N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

In fact, if you're reading this text, just stop right now and benchmark your activity against your reflective thoughts – Is what you're doing, in alignment with your true priorities, or have you been sucked down into the weeds? The old "what if I only had 'x' number of hours to work in a week, what would I focus on?"

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Blog Leadership Brand Depreciation 419

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

A goal is a specific target and the objectives are the attainment components/benchmarks/hurdles which will lead you toward achieving said goal. link] Michael Martinez This framework scales down very well to my area of focus, projects and project management. Adam Williams “Where there is no vision, the people perish.&#

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 4, 2012

The performance and potential matrix (9 box grid) is one of the most widely used tools in succession planning and development. It can be a valuable tool for anyone who works in talent management, or for any manager. I’ve also used it as a manager as a way to assess and develop my own team. Why’s it so popular?

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Benchmarking Talent Management Tools Review 261

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference.

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 11, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! » May 11, 2010 Managing People Effectively - Are You Mismanaging Talent? If one were to take a high performance sports car and wreck it, whose fault would it be?   Of course, one would blame the driver, not the car.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. These are managers, concerned with structure, hiring, control, work design, supervision and the effects of management decisions. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. by Hank Moore.

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Mentor Strategic Planning Leadership Benchmarking 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Top management must endorse corporate imaging and other forms of practice development, if your company is to grow and prosper. Few companies can even sustain present levels of sales without some degree of business development. Your key management team is dynamic, in terms of business issues. Benchmarks for measurement.

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Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Organizations get people caught in activity traps… unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Employees work hard, rather than productively.

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Goal Strategic Planning Benchmarking Budgeting 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). Crisis management. Missed Marks.

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Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

It may be: human resources, organizational development, training, technology, sales, marketing, advertising, public relations, coaching or financial management. Management is concerned that resources are not concentrated on important things. Management of the organization seems tired or complacent. He has advised two U.S.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Getting the funds that you need from tight fisted management is an ongoing process. Sell management-clients on acquiring more returns on their investments, not just on making further investments. Reduce management’s risk in doing business with you. Acquire an upper-management mindset. Cash outlays are always risks.

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Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree TM and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. Managers, by default, see ‘band-aid surgery’ as the only remedy for problems… but only when problems are so evident as to require action.

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Bottom-up System Learning-by-Doing Execution 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

These pointers are offered to help manage time and resources. Inevitably, when high-level forums are organized, the juniors, mid-managers and self-marketers infiltrate and take over… which chases us away. Most seek from leadership programs what they do not have at the office: prestige, name recognition and power.

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Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 51

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ The company did more than 4,000 deals…most risky and without research, planning and benchmarking. Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics. Accounting.

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