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. This vision, if successful, must be underpinned by core ideology and then expressed with clarity and conviction.

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QAspire

JULY 27, 2010

So, quality is a moving target – each time a customer comes back to you, you need to deliver similar or better quality (of products, services and experience), you need to demonstrate improvement, care enough about them, stay on top of market trends and keep changing the rules of the game (innovation). It is a long-term differentiators&#.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. You deserve input – but that done not mean that 100% agreement is the goal. Consensus isn’t the goal. It’s a formal way to help reduce the isolation that it endemic to leaders and leadership.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

In his groundbreaking new book, Brand Relevance : Making Competitors Irrelevant, David shows how any company can use the “brand relevance” strategy to achieve long-term, competitive success. Brand Relevance provides the tools companies need to generate innovative offerings that can create long-term financial success.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Most do not realize how strong a role this dominating emotion can play in their everyday actions, but once it enters, the results can be catastrophic to the person’s short- and long-term goals. By keeping the overall goal in mind, the little obstacles and stresses will be easy to get through.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms. link] Allan W.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 27, 2010

Yet only a few short months after his accident, he was appearing on television and telling the world what a lucky many he was. A handsome actor who starred in the Superman movies, Christopher Reeve fell off a horse and broke his neck, severing his spinal cord and losing his ability to breathe or move on his own. All Rights Reserved.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Creativity and innovation depend on it! Supporting growth and development will positively affect the goals your organization is attempting to achieve. As leaders, there needs to be an ability to direct and focus staff towards the common goal. Perhaps short chapters on each “ing&# ? Thanks again!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Second, the main goal of PE investors is to increase a firm’s value so that it can be sold for profit. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

And then I remember a second incident a short time later, when her child’s perspective surprised and delighted me. During a challenging environment like we’re in now, it’s more important than ever to use “ fresh eyes &# – a term I learned from one of my marketing mentors, Dan Kennedy.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

However, under-investing in marketing is short-sighted, and this article will explain how “smart marketing” can be a key driver of business growth. In short, it works. Seek to send out a press release once a month (as a long term goal). Why is marketing important for your business? Personal Appearance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

For more than a quarter century, the mantra, of course, has been that corporations' primary focus should be on shareholders and the primary goal should be to "maximize shareholder value." In essence, Martin argues that agency theory and the goal of maximizing "shareholder value" have had significant and harmful side effects.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

To help prevent this, develop a short-term plan with a six- to nine-month outlook. Also, create a longer-term plan with a seventeen- to eighteen-month strategy. It will encompass the goals and benchmarks you need to achieve during this time period. This plan will help you get through the year. Consider leaving a comment!

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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. The bigger the playing field, the more trust, familiarity, and rapport count.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Those sessions produced a highly sophisticated system that achieved the end goal: a wonderful end-to-end experience for consumers. Tom Watson, Jr.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Typically people can’t define or describe better morale in terms of behaviors very well. Once the desired morale is defined in behavioral terms, then you can begin expecting it, inspecting for it and coaching to those skills and behaviors. Make it a long term goal. Make it an expectation. Appreciate and reward it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

Since 2011, I have been working with him to further globalize BAYER’s management. ” Bayer’s capability of being in tune with its global markets was not optimized back in 2011. Our advice to others on this journey is: Don’t set overambitious goals. That’s what being global means.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2015

The “them” the leader was referring to were zombie projects: the nefarious enemies of well-intentioned innovation efforts around the globe. We had suggested that at least one reason why the company was struggling to successfully commercialize innovative ideas was that zombies were draining its resources and clogging its pipeline.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

The hybrid Prius was a legitimate business home run (2 million sold), and it helped both differentiate Toyota's brand as the market innovator and propel Toyota to unprecedented profits. It tackles both long-term and short-term sustainability challenges. For years, Toyota has been the darling of the green business world.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Their crowning achievement was a service launched in 2011 called Google Takeout, a unified site for exporting user data from multiple services like Gmail and Google Photos. Companies like Google and 3M have benefited from embracing innovation that comes from all parts of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

This approach to employment allows leaders to predict and control what will come out of the job, at least in the short term. But this approach doesn’t produce the most productive, innovative work environment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Synthesize Goals – Now that you’ve studied the business/project plan (see above), you need to reduce it to “bite sized&# pieces so it can be effectively communicated throughout the organization. A leader seeks these opportunities out and capitalizes on them. Hank Wasiak January 4, 2010 at 12:34 pm Great advcie.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? Was a year like 2011 likely ?

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QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

Whether manufacturing or knowledge industry, primary goal of business is to generate value. Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. One of these deadly disease according to Deming is “ Running a company on visible figures alone ”. But what really counts can always be managed.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

Upper management is most effective when it frames business decisions toward values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives and the benchmarking of tactics. These are the visionaries who advise management in refining the organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics and contributions toward the company’s long-term growth.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Unfortunately, one can get caught in a trap of being on the short end of the equation. ” Sizing you in terms of immediate benefit to them, they either probe further or move on. These people couch their requests in terms of your benefit. How Quickly They Forget Some people are creative and innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Extreme weather brings unpredictable dangers for physical assets or massive disruptions to supply chains (like auto and hard drive companies found out with floods in Thailand in 2011). So are a lighting retrofit, a boiler overhaul, innovation to reduce energy use of your products, and much more. Risk management Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Begin a series of rapid cycle experiments to solve long-term issues. For the longer-term problems, setting “unreasonable”, tightly bound 100-day goals – like attracting 50% more people under 25 in Pittsburgh to buy insurance – would help get some early results and inform how to scale up successes nationwide.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Every vibrant, healthy, inspiring, innovative, and positive corporate culture I’ve witnessed has occurred not because culture has been placed ahead of strategy, but because it has been a key driver of the corporate strategy. This is why I took the time to author today’s post.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. The number of books, blogs, tweets, videos, webcasts, podcasts, etc.,

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The downside of this is that it stifles candor, creativity and innovation and often leads to a my way or the highway environment. I can tell you that without question the best leaders are able to make very complex decisions, on short time frames, and with incomplete information. Good is the enemy of great. Get Your Leadership BIG On!

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