N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 18, 2014

Neither of these is a good metric for achieving a positive, long-term change in behavior. My dad operated a two-pump gas station. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. and “How much time did I spend in coaching?”

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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. ” ~ D.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. The problem is, Zoom is relatively rare among the unicorn herd, as of the 73 unicorns that have gone public, just six of them have managed to make any kind of profit, with many instead posting huge losses.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Section III: Strategy. Section VI: Persuasiveness. Section IX: Team Building.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

He had just spent several days reviewing our business operations, and after absorbing our successes and industry-leading metrics, he couldn’t figure it out on his own. We could make the point that focus and persistence on the management side will lead to better systems, but that’s certainly not always the case.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. So, what’s wrong with tenure you ask?

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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. All rights reserved.

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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. When you take part in gossip you do none of these things. At its core, gossip is the highest form of disloyalty, and it is far from innocent or idle.

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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. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor. They make bad decisions.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? It's one of my great drivers to achieve significance in what I do – even if that doesn't necessarily mean success as defined by any metric you care to choose… Thanks for an interesting read! Best Neil Ron Inspiring post! Success is temporal.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Even if you don’t find yourself having to frequently deal with extreme situations, it is often nothing more than normal dealings in the ordinary course of business that can place you at a nexus…Do you make your decision based upon the facts at hand and sound decisioning metrics, or do you let your emotions drive your decisions?

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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. Fear is dead as a management tool. 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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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

All too often I see new supervisors struggling mightily with the idea of actually “managing&# a staff – setting priorities, communicating the company vision, motivating, holding people accountable, and delivering the necessary coaching and corrections. It just can’t all be nuts and bolts, and numbers and metrics.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

It is easy to “ monitor the numbers ” (sales dashboards, internal efficiencies and other metrics). But structuring an area of work in form of processes, you are reducing dependencies and improving operational efficiency. So if you are a manager or leader at any level, do a reality check this morning. Have a wonderful Wednesday!

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Additionally Hard Skill, Soft Skill illustrates how we all operate from different criteria of what a hard, soft skill is. And the ability to place quantitative metrics on a qualitative skill. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Tatum discusses the 5 critical success factors for managing, driving and sustaining growth, along with case studies of companies that succeeded or failed during No Man’s Land. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (2011 edition). whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job.

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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. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Most companies get metrics all wrong.

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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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Every performance management paradigm, every mission statement, could point to a different definition of success – and therefore to a different way to “optimally” allocate resources. Best practices for resource optimization are tied to performance management by answering questions such as: “Were recommended decisions put into action?”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

While my list had more "diversity" it was a larger list based upon specific metrics as the standard for qualification – diversity was not one of these metrics. The essence of managing cognitive bias is to realize that it is unavoidable, it is an essential part of being human."

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Of course, people do use existing comms and social software to manage quality information and close relationships — the beloved chat app Slack is widely used by couples and families, for example. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” So what are the metrics for high-quality social media?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

As usual, we try to broaden the focus from the current buzz around corporate boards to the more relevant metric of the gender balance of executive committees. Only 35% are in line or operational roles – and there has been no significant change in these percentages over the last three years. However, this is better than the 20% in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

In 2013, I began reporting on a groundbreaking all-women special operations team made up of the finest, fittest and most driven soldiers chosen from across the Army, Guard, and Reserve. Some of the most tested special operations leaders in the U.S. The shift began in 2010. What made this change possible? First, a sense of urgency.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Decades of operating losses and rampant turnover in both the employee base and ownership group had cemented a fearful culture. The nascent e-commerce effort, viewed suspiciously by most in the company, operated independently on an antiquated platform. I did not want the company to liquidate. Those who could adapt, thrived.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

For example, before performing every operation the surgical team should conduct a “time-out” 100% of the time to ensure that everyone agrees that they are operating on the correct patient and are performing the correct procedure on the right site and that any questions or concerns that any team member might have are addressed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

New data shows that sustainability is an increasingly important factor in attracting and managing talent. And in a departure from attitudes five or 10 years ago, most employees care more about ensuring that the business operations themselves are sustainable than they do about philanthropic activities, as shown in this chart.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

In 2011 half said they were treated badly at least once a week — up from a quarter in 1998. So what can a manager do to ensure that people on their team or in their department treat each other well? First, managers need to set expectations. How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict. You and Your Team Series.

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