Lead from Within

MARCH 1, 2024

Encouraging collaboration between humans and AI amplifies creativity, problem-solving, and productivity. The technology is poised to infiltrate various aspects of business operations, from data analysis and customer interactions to supply chain management and decision-making processes.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 23, 2023

By automating repetitive tasks, optimizing processes and identifying inefficiencies, AI can help leaders to increase efficiency and reduce costs. This can include everything from automating financial reporting and invoicing to identifying and addressing bottlenecks in production processes.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Being servant leaders as Chartered Managers In an opinion piece in the Daily FT , Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI, president of CMI Sri Lanka , reflects on a successful year and assures that CMI Sri Lanka will continue to facilitate the processes of up-skilling, multi-skilling, and re-skilling managers. Read it here.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Here are six times when a leader can go overboard and they should stop immediately: When leaders are being a perfectionist: When leaders are perfectionists, they tend to scrutinize everyone’s work, disempowering their team members in the process. This can lead to disengagement and turnover and can also derail the process.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Creating a respectful workplace is essential for the overall well-being and productivity of employees. In conclusion, creating a respectful workplace is a continuous process that requires the commitment of leaders and employees alike, which can lead to overall success in their professional lives. Serves people.

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Lead from Within

MAY 8, 2023

Take the time to learn about what drives your people and try to find ways to tap into those motivations in order to create a more positive and productive work environment. Lead From Within: Leadership development is a never-ending process. As a leader, don’t assume you know what motivates others.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. Rather entering the productivity zone is found working at about 60% to 70% of capacity. Fact : bright, talented executives with a bias to action will often take on more than they should. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 11, 2023

First, they mistakenly believe that developing trust is a long, slow process that has to evolve over time; and second, they expect that as long as they are trustworthy, people will naturally trust them. The benefits are numerous, including increased productivity, better communication, and a more positive work environment.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Solution: Communicate the reasons for the change and its benefits clearly, involve employees in the change process, and provide support to help them adjust. Lack of trust: Without trust, it can be difficult to build a cohesive and productive team. As a leader, it’s important to anticipate resistance and have a plan to address it.

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How To Leadership Delegation Resistance 145

Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Overload of emails: If your team is overwhelmed by a constant stream of emails, it could be a sign that there is a lack of clear processes and protocols for communication and decision making. Lead From Within: Creating alignment in your leadership and organization creates a more effective, productive, and successful company. #1

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

My fascination isn’t my productivity; rather, it is the source of the idea. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader [link]. In this post, I compare the ineptitude of BP against the leadership of Rudy Giuliani during a much bigger crisis.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

Understanding these vulnerabilities is the first step towards effective crisis management. This might involve tough decisions like restructuring or letting go of less profitable product lines, but such changes can lead to a more robust business post-crisis. Are there inefficiencies you can address?

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Jason Womack

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

You see, there are SYSTEMS* and PROCESSES* you can use to work more efficiently OR work longer and harder. As you head in to the long weekend, consider upping your game with the Productivity Pack. When it comes to working SMARTER (not harder) think about your systems.and your processes. It's a way to deepen the relationship.

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Course Crisis Management Efficiency Travel 113

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At an organizational level have you focused so much on process improvements and incremental gains that you’ve failed to recognize opportunity and innovate? If efficiency starts diluting productivity rather than increasing it something is woefully amiss. Are you efficient or effective, or do you know?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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Business Model Blog Brand Depreciation 269

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 2, 2020

Others may be struggling to keep up with new technology and processes. Put yourself first and manage your boundaries. A routine that includes regular breaks will help you refresh and increase your productivity and focus. For them, working remotely may conjure up feelings of loneliness, isolation, depression and frustration.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. If a newly implemented business process has design flaws, will employees follow the process or circumvent it? Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. Okay, my question is this: What constitutes best practices in this situation?

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 5, 2023

Here’s what we find are keys to make planning sessions highly productive: Updates and reports need to be condensed to succinct points of information. Too often, teams get mired in operational details and debates over minor issues. Agendas run overtime, and discussions wander into the weeds. Restrict slides and provide a summary format.

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Planning Strategic Planning How To Operations 52

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. the company is not leveraging its true talent base.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product? Do people in your organization laugh at new ideas?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 316

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Put simply…not all inputs should weigh equally in one’s decisioning process. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. Another aspect that needs to be factored into the decisioning process is the source of the input.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Don’t be quick to hire based upon gut feel, but rather take time in the interviewing process to let the prospective new hire get a feel for your culture and your company. that can be administered as part of the hiring process. Identify problems upstream and spare the organization a lot of stress and expense.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? Get outside of your old thought patterns and seek out people, technology, collaborative relationships, process and any other solutions that can improve your business.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

link] Tanveer Naseer Mike, your piece is a great reminder for organizations to not obsess over their processes or their top talent, but to focus instead on what the purpose is behind their organization. It was exactly the simplicity of their business model and their product that made them into the company that they are today.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 304

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The most productive, high-performance organizations have the ability to deliver fairly complex solutions, and complete difficult tasks at the lowest levels within their organization. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

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CEO Blog Delegation Covey 306

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Take an assessment of what you do well and what you don’t and then apply rigor, process, structure and discipline to each of those areas. The most productive leaders I know have the ability to be extremely nice, very civil and always polite while maintaining the ability to be direct, focused, and candid.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Avoid controversy, maintain a high likeability factor, consistently and proactively engage your customers, be a business of character that engenders trust and confidence with your target market(s), produce a quality product or service at a competitive price point, and provide great customer service. must all reflect high standards of quality.

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Brand Blog How To Public Relations 271

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

This type of behavior is proof certain that the entrepreneur is not being effective at leading, team building, delegation, leveraging process and a variety of other highest and best use activities for CEOs. link] ATIG Dear Mike, Reasonably at the crucial moment, We can’t resist and reject that process.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2010

In 140 characters or less, elections are influenced, news is being broken, relationships are being created and expanded, brands are being built, trust is being build, influence is being generated, and products & services are being sold. Don’t underestimate the power of brevity. Thanks for adding to the discussion Randy.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

The production was The Sound of Music , starring Carrie Underwood. Every company needs it but rarely conducts the process because they’re knee-deep in daily minutia. I know from experience that planning while going through the ‘alligators’ is the most effective way to conduct the process. Evaluate your progress.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 78

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process. While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Bottom line…the way you identify leaders is not through psychological profiling or some miraculous transformative process. and Mike Myatt, Productivity links. Productivity links said: n2growth.com: Looking For Leadership: By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Really? Dare I ask for comments?

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Leadership Blog Consultative Brand 419

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments. I offer nine of my own definitions for the process of capturing and building a shared Vision for organizations to chart their next 10+ years. Capitalizing upon change, rather than becoming a by-product of it. In is thine.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Corporate leaders must have processes for learning of important safety issues. Crisis management is the ultimate stress test for the CEO and other top leaders of companies. The mantra for all leaders in crisis management must be: “It is our problem the moment we hear about it. Delay in confronting crises is deadly.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

It’s as if it has become more acceptable to bash users of buzzwords than to actually listen to what’s being said – this in my opinion is not healthy, nor is it productive.

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