N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By turning to a skillful executive coaching company that knows exactly how to deliver results when it comes to leadership coaching and helping leaders do what they do best: optimize their performance, imagine further, and lead well. Still, it has taken many different forms, and today, not all executive or leadership coaching is created equal.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

This may sound harsh, but the truth often is… I’ve witnessed far too many people in positions of leadership that wouldn’t recognize an opportunity if it hit them squarely in the face. If you cannot recognize, attract, and acquire opportunity you should not be in a leadership position. Click To Tweet.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. The third under appreciated area is the call for statistical leadership. And that was a sincere concern of his.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 31, 2010

Filed under: Leadership , Knowledge , Learning , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | learn , opportunity , value , Mark Sanborn , design « Five championship strategies Book Review: Here Comes Everybody » Like Be the first to like this post. Thank you for commenting.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 20, 2009

Filed under: Knowledge , Purpose , Trust « Guest Post: Market Sensing is not Crop Dusting Value comes from work » Like Be the first to like this post. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. What can a classroom full of bright-eyed and energized kindergartners teach you about leadership? I decided to use this as research into the minds of 6 year olds and to see what leadership attributes the kids had acquired over the months.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. That’s sort of what the article did.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 16, 2009

Filed under: Leadership , Purpose Tagged: | initiative , opportunities , Wayne Gretzky « Create value for others Building your position » Like Be the first to like this post. Take inventory of the opportunities you have, decide which ones make sense, and take the shot. Be habitual about taking initiative.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 24, 2009

Filed under: Leadership , Trust Tagged: | Bob Seelert , expertise , role , success « The right people Leaders’ focus » Like Be the first to like this post. Reply Stewart Rogers , on July 31, 2009 at 5:15 am said: From a product management perspective (as leaders), maybe something important does happen in the office.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 12, 2009

Filed under: Leadership , Purpose Tagged: | Dee Hock , ethics , investing in yourself , motivation , principles « Success is not a zero-sum game Pay attention to your peers » Like Be the first to like this post. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers. . Nice quote!

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 5, 2011

But unlike finite measurements such as sales, market share, profit, stock price or market cap, momentum remains an intangible – a powerful one. For example, if it was innovation and creativity that brought revival, chances are high that innovation and creativity will remain a cornerstone of their corporate culture.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

by Will Rogers, or somebody else. The larger organization often doesn’t directly oppose innovations in processes that are in place; but by reinstating old management practices the organization undermines the system that allowed those processes to be successful. Whoever said it, it is certainly true.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 6, 2009

I would review Stewart Roger’s and The Productologist as well as your local product management association. Stewart Rogers recently shared this with me: As someone who has attended four Product Camps, I still get excited for each and every one. There are several good sites that list upcoming Product Camps.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 14, 2009

2 Responses Stewart Rogers , on August 8, 2009 at 6:15 pm said: If travel is not an option there is nothing wrong with spending some time with Customer Visits cousin, Call Report. Stewart Reply Rockstar syndrome hurting sales | themadpeacock , on December 28, 2009 at 9:13 am said: [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it? Focus on value creation.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Consider these 11 ideas from the Radical Times Webcast series by SAS Marketing Director Jonathan Hornby: 1. Get strategic.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing. You need an iPhone to look at existing (potentially competitive) apps so you can better understand your market(s) and write effective requirements that will move your product line in that direction.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman, Editor Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard [.].

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. Quotes on community stewardship, leadership and related topics. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

Too many leaders try to demand creativity on the spot: They offer cash rewards for new ideas, sequester teams in endless brainstorming sessions, and encourage competitive hierarchies that reward some people for out-innovating others. Kelley and Tim Brown of IDEO and Roger Martin of the Rotman School, design thinking has three major stages.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

One of the most recent and most trenchant critiques comes from Roger Martin , dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, in his book Fixing the Game (Harvard Business Review Press 2011). In other words, we must turn our attention back to the real market and away from the expectations market.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

But when executives delegate their discovery-related innovation tasks, the odds of them finding the surprising insights that often spur transformative-growth businesses decrease dramatically. Even worse, the dissociation of leadership from learning decreases the odds that the team will pay attention to the unexpected insight.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Consider, first, rampant excesses in a most unlikely part of the financial scene — the market for microcredits to the world's poorest people. First come the innovators, who see opportunities that others don't and champion new ideas that create genuine value. Then come the imitators, who copy what the innovators have done.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

When presented with a surprising idea, smart organizations will bravely listen, because what comes next might just be game-changing innovation. Twelve-year-old Roger Ruiz was expelled from his public school in rural Nicaragua. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Soon consumers will be able to: (1) control the flow and use of personal data, (2) build their own loyalty programs, (3) dictate their own terms of service, and (4) tell whole markets what they want, how they want it, where and when they should be able to get it, and how much it should cost. by Bill Lee. by Donald N.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan. Roger Schwarz. You and Your Team Series.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 2, 2011

Leadership: In essence, leaders attract followers so that [.]. After having read and reviewed so many business books, I now share brief comments about what I consider to be the 25 most valuable business insights and the books in which they are either introduced or (one man’s opinion) best explained. Here are the third five: 11.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Schultz is already well-known as one of this generation’s CEO activists, a group which includes Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein , Duke Energy’s Jim Rogers , and Google’s Eric Schmidt — and other high-ranking corporate leaders like Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg. But CEO activism is a different animal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T. At Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and Owner/President Management Program. Weatherhead, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Unless we also design new ways of talking about ideas and exploring the future, those product and service innovations will never be embraced by the organization and never make their way out into the world. Kelley and Tim Brown of IDEO and Roger Martin of the Rotman School, design thinking has three major stages. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. The main strengths of my network as it exists today are: The main weaknesses of my network as it exists today are: What can a network do for you?

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