N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

If not, it should…The overly slick professional always makes me want to grab my wallet and run… Let me be transparent and use my personal situation as an example. Share and Enjoy: View Comments Gordon R. link] mikemyatt Thanks for your comment Gordon. Thanks for stopping by Gordon. Clogston Hi, Mike.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Return on Character : The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win by Fred Kiel In Return on Character , Fred Kiel has put numbers to the notion that good leadership aimed at promoting the common good, not just individual, winner-take-all acquisition can be good business. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2015

In this episode, she was moderating a panel discussion on The Evolution of Medicine with Mark Hyman , James Gordon and Penny George. We can set the example for them by following that same principle in our own lives. During a long walk on Saturday, I was listening to Krista Tippet’s podcast, On Being.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

For example: Emphasize One Goal – Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines, recognized that his customers valued on-time performance. He set this as the measure of success for the company. In order to underscore this goal, Bethune decided to send every employee a check every time the company was first in on-time arrival.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 7, 2017

Jet-Hot ‘s story provides an example of applying Deming’s work to transform a real enterprise. Gordon McGilton and Dennis Sergent share evidence from their experience that will help others transform their enterprises by focusing on their system and aim. So the accounting system doesn’t run the company.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

My name is Gordon Berridge , and I am the UK Partner and President at N2Growth , a global, multifaceted professional services firm. HR Questions: Common HR questions vary from ‘Tell me a little bit about yourself’ to ‘what do you know about the company’ and ‘why have you applied for the role’. Behavioural Questions: .

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments Gordon R. I mentioned an example of this in a comment on a recent Ron Edmondson post dealing with Leading People Older Than You. link] mikemyatt Hi Gordon: Thanks for your sharing your insights and I'm glad you find the posts to be valuable and of interest. Thank you for sharing Mike!

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

In the movie Wall Street, Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his portrayal of the rude, larcenous wheeler-dealer Gordon Gekko. Within a year, Mike's scores on his treatment of people shot up past the 50th percentile, above an already high company norm. Leading by example can mean a lot more than leading by public-relations hype.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

As Strategy& reported in its 2015 survey of 1,757 executives, “innovation today is a key driver of organic growth for all companies — regardless of sector or geography.” In fact, my research shows the returns to companies’ R&D spending have declined 65% over the past three decades.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

To prevent sagging energy from occurring, you can spark passion by doing the following: Recognizing the accomplishments and hard work of your team members Having a flexible and engaging work environment where teamwork is valued Making sure that your company has a mission that you are working toward so that everyone has a sense of purpose 4.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. The company had lost both flavor and heat; and nobody likes lukewarm soup. Soup tells the ’stirring’ story of how Nancy discovers the key ingredients to revitalize her company, her team, and herself. How was Nancy going to turn it around?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. The company had lost both flavor and heat; and nobody likes lukewarm soup. Soup tells the ’stirring’ story of how Nancy discovers the key ingredients to revitalize her company, her team, and herself. How was Nancy going to turn it around?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The company had lost both flavor and heat; and nobody likes lukewarm soup. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. How was Nancy going to turn it around?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

My friend is a rational guy, in charge of a large company. Gordon Moore and Andy Grove, well before this actual dilemma became relevant, had put together a formula – the production capacity allocation rule – to decide what products would receive priority in their manufacturing plant. I was stunned.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Leading By Example & Mistaken Beliefs Ambiguity in Leadership is a Certainty → June 16, 2009 · 3:13 am ↓ Jump to Comments In Praise of Peacocks, Nerds, Dorks & Dweebs Some time ago, I read a book called “ A Peacock in the land of Penguins ”.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The practice of gratitude is not simply the use of slogans, limericks or rhymes, but is the deliberate act of providing an example to those around you about the values you hold. Leading with gratitude is the truest example of leadership which endures the test of time. .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

The airline industry is a cautionary tale of what happens when companies emulate new business models without bringing over the associated mental models. When Continental shuttered Lite, then CEO Gordon Bethune said, “It wasn’t implemented in an orchestrated way.” All of these efforts failed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2012

For example, when Google launched a big data-driven program to identify what separated their top managers from the rest, and they ended up with bromides such as "be a good coach," "empower your team" and "be a good communicator.". In short, he is an empire builder, and we don't have to look far to find examples of empire-building bosses.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2014

