N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

They can choose a board director who strengthens a weakness, brings a desired perspective to the boardroom, and adds to the board in a way that helps it best achieve its future goals. But in order to overhaul board composition, boards need to understand the full picture of their current makeup.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 21, 2019

They anticipate things that others can’t see: Next Practices Businesses consistently invest energy envisioning all kinds of conceivable business situations. Their end goal is to build up a work setting where duty and responsibility are stressed and extraordinary execution is the “norm.”

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Key to the new paradigm is to immediately direct attention and energy on the identification of strategic performance drivers and competitive advantages that can be delivered in days, weeks or months not years. The old paradigm of strategy assumes the existing culture is sufficient to accommodate and support strategy goals.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 9, 2011

It is by building into others and through assisting others in reaching their goals and objectives that you will find success. Great relationships take great amounts of effort, energy and commitment. Associate with energy gainers and not energy drainers. Remove these people from your network.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

The achievement of current goals and objectives free up the time & create the resources to move on to bigger and better things…Trying to do too many things at once will impede progress, dilute effort & energy, add to chaos and lead to burn-out. Bottom line…success equals focus.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

Your business routinely falls short of its goals. Weak Company Affiliation as reflected by high employee turnover, low energy and in less than stellar net promoter scores , indicates a cultural weakness that hurts the retention of your best and brightest. Here are 10 signs that your company culture needs a fix: 1.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Be Innovative and engaging, not flat and uninspired – countless management consultants employ the same old, tired planning processes that generate little interest or energy. ” This kind of planning results in squandered resources and missed goals and objectives.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The problem in many organizations is that getting results is all too often not the real focus and not where most of the energy and time are spent. The focus and energy on results typically happens months into the traditional strategy development process and is most usually focused on defining the financial outcomes expected from the strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

A mouse running on a mousewheel can perfect their stride and reduce the amount of energy it takes to get "moving." " If the goal is to get somewhere the mouse is efficiently ineffective. I can use a hand grenade to kill a mosquito. It ain't efficient but it sure is effective.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization. If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Leadership development can shift from delivering learning events to facilitating an ongoing learning process that leaders can access in real time and virtually, via both formal and informal avenues allowing them to choose the curricula and focus that best suits their learning and development goals.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

If you believe the hype, social media will immediately solve all your problems and require no time, energy or effort on your part. What are you so busy doing that you don’t have time to build better relationships with precisely those individuals and groups who can help you achieve your goals and objectives?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals. Employers frequently ask about diversity training but, when asked about their goals, they don't really have one.

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