N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It was undoubtedly a productive and fruitful year for CMI Hong Kong, as membership has grown continuously. Exchanging ideas in the flagship Women In Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Conference 2021 The Women In Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Conference 2021 was sponsored by CMI – and was a huge success.

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leaderCommunicator

MAY 20, 2014

While I wasn’t at the speech, I think Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg accomplished that recently in her commencement address to the nearly 2,000 graduates of the City Colleges of Chicago. population now hates their job, according to researchers at the Conference Board. David Grossman.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

link] Meredith Bell I had the opportunity to meet Kevin recently at a conference and had a follow-up phone conversation with him. link] mikemyatt Hi Amie: Thanks for your comment. I'm sure Kevin appreciates your kind words. Thanks again for stopping by. I appreciate your sharing his wisdom about leadership, Mike.

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Steve Farber

MAY 25, 2018

Talk about walking the walk … when her company did a ‘180’ from bankruptcy to double digit annual gains, people development expert Indie Bollman along with the company CEO gave much credit to application of the LEAP and Greater Than Yourself approaches created by Steve Farber. The result?

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 27, 2015

CEOs of small businesses often appear to believe in myths surrounding the subject of strategic planning and execution - myths that can prove dangerous to the health of their organization. Myth #9: If the CEO says it, it will happen. Myth #1: “We don’t need a strategic plan!” Myth #2: Strategic planning can only be done at a resort.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. Jason Richmond is President & CEO of Ideal Outcomes, Inc. In the end, a healthy organizational culture enables your company to make more money, not spend it.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” Without executive support expect your Innovation initiatives to deliver only innovations like new product features, colors, and line extensions. Alphabet (Google) moved their social innovation lab (Jigsaw) out of the organization so that it could operate independently. Total Secrecy Is Totally Wrong.

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Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 13, 2010

CEO Executive Coaching Fees My Protein Shake Recipe One more question. Professor Ashenhurst told us the story of how an “efficiency expert&# had reduced productivity. Productivity plummeted. The expert did a classic time and motion study of some programmers. The new equipment was ordered and installed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Advanced tools for creating and testing new products and the operations that will make them are all around us. They are not only changing the economics of innovation and operations, they are also pushing the frontier of what’s possible. The Future of Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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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. Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. Thanks for laying out key success factors. In addition, you mention game changes are “relational.&#

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A personal note: This post is a tribute to Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse who tragically passed in March 2021. What kind of CEO displays his biggest failures on the wall of his office? The top ten attend the company conference, and the winner brings home a new truck. . He prefers to get see things first hand.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

This need for speed means that companies and shareholders are less forgiving of CEOs than they once were. In the days of blue-chip glory, the forgiving nature of corporate boards meant that a CEO was capable of seeing a corporation through its various life cycles. years in 2011. More companies are hiring external talent.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Erik Samdahl presents Emotional Dimwits Need Not Apply posted at Productivity Blog. Benjamin McCall presents Compensation, Pay Raises and Becoming a CEO | ReThinkHR – (ReThink Human Resources) posted at ReThinkHR – (ReThink Human Resources) , saying, “Many employees believe that they are being mistreated.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

My CEO, Rex Hammond. He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy). After confering with the elders and leaders in the town, she was told that it cost money to go to school. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 3, 2015

View Steven Haedrich’s presentation at the 2014 Fall Conference with the embedded webcast above. Steven, President of New York Label & Box Works , discusses their Deming journey over the decades. Give the power to the people that are doing the job. Give those people the tools they are requesting. Give them the right materials.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. If the two items being considered are people working together, the results can be more than the sum of the parts; more productive than two people working independently.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

After the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi , many companies had to urgently decide whether to attend Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative, a global business conference scheduled to take place just days after news of Khashoggi’s killing broke. The compass that was guiding the bank was a financial one.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Here’s the scene: A problem has come up with one of your supply chain vendors, threatening to delay timely shipment of your product. At the same time, a potential opportunity appears that, with some exploration and investment, could lead to a new generation of products down the road. Which do you respond to first?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? We interviewed search professionals, CEOs, and CHROs with nontraditional backgrounds to find out what happens when business leaders outside of HR move into the role. That’s precisely what we found.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

No longer is it good enough to simply offer good value or a great product alone. In fact, the Conference Bard CEO Challenge 2017 survey shows that CEOs clearly understand the need to be more customer-centric: “Today, companies compete as much on customer experience as they do on product and price.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. If we could permanently reduce the amount of product sitting idle, we'd save money, energy, and material. We know it's important and that we're supposed to reduce it by increasing "turns.". I was wrong.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, a company that provides social software to businesses. Quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy. Far from it, actually.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

A mere eight of the Fortune 500 have African-American CEOs, and seven have a Latino CEO, though Latinos are the fastest growing population in the country. If these statistics demonstrated that blacks were underemployed, ministers from Operation Breadbasket asked the company to "negotiate a more equitable employment practice."

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. Mercadona’s store employees are empowered to order products and present them in a way that satisfies their customers and improves company performance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Ordinarily when tech companies do this, they hold a big press conference. He did all the product demos himself. Everyone left feeling like they had a special session with this dynamic CEO, and Amazon received great press coverage. How is he able to do this when so many CEOs can’t?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. And even with the best of intentions, most CEOs start off disadvantaged in building the next big thing. Based on an annual survey conducted by the Conference Board, the average CEO departs her role with fewer than 9 years under her belt.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

I worked with a software development company in which the CEO came up with a new product feature on a weekly basis. So they developed a value assessment with the CEO’s input and ran all new requests through the tool. Pay attention to warning signs. In 2005, ”Frontline” introduced Americans to the PlayPump.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

This weakness is as true for senior leaders as it is for the rank-and-file, but when a CEO or other senior executive is known for chasing shiny objects, a lot of people and projects can suffer. In situations like these, I’ve found six techniques can help. The employee and senior executive can agree on coded language.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

During my daylong visit, I observed a quiet, longtime sustainability leader plugging away, creating new products that will help the world save energy, water, waste.and lots of money. Before my presentation at an employee event, I listened as CEO Inge Thulin and senior execs from each of the major divisions laid out their strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Box 3: Generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into new products and businesses. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. On the first day of his new job as CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella sent a powerful message to his employees.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

At RoboBusiness this week, a conference devoted to the business and technology of robots, the revelation for me was not just how far robotic capabilities have come but also the range of problems robots are already helping to solve. Problem is: their professional setup costs $30,000 to assemble and a remote operator on a keyboard to run.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

General Services Administration after a scandal involving an extravagant employee conference that involved lots of federal contract violations. Though she wasn''t involved in the conference, she took the fall. This is the story of one such person, Martha Johnson, who resigned two years ago as the head of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The findings are sobering: almost half of CEOs view their CIOs as out of step with the business and about the same percentage think IT should be a commodity service, purchased as needed. As Leni Kaufman noted: "I think often people come into a conference room, they come into a meeting, and then they talk IT. Don''t talk IT.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

By buying Whole Foods, Amazon gets virtually limitless possibilities to test products and services, test price points and assortment interactions, redefine the price perception for organic and healthier foods, merge offline and online shopping experiences, and perhaps test home delivery or store pickup with ideal early adopters.

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