N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# So much so, that if you don’t think timing is everything - think again.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I love the way you have clearly differentiated between strategy and tactics – so many people get them confused and end up playing checkers instead of chess… Thanks, Landon Creasy [link] [link] Roger Martin Mike: This is an excellent tool. It is as comprehensive for leadership traits as I’ve seen in many other assessments.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I’ve really enjoyed that for this book. Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. We’re glad to hear that you thought the article worked as an entire book. LARRY: Sure. Thank you, by the way.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Will Rogers. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I have written several books, on business, entertainment, history and pop culture. My four Legends books include “Pop Icons and Business Legends,” “The Classic Television Reference,” “Houston Legends” and “Non-Profit Legends.” There has never been a full-scope book on non-profit service. This series will have three more to come.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. 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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Management Craft

APRIL 24, 2011

Is the paradox of abundance operating in the background of your life? I will be writing more about this in the coming weeks, but I have decided to look for guidance (for myself and for the individuals and organizations I work with) by examining the overlap of several important books/works about happiness. Clear goals. Engagement.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When that happens, you don’t need a lot of rules because people make judgments that are in sync with what the business needs and how the business operates to get there. When the two are highly aligned, we see that spark where employees are rowing hard in the same direction to execute the business strategies quickly and effectively.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

DAVID: This has nothing to do with the book. I should say what triggered this is the new book. I really love to dig you into this book for a lot of reasons we’ll get into in a second. How did this research question come about and sort of morph and turn into this book? ” ANDREW: It is great.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

In my new book, Power Genes , I explore the link between a person's family history and the power style this person frequently displays on the job. Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. I'm at a loss when it comes to managing Cynthia," Roger confessed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

In 1962, an academic by the name of Everett Rogers released a book called The Diffusion of Innovations. Rogers, who spent much of his early career studying the adoption of agricultural innovation, aptly pointed out that many innovations are slow to see adoption not for lack of appeal but for lack of an appropriate ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bob Lutz in his recent book Car Guys vs. Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The poster child for his view was Roger Smith who was an MBA-trained accounting and finance specialist.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

David Foster Wallace provided an eloquent description of how muscle memory contributes to "kinesthetic sense" in a brilliant New York Times article about Roger Federer in 2006. That's all well and good, you are probably thinking, but what does this have to do with innovation? They don't have the muscle memory to rely on in tough spots.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Roger Martin and Sally Osberg argue in their new book, Getting Beyond Better , that the answer is social entrepreneurs, who target unjust and unsustainable systems — or “equilibria” — and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

But according to research one of us (Julia) conducted for her book Pivot Points , the key differentiator between the career arc of someone who becomes a successful business leader and the average person is consistency in how the person makes major decisions. “We were Abelson-Frankel, yet operated as two separate agencies.”

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

5) Operational Transparency -. Daniel Goleman used the term in his book Ecological Intelligence. And, if you trust yourself to be an open book, your customers will trust you. Additionally, the further you press the urgency of sharing knowledge, the more likely that a feedback loop will result. Mayer, James H. Davis and F.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I booked myself onto a course. Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model? He also writes about improving business operations at www.squawkpoint.com. So whilst I might be a process guy it is change management that pays my mortgage.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

How do you maintain the cohesion” at a multinational corporation with far-flung operations spanning myriad cultures? What is value to the customer,” Drucker wrote in his 1999 book Management Challenges for the 21st Century , “is always something quite different from what is value or quality to the supplier.”.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 1, 2016

It’s also what got me hooked on the main protagonist of Robert Ludlum’s books. Security breaches happen : Nicky Parsons, played by Julia Stiles, was a former CIA operative who knew her way around computers. Hearing Aaron Kalloor say this reminded me of the Kenny Rogers song The Gambler. Then the movies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Business books, magazines, and blogs are chock full of advice about how to give feedback to individuals, but how do you do the same for your entire team? When a team works well together, it’s because its members are operating from the same mindset and are clear about their goals and their norms,” says Schwarz. How much is too much?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

In their book in Getting to Yes , Harvard negotiators Roger Fisher and William Ury define an interest as a broad desire that a person or group of people have for something. voting versus non-voting shareholders), participation levels (owner-operators versus passive owners), gender, and generations (senior versus next).

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

There are a number of ways to do this, as outlined in co-author David Silverman’s leadership and management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World. David Silverman: Shared consciousness is the single most important capability for organizations operating in complex environments.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P. Everything operated as its own unit. As you consider the HPU story, you can conclude that when you are in the transformation business, the proof isn ’ t just in the students, but the campus, staff, operations, and even the nuances. This was part of the problem at the college.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan. Leadership & Managing People Book. This article is adapted from the Harvard Business Review Press book Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader. Adapted from.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Many books have been written on the subject of leadership. While all good leaders must keep the company’s internal operations moving forward, the very best ones must also be looking outside the company towards the customers, clients, financiers, volunteers and the organization’s entire affected constituencies. Profound influence.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

So it was notable, to say the least, when Roger Martin recently wrote in Harvard Business Review that he thinks that all the talk about adaptive strategy is a cop-out. In his book , Martin defines strategy as making an integrated set of choices about “where to play and how to win,” which is a very reasonable way to go about it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

When doing research for our book , we found that the main reasons most companies suffer from this syndrome are that they make across-the-board cuts that are unconnected to their strategy, and fail to make the cuts sustainable. ” Call it cost management fatigue. They cut costs to grow stronger.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Already, in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom Friedman had declared that “there is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Instead of reading like it was written by a committee of academics, it's as easy to understand as Mr. Rogers. The button that says "Read client surveys" takes you to a book that you can flip through, with client ratings and comments in nice fat 18-point type. In every way and at every level, it's the opposite of what you expected.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

But in the business world, their precise equivalents are standard operating procedure. Roger Martin is the Dean of the Rotman School of Management and the author of the new book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL. It is time business learned a few things from football.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We were supposed to be coming up with ideas for improving the company’s customer experiences, but the head of operations could not think of a single new customer service idea to explore. They were happy to maintain the age-old silo between marketing and operations. I was stunned.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The HR Digest: In your book, you discuss unique leadership competencies and how leaders connect employees to customers. Dave Ulrich and I write about differentiating competencies in our book, Leadership Brand. Transformative change requires an organization to change not only how it operates but, even more importantly, how people think.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

So far the self-examination has focused chiefly on its sales techniques; as detailed in the RNC report and Robert Draper's New York Times Magazine cover story last month on young Republican operatives, GOP pollsters have been convening lots of focus groups in which people tell them the party comes across as old, angry, and out of touch.

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