N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

HP announced Whitman’s appointment on September 22, 2011 but given the public comments, customers seem to think it’s a bad choice. It’s my stance that HP usually leaps before it looks and I am not sure that I am sold on Whitman as the new CEO. HP Has a Poor Track Record in Past CEO Selection. So let’s look.

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CO2

AUGUST 17, 2010

Interview with Charlie Firestone and Vivian who is the CEO of NPR. Vivian Schiller CEO of NPR at the Aspen Institute 2010 gives insights into the importance of New Literacy. We are faced with a tsunami of information. About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc., Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 22, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Saturday, January 22, 2011 Secrets of Business Success I am having a productive morning. 3 - Systems and process. I have spent a lot of time perfecting systems (which always need fine tuning still) that support what I do. I call it CEO Blog - Time Leadership because of my keen interest in time.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

A CEO’s ability to perform effectively is so closely tied to their ability to form a clearly articulated vision, evangelize the vision and then to execute on their vision, that no real discussion on executive leadership should take place without an emphasis on vision.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 14, 2012

Once taken, they co-operatively move forward toward the common goal. It takes individuals with a lot of confidence in their intelligence and spirit to work happily in this kind of system. 2011 sales were $82 billion. They have the ability to disagree and freely do so. P&G people are highly competent.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 18, 2014

This compensation system gives everyone–coach, client, and stakeholders—an important role in the process. My dad operated a two-pump gas station. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. This “pay-for-results” idea wasn’t mine.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? That is the question.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

The focus of these short-sighted bean counters incorrectly place cost savings ahead of the customer experience. In short, most CRM practitioners have traditionally assumed an internal (inside-out), operationally centric approach to customer management and strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

This is more than a semantical issue – it’s become a systemic problem with many individuals and organizations. The mechanistic world of the industrial age continues to have a grip on our belief system. If efficiency starts diluting productivity rather than increasing it something is woefully amiss. Thanks for sharing Tom.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

The essence of the book is captured in the quote by Robert Eckert, former Mattel CEO: “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to build trust.” It is one of the top selling business books of all time and a favourite among CEOs. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By Jim Collins.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I want to frame my thoughts on the topic of significance by beginning with an excerpt from my book “ Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual “: “By the time you reach the CEO level you should be striving to move beyond success and towards significance. Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Discipline requires a systemic approach. To make good decisions, we need to understand how the system works. The most productive leaders I know have the ability to be extremely nice, very civil and always polite while maintaining the ability to be direct, focused, and candid. It takes some work, but don't settle for anything less.

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Six Disciplines

MAY 3, 2011

FINDLAY, OHIO, May 2, 2011 - Matt Lauth and Jim Bendt, and their new firm, Strategy Execution Advisors , is now a certified partner of a nationwide network of business coaching practices that offer the Six Disciplines® strategy execution program to its clients. ” Overall business performance both in the U.S.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 30, 2010

Where: Even in this brief clip, it’s clear that the team has put a system in place to clearly identify which locations in the Gulf need special attention on any given day. How: The meeting leader clearly states the ground rules for how the meeting will operate – cell phones off, radios down, stick to the agenda and no side conversations.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 2, 2010

You should read it for yourself, but the highlights include a feud between the superintendent and his deputy that dated back to 1992, a lack of a computerized system to map and manage the cemetery and a contracting process that was out of control.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 24, 2011

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Gino Wickman Virtual CEO (2011) Without traction, no individual or organization accomplishes anything. As I began to read this book, I was reminded of a book co-authored by Chip and Dan Heath in which they explain why a few ideas “stick&# but most don’t. It can also be [.].

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

When we view our responsibilities three-dimensionally as if through a prism that simultaneously allows us to keep focused on the MRC concepts, we will make better mission-focused decisions that are based upon how our resources must be deployed to accomplish them, and we will operate in ethical ways that resonate with our partners and employees.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The leader has failed to communicate with those around him of what their system does, its current and future capabilities, and the group or individual's vision for the future. You assume that the person asking the question is always right. But are they?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Leaders who operate behind a veil of secrecy are only setting themselves up for a rude awakening. On with the exam… Section I: Character. Ambiguity in communication offers opaque expectations maybe we have to think more and more about its paradox.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

During our discussion, Andy Kanefield, author of Uncommon Sense : One CEO’s Tale of Getting in Sync , share with us his insights, approaches, and real-world experiences regarding: the definition of sync. physical, operational business systems that contribute to organizational alignment and how to get them into sync.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 12, 2010

  For the better part of 50 years, he was on the public address system at the House That Ruth Built as the voice of the Yankees. Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the. It was simply consistent perfection in his craft.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. They are usually quick to recognize operational problems and deal with them before they become disasters. Operational meltdowns at midsized companies can take much longer to notice and resolve.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 20, 2011

But to have the necessary horsepower to make a difference, it must be made a high priority by the CEO, and managers at all levels need to be held accountable for carrying out the LLD process on a routine, timely basis with all their people. It is not a particularly difficult process to implement. Demonstrate That You Care.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 6, 2011

How NET PROMOTER Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World Fred Reichheld with Rob Markey Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Here is an open-source system whose “engine” can drive profitable growth This is a revised and expanded second edition of a book published in 2006. The Ultimate Question 2.0:

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 9, 2011

Sunday, January 9, 2011 Tip Clip #6 - How to Develop Mental Toughness Life certainly does dish up plenty of adversity. After graduation came the Army Ranger School, command of an air defense battery on a snowy hill in Germany, and a year of combat operations in Vietnam. The good news is, you can make that call. since 1987.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Second, implementing systems that provide feedback, to those involved in a business process, on the impacts of their efforts on intended results. The fear of making mistakes is deeply ingrained in our psyche says Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies [link]. like, for instance, Twyla Tharpe’s Creative Habits).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary. As an example, Look at Apple! But Apple does not manufacture them.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 21, 2010

While I love your vision, I personally hope that the 360 becomes even more engrained in the businesses in which I operate. Ideally companies would use the best selection systems to source and promote the best leaders. For it to end up in The Leadership Museum, would be to rob me of some of my most significant learnings.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

About the Authors Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership , is a Senior Operating Executive at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; one of the largest and most successful private-equity firms in the United States. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Let me be very clear here - as the CEO or entrepreneur, YOU and not your legal counsel, marketing director, ad agency or PR firm must make this choice. Then we look for tools and systems to manage those relationships and expand our capacity for more relationships, and they can add an additional layer of complexity.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Systematic and Open to Possibility: The complexity of our organizations requires that you support some systemization within them. Systems drive efficiency and results. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The park, which has been operating for a decade, has created a free zone and business park to encourage multinationals to rub shoulders with researchers and startups to generate technology-driven businesses. 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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. We have seen these forces at work in many different industries around the world, requiring a decidedly closer working relationship between the CEO and CMO. Who should lead our transformation?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

It is much less obvious, and usually harder, to change the design of a current service system, introduce new customer experiences, or build a better business model — but the return on those investments may be much higher. Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer.

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CO2

JULY 20, 2010

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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