan to get better and measure our progress. In whatever role we choose to excel, we first must 'know' the inter-connected elements that define competency. Short of this, saying we need to be more disciplined is like shooting at a target in the fog.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Continuity should flow from values to vision, mission to strategy, and objectives to tactics to process. Put simply, if you’re going to spend your time and money do it where you get the biggest bang for the buck. Be consistent: Consistency in all things throughout the value chain is critical.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

link] ATIG We must rethink the leadership tactic !!!! " I think if he was a leader he would have stepped up and stopped begging for it. He proved he was a follower by asking others to put him into a higher position. Leaders lead and inspire, they don't beg. link] Looking For Leadership | WORDPRESS! [.] Original post by achira32 [.]

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Those professionals that have self respect, and demonstrate a true respect for others regardless of their station in life, are much more likely to be successful over the long-term than those that use the tactics of disrespect to humiliate and intimidate.

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QAspire

AUGUST 8, 2010

Whether measuring a project or a business, here are a five steps to map your metrics with your business objectives: Know your goals : Identify what are your strategic, tactical and operational goals. Understanding your business challenges and goals is the first most important step.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

We demonstrate that agile organizations possess both strategic and tactical agility. Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. ” -Tilman, Jacoby.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 19, 2010

Tactical and visionary? Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Look beyond the aggressiveness that concerns you. Give this person a chance; there may be a vision you can’t yet see. Seeing “and&# can help. All Rights Reserved.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The vague question pops up out of nowhere in the middle of an employee evaluation and most of us haven’t had a chance to phrase our answers in a PC manner… Being specific is an excellent tactic, I think it gives the employee a specific situation to analyze and provide thoughts or suggestions on. All Rights Reserved.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A simple change of tactic can bring you from “you have a problem with your piece of the product,&# to “I could be wrong, but it seems there’s a problem with the piece you worked on.&# Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. An organization’s customers, transactions, operations, and reports can all be affected by its data integrity. The Fiscal Times.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

That said, the way to minimize the impact of discrimination is not through bureaucratic mandates or by playing the diversity card – these tactics increase the diversity gap and heighten resentment. universities to ensure the student population base remains “white” instead of being overrun by high-performing Asian students.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 296

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

They should be incorporated into integrated solutions that eliminate redundancies, and build in tactical leverage points. It must be actionable through tactical implementation. Evolving : Ideas should contain a road-map for versioning and evolution that is in alignment with other strategic initiatives and the overall corporate mission.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

While I might spend a bit of time evaluating the most efficient strategy for getting to the other side of said wall, it will ultimately be my focus on the tactical execution of conquering the challenge that will determine my success. A bias toward action is always a better path than falling prey to analysis paralysis.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

While it is sometimes necessary to “Shock and Awe” this tactic should be reserved as a last resort. Use great questions, humor, stories, analogies, relevant data, and where needed, bold statements to help connect and engender the confidence and trust that it takes for people to want to engage.

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Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 398

N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Always operate from the belief that you can always grow and get better as a leader and as a person. John Maxwell : You never arrive. Leaders are learners. If you want to be a good leader, whether you’re just starting out or the CEO of an organization, do not have an arrival mindset. Mike Myatt : What’s next for John?

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Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing Brand 354

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Be willing to change your tactics, but not your core principles. Most overnight successes are 20 years in the making. Double your ratio of questions to statements. Don’t waste time trying to be successful, spend time being useful.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They didn’t want this book – they wanted a tactical book on sales and marketing. So I listened to their advice and secured both – only to find that they wanted to change a lot of things about Defy Gravity that I didn’t like. I could write that but, it wasn’t my passion. So I drew the line – and they fired me. Wow, that was a shock.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. Earlier this year, Google’s SVP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote about its latest “people analytics” experiment. How Google innovates.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

when leaders move on – how do other leaders step up…or not) - Leadership tactics that Engage – How can we raise the level of employee engagement (during these dis-engaged times) Thanks for inviting us to weigh in.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

An additive operation in the algebra of change, as my colleague Stuart Albert would put it, not a subtractive or transformative process. Since the 2008 economic crisis, two very different "rhetorics" about leadership have coexisted. On reflection, it struck me that the conversation this year was very different than in years past.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Until the summer of 2008, container ports on both the west and east coasts of North America were nearing capacity as imports and exports soared. The Future of Operations. One tactical approach is to make more use of air freight. In the end, the above four are just tactics. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

That's exactly what Portuguese airport operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal did in its quest to attract more major airlines and connecting routes. This project provided ANA with an extraordinary set of strategic and tactical tools to face these challenges.".

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia. The difference between employees who operate with the owner’s mindset and those who don’t can be as great as the difference between devoted parents and restless babysitters.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. “For the military,” Petraeus observed, “learning faster than the enemy meant deploying lessons learned teams and ensuring commanders are focused on identifying the need to make changes to our big ideas, campaign plans, organizational structures, equipment, and operational bases.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

That's why the shipping giant formed the Channel Strategy and Orchestration team in 2008: to solve the problems that occur when customers move from one channel to another, like going from a website to a phone agent. Through a research process that focuses on understanding customer journeys, the team identifies opportunities for improvement.

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Retail Call Center Strategy Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

The plan proceeded anyway, internally dubbed “Operation Bambi.” Instead of focusing on oft-discussed public debts, Kuttner shows how private debts set off the 2008 financial crisis and continue to hamper the economy, and he argues that both the U.S. Central to the story is a secret planto oust Ann Curry as co-host.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

On income taxes, the latest 10-K has this to say: "Income taxes (benefit) on consolidated earnings from continuing operations were 7.4% The 10-K's show a run of profits — and positive return on equity — ranging from $11.0 billion over the last five fiscal years. in 2010 compared with (11.5)% in 2009 and 5.6%

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Transportation System Brand Letter 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Romney's Boston staffers would monitor these voluminous streams of disparate data to sharpen their tactical decisions. Messina was also given good resources to work with: according to the article, he hired an analytics department five times bigger than the 2008 operation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

The core disruptive concept is that the “pipe” created by the cable MSOs (multiple system operators) no longer provides the sole gateway to consumers’ television screens. Think about messaging: We’ve relied on mobile phone operators (AT&T, Verizon, et al.) to send text messages. ” Data.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

So far the self-examination has focused chiefly on its sales techniques; as detailed in the RNC report and Robert Draper's New York Times Magazine cover story last month on young Republican operatives, GOP pollsters have been convening lots of focus groups in which people tell them the party comes across as old, angry, and out of touch.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But the tactics surrounding the decision should not obscure the potential importance of the decision itself. A minority, however, has said such CEO separations are invariably messy, bringing to mind Lady MacBeth's advice to her husband about murdering the king: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well, It were done quickly.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Food safety is highly sensitive, and after the 2008 melamine scandal, Chinese customers overwhelmingly prefer imported milk products. So far, none of the targeted companies has indicated they will scale back China operations. This time, the scandal involved imported products, causing a greater uproar in the country.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Variations of such "complexity risk" contributed to JP Morgan's recent multibillion-dollar hedging fiasco, as well as to the challenge of rebooting the US economy in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Untangling the resulting counterparty risk — determining who was on the hook to whom — was rendered all but impossible.

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