N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

Entire business landscapes have shifted quickly due to the global pandemic, compelling companies to redefine their operations and strategic roadmaps. This forward-thinking mode of operation defines an executive leader in 2024 and the future. A key challenge arising from COVID-19 is the growing need for digital transformation.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference. Putting political agendas and peer pressure aside (as great leaders do), leaders should not make their choices based upon public opinion. Their responsibility is to be correct; not politically correct.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

It is the foundation upon which high-performing teams are built, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and growth. An organization’s success often depends on attracting and retaining top-level talent with the required skills to drive a company forward.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 19, 2021

It perhaps stands to reason that in times of uncertainty, companies attempt to reduce that uncertainty in whatever way they can. As you might expect, the more concerned a company is that it might be on the receiving end of a politician’s whims, the more they invest to try and influence those outcomes. Political capital. “S&P

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Lakhani (Harvard Business School Press, 2020) AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. Competing in the Age of AI : Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Blog Post ).

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

As a consulting professional who works closely with top executives in the world’s largest companies, understanding the unique challenges faced by each organization is paramount. As a consulting professional, I aim to work closely with top executives in the world’s largest companies to identify their needs and challenges.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Upstanding : How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth by Frank A. Calderoni discovered that character is just as vital for companies as it is for individuals. In his career as an executive at IBM, Cisco, and now as CEO of Anaplan, Frank A.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I IN 1982, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman released In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. September 11th, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Great Recession, the COVID pandemic, and polarized politics have created our own existential worries. How many companies today are actually excellent? Perhaps not.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2023

These businesses operate informally and are unstable, which has significant political implications. The role property plays Research from Cambridge Judge Business School attempts to better explore the link between marketing innovation and property rights among microenterprises.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 4, 2013

All companies, no matter the size, need to continually innovate in order to remain competitive. Innovation is a two-part challenge. Organizations are not Structured to Execute Innovation. So why is innovation execution so hard? Quite the contrary, they are built for ongoing operations. Thomas Edison.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice he argues that the most successful companies are those who are able to understand why customers make the choices they do. Unfortunately, to use the vernacular of Stephen Haeckel , many innovators adopt a make and sell approach rather than sense and respond.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 3, 2024

A study conducted at the Texas A&M School of Public Health utilized an innovative data collection approach to examine the productivity patterns of office workers. The research focused on 789 in-office employees at a prominent energy company in Texas and spanned a two-year period from January 1, 2017, to December 31, 2018.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Under the old Friedman dictum that a company’s only responsibility is to make a return for shareholders, it would be rational for the only political engagement expected of leaders to be that which would enhance the business. The researchers surveyed 40 leaders of large companies from across Europe. An overwhelming 77.5%

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Innovating our response to Covid-19. As with so much, however, the innovation landscape will be fundamentally changed by the pandemic.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Yet, in an economy whereby 60% of GDP and 85% of exports are derived from oil and gas, the need to diversify is evident, not least due to the decline in oil prices since 2014 that many believe is the new normal and the political and economic blockade that was imposed by some neighboring countries in June 2017. Core sectors.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

He also emphasizes the importance of closing the "empathy gap" between management and staff in order to create a more connected team that operates to its fullest potential--and how developing each team member's unique dreams, goals, and abilities sets up the company for success. Now, Reichheld has raised the bar yet again.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

His book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , is written after extensive research on the fatal mistakes leaders make in this area. They make sure to embed their purpose in the very operating system of their organizations. “Purpose acts as a kind of North Star to help guide strategy and innovation.”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

The idea that leaders are trustworthy, honest, and can be relied on to operate in the best interest of the public, the employee, the student, the parishioner, or even the shareholder has been shattered. Often leaders are described by action words such as “results-oriented, innovative, driven and visionary”.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Bernd shares: “ When I co-founded my first company, a high-tech start-up, I had a completely wrong idea of ??managing they can see the flaws of their operation, but often their focus is so exclusive to results and productivity and performance that the way people treat each other doesn’t appear on their radar screens at all.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

While many of us know change is typically rapid and non-linear, less often is depicted its exciting potential for creative, innovative solutions. The process was painful, and at times very messy, but it eventually delivered a creative and innovative solution. Fullan describes a positivity towards change that resonates deeply within me.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The same can’t be said in the political world, however, where changes in leaders can have a profound impact on not only what an administration tries to achieve but how it seeks to achieve it. This has a notable impact on employees in the civil service who operate under a readily changing political class.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

When Mulally arrived at the struggling company, he set his sights on dismantling the toxic culture that had metastasized within it. Given the state of internal affairs at the company, it’s no wonder the Ford brand was struggling on the outside. and then working as one team to deliver on those, as a Fortune article explains.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Its easy to pick out the large, juicy chunks, which have captivated most of us around the globe: political upheaval, geo-political instability, corporate scandals to name but a few. During our meeting he surprised me with the news that he decided to leave the company. I was not only taken by surprise, but utterly baffled.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

Given the political pressures of today, I am delighted to say that the companies I work with have not wavered in their focus and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. These continued efforts on the part of companies are crucial for creating equitable workplaces and societies.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 28, 2012

At a time when discretionary efforts and intellectual property are essential to drive innovation and organizational growth, those who are able to earn natural and enthusiastic followers will deliver the best results. But, doing that means operating with the right actions, not the right titles. Operating with trust.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 30, 2022

What attempts there have been have generally ascribed the same motives during crises as during stable periods, with these typically including building reputational capital, political lobbying, and altruism. There are, however, factors that can influence a company’s decision to help.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Just because something is written in a vision or mission statement, placed on a website, included in company collateral material, or frequently espoused by corporate leadership as a competitive value proposition doesn’t necessarily mean its true. .&# If your company doesn’t have a Chief Talent Officer, Chief People Officer etc.,

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CO2

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Too Much Innovation? I have the privilege recently to work with a technology company that has one of their three core values as innovative. When we got to the definition we started to struggle because we realized that the company kept bumping up against this value in excess. Are we too innovative?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

In today’s post I’m going to toss out the politically correct story-lines and reveal the top 15 reasons that leaders fail… . While there are exceptions to every rule, companies tend to succeed by design and fail by default. Show me a company with a flawed strategy and I’ll show you an inept leader. .

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Why rates differ At the mega level, a comparative examination reveals that overarching factors, including war, conflict, historical and systemic discrimination, disease, extreme poverty, and political authoritarianism, play a dual role as both catalysts and impediments to ALE activities.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Isaacson makes the point that innovation happens in the real world by teams and not lone geniuses. Blog Post ).

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The report, which focuses primarily on the Philippines, aims to shed light on the various forms of political trolling, including the industries and political support that has sprung up around what is increasingly normalized and lucrative work. ” Trolling business models. . ” Trolling business models.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Okay, so you founded the company, but does that mean you should also be the chief executive? Which hat, or hats do you wear? What does a CEO really do anyway?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

While the term political leadership may have become an oxymoron, it is simply impossible to be a statesman and not be a leader… It has been said that a politician is concerned with winning an election, and a statesman is concerned with future generations. Thanks again for this historical perspective. Now we're over 300 million.

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