N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 2, 2011

At the turn of the century, GM's financial leadership had succeeded in maximizing profits while producing noncompetitive consumer products. In the past, college graduates would gain employment as automotive industry managers and high school graduates would be well compensated by seeking factory jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The greening of the supply chain. 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 likely ? But please.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

As one example; if you are a manufacturing organization, innovation in your core could include new and improved materials, new techniques, novel approaches to supply chain management etc. We did not formulate our own style but tweaked it to our leadership style and vision plan. Many things in the church world do cross over.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

The Corporate Leadership Council reports that highly engaged organizations have the potential to reduce staff turnover by 87% and improve performance by 20%. In 2011, The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Public Company Governance Survey asked about the highest priorities for the board.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. In 2011, floods in Thailand stranded hard drive and automakers for months without key parts. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

What Nike and Coca-Cola leadership get is that the climate issue is a systemic problem, not easily defined in one single way, and it directly and profoundly affects their business. You can’t re-arrange supply chains to avoid droughts or storm risk quickly, or flood-protect or move your facilities on the fly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

general management, human resources, supply chain, you name it — that I have heard about through our recruiters or by word of mouth. He is the co-author, with Mette Norgaard, of Touchpoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments (Jossey-Bass, May 2011).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9% More extended global supply chains also increase these counterparty risks. of all successions at the world’s 2,500 largest public companies. From 2012-2016, that figure rose to 5.3% — while that might sound small, it’s a 36% increase.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These new capabilities connect to the work we’ve done over the past several decades inside our enterprises to automate processes with tools — such as accounting systems, supply chain, call center, and such. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership. But there’s a model of leadership that will.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

"Off the charts" is both figuratively and literally accurate: the data for the last 100 years shows a tight regression of temperature and water availability in Texas.except for the 2011 drought, which is far off the line (three degrees hotter with an inch less rainfall than any previous year). billion in agricultural production alone.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 31, 2013

” Grace Lieblein, Vice President, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain, General Motors. Almost half of F500 board seats in 2011 are occupied by directors without CEO experience. And it’s not a supply problem with respect to board-ready women. And sponsorship is critical to opening doors to these jobs.”

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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. These leadership challenges may seem familiar, but in a bureaucracy they are, if anything, magnified.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

One option is for multinational companies to go flat out for market leadership in China; that is, try to be either No. Between 2008 and 2012, Walmart more than doubled sales by adding 100 hypermarkets to its existing 400 stores, acquiring Trustmart in 2011, and picking up a majority stake in online retailer Yihaodian in 2012.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Those companies that ‘sweat’ their capabilities continuously improve them and sustainably capture the top-line growth in their industries and, ultimately, market leadership. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Second, a coherent system focuses strategic investment on what matters. All rights reserved.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

The BP Commission properly criticized the federal government for failing to assume leadership soon enough or to act effectively in coordinating the private sector and public sector (federal, state and local) actors. Neither the Gulf spill nor the problems at the Japan nuclear plants were unthinkable.

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Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. In 2011, he commissioned a report that called for an “innovation policy” rather than an “industrial policy.” The Era of Big Science. Often, that information is considered proprietary.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

And you also can’t put customers first until senior leadership meetings are filled with the voices of the customers and front line. Or was the agenda designed to serve the needs of the senior leadership, as they reported out their activities and demonstrated how busy they are? In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Yes, Apple already has some sustainability initiatives in its supply chain and other areas.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011. Through a concerted focus on our supply chain, we use rigorous value-based purchasing protocols, market intelligence, and business analytics to examine every purchase from the standpoint of value, utility, and outcomes. Military Leadership Lessons for Training Doctors.

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Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

We are always on the agenda of the executive team and are a significant part of the leadership meetings,” says Bert van Meurs, CMO of Philips Healthcare Imaging Systems. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams. Leadership Marketing'

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. He guides companies through growth strategies, visioning, strategic planning, executive leadership development, Futurism and Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Air quality and smog red alerts and the complete bans on vehicle traffic in major cities around the world highlight how traditional commerce and supply chains can and do grind to a halt because of climate risks. Record flooding in Thailand in 2011 severely impacted air travel, tourism, and one of the major regional airports in Asia.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train. This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Communications. They were secretive and guarded from the beginning. He has advised two U.S.

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