In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 28, 2014

One of these conversations lead to a discussion about how leaders who want to push for change can deal with those above them who operate from the command-and-control style of leadership – in other words, those that subscribe to the overtly-controlling it’s my way or you’re out approach.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Biologically ironic to our human nature, most people adamantly resist change. Change can also offer an enormous amount of benefits, like growth in a career, innovation for the future, and discovering new possibilities in life. Yet it remains one of the only constants in life. But we don’t need to fear change.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have only raised my voice in the workplace twice during my career and both times I have regretted it tremendously. Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. That’s what separates I think from ordinary and extraordinary leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. People’s resistance to display compassion, other than to family and friends, is what makes it so complex. The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue. Thanks for the astute observations Mark. Mike Henry Sr.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core. As an example, Look at Apple!

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Not just in terms of their own career growth, but in how it would open up a whole new understanding and area of knowledge in their field of study, if not also inspiring others to take up the cause to learn more about this elemental key to our existence.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Northern Command. ” -Sun Tzu.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Leadership is about care and compassion.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Why do some innovations flourish while others flounder? Atul Gawande tackles this question in The New Yorker , using the medical field — arguably one of the places where innovation is most important, given its life-saving capabilities — as ground zero. You have to use mentorship to make an innovative idea the norm.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

This vulnerability frequently compels traditionalists to resist analytics. Finally, the CEO must identify the executives most vested in the status quo and proactively manage their resistance — up to and including weeding out the obstinate ones. ” Create an environment of rapid innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Therefore, the ability to manage operation and the capacity to inspire employees is no longer enough. Starting his career as a trainee at 7-11, he worked his way quickly through the ranks, gaining a reputation for operational excellence. He was also innovative. That allowed McChrystal to also change the way he led.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

The vision outlines the essential principles that will guide the company’s detailed strategic planning, organizational design, operational priorities, and performance goals. The cost to this is that network-based organizations are complex to manage and hard to control.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. Start with a survey.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. Shortly thereafter, the pace of her career progress began to stall. Carla's an actual executive whose name has been changed.).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to innovation in cities, people often think of building clusters and innovation districts to attract new businesses and shift policies to favor entrepreneurship. Innovation in this case, and many others, requires invention. City innovators have to move fast before it does. But that took time.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. Sargeant Recruiter’s Career Coach [link] mikemyatt Hi Rebecca: Thanks for the comment and I'm glad you found the information to be useful. Do this and you’ll be viewed as just another sales broadcast. I Think Not.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. I follow 6 principles on a daily basis, which I know has made a significant impact on my career success. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

What distinguishes members of one group from another rarely has anything to do with intellect, wealth, social pedigree, career standing, or other like pursuits…It has everything to do with desire. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. In this article, we identify the barriers slowing the transition of episodic, in-person primary care to innovative models that separate care from location and that empower patients to take on more of their own care.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio. To resist the urge to self-censor.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? Resist the urge to escalate problems to senior management. Implement rotational assignments.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

It’s time for companies to embrace their rebel talent as a way to foster innovation, employee engagement, and change from within. Lastly, please don’t make the mistake of despairing that your career or reputation hinges on one particular idea or cause.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Their competitive edge eroded because the people at the top, who considered themselves the corporate brain, failed to adapt or innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship made a comeback, albeit in measured bites. Innovators drive the marketplace, followers are the passengers and those who refuse to abolish redundancy are roadkill.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

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. So why don’t they reduce the number of operations? EA says that would stifle innovation. Don’t resist entry-level sales.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Doing otherwise biases the business against innovation because what you are projecting may look unattractive relative to your business today. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Every vibrant, healthy, inspiring, innovative, and positive corporate culture I’ve witnessed has occurred not because culture has been placed ahead of strategy, but because it has been a key driver of the corporate strategy. In my experience, culture is frequently at the center of resistance to a strategy and the required execution.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

There is no questioning the fact that Musk’s talent for entrepreneurship, defined as the ability to translate original and useful ideas into practical innovations, is truly outstanding. Silicon Valley, with its myth of the lone innovator who disrupts the status quo, is particularly susceptible to these dynamics. ”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his Blog Post ). The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Boundary-less work partnerships and networks augment capabilities and redefine careers, learning and workplace fairness and attractiveness. Organizations and workers conceive and design their work to optimize rather than resist this interface. Exponential technology change.

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