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.&# It also requires knowing which questions to ask in order to quickly determine the action and timing that must be taken.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

” – Will Rogers. As you learn, keep asking yourself “What are the implications for my career, my industry and my life?” You need to know the truth about how customers feel about your service, or why your company has difficulty with vendors. Leaders think for themselves. How does it affect me?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. Case in point, like I joked about earlier, you ruined Everett Rogers’ model of diffusion innovation for me.

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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. You pointed out great potential outcomes, but the trick for many companies is creating the necessary paradigm shift in thinking that will allow these outcomes to become reality. Thanks for the astute observations Becky.

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QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2010

On 11th Jan 2010, Harvard Business Review’s blog featured a post titled “ Why Good Spreadsheets Make Bad Strategies ” by Roger Martin. Adding up sales won’t tell us what kind of a company we really have. It is almost easy to figure out “What” and “How” of processes once you have addressed “Why”.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Otherwise positive and productive team members begin to dread coming to work, and the group's best thinking gets siphoned off the company's mission as everyone scrambles to stay out of the bully's crosshairs. Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser.

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Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Personally, I find coaching to be the most effective when I’m feeling stuck or hitting a career plateau. If your company won’t foot the bill, ask what their personal rates are. I find different coaches are good for different stages of your career path. Most people seem to express surprise when they hear that. Happy leading!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

I often find myself immersed in the perfect pacing of a well-constructed mystery, the flawless delivery of that once-in-a-lifetime monologue, the scale and grandeur of the next big blockbuster — I get so caught up in all of it, sometimes I forget that I generally go there to tell companies their businesses are in trouble. Bundling good.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. In doing so, he discovered major flaws in the company that called for radical change. Others believe that leaders are born, not made.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. Any company or organization is like a tree. Business development. It’s lonely at the top.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

If you’ve participated in a training or development program in the past two decades, chances are you took an assessment designed to increase self-awareness. Yet in talent development practice, companies spend millions of dollars and countless hours every year on self-reported assessments that only target self-knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

Yet Semmelweis and Antioco had not only authority, but also had the facts on their side and were willing to risk their careers. Yet often you’ll find that they’re not nearly as funny when viewed in different company. They failed nonetheless. Yet conformity is never absolute. Eventually, a cascading effect ensues.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 7, 2019

In it, he interviewed me about my approach to personal development. Sonnenberg, who serves on several boards and consults for companies you would know and respect, writes about issues important to your success. I reached out to him to learn more about his approach to personal development. Frank Sonnenberg. Nothing syrupy here.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

. “The higher you go in an organization, the more you’re expected to make decisions on which you might not have direct experience or expertise,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

So in this article, I’ll walk through how we applied this approach to a particular product at a start-up, and how it led to large-scale adoption and, ultimately, the acquisition of the company. In this case, we asked the question, “Why do students develop resumes to find jobs?”

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It was Will Rogers who famously observed that “common sense ain’t all that common.”. For the past 40 years I’ve consulted and coached leaders from the factory floor to the boardroom in some of the world’s best companies in multiple industries. Senators, and headed worldwide communications at Campbell Soup Company.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. This holds true for any company, institution and for any person. Any company or organization is like a tree. Business development. Your company will. You should.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. Great CEOs possess what often appears to be a sixth sense or an almost instinctive feel for what the company needs to do to make money and remain competitive. Mark Oakes Good post, Mike!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2011

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. This holds true for any company, institution and for any person. Any company or organization is like a tree. Business development. by Hank Moore. Running the business.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool.

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CO2

JULY 11, 2012

Many contest entrants described how, in an effort to get unstuck, they developed new skills or discovered ones they weren’t aware existed. Not only did that give me a career, it gave me the confidence after a violent marriage. by Roger Rankin | Submitted Jun 05, 2012. I was working for a company called A/Z.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Founders bet years of their lives on finding product market fit, investors bet billions on the future value of ambitious startups, and executives bet that their strategies will increase a company’s prospects. If an individual can gain a predictive edge, so can a company. But our approach to prediction seems stuck in the past.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L.

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