Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. Michigan), is president of Eich Associated , a marketing and public relations consulting firm.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

When a company has clout, there isn’t much incentive to re-invent. To ‘entrepreneurs in waiting’ who want to begin their careers in a corporation, I suggest the following: 1. Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone. Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone.

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CEO Advice Company Competitive Advantage 170

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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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? There is a tremendous amount of conflicting data as to whether or not incentive compensation in any form is an effective motivation tool. That is the question.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2019

Ultimately, you can’t easily switch career unless you can be confident that your skills are transferable – or that you don’t need them to build a successful presence. In reality, building and maintaining your market presence is the most critical operation. Reason for failing: Ignoring the international competition.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. Retaining High-Impact Performers .

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Coaching Tip

APRIL 1, 2013

Traditionally the thinking has been that employers should appeal to workers’ more obvious forms of self-interest: financial incentives, yes, but also work that is inherently interesting or offers the possibility for career advancement. The law of reciprocity is not what can best be described as "transactional reciprocity."

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Social Capital Cialdini Mentor Incentives 139

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Whether paid work or a volunteer role within a church, placing people in positions where they can maximize their strengths, know that they are truly valued and that they play a significant role in fulfilling the vision will go a long way towards preventing burn out and loosing incentive. Great interview Mike! Thanks for stopping by Jennifer.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

_After all, culture is defined by the behaviors that are incented and repeated inside your company. However, Cultural marketing simply makes sense. Look anywhere and marketing is found: taxis, bathrooms, buses, subways, and, of course, all the typical places. I think not, and I’ll explain why.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The park, which has been operating for a decade, has created a free zone and business park to encourage multinationals to rub shoulders with researchers and startups to generate technology-driven businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

We also know that private equity funds have outperformed public equity markets over the last three decades , even after the fees they charge are accounted for. ” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times.

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

Companies need to institutionalize innovation rather than expect it to simply flow forth from intrapreneurs operating within existing structures. To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

According to “Spin Selling” author Neil Rackham, when Xerox first established a sales operations group in the 1970s to take on activities such as sales planning, compensation, forecasting, and territory design, group leader J. •Administer quarterly sales incentive compensation plans and the goal setting process.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Lowe's also tries to assess the "people change" needs that will be required in future operational improvement initiatives — as much as three years out.

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. In their marketing, accounting and auditing firms claim to be full-service business advisors, in order to get business. Incentive and ‘random acts of kindness’ programs were deleted. Community Relations.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

This includes understanding employee needs and putting in place policies and operating principles that maximize engagement. This undermines the careers of less experienced attorneys whose early errors can result in exclusion from future assignments. This is rife with the influence of unconscious bias. Clients also have a role to play.

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Talent Management Incentives Efficiency Training 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

For Tesla, adding more human labor to the mix means extending traditional jobs with additional responsibilities that would help ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the Alien Dreadnought. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Adding Humans to the Mix. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market. Your career depended on that business going forward, and the numbers that mattered had to do with the performance of that business, not with Sony as a whole.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

“Personal experience makes me a more effective marketer.” The team was structured to operate like a startup, with a particular focus on user research, feedback, and a commitment to lean operations. ” Give Employees Direct Access to Consumers. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

A snapshot measure of a worker’s current pay is a poor substitute for their career pay within the firm. In short, CEOs and employees compete in very different markets, one that scales with firm size and one that scales less. Firms can disclose the vesting schedule of incentives.

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CEO Price Long-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My company, CareerBuilder (which operates the U.S.'s s largest online job site), has found that the country is experiencing the symptoms of a multi-speed labor market. On our careers site, we're seeing wages rise for specialized technology positions. Tailor compensation levels accordingly.

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Skills Incentives Training Positioning 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories. More often the dilemmas were the result of competing interests, misaligned incentives, clashing cultures. Incentives and pressure to inflate achievement of targets. Cross-cultural differences.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

According to the research report “ Accelerating Entrepreneurship in Africa ,” 57% of survey respondents in major African economies considered becoming an entrepreneur a desirable career choice. He invested in training his staff, but that backfired as those individuals then became more marketable and moved on.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Yes, too much involvement can lead to a fixation on incremental improvements that can be shepherded to market quickly, to impact the next quarter’s results. ” But as that transition plays out, few companies are paying sufficient attention to creating accountability and incentives for success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Such plans frequently include giving managers financial incentives to do what they should have done before — concentrating on the most promising lines, selling off dud businesses, and "leaning down" operations, often including headcount.

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Due Diligence Incentives Hedge Collins 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

The Cardinals, quarterbacked by an inspired Kurt Warner in the twilight of his illustrious career, mounted a spectacular comeback to go ahead 23-20 on a 64-yard touchdown bomb to Larry Fitzgerald with 2:37 left in the game. But in the business world, their precise equivalents are standard operating procedure.

CEO 14

CEO Consensus Conference Rogers 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Places full of highly mobile and in-demand workers operate more democratically. In the words of Empson and Alvehus they have gained “legitimacy to lead through market success.” And they can find the secrets to enjoying a brilliant career in an organization where so many are brilliant. How do they do that?

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Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

And it confuses young, promising managers about what skills and behaviors they need to develop to advance their careers. This investment can take the form of enhanced development opportunities, such as special assignments or training, rewards and incentives, greater authority, additional resources, and increased feedback.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations. We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals. In fact, the report points out how “U.S.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

That’s why states continue to compete to lure companies to build new offices and plants — like the Tesla gigafactory in Nevada — by offering tax breaks and multi-billion dollar incentive packages. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed. There are two problems with these arguments.

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Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

Most of us assume that if we want to change people’s behavior, we need to change their incentives. To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. Convince with quantitative evidence.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I am now convinced, though, that the entrepreneurial driver behind talent churn in African labor markets actually yields significant net benefits for African economies. We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth.

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Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

However, these executives are often operating in a silent state of continual overwhelm, and the predictable consequence is disengagement. The company retained its experienced executives and their deep institutional and market knowledge. More money won’t cut it.

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