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? I believe great leaders will mentor and coach subordinates for the purpose of identifying and developing other great leaders. Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

In this case, they can become a mentor as well as a partner. Financing the venture from your personal savings is an option, but won’t be open to many. The other option, of course, is to look at traditional bank lenders. Outsourcing parts of the operation to companies rather than individuals can work wonders too.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Read your leading-edge industry publications, Forbes , other finance journals, and popular business books. If you don’t hold a finance or operations position, consider cross training. Get a mentor.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2019

In this case, they can become a mentor as well as a partner. Financing the venture from your personal savings is an option, but won’t be open to many. The other option, of course, is to look at traditional bank lenders. Outsourcing parts of the operation to companies rather than individuals can work wonders too.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Of course his well-honed empathic sense also enabled him to read the situation and determine was was called for. Lincoln suffered so many setbacks and defeats over the course of his life that humility, empathy and forgiveness became instinctual to him. Of course not everyone who appears quietly confident has humility.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Does anyone on your executive team have a coach or mentor? There is a way to prevail at this game, of course, but in order to survive for long enough to become disrupted – that way is not one which involves finding a magical elixir which makes everyone young again. Has your business embraced social media?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It is precisely the dispensing of one-size fits all advice that has allowed the ranks of consultants, coaches, mentors and other professional advisers to swell to historical proportions. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. As an example, Look at Apple!

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Her Leader-as-Coach training received Harvard’s Inaugural Program Award for Culture of Excellence in Mentoring. Kevin Koch – President & CEO , Koch Enterprises, Inc.,

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

When we view our responsibilities three-dimensionally as if through a prism that simultaneously allows us to keep focused on the MRC concepts, we will make better mission-focused decisions that are based upon how our resources must be deployed to accomplish them, and we will operate in ethical ways that resonate with our partners and employees.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. A study by Leadership IQ showed that 23% of board members questioned were willing to tolerate bad news and significant course corrections by the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Running a business might seem daunting for an 18-year-old, but my wife and I felt equipped to mentor them through the process. I had been an engineering manager at GE, so my areas of expertise included managing projects, inventory, and finances, all of which would be helpful. It doesn’t have to be something big.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One senior leader at a professional services company, whom we’ll call Bronwyn, made the move from client-facing partner to chief operating officer. You can accomplish this on the job, by seeking out a mentor or volunteering for special projects; and off the job through formal leadership training.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

In the case of Rohm and Haas this process began in earnest in 1985 with the appointment of a Greek national, Dr. Basil Vassilou, to head our operations in Europe; followed by a Cuban, Henri Martinez, heading our Latin American operations starting in 1988; an Indian American (myself) heading up Asia Pacific operations in 1993.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

That’s why, after years of operating without support staff (it’s been just me and my COO), I’ve recently hired a 24-year-old, Morgan, and given him the title of Director of Execution and Evolution. Morgan is learning from me, too, of course. Learning to Learn. Erika Andersen. Liane Davey. Monique Valcour.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. These situations involved complex assignments focusing on strategy, product development, business operations, and financial management. They cultivate influential mentors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

As someone who mentors entrepreneurs, I constantly hear the question from founders located across the United States or around the world: Should we move to Silicon Valley? Rehearse the pitch in your head, and please come share it with me at one of my Thursday morning free mentoring sessions. This is no idle question. Costs are low.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

How many times during the course of your career have you witnessed executives and entrepreneurs who desperately need help, but either don’t recognize it, or worse yet, make it virtually impossible for someone to help them? For sometime now believing in the power of mentor-ship. It paramount and necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

One troublesome executive out of 41 or even 15 is not likely to be fatal – unless, of course, he is the CEO. The CEO thought he needed to step out of the chief sales role to focus on operations and finances. But when it’s a team of six? It’s a different story. Consider the case of a $30 million manufacturer.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

In their piece, they observe the following: In the short term, however, the current team might actually outperform in the absence of its mercurial and stubborn mentor. Take health care — as a patient, you've got to coordinate the visits, get the prescriptions, keep track of the appointments, figure out the financing, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact. About 75% come from the private sector.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Great CEOs not only view their interactions with team members as coaching and mentoring opportunities, but also as learning opportunities for themselves. An executive team that actually embraces the concept of collaboration will substantially out perform a silo-centric executive team focused on empire building.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

They can be all sorts of people – introverts, extroverts, operations-oriented folks, great sales people, men, or women. Of course there’s some overlap: Nothing is hermetically sealed. These thriving leaders find meaning, money, and mentoring in ways not available outside family businesses. The rewards are different and deeper.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Of course, that's not always possible. Ask mentors or former bosses for advice. He tried to think through all the factors that should influence his decision — finances, work/life balance, development opportunities — but couldn't figure out which mattered most to him. Don't run out the door.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. They will benefit the most from being mentored.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Inexperienced friends and family (and, increasingly, crowdsourced investors) lack the ability to gauge the viability of a business, or to mentor naïve entrepreneurs. opened in 1959 and is still operating. For them the goal is to achieve customer validation, not financing. Most of them fail. It remains to be seen.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

A trainer may recommend courses for human behavior, believing that these constitute a Visioning process (of which they are a small part). Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 17 percent). What is their longevity?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views. Reading is a topic that's dear to my heart, and one that I often cover on The Invisible Mentor blog. link] Avil Beckford Mike, This is definitely a post that I wish I'd written.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The educational concepts developed in that program have since evolved into a larger learning program called EYP University, which provides an average of 20 courses a year for architects, engineers, and a combination of the two. Moreover, the mentoring flows “up and down” — from juniors to seniors, as well as vice versa.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Sure, in some cases I coach and mentor, but most of my clients simply view me as their closest personal advisor. I don’t really care whether the client is aided by mentoring, teaching, coaching, consulting or a mix of all the above – I just care that they receive real results. It’s just that simple.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. They are also vastly underrepresented as managers of general operations, computer information, industrial production, and transportation. Several positions, however, remain dominated by men.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

I first had them meet with an Israeli army signal corps general (who was in the midst of overseeing a military operation); then we headed to a beach to engage in team building and camouflage exercises with young Israelis preparing for elite military combat units. Tip 5: Study the financing food chain starting from the end, not the beginning.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing. Get a mentor with a solid track record.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is an unmistakable element of wisdom borne of experience that they gladly share as they ‘mentor’ growth. Leadership courses should not be available only for managers in the company (that is what I have been told when I wanted to attend such trainings during my "employee times").

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Most inquiries from other departments — engineering, finance, product, marketing — are relatively simple requests that anyone with basic training could fulfill. Of course, I’m biased: I cofounded one of them.). Insight Center.

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