N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

If you have specialized knowledge in areas such as antiques or rare books, so much the better. Conduct classes in cake decorating, flower arranging, jewelry-making, gardening, automobile maintenance, carpentry, photography, or whatever your expertise happens to be.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Even solid world class institutions like the University of California Berkeley under the leadership of Chancellor Birgeneau & Provost Breslauer are firing employees, staff, faculty and part-time lecturers through “Operational Excellence (OE) initiative”: last year 600 were fired, this year 300.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Finance Without Fear : A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger Finance Without Fear should be read by anyone starting or managing a business. Finance does not need to be mysterious and intimidating. The goal of any business is to make money.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. Then expand your following with a world-class Web design. Ten Best Cities to Stage an Economic Revival Location is the other piece of the stimulus puzzle.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

And, emotional intelligence has been linked to successful leadership (just did a paper on this for a university class). Is your article title really about anger management or appropriate emotional expression in business? Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. The good news? A blog post?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now I am researching the first section of my new book “Dipping in the WELL: Women Executive Leadership Learning”. Strong yet Others are from books, films and politics. For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In fact, if you examine failed leaders as a class you’ll find that a lack of love, misplaced love, or misguided love were a contributing cause of said failures, if not the root cause. In the text that follows I’ll examine the softer sides of leadership – love, compassion, humility, kindness and empathy.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Over the years I have come to believe that “ having class &# is synonymous with demonstrating a penchant for humility over bravado. In today’ post I’ll share my thoughts on the value of learning to become a humble leader… It’s been said that life is a long lesson in humility.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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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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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

This weekend I had the honor of attending his graduation from EOD school where he was recognized as the Honor Graduate in his class (see above picture). There are many so-called management gurus in today’s politically correct world who would take great exception to what I’m putting forth in today’s post.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Watching how she instructs and interacts with the children in her class, I am reminded of many of the important skills a leader needs to demonstrate. A community in which little girls are either abandoned or murdered because they are viewed 2nd class citizens simply because they are girls. but you’ll not find that here.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the kind words Dan, and I hope you enjoy the book. One example from my latest book, Ruthless Focus, is Staples.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

To prove her commitment to what she calls the ‘lifestyle component’ of her business, her employees participate in a weekly yoga class at the office. She believes there is more to her company than money.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. Synchronize siloed processes : Imagine if ATC activities were standard but siloed off from other aviation processes, such as airport gate management.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

I was in my junior year of undergraduate school and I was thinking about going to law school when a professor asked me to be his teaching assistant in a communications class. We talked about the behavior patterns in my book “ Don’t Bring It to Work ” and especially the one that is all too familiar to women, the pleaser.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith Blog : Marshall Goldsmith is a class act, a competitor of mine (one of only two or three CEO coaches that I would recommend), and a deep thinker on the topic of leadership. TME is Phil’s latest blogging adventure and is a multi-author take on leadership and management that is simple, to the point and always positive.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Are you going after the book of business that’s right for you? Time Management: As a solo entrepreneur, I find myself toggling between prospecting for new business, meeting with clients, administrative responsibilities, networking, planning, strategizing, and, oh, I almost forgot…actually doing the work! What would Jane Fonda say?

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

This is why a growing government is always accompanied by a growing "mooching class." Programs and "Great Societies" and "fairer resource management" and "progress" are trumpeted as grand new foolproof ideas. Even children are not very receptive to instruction.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But there was one that, to me at least, was world class: GMI Engineering & Management Institute (today's Kettering University ). I knew it was world class because the neighbor kid had gone there and he was rich as a result.  I chose a college to attend. So I made a ten minute visit there with my father.

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 31, 2011

Orchestrations, administration, management, and coordination must also be looked to; usually by placing others with requisite gifts into correct positions. In short, leadership is the giving of what you have to others so they can collectively give (and accomplish) more than otherwise would have been possible.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

First, let's cover the basics, which are given more depth of treatment in Orrin Woodward and my book, Launching a Leadership Revolution.  An action plan might involve joining a health club, working out three to four times a week, and managing your caloric intake. Now, I am not a weight management specialist.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The essence of managing cognitive bias is to realize that it is unavoidable, it is an essential part of being human." As a member of the the class white men in business you are part of a privileged group that long ago set the criteria for success and excellence. However they they proceed to argue for elimination of same. [.]

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 12, 2011

And yes, they have been there at every step of our own little lives, as well.

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 20, 2011

I learned in a book by Stuart Olyott that the best preachers first state their message, then illustrate it, and then apply it practically to their listeners' lives. Children ask for stories to be told them but resist direct instruction. Communicate through stories. Bring your points to life with illustrations.

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Chris Brady

AUGUST 16, 2010

 No one else who picked the winner got another top 3 pick correct, and those who picked more than one of the top 3 didn't manage to get the correct winner. Now, if I could just figure out what to do with this autographed copy of my own book.) How many have signed books from the author?  And the winner is.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

in a garret somewhere" would "outline an ideology of the future that could provide a realistic path toward a world with healthy middle-class societies and robust democracies.". They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms. Its scribblers aren't in "a garret somewhere." Note to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Google is famous for its over-the-top perks , which include lunches made by a professional chef , biweekly chair massages, yoga classes, and haircuts. Twitter employees enjoy three catered meals per day, on-site acupuncture, and improv classes. SAS has a college scholarship program for the children of employees.

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Chris Brady

JULY 19, 2010

I am reminded of the Stephen King quote concerning the authorof Gone With the Wind: “Why didn’t she ever write another book?”   Success is the product of many components, of which one of themost prominent is focus. None of his sculptured works have survived, and only around a grandtotal of fifteen of his paintings are known.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

As an adjunct professor for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business , I’ve taught multiple classes for degree programs, as well as executive education offerings. Do you really need to learn everything about corporate finance — or do you just need some accounting basics to help you get a better grasp on reading a P&L?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2011

And Mark Perry , a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan, puts it in perspective with a handy chart.). The essential question, therefore, is: What is the logic for having world-class academic researchers (who, for the most part, have never managed a business themselves) teach business classes to MBA students?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Plus he had already contributed to the business literature with his best-selling book High Output Management (1983). We decided to write a second case study, and in winter of 1990 he taught two classes. In winter of 1991 he taught three classes. He liked it; the classroom suited his penetrating and curious intellect.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

When Toby Johnson was 24 years old, the Army pilot was in charge of eight $30 million Apache helicopters, plus the 30 people who managed them — more responsibility than any of her friends in the private sector. Toby Johnson, who I interviewed for my book Reinventing You , taught me this one. For some veterans, that can be tough.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The Dutch government listened, and the new charter ended up providing for regular audits of the company’s books, limited terms for the directors, annual dividends, and the appointment of a second board (still appointed by the cities, not the shareholders) to oversee the inside directors. There are two ways to look at this.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

And while hiring managers may be missing out on more qualified employees, they have a leg-up in finding workers who fit their company's culture. The stereotypes go something like this: women are bad at personal finance because their connection to money is too emotional. But for Employees with a capital "E"?

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