N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team. Rather in most instances, I believe HR should be a compliance, training and risk management function.

Insurance 302

Insurance Bottom-up CEO Compliance 302

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Education-Growth – Didn’t know any better. Failures Make the Best Case Studies – Case studies of success and failure form the basis for planning, improvement, training and other business practices. We learn three times more from failure than from success. 7 Degrees of Failure… Plateaus in the Learning Curve.

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Succession Due Diligence Budgeting Risk Management 80

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

The following pointers are offered to companies who communicate with niche publics: Seek and train multi-cultural professionals. Contribute to education in minority schools… assuring that the pipeline of promising talent can rise to challenges of the workforce.

Diversity 88

Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 88

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

And yet organizational leadership all too often demonstrates outright technology torpitude. An unprepared, lethargic leadership only amplifies the consequences of a security breach. As cyber threats grow exponentially, comprehensive risk management is now a board-level priority.

Training 10

Training Supply Chain Agility Risk Management 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. They were not just “old school.”

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Management Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective 70

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Failing to emphasize training. Without employee communications, suggestion boxes, publications, training videos, speeches and other professionally prepared instruments, the company is fooling itself and its customers about the commitment to quality. Educational and incentive programs should be implemented. Communication.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. They were not just “old school.”

Hostile Takeover 50

Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective Scientific Management 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Consumers are under-educated and don’t know the substance of a pioneer. These are my concluding pieces of leadership advice. Administrators, at all levels, need to be properly trained as such, not bumped up from the field to do something for which they have no inclination. Early formal education is but a starting point.

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Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

The lessons about leadership learned in the crucible of the backcountry environment — unpredictable, challenging, and dynamic 𕢔 map to today's business environment. Executives from Google and Timbuk2; students from Wharton and the Kellogg School and even most NASA astronauts have evolved through such training.

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Wilde Leadership Teamwork Leadership Styles 14

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Most people are more products of pop culture than they are of training. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. Quotes on community stewardship, leadership and related topics. This series will have three more to come.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. “It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. Quotes on The Future. “The future ain’t what it used to be.”

Benchmarking 50

Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Educate the public about what your company and your industry do. Train booth attendants for show duty. You can never have enough well-trained people at the show. Introduce new products. Most of the visitors come to see what’s new. Target a select group of visitors. Allow your staff to interface with the public.

How To 50

How To Follow-up Participative Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2012

Second, as leaders who are assessing risks, we need to have skin in the game; otherwise we are only pretending to lead. Third, character matters just as much as any knowledge or skills acquired from training and education. Risk has faces and names.

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Golden Parachute Tactics Training Risk Management 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

CISOs today are called upon to help business executives understand cyber risk and to implement the right security controls while promoting a culture of defense. Our research found that nine out of 10 CISOs are now connected directly to their company’s top leadership team, and half of them are directly on the team.

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Review Training Execution Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

BP and other companies in the oil and gas industry (as well as any corporation with potentially catastrophic operations) need to understand these larger governance and risk management lessons in meaningful detail in order to address complicated risk across far-flung global firms more effectively.

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Analysis Report Operations Document 14

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

is spent on education, which is the key to avoiding mistakes on the front end. Thus, a declining overall level of education in our society and serious challenges faced by organizations in training the workforce. Retaining good employees, involving training, motivation and incentives, is yet another matter. Yet, only 5.1%

Budgeting 81

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 81

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Comparable challenges exist for supply chain management and external partnerships: their collective intelligence may be ripe for algorithmic harvesting, but how well will it link to the rest of the enterprise? Network effects, not unlike risk management, transcend traditional enterprise functions and silos.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Because better risk management in the future turns on corporate behavior, not just more regulation, and because that risk management is going to be driven from the top of corporations, the answers to these questions of leadership responsibility and accountability for organizational action and culture are of critical importance.

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Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It means “process mapping” the myriad business functions; assessing business, legal and ethical risks at various points; mitigating that risk through education, checks and balances; and ensuring that problems are discovered early and handled promptly. Boards Ethics Risk management'

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The program, approved by the judge, consisted of TV and newspaper apology statements, plus the assurance that safety-environmental training would be provided to employees. Secondly, we initiated safety training that expanded to help home owners avoid accidents. Finally comes Crisis Training. Educate them of your activities.

Crisis Management 77

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 77

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

In the subset of cases where the company’s condition was classified as “Crisis” or “Challenged,” a similar difference was also evident, moving the companies to the “Stable” or “Growth” category 92% of the time, versus 70% for non-management consultants. No, probably not.

Consultative 9

Consultative CEO Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked. They are then reviewed by the company’s Manufacturing Leadership Council. At Cummins, Inc., for example, serious incidents are reported directly to the COO and communicated to business unit vice presidents as well.

Operations 16

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In fact, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that almost a quarter (24.2%) of all New Zealanders with university-level educations have emigrated. Among OECD nations, only Ireland has suffered as much brain drain.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Analysis Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

That's my management tip for today. Andy Grove, Intel's legendary former CEO, famously touted the virtues of paranoia as a leadership asset — running scared about imagined enemies or competitors. Do you think the world is out to get you? Go ahead, be a little paranoid. Putting off actions until disaster strikes makes it too late.

Benchmarking 15

Benchmarking Health Care Loyalty Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

181), BP said it should be responsible for: Developing better, clearer standards and processes for a range of activities in deep-sea drilling from cementing, to testing for leakages, to well control and general risk management. Significantly improving education and training of BP personnel to enhance capability and competency.

CEO 8

CEO Outsourcing Supply Chain Reputation 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We can dispense with all that employee training and professional development. Organizations must educate consumers, in a pro-active way, on how to best utilize their products-services. Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. We make a good product… that should be enough.

Budgeting 75

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 75

Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2014

Instead start smaller, with a key sub process, with leadership and a culture in that function or business unit that support employees working together and understanding how to look at a process and use data, diagrams, and the voice of the customer to improve it. Uncommitted leadership. If you have uncommitted leadership, stop.

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Project BPM Critical Success Factor Process 57

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Every organization must educate outside publics about what they do… and how they do it. You must always educate corporate opinion makers on how you function… and the skill with which you operate. Pointers on training staff and volunteers as media spokespersons. Staff Training Program. Risk management team.

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Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50