leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

I got a taste of that skepticism many years ago when I began my professional career as a high school English teacher. Many businesses are undergoing enormous transformations, restructuring their business models and reorganizing their employees. And that means their leaders are communicating effectively and often. __.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Leaders can be extremely strong in any of the areas above, but if they are not leading effectively or productively, if they are not meeting performance expectations, then they have work to do. Want to find out? If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

The next time you hear someone question an investment into design solely for the purpose of reducing expenditures, I would suggest that you think long and hard before doing so as few things in business produce the return on investment that a reputation for quality design can yield.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Design stems from USE.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In the torrent of commentary following Steve Jobs' death, few have noted that his career and his company say something profound in the endless debate about the purpose of the corporation. Martin cites Thomas Edison and Henry Ford as people who created customer value through "innovations in products, services and business models.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. In other words, anything that is beyond the vision of the business is never considered or even explored to the first level of analysis.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Registration for this free online event will not only give you access to my video, but also presentations featuring some of today’s leading influencers. How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. The team then turned to the product line.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

There is mounting evidence that buybacks bear substantial blame for the extreme concentration of income at the very top and the disappearance of middle-class jobs in the United States over the past quarter century — a topic I discussed in a recent Harvard Business Review article. From 1986 through 1993, during the Sculley era, Apple spent $1.8

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

You will learn how to identify and prioritize your company’s full portfolio of opportunities – from new product lines to entirely new businesses. Imagine you’re the guy who was running the Walkman business at Sony a decade ago. New product development is such a big piece of building new business, or so we are told.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leaders need to remember themselves why they care about the organization – Sometimes this means they have to “get back in touch&# with the basics of things like their customer’s voice, revisit the business model in action, and keep feedback loop fresh with the front line.

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Blog Leadership Leadership Styles Learning-by-Doing 406

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

When the marketplace began to see through the spin and the vapor, all the fun and games in the world couldn’t save a flawed business model…The fun was over and the culture ceased to exist. The sad reality is that as in the dot.com example mentioned above, culture run amok can kill companies.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Spare me the slick info-product sales people, and give me authentic, professional practitioners of the art and science of leadership. I can’t help clients lead change if my business model is antiquated or static. Who are the real leadership thought leaders? I have long believed in eating my own cooking.

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