N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It was a pain by then but during the rest of my career that mentality has stuck with me and I found that its always easier comming up with the simple solution in the first place rather than dealing with complex workflows until you have had enough and go back to simplify it. Interestingly enough, I think your example of Google is a great one.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

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? and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I Think Not.

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists? People get blinded so much by checklist that they stop innovating, experimenting and learning. You can have detailed checklists for specific engineering activities (where outcomes solely depend on inputs and process). Why checklists?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. It has been a huge learning for me throughout my own life and career that presence is sometimes all that is needed. What keeps you from gifting your kindness? Mary Jo Asmus : June 21, 2010 at 8:57 pm Welcome, Scott!

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). 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? Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I’m not an MBA.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Google your name periodically. Be willing to be scattered.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. 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

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career. What I can tell you is that I’ve always made my family a priority.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

Today, American colleges and universities are educating foreign nationals who come here to earn advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM fields). foreign nationals with STEM degrees earned at American schools have gone on to become some of our most distinguished engineers and researchers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Know the ROI: As the pace of technology innovation increases, the savvy professional will curate and invest in the platforms that matter.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

Universities like Stanford, Caltech, and UC Berkeley continue to churn out the next generation of founders and engineers. We believe that when this incredible professional diversity collides with software engineering talent, you have the recipe for breakthrough innovation. In a word: culture.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Rahul and Noelle both made the transition into public service through Fuse Corps—a social sector start-up launched in 2011 with the support of companies like McKinsey, GE, and Starbucks to provide a pathway for talented professionals who wish to contribute to the public sector but don’t know where to begin.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Innovation. The boss must act as the ‘external force’ for continuous, systematic change and innovation in an organization. To achieve true innovation, you can’t lead like an iron-fisted dictator, where your word and only your word is final. But being too quick to dismiss their ideas will only discourage innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo''s CEO, ended the company''s work-from-home policy to foster a more collaborative, innovative environment.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. ” [link] lightridr Great post, Mike. I Think Not.

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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. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

The HR Digest: When you arrived at Lockheed Martin in 2011, you implemented a number of strategic talent initiatives, including the Program Management Talent Initiative, STEM Scholarship Program, and Vocational and a number of Trade Programs. Patricia Lewis: Many people have been influential in shaping my career.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Sargeant Recruiter’s Career Coach [link] mikemyatt Hi Rebecca: Thanks for the comment and I'm glad you found the information to be useful.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale. If you don’t engineer everything around the client, your client relationships will vanish before your very eyes. I equally look for problem solvers or fresh innovation and not salesmen.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

They spend long hours over the years to understand, study, apply and innovate ideas in this core area. In my experience, the key to remain innovative in your core area is to find an ‘alternative’ – a creative pursuit that you love, that is different from your normal work and where you spend at least a few hours in a week. Check it out.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

The country's bragging rights in science and engineering are especially in doubt. colleges are losing ground in two key of measures of research quality: the percentage of the world's science and engineering articles published, and article citations. For example, a 2011 UCLA study of 6,768 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

Nine percent of working moms clock more than 50 hours a week during the key years of career advancement: ages 25 to 44. These statistics came from special tabulations of data from the US Census Bureau''s 2011 American Community Survey.). Okay, okay, it might boost productivity," was the argument, "but it inhibits innovation."

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Always appreciate your insights Peter… [link] mikemyatt Hi Elliot: The four items mentioned in your list regrettably happen to exist in many domains far beyond the engineering field. Thanks Brian. elliotross Allow me to echo the 'spot on' comments above! I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Qatar have attempted to overcome this via the creation of the Qatar Foundation in 1995, which aimed to unlock the human potential of the nation via education, innovation and entrepreneurship. in 2011), this hides the fact that much of the other half of the economy is heavily reliant on the oil and gas sector for its revenues.

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