N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At an organizational level have you focused so much on process improvements and incremental gains that you’ve failed to recognize opportunity and innovate? I really don’t have a problem with increasing efficiency so long as the tail doesn’t start wagging the dog. Are you efficient or effective, or do you know?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

There are many nutrients that we need on a daily basis to keep our bodies running efficiently ona a daily basis, not to mention long-term. Fish, in particular, has long been associated with being an excellent brain boosting food. Protein is known to keep you satisfied for longer periods of time.

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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. Does your organization focus more on process than success? Are any of your executives thought leaders?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Long story short; if a leader receives a vote of non-confidence from their subordinates…game over. Only those leaders who can quickly recognize and adapt their methods to the situation at hand will be successful over the long haul. Any leader is only as good as his or her team’s desire to be led by them.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process. The sad fact is that many business people are absolutists in that they only see things in terms of rights and wrongs. They are important to me.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For example, we might call a long-term customer on the day his annual report is due, and take it personally when he doesn’t have the bandwidth to give us feedback on our new product offering, or we might take rejection personally when a new sales call tells us it’s not a good time, not knowing that he’s late for his anniversary dinner.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. It's also important to very clearly define our terms when working in an organization for the reason MPFriedman describes above. I like Mike's framework.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. Okay, my question is this: What constitutes best practices in this situation?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While that has long been considered traditional retirement age, Boomers are known for bucking the system. Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2011

It offers case studies of people at different stages of their careers, and provides a step-by-step process for customizing your own job hunting and career management strategies. If you are a functional expert, say in HR or finance, you might tend to think your skills are transferrable and can be applied anywhere. All rights reserved.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

" Not to be confused with the derogatory word which, coincidentally, can accurately be applied to many bureaucrats, creep is a term used to describe a specific strategy nearly perfected by governments. Although there are many ways to get the process started, usually a crisis of some sort is extremely useful.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation. Flash of inspiration.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Do you ever wonder how the term “Politically Correct&# evolved from an obscure catch-phrase that was once used to label those who would not take a controversial position to the dominant mind-set of the day in our society? They are admirable qualities so long as they don’t take precedence over, ignore, or contradict truth.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

She had made a mean face often and for a long time. Wouldn't it be nice if the inevitable aging process instead froze smile lines on our faces; if our most dominant facial expression indicated happiness and contentment? You will hear that term mentioned often during this Christmas season. I have such a long way to go.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy. Don’t be timid.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The term for it is "casing" the second jump. I'll spare the long story and just say that a slow ride home in pain with bent handle bars was the worst part but, the feeling of going through with it was the best. The result is not pretty. I remember trying my first "BIG" jump on a '72 Honda 250.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

In 2011, the entire country of Egypt had a total internet blackout after officials ordered the country''s ISPs to flip a few switches; the Syrian government is now doing the same. Over the long term, markets are efficient and generally increase in value. Over the long term, markets are efficient and generally increase in value.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. IT also upgraded old technology and processes, achieving significant improvements in service and compliance.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But let’s change what we’re asking: Which has the better potential to scale up and create long term value for customers, owners, investors, and employees? Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

“We weren’t prepared for the crisis and we dropped the ball,” wrote AirBnB CEO Brian Chesky in 2011, after a guest trashed a host’s home. Publishing in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , they present the findings of two studies. “This should never have happened.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

There’s a third question we must ask instead, and it’s one with far more long-term importance to the economy: “Do college degrees adequately teach value creation?”. And yet, year after year, many of our top-tier grads continue to end up in the same three sectors: finance, consulting and law. The answer, sadly, is largely no.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Then there's reconciliation , a process included in a 1974 budget law with a very narrow purpose in mind that was soon exploited by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long to get tax and spending legislation passed without a 60-vote Senate supermajority. And there's the Budget Control Act of 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

College graduates have long earned more than workers with only a high school diploma. And for citizens of advanced countries, we imagined there would be plenty of work designing and overseeing the hyperspecialization process. even to identify long-term job growth as a policy priority would be a valuable step forward.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The tick-borne illness kept JPMorgan Chase's Ina Drew out of the office for extended periods in 2010 and 2011. That discord in 2010 and 2011 contributed to the chief investment office's losing trades in 2012, the current and former bankers said. So it was Lyme disease that did it! When that happens, everybody loses.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

These are some of the most salient issues of campaign finance facing CEOs and boards of directors as the nation heads into what will certainly be a bitter election year, with both houses of Congress and the Presidency up for grabs. Under long-standing policy, the IRS does not disclose the donors to these organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Major change also takes a long time to implement — between five and seven years on average — and the performance improvements that are achieved rarely last. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In 1993, Apple distributed $273 million in buybacks and $56 million in dividends, even as profits plunged from $530 million to $87 million, compelling the company to do a $297 million long-term bond issue in 1994. Let performance pay do its job of incentivizing employees to invest their skills and efforts in the innovation process.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2010

Get it done and get it done now is a real challenge that may not set up organizations for long term success. For more than two decades, Father Greg, a Jesuit priest, has been offering gang youths an opportunity to work and in the process discover an alternative to gang life.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you still don’t know whether or not your attitude is affecting your performance, I would strongly suggest participation in a 360 review process where your strengths and weakness are objectively assessed by those whom you interface with on a frequent basis. Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Do you dig-in your heels and prepare to defend your position to the death, all the while not really caring about how many casualties are incurred in the process? While I long ago reached the conclusion that perception does in fact matter, it may not be for the reasons that you might think. I think the reticence of people to [.]

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Michael Hyatt : I have given a lot of thought to this, particularly in the Life Planning process that I advocate. Building flexibility into your planning, modeling, and processes simply allows you to better react to both internal and external changes. Mike Myatt : How important is “legacy,” and how do you hope to be remembered?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. Processes, Running the Company. Juliano Howard T.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

A trainer may recommend courses for human behavior, believing that these constitute a Visioning process (of which they are a small part). See consulting as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. What is their longevity? All rights reserved.

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