N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Section IX: Team Building. Great leaders create great teams throughout the entire value chain. Leaders can be extremely strong in any of the areas above, but if they are not leading effectively or productively, if they are not meeting performance expectations, then they have work to do. Want to find out?

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 1, 2016

Have you been building your business in a way that you can succeed with one good product? Security breaches happen : Nicky Parsons, played by Julia Stiles, was a former CIA operative who knew her way around computers. She was going to be passed over for the mission but she asked to be a part of the team. She was right.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By 2007, PBS.org audience growth had stalled and the product pipeline was dry. Worse, the digital team was paralyzed by a deeply engrained culture of caution. Television production works on a different cycle from digital, with programs often greenlit two to three years in advance. The product manager? The site failed.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

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. When those goals are aligned with the organization, we see higher productivity and business results. Optimizing Your Talent Investments.

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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

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

MAY 3, 2016

Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity. In this experiment, the researchers varied the list of features for the new product. Join the conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. A team of U.S. The same is true for social innovators. simple to use (or do) and understand.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. Mauricio knew that he must carve out time for strategic conversations with his leadership team, but during a one-on-one coaching session he told me he was puzzled. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Doctors operated and told me to hope for the best. 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. Cat Yu for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” We see this with Digital India and the telemedicine program.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Digital natives such as Didi and Uber are operating customer-facing mobility platforms in cities around the world. But that’s only one side of the story.

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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. Leading teams Risk management Strategic planning'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

If you want your team to be effective, you need meeting ground rules — and you need agreement about how to use them. Many teams that have ground rules don’t regularly use them. But having rules in place that you consistently enforce can significantly improve how your team solves problems and makes decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

The conventional wisdom when implementing such software packages is to identify all the stakeholders and include representatives of each group on the implementation team. Together the users and the IT team defined user requirements and managed expectations for both custom development and package configuration. Solar Group, a €1.4

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

One chief operating officer I worked with was appointed to her newly created role with the expressed purpose of integrating two supply chain organizations resulting from an acquisition. Having risen through the supply chain ranks, she spent most of her time reacting to operational missteps and customer complaints. Mark Bonchek.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments. As a result, a new era is emerging.

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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. On the Sephora Beauty Board, community members can upload photos of their favorite “looks” with the makeup products that made it possible.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

How do you maintain the cohesion” at a multinational corporation with far-flung operations spanning myriad cultures? Even outputs can be fuzzy when the “work product” is what lies between people’s ears, not what emerges from their hands. How do you organize your entrepreneurial within the managerial?” “How What should it be?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

But in order to realize this future, we need to learn and employ the lessons from the architectural evolution of the internet, facilitating openness and distributed operations rather than the closed proprietary systems of individual manufacturers and service providers. Or, in Trekkie parlance, "more Burberry, less Borg."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Whether it’s a team member who disagrees with your approach, an employee from another department who brings up irrelevant information, or a colleague who wants to use your meeting as a soapbox for his own personal agenda, dealing with interrupters during a meeting is challenging. How should you handle a persistent interrupter?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

link] anna smith I just read an interview with Kent Williams, a team leader for Thomson Reuters. I showed this to my team, and they got a great laugh out of it.” Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The sidebar “Why We Need Fresh Blood” explains how diversity on any team often produces the best results. Why We Need Fresh Blood Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin Jones, and Brian Uzzi, a multidisciplinary team of researchers, decided to use big data to learn what distin­guished ideas that had impact from those that didn’t.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

They came from training, team building and people management perspectives. While all good leaders must keep the company’s internal operations moving forward, the very best ones must also be looking outside the company towards the customers, clients, financiers, volunteers and the organization’s entire affected constituencies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

For example, imagine that the CEO’s chosen strategy is to differentiate on the basis of superior “fit and finish,” e.g., the flawlessness and detail-orientation of her products. She asks her EVP of manufacturing to please go execute that strategy. In complex organizations, there is very little choiceless doing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

Management teams at such companies spend a lot of effort separating out the costs that truly fuel their distinct advantage from the ones that don’t. At the same time, Eagle Snacks was gaining market share with innovative new products and its own distribution system.

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