N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

The basic flaw in most arguments in support of CEO term limits stems from a belief that tenure is somehow a very relevant metric, and that there is some mystical optimum time to serve. CEOs that cannot operate fluidly and contextually won’t be effective whether they hold the job for 12 minutes or 12 years.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

This gummed-up process of innovation is not confined to big-company transformation. Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. For all of its numerous flaws, the company was at one point valued at nearly $50 billion. Engines of creation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership? Great leaders need to be creative, solve complex problems, make connections, make decisions, and manage relationships. Companies, governments, and individuals make all kinds of contributions in the form of money, food, and other services.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Executive Coaching 259

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. If not, then this post is for you.

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Brand Brand Management Blog Media 339

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip. In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information.

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Blog Reputation Participative Brand 419

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. So, what’s wrong with tenure you ask?

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Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 419

Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

By 1998, they had incorporated Google, coming up with a company name that suggested the audacity of their ambition. And they came up with an informal company motto to signal their benign intent: "Don't be evil." Today, Google reaches billions of pages of content. . They settled on an unusual power-sharing arrangement. Google Inc.

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Advertising Outsourcing Engineering Information Technology 84

Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Below are my picks for the week of September 6th - September 12th, 2010.  Enjoy!

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Blog Human Resources Talent Management Mentor 113

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Home About Overview News Careers Contact Blog Services Branding/Identity Executive Search Leadership Development Overview CEO Coaching Executive Peer Groups Strategic Growth Consulting Innovation Management Personal Branding Reputation Management Social Media Consulting Pro Bono Services Clients Intermidiaries Downloads Blog Contactus N2growth Home (..)

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Blog Survey Talent Management Brand 291

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Six Disciplines 1:1 Executive Coaching - Is Now Open for Enrollment for 2011. Recent 2010 research* confirms what we know to be our biggest challenges as executives: 52% of executives don’t feel their company’s strategy will lead to success. 64% agree that their company has too many conflicting priorities.

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Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Section III: Strategy. Section VI: Persuasiveness. Section IX: Team Building.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 320

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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Blog Leadership Self-aware Crisis 413

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 28, 2010

So as I write these blog posts and create program content and talk with people about the objectives, outcomes, profit creation, ideation, metrics, etc… FUN is an acceptable criteria that can be evaluated and placed into the mix. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Design by 12GrainStudio Planning, Delegation, Accountability + FUN!

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Delegation Planning Team Building Follow-up 107

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 23, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! The Institute for Corporate Productivity (I4CP) : Talent Management Metrics Get an "F" - Talent management has been all the rage in human resource management in recent years.

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Blog Human Resources Talent Management Human Capital 100

Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 11, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License. .    Furthermore, he suggests that this time isn't really wasted when we are building relationships with others or thinking up creative new solutions to problems, as these are often the moments when we are most creative.

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Blog Welch Human Resources Taylorism 100

Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2011

Williams Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, explains why management teams must ask themselves tough strategy questions. why companies need to focus on one primary customer. the importance in choosing which among shareholders, customers, or employees are most important to the company’s success.

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Strategy Simon Stress Metrics 50

QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2010

Adding up sales won’t tell us what kind of a company we really have. The value of the current economic upheaval is that it’s a ripe opportunity for us to evaluate if, with all these various metrics, we’re truly getting the full picture of what’s really going on. It is also a great validation of your thoughts.

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Quality Compliance Metrics Blog 117

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Even if you don’t find yourself having to frequently deal with extreme situations, it is often nothing more than normal dealings in the ordinary course of business that can place you at a nexus…Do you make your decision based upon the facts at hand and sound decisioning metrics, or do you let your emotions drive your decisions?

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Goes With What It Knows: Making Stuff,” centers on how Immelt is leading the company away from financial services and “soft services” like broadcasting and back to its historical roots of technology driven manufacturing.   It’s an organizing framework for the company.  The article, “G.E.   That was a start.

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Leadership How To Executive Coaching Blog 178

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? It's one of my great drivers to achieve significance in what I do – even if that doesn't necessarily mean success as defined by any metric you care to choose… Thanks for an interesting read! Best Neil Ron Inspiring post! Success is temporal.

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Blog Succession Influence Brand 409

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. What would happen if no decision is made?

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 409

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. Team building basics are often overlooked by ineffective leaders or unproductive companies. However great leaders and highly productive organizations always focus on team building as a key priority.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 349

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Act : How do we manage the journey? StrategyDriven Contributors like Beyond Performance because it provides a method for achieving organizational excellence that is founded on the real-world performance of top companies. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Assess : How ready are we to go there? All rights reserved.

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Competitive Advantage Resources Organization Price 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman provide the tools for focusing on work that creates real value for customers, including: How to get people to move from ‘worm’s-eye view’ of thier jobs to a ‘bird’s-eye view’ – to understand what the company really does and the role they have in achieving results.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Here are six reason why you want your company to be like the Giants: They are winners. Everyone loves to be part of a winning company, and the Giants just won the world series for the second time in three years. In spite of 2011, the Giants were back this year. They had bad seasons in 2011. Resilient – see #1.

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Ethics Metrics Loyalty Course 39

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let the attacks begin – I’ll publish any comments that are civil… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] MAPping Company Success [.] While my list had more "diversity" it was a larger list based upon specific metrics as the standard for qualification – diversity was not one of these metrics.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 305

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

you need to establish your own guardrails so you do not drive your company or project into the weeds. Establish Guardrails I worked in several large companies during my corporate career, and I can’t tell you the number of pet projects that became my pet peeves. He was General Manager at both Mitsubishi Electric and About.com.

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Project Wilde Entrepreneur Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, observers have bemoaned boards of directors as being ineffective as both monitors and advisors of management. Institutional investors often are critical of CEOs’ influence over boards and have made efforts to help companies improve their governance.

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Company Kahneman Learning-by-Doing CEO 9

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Practical and well-tested, Front Runners : Lap Your Competition With 10 Game-Changing Strategies For Total Business Transformation shares author Mahesh Rao’s 10 strategic steps successfully implemented by numerous executives of Fortune 100 companies during the last decade. Observe and Speculate. These are some of the questions you’ll pursue.

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Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

However, although there aren’t any dominant players, there are social network companies seeking to stake out “high-quality” territory. Similarly, Facebook doesn’t specialize in purveying journalism, even though almost every news company posts articles on Facebook.

Media 10

Media Quality Metrics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. The metric was an attempt to put a thin veneer of respectability on what are extremely disconcerting profitability numbers for the company.

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. Reeling from the growing pains of a $475 million merger with Nortel, the business communications company faced lingering customer disillusionment and falling profits. Avaya embraced innovation as a risk management exercise.

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Agility Innovation Metrics Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. How do emotions shape strategy making?

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

They are starting an estimated 1,288 companies each day, up from 602 in 2011-12. Yes, women are graduating from college in higher numbers than men and permeating the workforce — at least at the entry and middle management levels. Women are now stuck in middle management. rose by 68 percent.

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Middle Management Metrics Entrepreneur Consultative 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

companies now have at least two women on their executive committees. Eight companies (including IBM, Pepsico, Lockheed Martin and General Motors) have a woman CEO. My gender consultancy firm, 20-First, has just published its annual Gender Balance Scorecard ( pdf ) of the top 300 companies in the world across the US, Europe and Asia.

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Execution Committee Balanced Scorecard Globalization 12