N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? The truth is that great companies are those which can thrive and prosper in the absence of sophistication. Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have found that business-speak can be particularly beneficial in using just a few words to explain situations, scenarios, processes, trends, attitudes and any number of other ethereal and esoteric concepts that might have otherwise needed several sentences or paragraphs to describe. link] Dan Collins Academics like to debate.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The moral of the story is this…A lack of delegation creates operational bottlenecks, delegation confused with abdication creates organization chaos, and effective delegation of authority vs. tasks creates personal and operational excellence. link] Dan Collins Mike, Your posts and insights are truly very high value.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Marva Collins showed that children who were previously labeled “learning disabled&# were actually victims of the label they were given by teachers who didn’t know how to teach to them. Collins worked with were predicted to fail, but instead she believed in and discovered their potential. The children that Ms.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It was this taste of disappointment that led me to share my personal process for finding and implementing game changers – I call it SMARTS(C) ( S imple- M eaningful- A ctionable- R elational- T ransformational- S calable). The way I view the process it’s something like this. Flash-analysis/trial again and again until it clicks.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2012

The foundational material — mission and values — of a company can be critical to the overall success of the organization – but they’re often forgotten. ’ Whatever is in the mission or values statement is not seen as relevant to the organization’s day-to-day operations. They see it as ‘Horse manure!’ Now onto values.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So why is it not more common?

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So why is it not more common?

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). By Jim Collins. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” By Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

More than 190 member countries committed to “eliminate poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030, together with 16 other “big, hairy, audacious goals” — to use Jim Collins’ memorable phrase. billion impressions on Twitter and Instagram and was the top trending topic in the U.S. during the assembly.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

The asset we’re overvaluing now is the notion of doing it all, having it all, achieving it all; what Jim Collins calls “ the undisciplined pursuit of more.”. In the process, we have been sold a bill of goods: that success means being supermen and superwomen who can get it all done. Schedule a personal quarterly offsite.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

link] Dan Collins Mike, I would particularly like someone to address the popularity of "politically correct" leadership. How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation. Let me expand. Would Churchill, Patton or their ilk have flourished in leadership today? Thanks for sharing Dan.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

As Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world, and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S., It has raised the visibility of our company and given me the opportunity to shape how people perceive us. link] Dan Collins Mike, Thanks for this.

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

Do you dig-in your heels and prepare to defend your position to the death, all the while not really caring about how many casualties are incurred in the process? Consequently, the art form you appropriately point out takes on either a healthy or unhealthy advance of this crucial process. Great stuff Mike! Ego drives and Ego destroys.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

Getting the right people on the bus , to use Jim Collins' phrase, is the single most important thing a manager can do. I learned about the importance of talent-mining once again when I became CEO of Campbell Soup Company a decade ago. Over the first three years, we had to replace 300 of the top 350 leaders in the company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The company’s stock price barely budged, no doubt in part because Nadella had been the rumored frontrunner, but also perhaps because he was widely seen as the “safe” choice. Outsiders, by contrast, can take years to acquire the necessary familiarity with a company’s structure and operations.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

There is a real elitist attitude that pervades the industry which tends to be process oriented rather than client oriented. It’s not about the process, it’s about results. Coaching isn’t about esoteric definitions, scripted questions or canned processes. In my opinion this is a huge mistake.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leadership is a process or journey of becoming : Although certain people are clearly born with innate leadership qualities, without the right environment and exposure, they may fail to develop their full potential. link] Dan Collins Thanks Mike. Or, as you say, "leadership is a process of becoming."

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

M [link] Dan Collins Mike, I have really enjoyed your posts for some time but I must say this has got to be one of the best. Irrespective the approach 'Intention' breeds 'Transparency' Have a great day! Yes, you can be too smart for your own good.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Informed would-be voters now have a basic grasp of how the process works. 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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