N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Strategic Value of a Chief Commercial Officer in Today’s Market In today’s environment, the value derived from a highly skilled Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) cannot be understated. Their adept conceptualization and execution of strategic plans are crucial to ensuring a company’s longevity and success.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

In today’s uncertain economic conditions and fierce market competition, everyone from shareholders to regulators closely monitor how boards perform and if board members are upholding their fiduciary duty. Because of these factors, board governance continues to be critical for overall business success today.

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CO2

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Protective Instincts : In organizations with strong hierarchical structures, employees might modify their memories to shield colleagues or superiors from blame. Culture and Environment : Promote Open Dialogue : Encourage a culture where employees feel safe to express their perspectives without fear of retribution. Source : Leo, R.

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2024

Learning Expeditions, a WDHB-specific learning solution based upon this cycle, promotes collaborative and insightful journeys, enhancing knowledge acquisition through direct engagement and leading to actionable outcomes. The art of facilitation requires a delicate balance between expertise and approachability.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

Utilizing a vast network and in-depth industry knowledge, the executive search team at N2Growth focuses on understanding the dynamics within leadership teams. Understanding the Role of a Chief Operating Officer A Chief Operating Officer (COO) holds a distinctive and crucial role in the corporate ecosystem.

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Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The intensity of this role often exposes leaders to cognitive biases—subtle yet profound thinking errors that can misguide decisions and strategies. Embrace Diverse Opinions: Consult individuals with different perspectives, including team members and external advisors. Understanding and mitigating these biases is key.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 5, 2021

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Every one of us owns some small part in fixing our sphere of influence, our corner of the universe. Communication. Is 2020 yet “in the books?”

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 29, 2022

Physical transitions such as these are visible and in your face, but Harvard’s Arthur Brooks believes that similar transitions are likely to befall us all during our careers. In From Strength to Strength , he argues that there are two distinct forms of intelligence within us all. Past our peak. Changing tack. New skills.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

In an exclusive Q&A session with Paige Ross, Global Head of Human Resources at Blackstone, we gain profound insights into the world of talent management and employee development within one of the world’s leading financial institutions. I continue to be amazed each year by the interest in working with us.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Julie sat in the last row on the right-hand side of the classroom near the window, two or three seats from the front. Stilwell,” she responded, “when am I going to ever use this?”. Almost every major social problem that confronts us today is a consequence of trying to do the wrong things righter” (Haynes, 2010).

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CO2

JULY 25, 2019

There are just too many moving pieces—in terms of technology, systems, skills, knowledge, threats, and opportunities—for leaders to have a firm grip on them all. Employees are still looking for stability and certainty from leaders. Move from knowing to not knowing — become more curious and look for innovation rather than trade-offs.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 16, 2011

Benjamin Franklin put it this way: “To cease to think creatively is but little different from ceasing to live.” But they're both using the same creative tools and wrestling with many of the same obstacles." One very simple yet profound suggestion is “ The Big 3.” This isn’t easy. “ Creativity craves structure. Big mistake.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

I wrote a previous post on this blog about a paper he wrote about using Deming’s ideas at Intermountain Healthcare. As he explained earlier that vision was to learn what was working and what wasn’t by collecting and studying data on patients and experimenting using the scientific method to improve health care results.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2019

There are just too many moving pieces—in terms of technology, systems, skills, knowledge, threats, and opportunities—for leaders to have a firm grip on them all. Employees are still looking for stability and certainty from leaders. Move from knowing to not knowing — become more curious and look for innovation rather than trade-offs.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Talent has progressed from a cost to be minimized to source of competitive advantage. IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. In their book, the authors use eight themes to offer guidance on how to change perspective and view the enterprise as a living organization, enabled by technology.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2017

This post is an excerpt from Ed Baker’s book (pages 47-48), The Symphony of Profound Knowledge , which was created in partnership with Aileron.org. At Aileron, we fervently believe privately held business fuels free enterprise and raises the quality of life for us all. If we can predict, then we have knowledge.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 11, 2013

Using mathematical language, Point A is where you start and Point B is where you want to go. Leadership is the ability to take yourself and others from Point A to Point B. It also drives and motivates us to begin and complete a journey. We passed a new building and he said, “There is our new swimming natatorium.” I said, “Good.”

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . But none of these terms have been rigorously defined or differentiated from one another. Would you share an example from an organization doing it right? Today’s organizations face the unknown on a weekly basis.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

This guest post is an excerpt from Ed Baker’s book (pages 31-32), The Symphony of Profound Knowledge , which was created in partnership with Aileron.org. Therefore, to begin a study of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge requires both a leap of faith that it will have value and curiosity about it.

