N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Your wisdom rings through the article, Mike! I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! Have you interviewed senior executives, Mike, to discover more of what’s behind their struggle with even simple decisions?” Great insights Susan.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Capitalizing upon change, rather than becoming a by-product of it. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. Quotes on The Future. ” Yogi Berra. The future is not a gift.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Culture and Mission. Philosophy.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Most people are more products of pop culture than they are of training. There have been books on fundraising and some articles on volunteer management and the business aspects of running non-profit organizations. Amplify discussions on community standards and ethics. Exemplifying ethical behavior. Helping others.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Websites that sell products are digital platforms, not the arbitrators of quality in the business world. That means doing things correctly the first time, without wasting counter-productive time in cleaning up mistakes. Productivity translates to profitability in an advantageous climate in which to function.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Design and re-engineering of products-services. Each product-service is budgeted. Assets are adequately valued and managed. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Maintains active crisis preparedness and prevention program. Study and refine your own core business characteristics.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

However it is my opinion that diversity is not being addressed properly, and as a result has become one of the leading killers of corporate productivity. When you force the diversity agenda for the wrong reasons (no matter how well intended) productivity suffers and resentment grows.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Professionals who succeed the most are the products of mentoring. Truth and ethics must be woven into how you conduct business. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. I heartily endorse that find a great mentor. The mentor is a resource for business trends, societal issues and opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. But the U.S. In most major U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

When organizations first become aware of a major problem with a product or service, one with important consequences for consumers or the environment, they face a dilemma. Ethically, the choice is simple. If management is aware of a problem, its moral duty is to communicate openly and honestly to all stakeholders involved.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. We make a good product… that should be enough. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Organizations must educate consumers, in a pro-active way, on how to best utilize their products-services. Interest rates are too high.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

The production was The Sound of Music , starring Carrie Underwood. I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. Ready… Set… Be productive.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

One-third of the Gross National Product is sent each year toward cleaning up mistakes, rework, make-goods, corrective action and correcting defects. According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters. Failures are the surest tracks toward future successes.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

How do you handle crisis management and preparedness? Walking the Talk: ethics, values, quality, vision. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Product-service movement at business-to-business levels. Product-service movement at retail levels.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition. Every day in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

Manufacturing problems at three different plants forced the company to recall more than 50 products, including over the counter drugs including Tylenol, Motrin, Rolaids and Benadryl, which led to a Congressional probe. He insists that no serious injuries have occurred, and that company's quality control problems are not systematic.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). Product recalls. Crisis management.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Unless an untreated psychological, neurological or psychiatric condition exists, an inability to change is likely self-inflicted by one or all of the following: no recognition of needed change; no desire to change, or lack of work ethic needed to cause the change. link] Kathy Gillen This is a powerful article, Mike!

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

Call it a hiccup or a long-term slump; every brand faces a crisis. Whether self-created or a swipe from the blind side, crisis recovery can be elusive. The J&J folks set the crisis management standard for all others to follow—to be prepared for that inevitable day when disaster WILL strike.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Even now, the highly skilled — and highly paid — specialists who power the leading financial institutions are supremely confident in their own abilities, speak a technical language few of us can understand, and apply their expertise to develop sophisticated, complex, and opaque financial products.

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