N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. In the final analysis, it's not the tools I really have an issue with, but with some of those who use them and the manner in which they are used. Identifying leaders? Have we really degenerated to this point? Keep writing! Thanks for stopping by Steve.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The analysis you describe seems to me to happen after a flash of insight. The flash and analysis don’t always result in a win, even if the idea seems to meet your criteria, so another key behavior of winners is that they keep trying. Flash-analysis/trial again and again until it clicks. Flash of inspiration.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

Time for you to act and get into more analysis as listed in this post. In my experience, at one point in my leadership career, some colleagues have labeled me as the ‘terminator’ jokingly. If what pops in your head are more weakness than strength, that is an early indication that the relationship is not working.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Special Edition 49 – An Interview with Kathryn Ullrich, author of Getting to the Top explores the approaches everyone in the corporate world can use, regardless of their current position, to shape their career development and accelerate their advancement. To read Kathryn’s complete biography, click here.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. A simple cost/benefit or risk/reward analysis should indicate whether your effort will be of value to you, and even if it is not of value to you, it may be to others.

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Building Personal Strength

MARCH 25, 2011

My friend was a top student and multi-sport athlete in high school, and he eventually got a football scholarship and later had a successful career as an executive. Unlike his coworkers, his studies gave him a different perception of the floor operation. Copyright 2011. A friend once told me a story about his older brother.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Technology has exploded, giving us instant access to information and knowledge, and it all moves and changes so fast that some of what Boomers have learned during their careers may be obsolete. How do your organization’s strategic and operational goals inform what work roles will be needed in the future? Who will do this work?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If you suffer from analysis paralysis, procrastination, timidity, a lack of courage or confidence, being indecisive, or being in over your head, there is trouble looming. Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. If you can’t make decisions, you can’t get things done.

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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 global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Regardless of where you are in your life and your career, I can promise you one thing; you will consistently be faced with challenges and obstacles along the way. A bias toward action is always a better path than falling prey to analysis paralysis. If so, again don't get fall into analysis paralysis. Do something.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Industry and academic leaders revealed that the very skills needed for workforce success are the same skills graduating students lack — such as analysis and problem solving, collaboration and teamwork, business-context communication, and flexibility, agility, and adaptability.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

How many times during the course of your career have you witnessed executives and entrepreneurs who desperately need help, but either don’t recognize it, or worse yet, make it virtually impossible for someone to help them?

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the findings of an extensive research undertaking involving over 80,000 managers in over 400 companies – the most comprehensive analysis of employee engagement done in the world. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By Daniel H.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Here is Denise’s post from her perspective as one who has led change from within organizations like Sony during her corporate career and from the outside as a consulting partner, a role she has played for the past 6 years. This post isn’t intended to argue the merits of Obama’s politics, nor of the Times’ and other analysis.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Get out in the field – engage with your teammates, roll up your sleeves, talk to customers – especially if there’s distance between you and your actual operations. Leading vs. I see this quite a bit and it is challenging when operating in a system where you only see parts of the larger picture. SURESHKUMAR.S

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Posted on March 24th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Is the customer really always right? Much like you have performance reviews for your employees you should conduct an analysis of how your customers are performing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

Time, whether measured by hours in a day or days in a career, is finite. Teams of financial planning and analysis professionals measure actual and expected results for financial capital. Historically, successful investment of financial capital can make someone’s career. Difference-making talent is also scarce. Monitor it.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio. Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer. I’m glad I did. So “here’s the thing”. A Short Lesson in Perspective.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

You should instead lead as a benevolent dictator – benevolent’ being the operative word – who always puts the company, the employees, and, most importantly, the customer, first. Yes, as the benevolent dictator, you have the final say-so at the point when debate, conversation, and analysis can’t take you any farther.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. It builds character, helps their career, showcases their company and pays dividends to the community. What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career? Spot them and avoid them. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

For example, positions in mobile development, which combines skills from engineering, coding, and computer science, have grown by 135 percent since 2011. These jobs—many of them in high paying fields like user experience design—call for skill sets that aren’t customarily taught as a package.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In some ways it’s only natural that we see an increase in discussions on potential challenges for organizations in operating under a multi-generational workforce. In other words, this behaviour correlates more to our age and what stage we are in our careers than it does to which generation we belong to. (3),

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

For instance, intelligent failures can add more value than predictable successes, and low-cost experimentation trumps analysis. Your career depended on that business going forward, and the numbers that mattered had to do with the performance of that business, not with Sony as a whole. Copyright 2011. Be prepared.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I would caution you against confusing speed with reckless abandon…I’m a big proponent of planning, assessment, analysis and strategy, but only if it is concluded in a timely fashion. “Analysis Paralysis&# leads to missed opportunities and failed initiatives.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

This is my own Big Picture full-scope analysis of the Enron debacle. It far transcends financial analysis made by other people.I Within that spirit and out of respect to many fine professionals who tried to save that company, I offer this analysis. Morale wavers and becomes uneven, per operating unit and division.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

In the final analysis, I guess I can boil it down to this – if you can weave enough competency together, which has been tested by experience and underpinned by character then you have a decent shot at adding value to the client relationship. This tracks the "drives" theory of David McClelland.

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