N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. 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?

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Mike Cardus

MAY 10, 2021

Within an organization having an objective or goal of 15% profitability – and measuring the goal through proxies of efficiency (time and budget) and customer experience (how the customer experiences the end-to-end process). Reference: Aporetics (Rescher, 2009).

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Other than the obvious solution for dealing with difficult people (choosing not to deal with them at all), the best way to calm the perpetual storm is to help them achieve their objectives. link] Posts about Interpersonal conflict and dealing with people as of January 4, 2009 — Persuasive Communication and Life Skills [.] I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

While being motivated solely by conquest may allow you to achieve a stated goal or objective, the cost will be great. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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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. What are you so busy doing that you don’t have time to build better relationships with precisely those individuals and groups who can help you achieve your goals and objectives?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

The way to avoid conflict is to help those around you achieve their objectives. If you approach conflict from the perspective of taking the action that will help others best achieve their goals you will find few obstacles will stand in your way with regard to resolving conflict. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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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. In fact, most differences don’t require intervention as they actually contribute to a dynamic, creative, innovative culture.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. Consensus isn’t the goal. Good input is.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The movement of the sun as I’m waiting for the wind to die down can change the perfect shadows on the object I’m capturing, sending it into darkness, rendering the shot useless. We so need more innovative leaders like you to inspire these top talents! Stay blessed! All Rights Reserved.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is one from March 2009. As a result a lot of idea sharing and thus opportunity for innovations was potentially lost. By taking time to meet each week, our team is now able to plan and prioritize our objectives for the following week. Take a look at your schedule. Who do you need to meet with? It’s shocking.

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CO2

AUGUST 13, 2010

His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). This post is part of a series on understanding trust in the workplace. Often when you read leadership books, blogs, or journals, you will be inundated with views on how leaders build trust. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

The better employees are attracted to jobs that make a difference to customers, fellow employees, or the communities they live in and they are much more willing to raise objections when they feel inhibited from making that difference. This effect can be so strong as to cause followers to give their lives for the cause.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 15, 2012

I wrote recently about how successful Lego have been at harnessing the innovative thoughts of their customers to revive their fortunes in recent years. Earlier this year Harvard identified six core principles of collaboration , whilst famously advocating the need for a Chief Collaboration Officer in 2009.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals. Your comment summarizes exactly how things should work as opposed to how they often do. Have a great Thanksgiving Sir. LeRoyD Amen!

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 27, 2010

by Kevin Eikenberry on August 27, 2010 in Leadership , Learning , Setting Goals , Success I just read this tweet from @tim_hurson : &# Develop a vivid image of your goal. Yet far too many people, teams, and organizations are busy and working hard, but never finding their goals. You’ve surely seen the Where’s Waldo?

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

In Max’s experience, for teams to be &# on their game&# , leaders need to instill the Five “P’s” of Team Performance: Purpose: be clear on the objective of the team; what are you there to accomplish? A clear purpose instills pride and keeps people focussed on a “bigger&# agenda.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Hubert Rampersad ​"Passionate and compassionate to inspire learning individuals to unlock their potential and dedicated to energize innovative organizations within the service and manufacturing industry. Jeff Bullas - Entrepreneur Jeff Bullas started his blog in 2009 for a whopping $10. Nine years later, she has more than 3.6

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Your goal is to weed out the superfluous and to make your words count. While you can accomplish this by being disingenuous, that is not the goal. When you truly focus more on what you leave behind than what you take away you will have accomplished the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Initially when the start-up''s founder, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, looked at the space industry, he faced a quandary about where to innovate, given the restrictions and mandatory performance criteria for space travel. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. They think about the future.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

With strong will, and relentless enthusiasm, he pursued his goal and achieved it. If my objective is to get to the other side of the wall, I don’t really care if I go over the wall, under the wall, around the wall or through the wall…I just care that I get to the other side. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2010

I also understand all the more why your hierarchy works compared to other ones that place, say goals, first. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

The one thing that each of the personal and corporate brands profiled in the video all had in common is that they leveraged social media influence to accomplish their objectives. The good news is, your new commitment to listening will help you achieve your goal of producing better content. Best wishes Justino. I Think Not.

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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. Establish objectives and use these to assess and improve individual and group behavior in a continuous way. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

The German Mittelstand is at the forefront of a modern management model that builds flatter, more-innovative, and more-networked enterprises. This level of dedication to their mostly B2B customers demands especially strong investment in innovations and R&D. The persistent goal is long-term value. They set ambitious goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

It is where employees with diverse backgrounds and opinions can work together to pursue shared objectives, unencumbered by the divides and tensions that exist elsewhere. Today’s employees seek work not only to make a living but also to achieve meaningful social goals. and worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

Then there’s the fact that just maintaining the current offerings isn’t enough: operations is expected to constantly create new flexibility and capacity for the business to pursue its broader innovation agenda. Automation serves your talent objectives. Put them together, give them some goals, and then just let them go.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. The social object that unites people isn't a company or a product; the social object that most unites people is a shared value or purpose. That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In 2009, with $60,000 in seed money from the not-for-profit VC organization Echoing Green , and with the Harvard Business School's first social entrepreneur fellowship , Scharpf founded Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE). I've found," says Scharpf, "that the common language is the one of emotion.". Emotion Attracts Good People.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access. In 2009, Congress charged the Federal Communications Commission with the development of a National Broadband Plan (NBP).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The agency, which provides health care to approximately 9 million veterans at over 1,700 locations, had set a top-down goal to increase the percentage of veterans who were seen within 14 days of requesting an appointment. The crisis that emerged in the Phoenix VA was triggered by the pursuit of a 14-day wait time goal for all appointments.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Every vibrant, healthy, inspiring, innovative, and positive corporate culture I’ve witnessed has occurred not because culture has been placed ahead of strategy, but because it has been a key driver of the corporate strategy. link] Scott Gould Hi Mike Thanks for this – really helps to clarify.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes?

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