N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. As an example, the marketing assistant who receives a comparatively small bonus when contrasted to that of a sales person feels that his/her contribution is minimized and feels treated unfairly.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information. Let me cut right to the chase – real leaders don’t participate in gossip, and likewise they don’t tolerate gossip from others. When you take part in gossip you do none of these things.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

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.

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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., in February 2008 had its second straight month of disappointing growth in "paid clicks," a key metric that reflected the overall health of the company, according to data released by research firm comScore Inc. . Google Inc.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. So while profits were rising and ROIC was high, market share was declining.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The death of the traditional salesman has been greatly exaggerated,” heralded a recent column in The Economist (October 22, 2011). Yes it is — if you learn how to leverage this new talent by focusing Gen Y behaviors on business goals and setting metrics for results. She wonders: Is it worth it?

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Six Disciplines 1:1 Executive Coaching - Is Now Open for Enrollment for 2011. If any (or all) of these seem too familiar, we have good news: we’ve just opened the doors for enrollment to Six Disciplines 1:1 Executive Coaching – proven to get the results you need to be a more effective executive in 2011.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Most companies can claim an element of success in some aspect of CRM proficiency such as sales force automation, database marketing, development of a knowledgebase, etc., but the reality is that most companies absolutely miss the boat in harnessing the true power of CRM which is improving the customer experience.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Reward talent, innovation, loyalty, attitude, creativity, work ethic, contribution, and leadership ability…not tenure. I want metrics that mirror experience. link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] Tenure is too qualitative. I agree that loyalty is critical. Thanks for stopping by Drew.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. If you incorporate the following metrics into your decisioning framework you will minimize the chances of making a bad decision: Perform a Situation Analysis : What is motivating the need for a decision? They make bad decisions.

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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. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

When we drew up our plans and budgets, the key metric was consumer impressions: how many people would see, hear or read our ad? Now information flows in many directions, consumer touch points have multiplied, and the old, one-size-fits-all approach has given way to precision marketing and one-to-one communications.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Among the notable findings in Booz & Company's annual study of CEO succession was an increase in leadership turnover in the face of 2011's improved economic outlook. BONUS BITS: When IT Meets Marketing. How Walmart Is Using its Sustainability Metrics To Drive Productivity (GreenBiz.com). CSMonitor.com).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

In the language of today, they need to take on the mantle of ‘transformational leadership.’ How competent is your leadership team, and how prepared are they to help you catapult the company into the future? If not, how will you imbue your leadership with what you need from them – or where will you go to acquire it?

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year by Starbucker on January 3, 2010 As a leader, I’ve learned that getting off to a great start in a new year is very important. Popularity: 70% [ ?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Among the notable findings in Booz & Company's annual study of CEO succession was an increase in leadership turnover in the face of 2011's improved economic outlook. BONUS BITS: When IT Meets Marketing. How Walmart Is Using its Sustainability Metrics To Drive Productivity (GreenBiz.com). CSMonitor.com).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

She suggests “immersing yourself in your topic area” by regularly attending industry conferences, enrolling in a class or specialized certification program, or taking on a leadership role in a relevant professional organization. With Jeff Wald, the president and COO, an analytic thinker, she started with the metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. Take Motorola, for instance. Take Motorola, for instance. So we are left with a quandary.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. And Apple's share performance skyrocketed between the time we compiled the data and when he stepped down on August 24, 2011. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. Every task should be assigned and managed according to a plan and in the light of day. Measurable : Any new ideas being adopted must lead to measurable objectives.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Just because something is written in a vision or mission statement, placed on a website, included in company collateral material, or frequently espoused by corporate leadership as a competitive value proposition doesn’t necessarily mean its true. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. This shift to financial-markets-based compensation had some of the promised impact — CEOs did become less risk-averse (bureaucrat-like) in their decision-making. Since say-on-pay hit the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

They are starting an estimated 1,288 companies each day, up from 602 in 2011-12. The women who make it to leadership roles perform better than their male peers , by several metrics. I bet many women would love to remain in companies, earning more money, working with more autonomy, and playing a leadership role.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

environmental, social and governance) metrics relevant to long-term sustainable corporate performance. By the end of October in 2010, the market value of the 100 constituent stocks reached 582 billion RMB, accounting for 31% of the total market value of the Shanghai Stock Exchange's A shares. Stay tuned.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

One of us (Chia-Jung) conducted a study in 2011 with Harvard social psychologist Mahzarin Banaji, presenting 103 participants with written descriptions of two classical musicians. The profiles were randomly generated, so any potential alignment between objective metrics (e.g., But why is this so? Novices were willing to give up 4.47

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wasn’t nearly as dazzled by Jim’s statistics and metrics as I was his outlook on life. Never confuse power with leadership. Where Jim fell short in my opinion was that if you’ve heard Jim before, there wasn’t a lot of new information. What really resonated with me was that Jim seems to walk the talk.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Profitability isn’t a useful metric. ’ the questions must be asked, ‘WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?’”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

An aggressive HMO was aggressively moving into the market, cutting prices offered to employers. They chose Fremont because it was in the thick of the market changes and had outstanding physician leadership. There should be a balance of safety and quality metrics as well as financial. Create a core team.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

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. They’ve lived through tumultuous times before and the status quo has always returned.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The most innovative brands have dramatically changed the way they connect with customers by supplementing traditional marketing and advertising with social and digital media. This program, Create Jobs for USA , will begin November 1, 2011. More recently, another big relationship shift has occurred between companies and consumers.

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