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Deming Institute

MAY 21, 2018

Drawing such a conclusion is just not sensible when looking at Deming’s larger body of work, extending from his employment at the Department of Agriculture to the publication of his last book, The New Economics. Dr. Deming understood you didn’t use the same improvement thinking every time you wanted to improve.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

He’s also a sought-after speaker on subjects ranging from competitive advantage to strategy to leadership. from Warwick Business School in England. With one group looking further into the distance or into the future giving perspective to those who see the details closer to home, today or next week. He holds an M.B.A.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 31, 2017

This post is an excerpt from Ed Baker’s Book (pages 140-141), The Symphony of Profound Knowledge , which was created in partnership with Aileron.org. At Aileron, we fervently believe privately held business fuels free enterprise and raises the quality of life for us all. About Aileron.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

This post is an excerpt from Ed Baker’s book (pages 104-105), The Symphony of Profound Knowledge , which was created in partnership with Aileron.org. At Aileron, we fervently believe privately held business fuels free enterprise and raises the quality of life for us all. About Aileron.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 16, 2018

William summarizes what he took from the paper in reference to analytic studies: Subject-matter experts often needed. Analytic study : Everything else and especially sampling from a process. Dr. Meeker showed a letter Gerald Hahn received from Dr. Deming on their paper: Your paper is great. Things change over time.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Success and failure… it’s a matter of perspectives. Other activities bring us failure… from which we learn even more what to do to achieve success the next time. We learn three times more from failure than from success. Learns constructively from trial and error. One will be a failure.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Don’t miss Ann Francke OBE’s top five takeaways from the trip here. She also met with the new chair of CMI Hong Kong, Chang Rui Hua, and representatives from organisations across Hong Kong including HKU SPACE, City University of Hong Kong, CUHK Business School and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. It was a packed schedule.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

To put it simply, effective use of Big Data to make decisions depends on each of the four components of The System of Profound Knowledge and the interaction between the components. At the same time, we need to be vigilant about understanding the data we are using. Without knowledge, “Off we go to the Milky Way.”.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 22, 2017

About Aileron – At Aileron, we fervently believe privately held business fuels free enterprise and raises the quality of life for us all. Aileron is proud to support the illuminating, alternative perspective of Dr. Deming’s teachings and philosophy presented in Ed Baker’s book, The Symphony of Profound Knowledge.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

He offers a unique perspective on innovation and winning in the marketplace. Lessons from Tesla versus Edison. You are teaching what separates successful innovators from those who struggle. I love how you use Tesla and Edison to drive this point home. Innovation Capital. Indra Nooyi.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Anyone who takes a systems perspective with regard to educational leadership likely understands and appreciates the power of these words. Guest post by Dr. Doug Stilwell and Dr. Randy Peters of Drake University*. As the ancient Eastern proverb goes, a prince once saw a musician tuning his sitar (stringed instrument).

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

A powerful way to do this, called mobile recruitment uses text messaging (SMS: Short Message Service) to allow workers to find jobs. I knew little about developing mobile interface software or, when I admitted it to myself, how to build a business from the ground up. Allen Kramer : Reflection: Work with Assured Labor.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Niche trainers impart their own perspectives out of context to the whole of the organization. Niche trainers impart their own perspectives out of context to the whole of the organization. Conveying information, insights and intelligence from various sources. Knowledge. Those who do so have encompassed profound wisdom.

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Tony Mayo

JULY 26, 2010

That experience had a profound influence on me. I’ll describe how the process in the model worked its way through an industry quite different from their own. This mode of thinking starts from an entirely different perspective. But they are both probably useful for a person trying to live a well-considered life.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The ideas Dr. Deming drew from the work of C.I. Lewis provide one of the ways his ideas on management are different from others. The article I quote from below provides a path to appreciating the ideas Dr. Deming and Dr. Shewhart were able to apply in their thinking from C.I. But Dr. Deming found the ideas useful.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is especially true when the ‘gift’ comes from a person or entity with whom you have no relationship. No doubt you are thankful to have something new and have the opportunity to use it for its intended purpose, but after a few days or weeks have passed the value is usually gone.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Right from the usual “Dear” at the start of an email, there is often panic at the thought of being deemed unprofessional, and it usually goes downhill from there. Right from the usual “Dear” at the start of an email, there is often panic at the thought of being deemed unprofessional, and it usually goes downhill from there.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

The most significant lessons that I learned in my business life from mentors, verified with experience, are shared here: You cannot go through life as a carbon copy of someone else. The next best achievement is the one you’re working on now, inspired by your body of knowledge to date. Being different, you become a moving target.

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