N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement. If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 298

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 2, 2015

This role will be involved in facilitating change to how the business operates and requires the ability to function, ability to establish and build relationships and ability to enable others to be successful equal to an executive level position. Create continued clarity by having the CCO drive these meetings and steer the process.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Ask yourself this question…Who is more loyal; an employee who has been with the company a long time but is an under-performer, or a less tenured employee who always goes the extra mile and consistently exceeds expectations? or implying that it is unlikely to have high performance if most people stick around for a long time?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

January 19th, 2011 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Today’s guest post is from Mike Figliuolo at The thoughtLEADERS Blog. Gina : January 19, 2011 at 12:47 pm I have always believed that the most important job a leader has is to train his/her replacement. Mary Jo Asmus : January 19, 2011 at 9:20 pm Gina, thanks. Great post!

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Training Blog Greenleaf Maslow 257

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process. Sidebar : This post was inspired by a conversation I had last month Mark Oakes ( @MarkOOakes ) about the historical origin of the term&# Plan B.&#

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Contingency Plans Planning Blog Ryan 306

CEO Blog

JANUARY 22, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Saturday, January 22, 2011 Secrets of Business Success I am having a productive morning. I worked hard and long. 3 - Systems and process. 3 - Systems and process. For some reason I find early mornings in themselves tend to yield productivity. I reflect on the charmed life I lead. 6 - Be lucky.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

by John • February 5, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. There may be improved stock market confidence in some of the companies that produce the world’s best-known brands, but a fundamental flaw exists in the management process that is supposed to renew brand health. December 2011.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 25, 2011

Design by 12GrainStudio Team Building & Leadership: Case Study; Increased Trust=Faster Implementation of Decisions & Problems Solved Cheaper Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 Posted by: mike The following is a true story, of value added results that come from Create-Learning’s Team Building & Leadership Processes.

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Case Study Team Building Team Leadership 110

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

All organizations have long term goals, project teams must set technical and process goals as part of their work. Oct 2010 In more traditional terms, “exclude&# would mean “fire&#. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Most of all, make sure to be transparent in the communication. mike Friday, 22nd.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? 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.

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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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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

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. Just like an algebraic formula, business also functions according to rules governing order of operations. link] Laurie Young Hi Mike, thanks for the explanation.

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Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 344

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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Blog Meyer Short-term Learning-by-Doing 420

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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Efficiency Blog Brand Depreciation 354

The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

While I was in the Navy and learning to become an Engineering Officer, I learned about the specific margins that were built into both the submarine and the engineering plant to ensure safe operation. If you have suggestions for me or others reading this post that might help in this process, please leave a comment below.

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Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Chemicals 169

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I have now been detoxed and am on the road to long-term healing, so I would like to share some tips with you about this highly popular disorder. Yet so often when we just hit the tree tops we are disappointed, rather than seeing this as a learning opportunity or a process to grow. Thanks for the great blog!

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Long-term Definition Blog Self-aware 167

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The concept of the resource curse emerged a few hundred years before the term was first coined by economist Richard Auty. The term describes the apparent difficulty many countries that have abundant natural resources have in terms of growing their economy. Institutional advantage.

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

Women on Business

OCTOBER 14, 2011

That means you are the genius, not operating in the lofty, exclusive heights of science or culture, but right here, right now. Think of this as a long-overdue opportunity to the real story. Broken down into practical terms, this step offers you new daily routines that will keep you healthy, productive and prosperous.

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Simon Creativity Commitment Long-term 212

Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 10, 2010

If you, as the leader, can take the initiative to recognize when someone needs some compassion and express it appropriately, it may go a long way toward making your workplace a better place to be. Try to grasp their thought process in the situation and avoid using your own principles and values to judge them. Sounds soft?

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Greenleaf Maslow Goleman Learning-by-Doing 232

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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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Good performance measurement can help overcome the short- term bias of financial measures by explicitly monitoring how well a company or business unit is positioned to sustain and improve its financial performance. Short-term value drivers are the immediate levers of ROIC and growth. One dimension of this is the needed flows of talent.

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CO2

JANUARY 3, 2011

The idea is that when moving to action you first observe the battlefield or what ever areana you are operating in. Once you have done this you then look at that information in terms of context or Orientation. Boyd saw this as a group of interacting loops that are in continous operation until the end of the battle.

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Executive Coaching Blog Execution Strategic Planning 68

CO2

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Sometimes, because it is a true operating value. An operating value is something we do without thinking about it. And at times it costs us money chasing down innovation at a cost of operational excellence. When you consider the values in your company do you consider them in terms of bounded or unbounded values.

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Innovation Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Definition 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 likely ? China, China, and China.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The intake process was ridiculously slow (why did they have to copy my insurance card and license when they’d just done so less than a month ago?). After getting checked in (an hour into the visit), I settled in for a long wait. about the slow intake process. His response buffered the negative of the long wait.

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Emotional Intelligence Goleman Open-book Blog 201

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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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 322

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The rewards are not always immediate, but the effort that you invest in reflection will pay off over the long run. However, I think this reflection process can happen quickly when faced with a decision. Understanding why a prior decision worked or didn’t might impact your process. Matt, thanks for stopping back.

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Self-aware Definition Learning-by-Doing Long-term 202

CO2

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Sometimes, because it is a true operating value. An operating value is something we do without thinking about it. And at times it costs us money chasing down innovation at a cost of operational excellence. When you consider the values in your company do you consider them in terms of bounded or unbounded values.

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Innovation Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Definition 60

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. How long can you survive the repetition of the same mistake? Authors James D.

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Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 64

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Ben : So, Larry, you mentioned your introduction to the Quakers and Robert Greenleaf is that when you first heard of the term servant-leadership? Larry : And that essay was published in 1970, when Greenleaf coined the term, “servant-leader”. Discovering Servant-Leadership. I just wondered, it was his original essay, wasn’t it?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

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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How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

CO2

JANUARY 4, 2011

At the time our mission statement was, “ Anything for a buck, as long as it is legal and ethical. &# So we were paid to take a newsletter promotion Sid was doing for his business, we was a gifted writer (and a student of great copy writers), and attach a penny to each of the 18,000 newsletters. I have known Sid most of my life.

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Execution Blog Executive Coaching USP 88

Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The message for me is, Making Mistakes is Good as long as you communicate appropriately, learn from them and get better. But what makes the real difference is not only how we choose to respond to it, but what lessons we’re willing to learn in the process. Sonia Di Maulo : December 15, 2010 at 6:09 pm Mary-Jo!

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Learning-by-Doing Blog Environment Greenleaf 188

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times. What say you?

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 317

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Ben : So, Larry, you mentioned your introduction to the Quakers and Robert Greenleaf is that when you first heard of the term servant-leadership? Larry : And that essay was published in 1970, when Greenleaf coined the term, “servant-leader”. Discovering Servant-Leadership. I just wondered, it was his original essay, wasn’t it?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

I was excited to take on a new passion – a feeling I hadn’t felt for a long time. I continued to race as an amateur for all of 2010 and 2011, but at the end of 2011 I quit my job and began competing professionally full-time. I loved my job so it made the long hours manageable, but it was also stressful.

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Training Sports Learning-by-Doing Banking 70