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A Systems Approach to Leading Through Transfomation

Great Leadership By Dan

When I joined Merchants Fleet as CEO in 2018, I knew I was joining a team of some of the most experienced professionals in the fleet industry. To make this happen, we put a system in place with six key focus areas: 1. First, I had to align our leadership team to drive the service-oriented, flexible and innovative culture.

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

The diversity across markets results in a mixture of backgrounds of different belief systems, habits, and perceptions that govern the behavior of local team members. A company with a robust value system that resonates with all employees and customers will draw more people to its product.

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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

In 2018 alone, 53 unicorns were added to the list. Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation.

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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Phrases like ‘Don’t rock the boat’ or ‘It’s not in the budget’ often serve to halt innovation and maintain the status quo.

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MFG of South Dakota: Trying To Do Some Good in the World

N2Growth Blog

MFG of South Dakota is a subsidiary of the Molded Fiber Glass Companies (MFG), a leader in the field of reinforced plastics and composites, serving diverse markets with a variety of composite material systems and processes. The company was to close by February 15, 2018. In fact, that’s only the beginning of the story.

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The Post-Covid World Sees Innovation Spread Its Wings

The Horizons Tracker

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Innovating our response to Covid-19. As with so much, however, the innovation landscape will be fundamentally changed by the pandemic.

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The Support That Helps Refugees Find Work

The Horizons Tracker

Between them, these countries received nearly 2 million asylum applications between 2015 and 2018. These complementary activities make this whole system work.” This ecosystem operates across three levels: the individual, organizations, and society and government. This complementarity makes the whole system work.