In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. According to licensing agreements and industry sources, Monsanto’s stranglehold on the genetically-engineered seed market in the United States and the world squeezes customers, limits competitors and provides staggering profits. April 2011.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

The cost per employee is half the EU average, and the number of days spent on training is at its lowest since 2011. Privately owned bank We spoke to the Chief Technology and Operations Officer, who is responsible for the oversight of new hires and workforce planning to identify gaps at a small private bank.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

The cost per employee is half the EU average, and the number of days spent on training is at its lowest since 2011. Privately owned bank We spoke to the Chief Technology and Operations Officer, who is responsible for the oversight of new hires and workforce planning to identify gaps at a small private bank.

Productivity 52

Productivity Products Short-term Proposal 52

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Engines of creation. Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. This gummed-up process of innovation is not confined to big-company transformation. An environment of creative destruction most definitely is not present. A different picture.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

Through the period of March of 2002 to March of 2011, my small executive coaching company, Signature, Inc., Concurrently, online advertising competition has increased with Microsoft/Yahoo and others digging into Google's search engine advertising market share through providing better value to online advertisers.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Can we ever admit we are fried, exhausted, done, and not be judged as lacking in mojo, courage, stamina?

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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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Building Personal Strength

JULY 21, 2011

On July 8, 2011, when the space shuttle Atlantis launched safely for the last time, I reflected on "What next?" I'm not talking about "trickle-down technologies." That's an awfully expensive and unpredictable way to create beneficial technologies, don't you think? Copyright 2011. I'm not a scientist. I'm not even a nerd.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Little Big Things Series : #19 Equations - For many of us this is the time of year for planning, budgeting, and setting business strategies for 2011. Little Big Things Series : #19 Equations - For many of us this is the time of year for planning, budgeting, and setting business strategies for 2011.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers. Some will take unsolicited articles, many will give assignments to freelancers.

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Women's Leadership Exchange

OCTOBER 6, 2011

That it such a cold and unwanted fact about a man that has warmed the hearts of millions with his joyful, beautiful and super-functional technology. Second, he is a perfectionist when it comes to both engineering and design. He also has recruited a team of top notch engineers, designers and marketers who can bring his genius to life.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology.   Wonder what 2011 has in store for him? That's where Tesla is going to build battery powered family sedans. 

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. But let’s go further on education.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. 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.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Coaching Tip

JULY 7, 2011

That Fall when I went to the university, many of my fellow students choose to become engineers to meet this international threat. Source: The Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2011. With sliderules on their belts, they studied to bring America up-to-speed with the Soviets. Why aren't U.S.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

He marshaled all of his country’s resources and the talents and technology of experts from around the world to get the miners back alive.   In the days and weeks that followed, more communications technology was lowered into the mine. Chilean government ministers and officials coordinated the rescue masterfully.

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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.   I love those articles because they’re great opportunities for data mining on leadership. 

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

The 7 Deadly Sins of Conflict Resolution How to Tell If a Conflict is Good or Bad Conflict Resolution from John Wooden – What’s Right Not Who’s Right Tags: conflict resolution , Decision Making , health care reform , political debate , Problem Solving , Resolving Conflict Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

The 7 Deadly Sins of Conflict Resolution How to Tell If a Conflict is Good or Bad Conflict Resolution from John Wooden – What’s Right Not Who’s Right Tags: conflict resolution , Decision Making , health care reform , political debate , Problem Solving , Resolving Conflict Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

We are considering offering something like the following on a monthly basis: Review trends of your specific keywords Identify potential hotspots for blog links Update Facebook Fans page = 25-50 postings Identify and connect with potential Facebook friends Update Twitter account = 30-50 Search Engine Optimized postings Leave comments on blogs and websites (..)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. By the mid-1980’s, the American semiconductor industry seemed like it was doomed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. In China, I have found that a different mindset dominates.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I want to be clear that I’m not advocating for form over substance, extreme self-indulgence, narcissism, or masking insecurity by the trappings you surround yourself with.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In the early weeks we learn that our product won’t stand up to the sanitation requirements of the industry and we’re presented with real engineering problems in design and materials, but these are problems we know how to solve. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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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.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

  A lot of this, I think, is driven by the 24/7 expectations that are made possible by our communications technology.  "  If you reverse engineer it back to the beginning, you'll almost certainly see that you had a ton of direct and indirect help from people you've met along the way. 

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). Technology and its role in travel 2.0 What are you passionate about? I use a tool I have developed to help companies Vision statement worksheet (attached).

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). Technology and its role in travel 2.0 What are you passionate about? I use a tool I have developed to help companies Vision statement worksheet (attached).

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

He was promoted to Director of Sales in 2009 and took over as President in 2011. Third, figure out what you are all deeply passionate about, what you can be the best in the world at, and what drives your economic engine. Fifth, use technology to accelerate momentum. He joined Zane Benefits as its thirteenth employee in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Edwards Deming, The New Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1994, p. Franz, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement, McGraw-Hill, 2011, pp. Rafael Aguayo, Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality, Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. Liker and James K.

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