N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

This isn’t rocket science, rather it’s just plain-old, good leadership. If your company is in products, services, or businesses that you wouldn’t enter into if you weren’t in that particular arena today…GET OUT! The bottom line is this…Bleeding is not a healthy thing.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 30, 2019

A few years ago, I spent a weekend at a men’s retreat with Jon Gordon and that’s where I learned the power of one word. I’m shifting away from my operational and senior executive responsibilities to spend more time writing, researching, speaking, and training. The world is in desperate need of trustworthy leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Being able to discern and debate subjective positions with objectivity is an art form that must be present for effective leadership. Understanding and respecting other’s perceptions is such a critical part of being an effective leader that absent this ability I truly believe you cannot be effective in a leadership role.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

The Penguins were delighted with the idea that Perry would bring a refreshing new perspective to their operation and Perry, being an ambitious sort, was equally delighted to be chosen. For a deeper view on this, check out the book “Orbiting The Giant Hairball&# by Gordon McKenzie ( [link] ). But then, the tide changed.

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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

This imperative is less about trademark than linking language to thought leadership. 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. It needs to be a verb.

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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

JULY 25, 2012

Venture capitalists exhibit some strange behaviors, but none is more bizarre than the near-inevitable scheming to remove a company's founder-CEO. Odder still is that these plans are often hatched just as the company begins to really perform. In the most straightforward instance, VCs remove a CEO because his company underperforms.

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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. The economics of operating large campuses, big faculties, and admin staff are inflating the costs of business education beyond reason.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

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. But social science points to five sources of meaning for humans at work: the impact of the work on society, the customer, the company, the team, and "me."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs that can be challenging to fill. The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. workers who hold the “dual intent” visa can apply for a green card.

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