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.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a brilliant article co-authored by Tim Brown and Jocelyn Wyatt for Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2010).

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 31, 2010

6 Responses Roger Crum , on June 4, 2010 at 7:22 pm said: Excellent question that each move us to add positive value and change in our lives.Thank you. Reply Michael Ray Hopkin , on June 19, 2010 at 10:17 pm said: Roger, glad to hear your enjoyed this post. Thank you for commenting.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The Position Myth: The greatest misunderstanding about leadership is that people think it’s based on position. Maxwell quotes Stanley Huffty, “It’s not the position that makes the leader; it’s the leader that makes the position.” The leader is the one with the vision that people want to follow.

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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. But sometimes they are.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. I love the way you have clearly differentiated between strategy and tactics – so many people get them confused and end up playing checkers instead of chess… Thanks, Landon Creasy [link] [link] Roger Martin Mike: This is an excellent tool.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Martha Rogers, co-founder of Peppers & Rogers Group, says, “This isn’t a financial crisis, but a crisis of trust.” Cost reduction.

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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

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. A decision that delivers positive first-order consequences could very well lead to negative second- or third-order events. Innovate quickly.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. Staples requires its 35 senior vice presidents to sponsor high-potential female talent for leadership positions. The business case for diversity is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Much of how I view sustaining an innovative business culture comes from observing my husband maintain those cell cultures. Most innovative companies have an impressive ability to generate lots of ideas. As the cells used nutrients, they produced byproducts, some of which were inhibitory to growth, and even toxic.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 15, 2015

Michelle Cubas, CPCC, ACC, of Positive Potentials, LLC asks “Who motivates the motivator?” – Roger Wilkins. Tony Vengrove of Miles Finch Innovation says, “There’s no silver bullet for making innovation “happen” or leading any other worthy endeavor. Follow Wally. ” Leadership is like that.

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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. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. It is important to make it a regular outing, and to really explore intriguing, albeit unrelated subjects as a group.

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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. What’s intriguing about IKEA is that it consciously designed its value proposition and brand identity around contrasts: a set of negatives (things they do not offer) and a few positives (things they offer).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

Even given their positions of authority, neither was able to overcome the majority view. Rather than seeking to lead a passionate band of willing innovators and build a movement, they leaned on their authority to create wholesale change by forcing the unconvinced against their will. We tend to overestimate the power of influence.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

The long-standing view in psychology is that positive emotions are conducive to creativity because they broaden the mind, whereas negative emotions are detrimental to creativity because they narrow one’s focus. For example, pleasant is a positive emotion, but it has low motivational intensity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Stand-up meetings have become a routine part of the workday in many organizations, spread largely by the adoption of agile and other innovative management methods. Roger Schwarz. Now think about a stand-up meeting, in which there is no rhyme or reason to how people are positioned. How Top Salespeople Land Hard-to-Get Meetings.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When I talk with leaders of process improvement activities about the role of HR in change, however, I generally hear that HR is bureaucratic and a brake on innovation. Yet if HR gets out in front of improvement activities, it could be in a precarious position if a new CEO comes in with a focus on shorter-term results.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

I hear woes-of-the-middle tales from all kinds of leaders in all stages and sectors; innovators getting a new idea off the ground, real estate developers facing stalled construction, companies approaching foreign markets, and CEOs leading complex turnarounds. Is the working team motivated to keep going?

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Guidelines Real Estate Rogers Trends 11

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. Like the Kubler-Ross model the innovation adoption curve categorises people. It asks how quickly do we take to innovations – another type of change. It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model? Or start earlier? McKinsey’s 7S.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

There are now 1,800 positions, and they hire 12 to 20 more people each month. Always open to new challenges, he seized the opportunity to lead a university with facilities that were a bit long in the tooth and that lacked any signs of innovating in the future. . As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

There are many examples of crowdsourcing, open innovation, and new business models that tap into the creativity of people from anywhere in the world today. Finally, the engagement of people ought to be transformative, ultimately leading to positive change in the system.

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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. Finally, in one of my favorite podcasts from the past year, we talked with the father of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, who walked us through some fascinating work he's done with the U.S. Audio podcast.

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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

MAY 31, 2013

So position yourself to be the colleague-of-choice. Bring a positive attitude to everything you do. The American humorist Will Rogers said, "You never get a second chance to make a first impression." Keep in mind it''s more important to work in a good organization than to start with a good position.

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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. Sponsored by Accenture. New tools and strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The channel, therefore, had a powerful position in relationship to the brand. These businesses seem committed to doing what they already know, and despite Roger Martin's guidance that you can't analyze your way to growth , companies continue to think of growth creation using the rearview mirror.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Innovative new hospital designs have changed patients’ experiences and expectations of what a hospital should be. Roger Ulrich, a visiting professor at Center for Healthcare Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has been a thought leader in the evidence-based design movement for 30 years. Reduced Pain.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands. Rich countries could simply reject the agenda, or they could co-opt a few key developing countries into the existing system.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N. What went wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation. The list goes on.

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