Aside from the fact that many companies don’t even offer it — and that paid paternity leave is only available in 70 countries , while paid maternity leave is available in all but three — there’s a considerable stigma attached to taking it. But research from economists Gordon B. But, in general, they aren’t. Dahl, Katrine V.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Netflix’s streaming; Walmart’s “savings catcher,” for example. Under the leadership of Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove, Intel crafted the silicon lexicon of Moore’s Law, microprocessors, and megahertz that made digital innovation exponential. The innovation isn’t the “thing;” it’s the actions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

A classic example is buying something we would never otherwise have spent money on — and will never use — simply because it's a great deal. Employees don't care as much about the company as you think they do. Leaders, rationally enough, appeal to the company's circumstances when making a case for change.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

The announcement that Google would be reorganized into a holding company named Alphabet has already been interpreted in multiple , often conflicting , ways. At a certain point, companies recognize that they’re in multiple businesses, and that they will be better managed if they organize into business divisions, essentially.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In early 2016 economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson published an influential paper that highlighted some of the costs of global trade. companies to become more innovative? They reviewed the literature and reported that trade with China had cost the U.S. Was increased trade with China really pushing U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Here’s why this may be the case: Neurosciencist and founder of My Brain Solutions Dr Evian Gordon proposes that “the brain’s attunement to nature has a seminal evolutionary origin, beginning with the earliest species sensing and responding to their environment. Stress impacts the heart’s rhythms, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The company was masterful at the buy side of M&A. The company did not overlook small deals if they contributed to the development of critical capabilities. Indeed, the median acquisition at this company was for less than $15 million. The ability to divest strategically is as important as the ability to acquire strategically.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Gordon Leidner answers these questions in his guest post on Great Leadership!” Dana writes, “New research has identified that companies that build high-trust cultures experience stock market returns two to three times greater than the market average and turnover rates that are 50 percent lower than industry competitors.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

In the late 19th and early 20th century, successful businessmen like Joseph Wharton wanted to professionalize companies and legitimize working in business. Too many tenured professors have never worked outside academia; they are familiar with neither the day-to-day operations of companies nor the intricate processes of how decisions are made.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

However, although their members can rent the (more urbane and green) Zipcar fleet by the hour and pick up their vehicle at a local parking space using a smartphone app, this is still a dedicated fleet, still inventory that the company has to acquire, manage and monetize. One of my favorite classroom examples is GirlMeetsDress.)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

In the late 19th and early 20th century, with modern times knocking on the door, successful businessmen like Joseph Wharton wanted to professionalize companies and legitimize working in business. In general, let’s promote more dialogue between companies and academia. They were intended to be institutions of practical education.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 2, 2013

The movies can be a rich source of leadership inspiration and help us identify role models and examples of leadership skills and characteristics that we can choose to develop. The clarity of purpose, how he supports an atmosphere of true brainstorming.all of the techniques used in the scene can be used as examples of leadership in action.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

That’s why health insurance companies can offer customers lower premiums by restricting the size of provider networks. Sovaldi and Harvoni are just two examples of the explosion in spending on specialty drugs — 20% a year, according to the PBM Express Scripts. In one analysis , Gordon D. total drug bill within a few years.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

That’s why health insurance companies can offer customers lower premiums by restricting the size of provider networks. Sovaldi and Harvoni are just two examples of the explosion in spending on specialty drugs — 20% a year, according to the PBM Express Scripts. In one analysis , Gordon D. total drug bill within a few years.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Have you ever noticed that when you ask someone in your company, “How are you?” That is because the norm in most companies is that you are supposed to be very busy – or otherwise at least pretend to be – because otherwise you can’t be all that important. ” they are more likely to answer “Busy!”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Your industry or company could be on the cusp of a disaster and you may not know it. That's taking Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's bold prediction (now known as Moore's Law ) that the number of transistors on a chip will double approximately every two years to a far new level. Well, as the cliché goes, hope is not a strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The company begins with a goal, such as safely carrying 250 passengers nonstop from New York to London in under six hours, and follows a disciplined approach to identify the components and subsystems that meet those requirements. A plane developed that way wouldn’t fly. Sometimes they miss critical alarms amid the noise.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

In time, it became – and remains, despite some bad strategic moves over the last decade – the world’s most important company (as I decided to subtitle the book). By then, it was one of the hottest companies on the planet. I decided then that this was a company I would keep at a distance.

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