N2Growth Blog

JULY 18, 2016

I share this because there is new evidence uncovered by researchers Avi Feller and Todd Rogers that suggests “ that exposure to exemplary peer performances can undermine motivation and success by causing people to perceive that they cannot attain their peers’ high levels of performance. But, managers, don’t despair!

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Today, executive leaders need to be skilled in areas beyond their technical and managerial expertise to motivate their teams, continuously improve their own output, and take their organizations to new heights. Leaders are looking to think bigger (at a faster pace than ever before) and are pushing themselves and their teams to imagine farther.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 31, 2010

“Do business by design rather than by default.&# — The Product Management Perspective: We will improve our effectiveness and our ability to work with others by giving careful thought to these questions. As product leaders we need to plan and then move forward with focus and energy. Thank you for commenting.

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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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

She was the model for executive assistants and office managers everywhere. The CEO is made stronger with a good C-suite team. John Wayne and Roy Rogers had Gabby Hayes. This historic teaming became the formula for most other TV sitcoms. Therefore, our loyalty to the company rises, and we are more productive.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Everyone’s getting slammed,” says Roger Lee, founder of Layoffs.fyi, told Yahoo Finance “Earlier in the year, layoffs in tech were concentrated within food, transportation, and finance startups — but at this point it’s hitting every sector within tech.”. Google-parent Alphabet may also reduce workforce.

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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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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 20, 2009

2 Responses Chelsea , on August 24, 2009 at 6:59 am said: what a sweet story, You must be very proud:-) X C Reply Stewart Rogers , on September 6, 2009 at 4:53 pm said: Not sure what to say, but this made me smile. Congratulations to your family.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 11, 2012

Rogers , "to thrive in our digital age, businesses need to reimagine our customers: not as a mass of isolated individual actors but as networks --with each customer as a node linking and dynamically interacting with each other and with us." What new skills and capacities do we need to foster? According to author David L.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 24, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: The specific duties of product managers may vary from one company to the next. However, the primary responsibility is the same: release successful products for your company. 5 Responses Software Product Management » Blog Archive » ????????? ???? ???? ,

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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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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Every leader has to create, maintain and show integrity.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 12, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: Dee Hock’s quote nicely defines the product management perspective. 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. — are the most valuable asset you own.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Want to find out? Section III: Strategy. Section VI: Persuasiveness.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

If You Want Remarkable Teams… Build for Collaboration. If you want great teams, you build them for collaboration. All of what I describe here applies to building remarkable teams as well as building a remarkable culture in your organization. But, do not underestimate the value of continued individual and team learning.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 14, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: Much has been written about the importance of customer visits to the success of your products. 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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Management Tips from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) 150 “tips”…almost unlimited “icebergs” Here are 150 “Management Tips of the Day” that have been featured by the Harvard Business Review blog ([link] On average, each has a total word count of about 50 and is best viewed as a reminder rather [.].

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

Deciding who to include can be tough but too many managers default to including everyone. Robert Sutton, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University, looked at the research on group size and concluded that the most productive meetings contain only five to eight people. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

There’s a lot of advice out there about how to make meetings more efficient and productive. Of course, you should still be focused on achieving the meeting outcomes, but thoughtful meetings and productive ones don’t have to be at odds. I’ve worked with managers and project leaders to create these kinds of experiences.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Even if you are fulfilled, the odds are that many of your managers and employees are not, according to new study conducted by Metrus Institute. The good news is that you can control a good deal of this, and even more importantly, you can positively influence the fulfillment, productivity and retention of people in your organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Business books, magazines, and blogs are chock full of advice about how to give feedback to individuals, but how do you do the same for your entire team? There needs to be an expectation within the team this is a shared leadership responsibility,” he says. What type of constructive criticism is appropriate in a group setting?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

It's amazing how much one troubled employee can undermine a department's productivity. Otherwise positive and productive team members begin to dread coming to work, and the group's best thinking gets siphoned off the company's mission as everyone scrambles to stay out of the bully's crosshairs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. We invite the entire product team to participate; if they have 15 or 30 minutes, they are encouraged to pop in, read some notes, and shift them to places that make sense.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. “For managers, this is not a trivial decision,” Ofek says.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Without corporate mandates such as weekly team meetings or biweekly project check-ins, entrepreneurs have the ability to wipe out bureaucratic red tape and reach new heights of productivity. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track. Elizabeth Grace Saunders.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

Every leader is hoping for that next great idea, yet many executives still treat creative thinking as antithetical to productivity and control. Indeed, 80% of American and British workers feel pressured into being productive rather than creative. One manages for creativity.” You and Your Team Series. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. But what if your direct reports are smarter than you? What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

In the face of this dynamic, it isn’t enough to create new products and services. 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. Designing the New Product.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2018

Giving performance feedback is one of the most common ways managers help their subordinates learn and improve. Listening as an avenue for self-change was advocated by the psychologist Carl Rogers in a classic 1952 HBR paper. Harry Haysom/Getty Images. What Makes Listening Powerful?

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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. These are typically brief, daily progress sessions through which an initiative team updates and coordinates efforts. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

There is little I see about the practice of risk management today that is particularly helpful. To balance that and avoid squelching productive risk-taking, they often foster in tandem a culture that celebrates failure and encourages risk-taking behavior. In my experience, neither contributes positively to managing risk.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

Even if you don’t like seeing yourself on the screen, consider how this powerful tool might increase productivity and effectiveness for your business. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz. Use videoconferencing to help yourself resist multitasking, and to help your team and colleagues maintain their focus.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Dr. Derek Roger had spent 30 years researching why some people in difficult situations become overwhelmed, while others persevere. You and Your Team Series. Rumination is ongoing and destructive, diminishing your health, productivity, and well-being. I was a mess for the next six months. Then I met a man who changed my outlook.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. That theory, says Roger Martin, “had the unfortunate effect of tightly tying together two markets: the real market and the expectations market.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

As a manager, it’s your job to make sure people don’t go off on tangents or give endless speeches. The good news is that meeting management isn’t rocket science; you probably already know what you should be doing. “The Here’s how to make your next meeting your most productive one yet. Manage ramblers. Set the right tone.

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