N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. It made me sit down and think… Just yesterday I attended the opening of the second Columba 1400 Leadership Centre here in Scotland. The bottom line for C1400 is to help young people from “tough realities&# to reflect on their personal leadership.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

What is more important to company success, a strong external focus on customer experiences or an internal focus on effective and efficient operations? But while such customized services used to be enough to compete effectively, these retailers are now finding they need to improve their operational reliability too.

Customer Intimacy 8

Customer Intimacy Operations Supply Chain Retail 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 24, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) See my paper in The 2003 Annual : Volume 1 Training [Jossey-Bass/Pfieffer]: “Designing Curricula for Learning Environments Using a Facilitative Teaching Approach to Empower Learners” pp 263-272). It’s a systems/change problem.

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Training Resistance Learning-by-Doing System 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. Suggestions ranged from streamlining operational processes, saving thousands of hours annually, to simplifying financial and sales processes across business units.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I think those sorts of informal ways of understanding servant-leadership can help a lot within organizations and then after you reach a certain level of commitment and understanding, there are consultants and trainers who have been working with servant leadership for many years. Have you ever come across an area like that?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

To concentrate on customer solutions, Palmisano spun off personal computers and disk drives and acquired PriceWaterhouseCoopers' consulting business. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I think those sorts of informal ways of understanding servant-leadership can help a lot within organizations and then after you reach a certain level of commitment and understanding, there are consultants and trainers who have been working with servant leadership for many years. Have you ever come across an area like that?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Since it's beginning in 2003, Davide Oldani's Ristorante D'O has managed to stay profitable in a sustained fashion. Unlike Ferran Adria's El Bulli in Catalonia, D'O doesn't operate at a loss. Operating such restaurants is expensive. In Italy, as in the rest of Europe, the up-market restaurant business is a tough one.

Quality 13

Quality Working Capital Price Open-book 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Rather than concentrating on the on the top 50 leaders, global companies need to develop hundreds, even thousands, of leaders comfortable operating in a variety of cultures. With flatter organizations and decentralization of power, corporations must develop savvy global leaders capable of operating locally and globally simultaneously.

Globalization 14

Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

in 2003, an all-time high. (Of Second, our research at Capgemini Consulting with MIT has shown that successful digital transformation is a top-down leadership exercise. This means they will need to more fully understand how digitization impacts the company’s business model and the part of the value chain that it operates in.

Business Model 8

Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. This approach addresses the many shortcomings of our previous initiatives.".

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Bharti has enjoyed compounded annual growth in sales revenues of 120% and growth in net profits of 282% per year between 2003 and 2010. Sprint Nextel recently inked a seven-year deal to outsource operation of its networks to Ericsson, a contract said to be worth $5 billion. to $0.005 per minute, perhaps the lowest rates in the world.

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Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2003, he recognized that traditional tactics of warfare were failing in Iraq. He’s also founded a consulting firm called CrossLead. McChrystal: When I joined Special Operations as a Green Beret, we were already pretty good at operating as small teams — say, up to about 20 guys.

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Team Company Silverman Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% Brad Power ( bradfordpower@gmail.com ) is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. A cautionary tale from the past: After acquiring EachNet.com, eBay controlled 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market in 2003.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Another study, in 2003 , found that 35% of 911 calls from long-term-care facilities for patients in cardiac arrest were for patients with preexisting do-not-resuscitate orders. The Oregon registry, for example, was developed by private philanthropy, but its operations are now funded by the state, with a planned endowment in the works.

Health Care 8

Health Care Document System Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change. The renewal approach to strategy aims to restore the vitality and competitiveness of a firm when it is operating in a harsh environment.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A former campaign manager, Strasma started his company in 2003 to find a better way to predict who the true persuadables are in a campaign, and to find smart ways to target messaging towards them. In this election, the campaign has a very large in-house data team dealing with all kinds of targeting analytics and also the online operations.

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