In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2011

So now you’ve cut costs and freed up some cash. Half of that cost savings went to the consumer – the other half went to our bottom line. Nabob Coffee’s market share accelerated to 25% and national leadership as arch rival Maxwell House worked to catch up. That’s far from the end of it. And guess what? Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

This is more than a semantical issue – it’s become a systemic problem with many individuals and organizations. As I’ve said many times before, things don’t always have to boil down to either/or types of decisions – not everything must end-up on the altar of sacrificial decisioning. Bottom line…check your motivations.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2014

In so many organizations, finance, economics and the pursuit of individual prosperity continue to be the only subjects worthy of respect and concentration. The business world was the land of bottom lines. Systems thinking. Do I mean that we must abandon our focus on finance and economics and Individual prosperity?

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Diversity Definition Finance System 69

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Companies with greater diversity not only have higher retention, but they have higher revenues and operating results, as well as higher brand recognition in their marketplaces. With 74% of workers considering a company’s DE&I commitment when deciding to work there, according to EY’s recent Belonging Barometer 3.0,

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

How many times have you put up with, or overlooked certain weaknesses in people because of their considerable strengths in other areas? The sad thing is they don’t just exist on the golf course… My bottom line is this…real leaders don’t accept mediocrity - they constantly seek improvement. Know the type?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? I believe that it can actually be both, but that decision lies solely with the employer, and is not really up to the employee no matter how much they might feel it is.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

No is not all it’s cracked-up to be…Still don’t believe me? It means your vision is not understood, your team is not aligned and your talent is not performing up to par. Bottom line…Yes is not a sign of weakness – it’s a sign of intelligent leadership. But are they?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2019

If you took everyone’s minutes they used and added them up, you will see how much you could save that paying per user isn’t the most cost-effective model. Some providers charge ‘by the seat’ or by how many people access the system. For example: A salesperson may use 1,000 minutes per month while someone from IT might only use 100.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 19, 2012

In so many organizations, finance, economics and the pursuit of individual prosperity continue to be the only subjects worthy of respect and concentration. It used to work. The business world was the land of bottom lines. Systems thinking. The workforce did what it was told. It’s like mining for gold.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

systems, air travel feels a bit more like a chore than like a treat. That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. In the U.S., Recall how the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium. Bottom line – leaders who build a static business doom themselves to failure. Visit [link] to learn more about the leadership system. The best leaders are focused on leading change and innovation to keep their organizations fresh, dynamic and growing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. They are usually quick to recognize operational problems and deal with them before they become disasters. Operational meltdowns at midsized companies can take much longer to notice and resolve.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change. health care with this venture, set up in partnership with America’s largest not-for-profit hospital network, Ascension. prices, and even at those prices it could be extremely profitable as patient volume picked up.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2020

It can be difficult yet rewarding to keep a small business up and running. Whether you’re looking to reopening or just need to cut down your current operating costs, there’s much a small business owner can do. Are you still running archaic old systems and doing everything by hand? Embrace New Technologies.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Bottom line…Just because a professor says it’s so, a consultant recommends it, a book has been written on it, or a product has been developed for it doesn’t mean that whatever “ it &# is constitutes the right option for you. As always, I welcome your comments below… Share and Enjoy: View Comments myersk Agree.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 19, 2012

In so many organizations, finance, economics and the pursuit of individual prosperity continue to be the only subjects worthy of respect and concentration. It used to work. The business world was the land of bottom lines. Systems thinking. The workforce did what it was told. It’s like mining for gold.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The experiential, highly interactive course included intensive exploration and training in 4 core Masteries: Personal Mastery, Interpersonal Mastery, Team Mastery and Culture and Systems Mastery. We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. High quality service was not a value before we started.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While that has long been considered traditional retirement age, Boomers are known for bucking the system. Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Being able to get what your business needs in terms of new equipment is just one challenge that you have to find a way to face up to and if you can learn from others that have been there before you it could give you the vision to succeed. You might also want to look at arrange equipment finance to help fund your growth plans.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

Critics complain that the institutions supporting microfinance have become too greedy, and many are using this as an argument to deeply regulate or, even more, cut support to microfinance operations. India recently introduced new regulations for microfinance operations. It would be easy to give up. But Padma didn't give up.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They put up almost no capital and usually lower their day-to-day energy costs. I spoke with Owens Corning execs, catching up after working with them a number of years ago, to understand how they did it. Get early buy-in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

It may feel as though the financial system hasn’t changed much in the decade since the downturn, but it has. Most of the regulation was meant to safeguard the financial system, and the taxpayers who had to bail it out, from another crisis. Many other financial firms including AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac needed bail outs.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. Customers don’t expect to get bottom-of-the-barrel prices everywhere they go, but they do expect to be treated with respect. Recently I ordered some shoes from Zappos that ended up not fitting.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. When Cisco rolls out the sensors globally, these savings will add up. Operations in a Connected World. Some sectors have woken up already.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

When it comes to operational improvement, organizations today are light years ahead of where they were two decades ago, but there's no time to celebrate yesterday's wins. Ford, for example, reengineered its global product development process to keep all parties, including suppliers, up to date on the status of new products in its pipeline.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

While advancements like AlphaGo Zero make for catchy headlines, it is fairly conventional machine learning and statistical techniques — ordinary least squares, logistic regression, decision trees — that are adding real value to the bottom line of many organizations. with no increase in crime rates.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The value of the shares bought then, in fact, makes up a big chunk of Yahoo’s value today, and the windfall from that purchase is what many hope will allow the company to remake its future. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. We insisted that the local team follow Yahoo reporting, systems, and governance requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. Viewed this way, there is a bottom-up solution to the problem of America’s uninsured. a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. America spends $3.3

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Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Both sides share a general dissatisfaction with our current capitalist system. The right says if we could just get the government out of the way, then the capitalist system would work. The Wealth of Nations presupposed actors in the capitalist system operating on the moral framework he laid out in the Theory of Moral Sentiments.

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Morale Self-aware Bottom-up System 21

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Imagine that you wanted a new home theater system. It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. But Burberry stopped short of doing what makes the most sense to their bottom line. Now, let's go back to that imagined home entertainment system. Big Isn't Enough.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. Failed deals impose significant out-of-pocket costs (financial advisory fees and due diligence expenses) and take up a lot of management time and energy, distracting many senior managers from important line responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

This advice, adapted from the book Finance Basics , will help you better understand how to create a useful budget. Make sure those goals line up with the organization’s strategic priorities. As you move up in the organization, the scope of your budget will broaden. Finance Basics (20-Minute Manager Series).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Our overburdened air-traffic-control system struggles to deal with increasingly crowded skies. “Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. Railway systems are near capacity. The Future of Operations. Highways can’t keep up with demand. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

How easy is it to change a flawed economic or governance system, such as our current 1.5-planets-and-counting We'd see more corporate social responsibility, socially responsible investing and sustainability reporting, but overall the outcome would be little more than a set of patches on the existing, dysfunctional system.

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