N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. Thanks for laying out key success factors. The lie = success is about doing/being the best you can be. Success will come if you pursue excellence. Adjustments or adjournment.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

They use phrases like “doing well by doing good” when they send out press releases about their donation to a local food bank as if that small percentage of their revenue is suddenly the justification for their entire business success. It’s just a donation. And there are lots of other oils that do largely the same job.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

It's not news to anyone who's looked for a job recently that the days of a monolithic career spent at one company or in one well-defined field are over. Many of us have had to — willingly or out of necessity — rethink our career paths. At six years old, I knew what I wanted to be: a designer. I started out designing cars.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

During one of these conversations, a prospective investor turned to Clay, and said (paraphrasing), "Love disruptive innovation theory. Even in the middle of my career, it felt like a punch to the solar plexus. When we are outside the apparatus of power, we have to find workarounds if we are to achieve success.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Time to disrupt myself. We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry. With a nod to McClure: "Dear You.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Plan: Plans need to be continually reviewed to keep the team on track Productivity (Measures & Accountability): assigning tasks, measuring success and rewarding results are an oft overlooked element of successful team development. With you action plan in hand, it’s now up to you as the team lead to champion the team forward.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. and The Career Playbook. A ‘Top Ten’ global coach.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. From Alexander the Great to the modern day, the elements of management — from organizational behavior to supply chain management — have made the difference between success and failure. First, ideas are important. They have the power to change the world.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

One cancer trial costs about $200 million and has fairly low odds of success. But if you do lots of research and conduct many trials at the same time, your odds of success are greater. SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. Female Leaders Make Startups Successful (Bloomberg Businessweek).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Be warned: uppity attitudes undermine companies and careers. Consider one of coffee's most successful innovation spinoffs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

But even stuck in our current reality, you can still do some things to advance your own career. As the theory of disruptive innovation explains, the odds of success are low when we make a frontal assault on the status quo. There are clearly still major systemic changes that need to occur for women to achieve parity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Business leaders, along with the companies they lead, will need to take an active stance, shaping the conditions for future success, rather than merely reacting to twists in the plot. Education is critical in creating career mobility and equality of opportunity, which are at least as important as, and closely tied to, income gaps.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

It’s understandable then that speakers fall back on a similar set of themes: graduates should dream big, failure is part of the path to success, this generation comes to the rescue of a world in need of saving. You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Step 3: As disruptive innovators, from Albert Einstein to Jack Dorsey, put it, "Question everything!" During the debrief, most participants agreed that asking nothing but questions was a surprisingly powerful tool for revealing innovative solutions. Innovation' It makes the quest much more intriguing.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Why Culture and Leadership Matter for Disruptive Innovation by James daSilva via @SBLeaders. 12 Things That Successful Leaders Never Tolerate by @LollyDaskal. From @PaulJSohn How Does Emotional Intelligence Affect Your Career [Infographic]. From @JohnBaldoni Presence : Your Key to Stronger And Bolder Leadership.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. This is the book that launched the idea of EQ into the public domain. By David Ulrich.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

The most successful companies, products, and brands have figured out how to become the most of something — not just adequate, but downright amazing. Gerard van Grinsven, West Bloomfield's CEO, joined Henry Ford after a long career with Ritz-Carlton. "I

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Associate director for the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia University Business School and author of Nine Things Successful People Do Differently. The key to success (scientifically speaking) is perseverance. But those paths, the ones you learned about in your career offices aren''t the only ones afforded to you.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

And most CEOs who talked about using Design Thinking to remake their companies' culture appeared to choose globalization over innovation. The Corporate Elite continued to do what they did most of their careers: increase efficiencies, boost scale, and lower costs to maximize profits. and the level of employment.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Communities of practice, where they share a common career or field of business, will extend your offer because it extends their expertise (like McAfee mavens ). Perhaps the new model for a successful business should be "Nimble." The "species" that adapt to the changes in the environment faster will do better. That is for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

This is popular both with lawyers who self-identify as stay-at-home parents and with those who have second careers (Counsel on Call is headquartered in Nashville and provides day jobs for musician-lawyers there). Big Law’s commanding market lead in specific practices areas is also being challenged by boutique firms.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas. Singaporeans are not,” critics would respond.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 8, 2015

Your brightest ambitions, breakthrough ideas, compelling goals, disruptive innovations, fulfilling relationships, elevating possibilities--even your best-laid, most ingenious plans--utterly depend on GRIT. Success Through Effective Communication. GRIT Ignites. GRIT Undergirds. Discovering Your Signature Talents. Stoltz Ph.D.'

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