N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# Those who currently lead are aware that our times and this market demands flexibility and quick decision making.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 14, 2009

Today’s post is a link to Stewart Rogers ‘ blog the Strategic Product Manager , which contains several great leadership quotes from McKinsey. 2 Responses Stewart Rogers , on August 18, 2009 at 6:40 am said: Thanks for the mention! Take a few minutes and learn about Leadership Lessons from McKinsey.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Section III: Strategy. Great leaders are strategic thinkers who have the ability to translate their vision into an actionable strategy to insure its success. Want to find out? If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. Section IV: Tactics.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

3 Responses Chris Fillebrown , on January 1, 2010 at 8:07 pm said: In October of 2009 I started the Frame of Reference blog to focus on the innovation space. In particular, the blog is set up to collect and describe various practical solution-strategies that are available in the marketplace. Thank you for your insight.

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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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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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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.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 16, 2009

One Response Stewart Rogers , on May 19, 2009 at 6:44 pm said: Also worth noting that the player that takes the most shots is not always the most successful. Take inventory of the opportunities you have, decide which ones make sense, and take the shot. But sometimes they are.

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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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Lead on Purpose

JULY 24, 2009

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. Filed under: Leadership , Trust Tagged: | Bob Seelert , expertise , role , success « The right people Leaders’ focus » Like Be the first to like this post.

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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. Where can you find long-term strategies for your business? Once you know, rebalance or change your strategy to deliver optimum returns.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 12, 2009

Reply Stewart Rogers , on June 16, 2009 at 5:59 am said: “50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. As part of my quarterly performance reviews with my employees I insist that they build both their product road maps and their own personal roadmaps. Nice quote!

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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: [.]

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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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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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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

Working with companies, I have realized that presenting organizational strategies as an extension of previously-held pop-culture values gets more understanding, comprehension, attention and support. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. Most leaders of today’s corporations grew up in the 1950s-1980s.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Innovation on a budget. Innovation on a budget.

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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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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. Reply Stewart Rogers , on June 26, 2009 at 9:54 am said: – I learned we have RULES (1) I bet this was a boy! 7 Responses Steve Johnson , on June 26, 2009 at 7:04 am said: And “When you go out in the world, hold hands.&#

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In the January issue of HBR, Roger Martin sets out some rules for avoiding common mistakes in strategy making. As he writes in “ The Big Lie of Strategic Planning ”, the first rule is “keep the strategy statement simple.” The result: one planning document, many different strategies. I couldn’t agree more.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

On June 1st, Canada's Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity released a new, large report on Canada's Innovation Imperative. The report came from a task force led by Rotman School of Management Dean and HBR contributor Roger Martin. It paints a worrying picture of Canadian innovation. and Canada over time.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? It is the intensity of its people’s passion for innovation that animates IDEOs processes, he contends, forming a culture that’s “not typical, and not easy to emulate.”

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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

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. ” Faced with hard choices, innovators find ways to transcend the tradeoffs. New tools and strategies. Growing Digital Business.

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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. Strategy can't always be scheduled. Participate in an in-market test. Delegation is a necessary survival skill for senior executives.

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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.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Different segments have different risk tolerances, ways of making decisions, and — perhaps most challenging for growing businesses — preferences for when and how they adopt innovations. To be successful, companies need to innovate for the consumers they want, not the ones they have. New tools and strategies.

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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. A CED strategy starts with an asset assessment rather than a needs assessment of the poor, recognizing that even the poorest families have assets to contribute to their own development.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here's how they did it, and how they're using social media tools to become more agile, to share knowledge, and to increase the speed of innovation. Gloria Burke, Director of Knowledge Strategy & Governance, along with co-directors John Knab and Rajiv Prasad, launched Inside Unisys, a social network internal to the firm.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Are you ever frustrated by teammates who cling to the past while you try to introduce novel ideas or new strategies? If your team’s strategy can be summed up by the English wartime slogan “Keep Calm and Carry On,” you need some new approaches to tackle their resistance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Finding that first market — a few customers willing to pay for your early product — is hard enough. And that's finding the second market. You've built up the equivalent of a hand callus in response to the friction and pressure of what it has taken to get to that first-market success. And he was right.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Each of these executives offered plenty of ideas when the discussion turned to promotions, social media tactics, and marketing messages. They seemed to think that designing and managing the customer experience is a marketing function, as if the customer is only associated with marketing, and the store only with operations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

We sat down with Rotman Dean Roger Martin, author of Fixing the Game , to talk about the skewed incentives of CEO compensation. We sat down with Gartner's Anthony Bradley, author of The Social Organization , and HBS's Misiek Piskorski, author of " Social Strategies that Work ," to talk about the future of this fast-growing phenomenon.

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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. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Whether it is rivalry between people (Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs; Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal), between organizations (e.g., In organizations and industries in which experimentation, innovation, bold strategic moves, and thinking outside the box are valued (e.g., Rivalry is everywhere. Ford versus GM), or between nations (e.g.,

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