N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . Let me take this thinking one step further…I simply wouldn’t recommend clients accept capital from investors who can’t wield influence on their behalf, and add significant non-financial value to their business model.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. In fact, I would go so far as to say that CEOs who are not consistently reengineering elements of their business fall into one of the following two camps; 1) They have a perfect business, or; 2) They are an ineffective CEO.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

But a problem that’s becoming ever more visible is that some organisations have made authenticity their marketing strategy, rather than a business one. With good leadership at the core of these businesses, every member of the organisation are enabled to understand and demonstrate ‘why they do it, what they do and how they do it’.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? At the risk of drawing the ire of corporate elitists, I submit to you that the dumber your business is, the better off you are.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. What can set them apart is their ability to influence their internal processes (orientation and business model) and immediate external environment (networks) to ensure they remain future-ready.”. of respondents citing survival as a key challenge.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. 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. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

The next time you hear someone question an investment into design solely for the purpose of reducing expenditures, I would suggest that you think long and hard before doing so as few things in business produce the return on investment that a reputation for quality design can yield.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

If leaders uniformly spent the same amount of time and energy on people decisions as they do on strategy or finance, I believe that organizations would look and feel very different than they do today."

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

link] Scot Herrick Best practices excuse management of really understanding their business and strategy. Cost cutting and process improvements always have their place, but on their own accord don't constitute a sustainable business model. What say you?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Understanding the Role of a CRO In today’s volatile business environment, the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) has emerged as one of the most indispensable positions in a successful organization. As the responsible head for all revenue-generation strategies, a CRO is charged with aligning all revenue-related functions.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Address the nuts and bolts of business too. If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. If your city has a weekly business journal, read that too. Read your leading-edge industry publications, Forbes , other finance journals, and popular business books. Recently the St.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. “We needed an enduring strategy independent of any legislation,” recalls MedStar executive vice president Eric R. Strategies for staying ahead. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. ” In order to get there, he plans to “evolve our business model accordingly.” Changing your mental model is a prerequisite for changing your business model.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I’m curious about how leading across generations is impacting your business. Registration for this free online event will not only give you access to my video, but also presentations featuring some of today’s leading influencers. Sounds like an interesting event and line up.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Companies acquire to accelerate their overall strategy and digital transformation, as Publicis Groupe did when it acquired Sapient for $3.7 Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. The division head launched a major business reengineering effort, hired a leading consulting firm (and paid it millions), and dedicated his best people to the effort. What happened?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Danita Delimont/Getty Images. Insight center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Ideas in and of themselves do not constitute a philosophy, principle, or strategy. An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

As digital technologies continue to transform the economy, many leaders are struggling to set a digital strategy, shift organizational structures, and remove the barriers that are keeping them from maximizing the potential impact of new digital technologies. Strategies for growth in a connected world. Insight Center. Catalytic roles.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. This occurs when the founder’s leadership skills hit a limit, inhibiting the ability of the company to go to the next stage.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

What follows, then, is an attempt at culture shock — five hard questions about the “soft” side of business that leaders must be able to answer if they hope to build a workplace that works. Is your talent strategy rooted in your business strategy? Does your company work as distinctively as it competes?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model. Media builds like blocks: one exposure stacks atop another.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology. But while machine learning has many applications, it is just one of many AI-related technologies capable of solving business problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Three ways to manage the digital transition are: Define where change is needed most: Digital technology affects every company differently, but it tends to create or destroy value in four critical areas of the organization: customer engagement, digital products and services, operational performance, and preparing for disruptive new business models.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and detailed plans are signs of great leadership. Could we be overlooking – even resisting – one of the most essential catalysts of personal and business breakthroughs? But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Here are the philosophies and strategies that Merck’s EB group has used successfully, and each has implications for companies seeking new routes for profitable growth. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company. It’s not just products.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In fast-paced fields, staying up-to-date with the latest trends and skills lies at the core of their business model, and ensuring you bring relevant skills to the company can help you secure your position in the field. Then it might be important for you to prioritize leadership development while setting career goals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Yahoo’s forays into China started with a build strategy, which later became a buy strategy and ultimately morphed into a partnership strategy. content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

It is predicated on an established business model (good), plus a future growth path into the mobile space that is uncertain ( not so good ). Part of this is learning to get what you are doing right — to refine the business model, for instance. The forthcoming Facebook IPO gives us lots to talk about.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Business leaders striving to stand out from the competition need to reinvent their business model to marry digital and human experiences in the best way possible. Use these strategies to make your company customer-centric: 1. Recognize the importance of customer service to the bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Tor many people who want to solve pressing social and environmental problems, founding a social enterprise is the strategy of choice. Over the last five years there has been a substantial increase in the number of leading business schools offering courses to meet this demand. Some have decades of experience in their industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. The other extreme is, “I have no intentions but look I’ve created jobs, ex post ,” and that is the post-rationalization of an economics-only business model. Noble: Impact investing is about strategy.

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