N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “ you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em. Significant opportunities are not only scarce, but they typically operate on the principal of diminishing returns. Put simply, opportunities are time sensitive.

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Due Diligence Metrics Competitive Advantage Rogers 167

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Great execution can elevate a flawed plan; at the same time, poor operational capabilities can easily sink a great set of ideas. The real magic for me as a leader was understanding how to shape our strategy and operational plans by integrating ideas from others and empowering them to bring those concepts to life.

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Team Rogers Diversity Franchising 100

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 22, 2011

Chan John Wiley & Sons (2010) A chorus of eloquent voices that suggest “a sense of what life is, can be, or should be” Prior to reading this book, I had already read two biographies of Warren Buffett, Roger Lowenstein’s Buffett: [.].

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Rogers Books Review Company 80

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

And, the operating budget has climbed from $38M to $178M. Roger Clodfelter, focuses on creating wow experiences for students all year long. News & World Report picked HPU in 2014 as #1 among up and coming schools and the #1 regional college in the south. Retention has skyrocketed and SAT scores have jumped 55 points on average.

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Leadership Education Wireless Rogers 150

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Cornell (Chairman and CEO of Target Corporation), and Roger Enrico (CEO of Pepsi) all received coaching at the executive level while being at the helm of some of the most notable companies on the planet. There’s also no guarantee of proficiency that a leader will operate at when skills and qualities are learned or developed informally.

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Executive Coaching Execution Self-aware Company 318

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

A study published in 2012 in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes found that prompting people to mentally picture a task from the perspective of an outside observer caused them to make more realistic predictions about how long the tasks might take, said Dr. Roger Buehler, the lead author of the study.

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Self-aware Rogers Organizational Behavior Tips 70

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.&# So much so, that if you don’t think timing is everything - think again.

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Blog Leadership Self-aware Crisis 418

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Why are organizations operating on a shoestring when there is a world of abundance out there?” ” Discover Roger on Twitter at @DoctorDuncan. Stephanie writes: “Have you seen the pretty scary statement from the Nonprofit Times that “most charities are teetering on financial peril”? Financial peril. Productivity.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 241

Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

The difficulty in changing is often mostly about our psychology (not the technical difficulty of operating under changed systems and processes after making adjustments to adapt to take advantage of new opportunities). by Will Rogers, or somebody else. Whoever said it, it is certainly true.

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Deming Company Management Conference 53

Deming Institute

MARCH 25, 2019

Per Carl Rogers, that which most personal is most universal”. 20 to 25 years of efforts to transform the systemic nature of business operations…. Most business corporations are basically pouring all the energy they can into sustaining, strengthening, tightening up, becoming yet more able to operate in the industrial mode….and

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Senge Education Deming Industry 63

The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Empower the “What”: Probably the most unique aspect of Alan’s “trip down the mountain at Ford” was removing himself from the content of operational decisions. If you Google it, you will find 11 bullets that read like a script summary for an episode of Ted Lasso, or a documentary on the lifetime contributions of Fred Rogers: People first.

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Situational Leadership Hersey Leadership Document 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Will Rogers. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

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. It is as comprehensive for leadership traits as I’ve seen in many other assessments.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 343

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

There simply was not enough hiring taking place for Millennials to make their mark on organizations, and so the dynamics in the workplace and how these companies operated really didn’t change. Herman, CSP, CMC Today’s Workforce Demographic shifts have placed vital demands on talent.

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Resources Talent Management Rogers Constraint 52

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. Case in point, like I joked about earlier, you ruined Everett Rogers’ model of diffusion innovation for me.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

A conversation with Rotman professor emeritus Roger Martin on why leaders should stop treating companies like machines.

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Efficiency Rogers Company Operations 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Volunteering, as time permits and worthy causes appear.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. When they are operating from their strengths, Pleasers can become the glue that holds a positive corporate culture together. Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser.

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Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 15

Management Craft

APRIL 24, 2011

Is the paradox of abundance operating in the background of your life? The concept of a fully functioning person from, On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers. I have been thinking about this a lot lately and know it is so for me. Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being by Dr. Martin Seligman. Positive emotions.

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Rogers Construction Goal Film 69

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 360

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When that happens, you don’t need a lot of rules because people make judgments that are in sync with what the business needs and how the business operates to get there. When the two are highly aligned, we see that spark where employees are rowing hard in the same direction to execute the business strategies quickly and effectively.

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Company Survey Rogers Skills 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

While nonprofits, often starved for general operating funds, can’t match pharma’s marketing budgets, a recent Bridgespan study argues that it’s time they and their funders heed business findings on increasing noise in the marketplace and the need to make any new offering, even a life-saving one, stand out. .”

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Innovation Rogers NGO Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Twelve-year-old Roger Ruiz was expelled from his public school in rural Nicaragua. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers. On a recent trip, he briefed me on his business plan and on the school's operations with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned entrepreneur.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare learned that the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer were going to launch "relationship-based care," a comprehensive cultural change program to focus doctors' and nurses' attention on patients and their families.

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Human Resources Chief Operating Officer Ulrich Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Such challenging goals require leaders to operate in areas where the pathways aren't paved, and the moves aren't already choreographed. The difference is illustrated by a classic joke about old-time movie dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. He led Ginger Rogers around the dance floor flawlessly. He had a goal.

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Rogers Health Care Education Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

She got the same tough assignments and challenging watches as her male counterparts, all of it designed to immunize her for the operational challenges ahead. According to renowned counseling psychologist Carl Rogers , empathy helps us learn to listen and understand mentees.

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Mentor Rogers Commitment Stress 14

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. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises. Roger Schwarz. The company recently took a hit on the stock market. You and Your Team Series.

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Long-term Short-term Strategy Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

In 1962, an academic by the name of Everett Rogers released a book called The Diffusion of Innovations. Rogers, who spent much of his early career studying the adoption of agricultural innovation, aptly pointed out that many innovations are slow to see adoption not for lack of appeal but for lack of an appropriate ecosystem.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

Roger was a young rising star. His company had just appointed him to take over a troubled country operation in Latin America. Coaching Roger, I suggested he was a bunny rabbit who had just been attacked by a horde of guinea pigs. Roger was a classic rabbit. He did a brilliant job turning things around financially.

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Rogers Benchmarking Loyalty Operations 8

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. Instead, we’ve looked for a new scapegoat, chosen to operate from the same fundamental theories, and doubled down on the same fixes."

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Rogers Simon Crisis Bottom-up 264

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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Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

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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Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

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. Cat Yu for HBR. When I was in my late twenties, I was diagnosed with stomach cancer. The tumors returned a year later, this time in my liver.

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Stress Rogers Learning-by-Doing Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

In season three of Mad Men , Sterling Coopers rainmakers — including Don Draper and Roger Sterling — are planning to leave the ad agency and to take as many clients as possible with them. Why do those less-glamorous roles end up mattering more, do you think? Its not that creative people arent valuable!

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Cooper Rogers Advertising Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

The poster child for his view was Roger Smith who was an MBA-trained accounting and finance specialist. During his ten year tenure as GE's CEO during the 80s, Smith made breathtaking strategic and operating blunders. He believes that CEOs and the top management should not be bean counters but rather should be a "product guys.".

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CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

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. It offered other items besides furniture (housewares, unique toys), and customers could drop children off a brightly designed, company-operated day care center.

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Strategy Document Comparison Rogers 13