N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2012

They all too frequently end-up running with the wrong crowd only to find themselves out of the league only a few years later with nothing left to show for their success. A real legacy is lived in the present, and as a result it endures the test of time in magnificent fashion. It is all about the organization.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 16, 2013

Allowing ourselves to run too far ahead of our team only leaves them in the dust; they cannot follow what they cannot keep up with. If we aren’t careful to slow down a bit and explain the intuitive leaps, our unprepared organizations will go off halfcocked. Don’t Get Caught Up In the Tyranny of the Supposed Urgent.

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The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

One of the biggest challenges organizations face is making the commitment to develop a well thought out strategic plan. So why don’t more organizations engage in strategic planning? Depending on the size of your organization and the desired outcomes for the planning process, there is a strategic planning process that is right for you.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As we enter the 2020s in a post-pandemic landscape, new reasons are emerging as to why coaching is rising in prominence—for organizations to proudly offer and for employees to wisely pursue. Reach out to see how we can help your organization with your corporate coaching needs. The great resignation is here, and it’s real. August 2021.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2020

Until recently, very few CEOs, IT, or marketing professionals would have put ‘data optimization’ high on the list of agenda items that keep them up at night. Bottom line: Your products and services should be where your clients are. These days — and by my estimation — this notion has become a top priority for the majority of businesses.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 30, 2011

Because the meetings were poorly conceived and poorly facilitated, it turned out that most meetings just ended-up being rehashing sessions for the subjects not resolved in prior meetings – a theme most of you are probably all too familiar with. The bottom line is meetings that don’t drive action are useless – no exceptions.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

At its worst, it can bring down an entire organization. Sometimes people engage in plain old-fashioned bad behavior. The bottom line is that they hunger for recognition, but their behavior can quickly wreck even a strong team. An organization that compromises on quality jeopardizes everything it does. Pouting and yelling.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 21, 2012

As a result of these controversies and debates, some pundits have been pushing the idea that CEOs and other leaders should refrain from sharing their opinions on any issue and instead, limit their focus or attention to matters that impact their organization’s bottom line.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 21, 2012

As a result of these controversies and debates, some pundits have been pushing the idea that CEOs and other leaders should refrain from sharing their opinions on any issue and instead, limit their focus or attention to matters that impact their organization’s bottom line.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2011

And with the current uncertainties over whether the world is about to enter a double-dip recession, it’s unlikely that we’ll see some form of an employee exodus from these organizations where poor working environments continue to persist, if not worsen over time.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Every workplace is plagued with manipulative people who use emotion to create conflict in order to cover-up for their lack of substance. So, what creates conflict in the workplace?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Here’s the thing…you really don’t need to work too hard to identify leaders within an organization – they are the ones taking on the greatest levels of responsibility and delivering on their commitments. They are the ones that put the needs of others, as well as the needs of the organization, ahead of their own.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium. “My way or the highway&# leadership styles don’t play well in today’s world, will result in a fractured culture, and ultimately a non-productive organization. Bottom line – leaders who build a static business doom themselves to failure.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

My suspicion is your best memories are of those teachers who inspired you, encouraged you, brought out your passion, and challenged you in a positive fashion. They either don’t value your contributions, or they know from experience that you’ll treat their inquiry in a belittling fashion. The boss will never go for that.&#

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

The following list of suggestions is my gift to you in hope that it will allow you to outsmart those that feel they cannot be outsmarted… Define Acceptable Behavior : This first thing all CEOs need to do is to accept responsibility for any “corporate crazies&# who have taken residence in their organization. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I only care that they are totally committed to making a positive contribution to the organization. The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization. I wholeheartedly agree with what you have stated. Great article.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

That is, the manager takes an assessment, the results go back to the manager, and a coach helps to interpret the results and come up with a development plan. Here is where I see managers and organizations get into potential trouble: they want to take that favorite development assessment and use it to make selection decisions.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 9, 2016

A few weeks later, I followed up with him. I realize we all get busy and it may sometimes delay a response, but people are too valuable not to respond to them in a timely fashion. It makes a person mistrust you or the organization. Make responsiveness an extremely high value in the organization. He never heard anything.

