N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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CEO Blog Long-term Short-term 287

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2011

They’re busy having meetings, doing power point presentations but making no improvements in the operation. They are wishy-washy and often flip flop on their position. MIT Sloan Management Review (Summer 2003). Some leaders over plan and under execute. Of course some leaders do just the opposite. Is there a “right” balance?

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Kaplan Planning Review Learning-by-Doing 251

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The research examined data from the National Science Foundation on over 28,000 scientists and engineers to assess any changes in their employment status and their work outcomes between 2003 and 2010. Transition into self-employment. It’s a form of work the authors argue is five times more prevalent than gig work.

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Short-term Incubator Engineering Trends 63

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean. McBean is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, and Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta.

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Automotive Succession Open-book Retail 71

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 16, 2014

Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean. McBean is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, and Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta.

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Automotive Open-book Retail Long-term 56

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 29, 2013

Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean. McBean is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, and Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta.

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Books Automotive Review Open-book 65

Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2016

At the risk of sounding negative, I do not think most people in leadership positions are transparent. To do that, they must be able to operate unfettered by preconceived plans or flavor-of-the-month investment vehicles. Delaney was also a graduate of Red Bank Catholic High School, Red Bank, NJ in 2003.

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Leadership Belief Systems Banking Politics 50

Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

To quickly set the scene, I was the SVP of Operations for a 1,100 employee cable television company based in 4 states in the Rocky Mountain west. We had acquired the properties in 2003 from a large company that had largely ignored and neglected them for a number of years. A Breakthrough Lands In My Mailbox.

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Succession Leadership Commitment Travel 253

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

In the summer of 2003, the ninety-two year-old Wooden traveled to the White House, where he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. Coach Wooden operated a meritocracy that treated every player fairly. In 1973, he was honored for his achievements as a coach. I always sit. his former players.

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Follow-up Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hotels 360

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It can also become all-consuming – so I have struck a delicate balance between it, and the work I do online which is just as essential… because it funds the operations that I perform on children from under-privileged families. Each heart operation costs around $2,500 to $3,000. That is why I do it.

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Marketing Follow-up Operations eBook 49

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

It is March 20, 2003, a few miles off the coast of Iraq's Al Faw Peninsula. By doing so, they can move to a position in which they make judgments based upon known probabilities and comparable outcomes. This is core to how the Royal Marines train and operate. How do they do it? Gathering data helps to some extent.

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Arkes Management Offshoring Uncertainty 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My mother, Florence Rothman, was one of these patients whose complications were recognized too late; she died in 2003 in a hospital of avoidable causes. The human body is built to maintain equilibrium with basic, vital operating parameters, and we do so by sacrificing functionality. Appetite fades. Digestion shuts down.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

It is March 20, 2003, a few miles off the coast of Iraq's Al Faw Peninsula. By doing so, they can move to a position in which they make judgments based upon known probabilities and comparable outcomes. This is core to how the Royal Marines train and operate. How do they do it? Gathering data helps to some extent.

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Arkes Management Offshoring Uncertainty 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be. When the U.S.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

On the positive side, referrals can result in improved job matches and reduced employee turnover. Specifically, we examined the personnel records of nearly 16,000 employees hired from 2003 to 2013 in a large U.S.-based The firm followed a “promotion from within” policy that operated on a strict schedule.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Rotman School of Management, and the National University of Singapore Business School sought to quantify the effect of political connections in China, looking specifically at the TV manufacturing industry from 1993 to 2003, a period of significant liberalization.

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Politics Metrics Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Once your theory of change has been mapped, you need to search for objective evidence that the positive effects that seem to be materializing from your initiatives are clearly being caused by your actions and not by everything else in the world. Readiness also depends, however, on being able to point to success in practice.

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Library Entrepreneur Operations Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

In 2002 and 2003, partnering with Catalyst , we took a hard look at ourselves. Hiring managers had to make sure that every position had a diverse slate of candidates, and they were held accountable for advancing our performance in this regard. Our employee engagement has been operating at world-class levels for years.

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Diversity Human Resources How To Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions. 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.

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Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

in 2003, an all-time high. (Of As with any significant shift in the larger business and economic context, it is the duty of the board to exert the required pressure on the CEO and the management of the company to understand and address the impact of digitization on the operations and the long term position of the organization.

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Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In the course of leading six successful turnarounds and transformations at Schering-Plough, Pharmacia, Pharmacia and Upjohn, Wyeth, and two operating units within Novartis, I''ve learned that culture can be powerfully leveraged to enhance long-term success. Role model positive attitudes and behaviors. This also means valuing integrity.

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Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

When a blizzard hit Baltimore in 2003, the roundhouse roof of the B&O Railroad Museum collapsed, damaging the finest collection of historic railway artifacts in the country and breaking hearts in the global community of rail fans. His story was salutary for everyone caught up in the unfolding event — including museum employees.

Crisis 8

Crisis Storytelling Open-book Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In 2003, after two years in Texas, Moe Ghashim moved back to his hometown of Aleppo, Syria. Operating in this environment requires persistence, flexibility, and a deep-rooted desire to change the status quo. He was attracted to the country''s immense potential and the aspirational drive of its people.

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Entrepreneur Power Politics Human Resources 9

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

The term “mindset” conjures the image of a single setting, like a TV channel or a prearranged machine operation. Emphasize the importance of oblique efforts and learning from positive and negative experiences. However, human cognition is far more complex. G., & Bersoff, D. Psychological Bulletin, 112(3), 369–376.

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Open-book Shaw Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Controlled by a program on a magnetic drum, the robot relied on hydraulic actuators to adjust its position over a set of pre-programmed joint angles. By 1973, there were 3,000 industrial robots in operation. By 2003, there were 800,000. It was precise, but not necessarily elegant. Today, more than 1.3

Definition 8

Definition Ethics Industry Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Third, some stakeholder groups may want to see confirmation of the positive impact of a given move before consenting to continue on the chosen path. For example, Umicore’s 2003 acquisition of PMG increased its revenues by 50%. Second, finding value-creating acquisition and divestment opportunities requires patience.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

In 2003, DARPA contracted SRI International to lead a reported $200 million, five-year project to build a virtual assistant. and by 2010 was acquired by Apple and launched as part of the iPhone operating system in October 2011. project to date was instigated by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

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Productivity Products Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

The good news is that most of the people who get to top management positions are smart enough. TQ – Technical/Operational Quotient Top leaders know the business. They have the operational skills to make things happen. There is no shortage of bright people. Again, the news is good. Here the news is also mixed.

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Agility Leadership Goleman ROI 120

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Putting more emphasis upon the positive ingredients and happenings in the community. The NASA community and the entire world were saddened by the disaster of the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003. In 1999, the industry reported an operating profit of almost $9 billion and net income of more than $5 billion.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003. That scares me. This was a precarious time.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

So, we began to talk about the idea of moving back to Indianapolis if we could find the right position. What they were looking for was the kind of experiences and skills I had, and so I applied for the position and was hired in the beginning of 1990. I was familiar with Robert Greenleaf, and with servant-leadership. Ben : Yeah!

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

So, we began to talk about the idea of moving back to Indianapolis if we could find the right position. What they were looking for was the kind of experiences and skills I had, and so I applied for the position and was hired in the beginning of 1990. I was familiar with Robert Greenleaf, and with servant-leadership. Ben : Yeah!

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

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 307

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Denver Post/Getty Images. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

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