N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: In 2006, Disney bought Pixar to boost its struggling Walt Disney Animation Studios unit. Care about people first.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. It only makes your current game better.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Stop hiding behind the old and antiquated belief ‘you’re above all that mundane stuff’ — you’re too important/elevated to have to know/understand your own technology. I’m giving my time and energy to meet, greet or go to your presentation — hire someone who can do it for you or take the time to do it.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2010

  The Resource:    The Happiness Project What it is:   The Happiness Project began in March of 2006 when Gretchen Rubin embarked upon a personal journey to find greater happiness in her life and decided to share that journey with others via her blog and eventually a best-selling book.  Enjoy!  Enjoy!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Never confuse power with leadership. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric. The bottom line is that I really like him, I just wished he had more new material to share. Some of the nuggets that Jim did disseminate were as follows: Success that translates in hubris leads to failure.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. Being able to discern and debate subjective positions with objectivity is an art form that must be present for effective leadership.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. For a technology person to succeed, the coding skills are only a beginning. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog. Its even 100% free! Have a great week ahead.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Being a leader at home requires a different set of learnable competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

The time, energy, and cost associated with acquiring a customer are substantial, the benefits of retaining customers are considerable, and the costs associated with customer churn are significant.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Webb, who served in the Navy from 1993 to 2006 and radically redesigned the SEAL training course curriculum, graciously shared his insight about what works – and what fails – when effecting a training transformation. Is “above average” training really worth the time, energy and expense?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

If, amidst high unemployment, this seems counterintuitive, consider the deep trends driving the mismatch: technology and globalization have transformed what it takes to succeed in business. The concept of self-awareness as a foundation for effective leadership has been theorized, implied, and researched in a variety of contexts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. In addition to a stripped-down, modern design, Logan is reliable and energy efficient. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

So in 2006, I started talking with people to understand more. The third was around thought leadership. Energy costs are a huge concern for car manufacturers. An engine that leaves the remanufacturing plant will have 75 percent less energy embedded in it than a new one. So the energy costs are not there either.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I have watched companies spend tremendous amounts of money, time and energy debating logos, taglines, color pallets, font styles, ad campaigns, positioning strategies, marketing messages, brand promises, etc., with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

had any product, service or process innovation between 2006 and 2008. China's brilliant "Fast Follower" innovation policy is generating the biggest transfer of technology in history. We need a much more skilled business leadership than we have currently, capable of creating as well as managing.

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