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 23, 2016

Accompanying it was a big, bold headline that read, “Burn Your Boss” and a tagline at the bottom that said, “Report the use of unlicensed software.” There was one item that looked a bit more personal, so I picked it up for closer inspection. I called the number. Okay, lay it on me,” I said taking out my yellow legal pad.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Below is an edited version of my conversation with Porcini on a variety of topics, from prototyping to the essential qualities of a great design organization. Design in this context relies on the prototyping process, which can create a lot of value inside organizations because it aligns the full organization around one idea.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 8, 2009

Yet, some of us still manage to muck it up. The bottom line : If you don’t represent yourself honestly where ever you are, the example you set will not ring true for those you want to influence the most. The Bottom Line: If you have ever had the idea that you can say one thing and do another and not be found out, think again.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. When a job opens up in today’s economy, it receives a lot of attention. Or she may want to give up a higher level position in order to get back to something she enjoyed doing earlier in her career.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Rodger Dean Duncan: What role does mindset play in a person’s ability to fashion a meaning-filled life that will be gratefully remembered by others? The bottom line…Never win at the expense of a relationship. Mistakes don’t make you a failure but beating yourself up makes you feel like one. But not everyone sees it that way.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. And, whether by means of Facebook, Twitter, streaming video, or by old-fashioned word of mouth, public relations, or personal sales skill, the goal is to win, right? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

This type of disengagement is outlined by Gallup''s latest " State of the American Workplace " report, which has implications for you, your financial bottom line, and the well-being of your company, so I pulled out some charts from the report that I found striking. They drive innovation and move the organization forward.". "

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Traditional firms had the edge in the boom times, racking up average annual revenue increases of 12% compared with employee-owned firms’ 10%. But when the downturn hit, the bottom dropped out at the traditional firms, as revenue increases plummeted to 0.6%. Growing Economies the Old-Fashioned Way (The Independent).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Although in Japan, like China, there is a strong deference to authority (scale 3, Leading), Japan is a consensual society where decisions are often made by the group in a bottom-up manner. By contrast, in China decisions are most often made by the boss in a top-down fashion (scale 4, Deciding). All the best, Erin.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

Since then, leaders from business, government, and civil society organizations have come together to address fire and building-safety issues in the apparel factories. How are such advances linked to bottom-line benefits such as employee loyalty and higher productivity? But the tragedy of Rana Plaza isn’t that a building fell down.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

This is why so many digital transformation initiatives don’t live up to expectations, or even fail altogether. The digital world requires a CIO with the vision to see emerging changes and opportunities, and the leadership to transition and transform organizations. business and the technology challenges facing the client.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. And, whether by means of Facebook, Twitter, streaming video, or by old-fashioned word of mouth, public relations, or personal sales skill, the goal is to win, right? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

In this spirit let me introduce you to just such a report: Networks for Prosperity: Achieving Development Goals through Knowledge Sharing ( here is a pdf ), just published by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the Leuvan Centre for Global Governance Studies. But how would those rankings stack up?

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NGO Bottom-up Report GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Size once gave organizations purchasing power. Most existing big organizations — the 800-pound gorillas — subscribe to Michael Porter's value chain framework. But for organizations wanting to thrive in the social era, being distinct is key to both profitability and winning. Being big ain't enough, anymore.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Hand your marketing team the keys to these social network vehicles, give them a few bucks to spruce up your website with some nice share links, and your job is done. You use Facebook to project your desired brand, Twitter to target your desired customers, LinkedIn to target your next recruitment campaign.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

What’s more, those that take this initial step are getting a leg up on AI’s future, since that step is going to be a prerequisite for everything that follows. At the less-expensive end is a knowledge-based approach that organizes data and language into highly malleable and helpful blocks of information. Insight Center.

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