Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Often used by people within positions of power within organizations, these clichés support control, group cohesion, or an agenda. Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth.

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Lead from Within

JULY 31, 2023

Are you resistant to change? Innovation is key, especially when operating environments are changing quickly. . #1 If you find yourself becoming arrogant or dismissive of others’ ideas, it’s time to take a step back and refocus on leading with humility. Reacting to change is different from bringing about change.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve just finished reading another good article about an innovator’s need to open the mind. Articles like these always make me wonder: Doesn’t the other 95% of the business need to innovate, too? Their reactivity drags down whatever innovations do arise, and it’s really too bad.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve just finished reading another good article about an innovator’s need to open the mind. Articles like these always make me wonder: Doesn’t the other 95% of the business need to innovate, too? Their reactivity drags down whatever innovations do arise, and it’s really too bad.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The analysis reveals six tactics commonly used to manage stereotypes when operating in male-dominated roles or industries. This reality might fuel women’s resistance to taking on advisory positions and explain the disproportionate levels of burnout that women experience from having to regulate their behavior constantly.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This demonstrates that despite being masters of their craft and holding positions at the top of their organizations, executives still crave advice and the opportunities to reflect on and improve their own work. Executive coaching fulfills this need. Why Should Your Organization Be Interested? .” Is Executive Coaching Worth It?

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Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 26, 2023

People and businesses will always need to move goods and passengers, making this industry resistant to economic downturns. Even during challenging times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, essential transportation services remained operational, highlighting the industry’s resilience.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Businesses regularly establish routines in the way they operate, but when problems arise and they’re thrown a curve ball, those routines and competencies may no longer work for the situation managers find themselves in. In turn, this creates space for a resilient workplace culture to flourish and generate sustainable ways of operating.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Famous research from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom illustrates the difficulties we face in keeping the wheels of innovation turning. Bloom illustrates that while we’re spending more on research and innovation than ever before, we’re getting diminishing returns for that investment. Engines of creation.

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CO2

AUGUST 8, 2010

Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking. — David Whyte from Where Many Rivers Meet ©2007 Many Rivers Press We can have faith that tomorrow will come or we can resist that temptation. Many of you have read The Secret by the idea of manifest destiny.

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HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

This involves aligning the TNA with the company’s strategic priorities, such as improving financial performance, enhancing operational efficiency, or expanding into new markets. Resistance to Change Employees may be resistant to the changes and new training initiatives that result from the training needs analysis.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. Why do many business leaders resist it? I had no idea how their use would fuel the rise of today’s online businesses.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than reacting to change and constantly putting out fires, how can you guide your organization to become an innovative leader in change? Understand That Change Is Necessary People are unlikely to play their role in organizational change if they don’t understand why new ways of operating are needed.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2011

We have all found ourselves in the unenviable position of assigning work product only to end-up with the deliverable falling far short of expectations, while having the producer of said work product thinking they exceeded all expectations.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Biologically ironic to our human nature, most people adamantly resist change. Change can also offer an enormous amount of benefits, like growth in a career, innovation for the future, and discovering new possibilities in life. After positive change gets going, the momentum pulls it forward with each step.

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QAspire

MARCH 13, 2011

On one hand, they have to improve the processes to deliver positive business outcomes. Understand People because effective change implementation is not possible without understanding how people operate. With this understanding, managing resistance becomes a little easier.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. Unwarranted fears. Of course, a study from a few years ago suggests that such fears of widespread job displacement may be somewhat overblown.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 11, 2014

Yes, innovation and execution are important to—but it all starts with top-level commitment. One of the top drivers of the leadership skills deficit, according to our research, is that a different style of leadership is required and that current leaders are resistant to changing how they lead. how to get your CEO to make it a priority.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I have actually come to cringe every time I hear a so called expert use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a justification for the position they happen to be evangelizing. Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

If you operate a home décor company that strives to connect to style-savvy urban hipsters but your website is cluttered, and very UN-edgy, you’re going to be perceived as anything but hip. By brainstorming and executing new ways to effectively communicate your unique offering, you’ll be in a better position to grow your bottom line.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Teams with strong positive cultures can weather short-term blows to engagement, such as economic downturns, anxiety over mergers, or increased competition. In other words, culture is the fuel that drives and sustains positive engagement. Culture is the fuel that drives and sustains positive engagement.” Jason Richmond.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2019

Previous research has explored whether people become more tolerant of diversity when they’re more exposed to different races and nationalities, with the findings mixed, with some suggesting that indeed does occur, whilst others suggesting people feel threatened and therefore resist increases in migration.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Lesson #2 – “Never be the brightest person in a room” In the face of today’s more competitive and faster-paced global market, it’s easy to appreciate why creating a collaborative enviroment is critical to an organization’s ability to adapt and innovate.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 7, 2014

Make you an innovative leader in your marketplace. Are there competitors driving price resistance? In today’s rapidly changing world, smart leaders have systems to detect early warning signs that the positioning of their business may need to change. Rise above your competition. Accelerate organizational and culture change.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 6, 2011

It’s no different when an organization is given a directive to innovate. Leaders see their favored market position weakening as competitors develop new products. In the case of the competitor closing the gap by innovating in product or service, the obvious thing is to come up with the next great thing the customer wants.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. Case in point…have you ever witnessed an employee throw a fit of rage and resign their position in the heat of the moment? I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. It becomes how we operate on a day-to-day basis.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. Million; not big, but interesting.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. FinTech companies are putting a new twist on financial concepts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Big businesses struggling in an era of rapid transformation can learn a lot from the experiences of social entrepreneurs finding and adapting innovative solutions in difficult contexts. WISH and WISE. Empower Bottom-up Solutions. “Maybe what you think is the best idea you’ve ever had actually isn’t.” ” 2.

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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. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. It's a classic change management problem. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. It details how in 2010, Samsung set up a small consumer-focused innovation team in London, headed by Luke Mansfield. Rather, it is to position themselves to create disruptive innovation. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Why do some innovations flourish while others flounder? Atul Gawande tackles this question in The New Yorker , using the medical field — arguably one of the places where innovation is most important, given its life-saving capabilities — as ground zero. You have to use mentorship to make an innovative idea the norm.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain. Be proactive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

That bill, known as the Innovation Act, was reintroduced last month in the House by its author, Rep. The Innovation Act’s provisions would make an important dent in the worst excesses of the system. Even if the Innovation Act passes this time, structural defects in the patent system will be left unaddressed.

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