N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? Are your management and executive ranks void of youth?

Business Model 361

Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Despite maturity, confidence, and by all external accounts, success, I still really, really want to be liked. Governor’s Conference for Women. All other childhood aspirations have gone by the wayside–marrying Shaun Cassidy, winning Wimbledon, living on a horse ranch. Why does this one refuse to fade? The answer is obvious.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 180

Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The more mature you get, the better you get at managing ego.” “In Management is not a science, it is an art.” Challenge will be to manage them!” When technology, access, information and how consumers buy changes, so must management.” Time for a re-boot on how we manage and think about business.”

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Management Simon COO Blog 48

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

This principle applies to sales representatives if they want to be successful in their career. We focus on quarterly goals, the weekly conference calls, and the ever-looming concern over what this year’s bonus will be-all the while overlooking ideas that keep us on top of our game. Self-stagnation. About the Author.

Sports 50

Sports Open-book Follow-up Career 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. From a business strategist who can appear aloof and dismissive of those with less intellectual horsepower, to a general manager who aligns and inspires her region through personal connections and demonstrates genuine care for people. franckreporter/Getty Images.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

So how do you know when your skills have matured to the point that you’ve become an excellent communicator? Great communicators can tailor a message such that they can speak to 10 people in a conference room or 1,000 people in an auditorium and have them feel as if you were speaking directly to each one of them as an individual.

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Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 417

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. Most conference evaluation forms are lightweight and ask for surface rankings.rather than for nuggets of knowledge learned. What is their maturity level? Niche trainers impart their own perspectives out of context to the whole of the organization. What is their longevity?

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Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Sure, you used to love it, and the more successful you became, the higher up the ranks of management you went. I was merely managing the people who actually did and made things. I had little autonomy, little interest in gaining mastery as a manager (in spite of myriad coaches), and felt dissociated from my true self.

Management 9

Management Career Creativity Health Care 9

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

Sarah busted her corporate idol, and made a dramatic career change – from investment banker to professional triathlete. I loved my job so it made the long hours manageable, but it was also stressful. On the way to the church I was on a conference call with a client because the call “couldn’t be rescheduled”. So many benefits!

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Training Sports Learning-by-Doing Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV , agrees. Here’s how to give hiring managers what they’re looking for. Chances are the hiring manager or recruiter is reading a stack of these, so you want to catch their attention. Hiring managers are looking for people who can help them solve problems.

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Letter How To Maturity Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. As IT steps up as mentor, it needs to mature as well. See also here , here , and here.)

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Drag each of your direct reports into a conference room for a one-on-one, hand them an official-looking document, and then start in with the same, tired conversation. For managers, the discussion is just as tense. Beinecke Professor of Management at Yale School of Management. Performance management is a process, he says.

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Performance Review Review Case Study Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Knowing that mature firms must become more venturesome to continue growing, business gurus routinely advise them to embrace failure.

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Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

This sort of thing—purposely losing matches to escape intolerable anxiety—happened dozens of times throughout my school sports career. Since this response is at least partly hardwired (more on that later), it’s not something you tend to outgrow as you mature and gain perspective. Managing yourself Personal effectiveness Stress'

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Sports Stress Learning-by-Doing Maturity 10