N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

This is harder than you think because it requires discipline on your part to make time to be intentional about the culture you want to scale and to put policies and procedures into place that create that sustainable organization. Founders think that an HR/People Strategy with manuals and policies and procedures are a waste of time.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Integrity, passion, and teamwork – these are the values that Walmart looks for in its employees and fosters through its talent management. As a team, we are focused on driving innovative programs and solutions that attract and grow our associates, and it’s fantastic when it inspires other companies to support their workforce in similar ways.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Presence in the Present" As a branded company whose success depends on change management, Kellogg Company puts a premium on its internal culture. Our Kapable team has driven positive change to make our internal policies and workplace more inclusive. How do you measure the value these D&I programs bring to the company?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Let me explain.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Executives and managers invest a lot of effort and time building trust in their teams: both establishing trust in their employees and ensuring that their employees trust them in return. But many employees say they do not feel trusted by their managers. Managers have to do more than trust employees; they need to show it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

During a meeting in which GM''s top management team was considering a weighty decision, Sloan closed the meeting by asking." Sloan then waited as each member of the assembled committee nodded in agreement. From 1857 to 1983, when the Devil''s Advocate policy was removed, 98 individuals were named saints. Sloan at General Motors.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 28, 2016

Sometimes we have to manage closely At least once a week a pastor contacts me about church revitalization. It’s important to know I’m not a micro-management leader. We even had a policy on folded chairs. We have done remarkably well financially (again thanks to tremendous finance committee and staff efforts).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

Legitimate concerns over conflict of interest that have resulted in overly extreme preventative policies are a central cause. It is time for all parties to revisit those policies and replace them with rules that recognize both true conflicts and true confluences of interest. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 30, 2019

It’s important to know I’m not a micro-management leader. We even had a policy on folded chairs. We had done remarkably well financially (again thanks to tremendous finance committee and staff efforts). It goes against everything I stand for in leadership and even how I’m wired personally. True story.).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

System-wide policies that disadvantage women. For example, in academic medicine, many university policies inadvertently penalize women who are in their child-rearing years. We don’t have data on policies in individual practices and hospitals, but we’d be surprised if they were any more generous.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

In July, General Mills — nobody’s idea of a radical company — expanded the pro-climate lobbying group BICEP beyond the usual suspects (Nike, Starbucks, Ben & Jerry’s) to add a distinctly mainstream voice to the call for policies like a price on carbon. Kellogg’s officially joined the group yesterday as well.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Countries — Public Policy. What is the public policy context in your country? Yet in other countries, policies have adapted more quickly to the consequences of women's massive educational and economic rise. Companies — Corporate Culture & Policies. Key Metric: birth rates. These skills are still scarce.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts. Such groups can also revitalize innovation and change. They also have a greater impact on organizational outcomes. The High Ground.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

During that prep meeting, the staff person strongly encouraged her to downplay or even eliminate any discussion of the newer, more innovative things she was working on — and not to ask the CEO for anything specific, like a policy decision, funding, or public support. "A Communication Leadership Managing up'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

It started 30 years ago with the progressive and unusual step (for that time) of shifting from local nationals as country managers to global leaders from other countries. Half of 3M's executive committee comes from outside America. America fosters risk-taking and innovation by entrepreneurs who become global leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Such is the nature of disruptive innovation, whose impact across industries continues to accelerate thanks to exponential improvements in digital and other core technologies. Conducting limited and carefully managed trials will unearth the remaining engineering and policy obstacles to a smooth transition.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

In fact, most of the literature about project and change management suggests that having a C-level sponsor is a key requirement for success. These examples show how this tends to play out: In a large financial services company, there is a policy that every major project (i.e., This is on top of their regular jobs.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Sometimes as managers we get too caught up in the big picture and forget to focus on the details. They foster an environment that encourages the sharing of ideas through brainstorming while realizing that innovation need not be preceded by the existence of committees. I especially like the #3 on the checklist.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. The lead-up to Paris gave us a taste of what’s to come. Wall Street wakes up.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

These pointers are offered to help manage time and resources. They staff committees and events, hoping to generate more leads. Inevitably, when high-level forums are organized, the juniors, mid-managers and self-marketers infiltrate and take over… which chases us away. Business organizations are like trees. You Once Did _.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

In fact, the increasing focus on pay by policy makers, shareholders, and the media has magnified its importance as a gauge of success for top executives and created a vicious cycle of ever-higher pay demands. Some countries have been highly innovative in this area. The remedy: make sure these directors don't dominate the committee.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Yet they don't work, and their repeated application makes many managers incredibly gender fatigued and frustrated. Every manager I have worked with hates the fact that companies talk about "Diversity and Inclusion," but then they are given targets on women (most don't even target balance). Problem 1: Calling it Diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 170 executives who work in R&D, strategy, and new product development roles at large public companies, we found that 82% said they’ve already deployed some elements of the lean startup approach. “They want to see their product commercialized.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Managers who want to recognize employees for good work have many tools at their disposal. HR policies and company culture often dictate when and how people move up in a company. HR policies and company culture often dictate when and how people move up in a company. Talk to peers, team members, and people she manages.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

This group saw that new mobile apps for patients (which measure and manage health outcomes) could yield clinical and financial benefits. The idea was presented to BIDMC’s senior-management operating council and then to the Board’s IT oversight committee. Precision medicine.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

In the long-version explanation of the prizes published by the Nobel committee last fall, Campbell was cited more often than anybody else, apart from the three winners. It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management. Absolutely.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The question that Chinese and outside economists now are debating is whether China’s leadership has the guts to allow the kinds of reforms that are needed to sustain growth and foster innovation. Innovation surely depends on such change. Which Management Style Will China Adopt? Economic growth was 7.7%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

This integration of current performance (Box 1) with selective forgetting of the past (Box 2) while creating the future (Box 3) is the foundation of my thinking and teaching about innovation and strategy. This is the football version of linear Box 1 innovation: adaptive problem solving within the frame of the existing business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

Since its passage in 1983, the ODA has governed approval of drugs for rare diseases and has incentivized pharmaceutical innovation via multiple tax breaks and seven years of market exclusivity. The business model of the exploitative companies profoundly impacts our health care system’s ability to manage costs and provide care.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Target, Sony Pictures, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) each were breached because they relied on passwords alone for authentication. Authentication is in the midst of a wave of innovation, and new, better technologies will continue to emerge. Know that privacy matters.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The infamous East German secret police, the Stasi , managed to infiltrate every pay of German life, from factories, to schools, to apartment blocks — the Stasi had eyes and ears everywhere. When East Germany collapsed in 1989, it was reported to have over 90,000 employees and over 170,000 informants.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Administered by the recently created Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the models have created rewards for care-delivery organizations that deliver better health outcomes for populations of patients. MACRA set up a Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee.

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