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JANUARY 21, 2011
Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both?
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N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 21, 2011
Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both?
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 18, 2010
Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.
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N2Growth Blog
MARCH 31, 2010
and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I want to be clear that I’m not advocating for form over substance, extreme self-indulgence, narcissism, or masking insecurity by the trappings you surround yourself with.
N2Growth Blog
MAY 16, 2010
When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis.
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 9, 2010
Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 14, 2010
While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities.
Terry Starbucker
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
I shared them once before back in 2006 , and here they are again, still relevant as ever: Common Sense – The definition says it all: “ Sound judgment not based on specialized knowledge ”. It’s been an innate ‘logic barometer’ that has guided me from situation to situation, and has counseled me from decision to decision.
Deming Institute
OCTOBER 5, 2016
The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has announced the 2016 Deming Prize winners. Here is a blog post on a 2006 visit to the Toyota Motor Kyushu plant by Mike Wroblewski (read the comments on the post also). There companies were awarded the Deming Prize this year: Ashok Leyland, Pantnagar Plant (India).
General Leadership
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
Alan Mulally , the former CEO of Boeing , started his career there as an aerospace engineer. In 2006, he transitioned to the CEO of Ford Motor Company. The difference is the time it takes to build a framework upon which to hang those leadership principles in an unfamiliar organization.
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 7, 2010
I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 6, 2011
How NET PROMOTER Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World Fred Reichheld with Rob Markey Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Here is an open-source system whose “engine” can drive profitable growth This is a revised and expanded second edition of a book published in 2006. The Ultimate Question 2.0:
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I admire your keen insights and courage to speak your truth. link] Naveen Goel [link] Hi Mike, I am Naveen Goel (Sr. I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer. But I have been doing people and project management for years.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. What was most striking was the attitude of everyone.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Shook has created the engine known for attracting, developing and retaining great talent who enjoy Accenture’s collaborative, innovative, and highly diverse culture. That said, it’s one thing to be responsible for supporting the global HR needs of a sizable enterprise, it’s quite another to do it well.
QAspire
JANUARY 21, 2010
I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists? The review says - The utility of formal protocols, according to organizational experts, varies with the nature of the activity—some activities are highly systemized, like engineering, and others dependent on the judgment and personality of the individual.
Marshall Goldsmith
JANUARY 30, 2017
Alan started out as an engineer at Boeing. Cut to 2006 and he was asked to lead Ford out of a deep hole, which he did, employing his unique method of facilitative leadership which he calls “working together.” Alan’s story at Ford is a success story, but it wasn’t always that way for Alan on his leadership journey.
LDRLB
APRIL 15, 2013
Search engine giant Google conducted just such a program in 2006, providing sleep awareness programs to 3,000 employees and training over 50 facilitators worldwide. These provide leaders and employees with information on the importance of sleep and tactics for monitoring their own sleep habits.
Marshall Goldsmith
OCTOBER 19, 2015
When he took over as Ford’s CEO in 2006, the company was in dire straits, with market share down 25 percent since 1990 and its very existence threatened by the great recession. He simply reported on the condition of the company with an attention to detail befitting his background as an engineer. It sounds simple, and it is.
The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 28, 2022
Engines of creation. This has resulted in the share of overall employment in young firms falling from around half of the workforce in 1980 to just 39% by 2006. This gummed-up process of innovation is not confined to big-company transformation. This is at the same time as the share taken up by big firms grew from 51% to 57%.
Marshall Goldsmith
JANUARY 30, 2017
When he took over as Ford’s CEO in 2006, the company was in dire straits, with market share down 25 percent since 1990 and its very existence threatened by the great recession. He simply reported on the condition of the company with an attention to detail befitting his background as an engineer. It sounds simple, and it is.
Deming Institute
JULY 27, 2017
He removed parts of the engine, fiddled around with them, and reassembled them. When he finished, I saw some of the engine parts on the ground next to the car. Manage a Living System, Not a Ledger,” Manufacturing Engineering, December 2006).
First Friday Book Synopsis
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands Marty Neumeier Peachpit Press (2006) How to “zag” when everyone else “zigs” In a previous book, The Brand Gap, Marty Neumeier explains how companies can bridge the gap between business strategy and customer experience, noting that brand-building isn’t a series of (..)
The Horizons Tracker
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Employment across the software sector grew from 16,600 in 2002 to 21,000 in 2006, with most of that growth coming not from the expansion of existing firms, but rather new firms emerging. A growing sector. ” As such, they believe their are advantages to locating close to rivals, as jobs appear to go where the workers already are.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 27, 2011
By parallel, managers themselves might similarly benefit from "reverse-engineering" the criticism of not only outsiders but of their own colleagues: considering both parties as their benefactors on the road to greater performance. However, more recent actions in the long-standing gender discrimination case against the company (i.e.,
Rajesh Setty
AUGUST 10, 2008
About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Uncategorized I just remembered you… RSS Feed I just remembered you… By Rajesh Setty on Sat 09 Aug 2008, 11:17 PM - View Comments Since last week, I have been receiving requests about the new search engine Scour. The invitations are something like this Did you hear about Scour?
Curious Cat
OCTOBER 19, 2016
Related: Ackoff, Idealized Design and Bell Labs (2006) – Corporations Are Not Led By Those Seeking to Maximize Shareholder Value, Russ Ackoff – Transformation and Redesign at the White House Communications Agency – Russell L.
Rajesh Setty
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
He aggressively re-engineered the startup’s product to match the competitor’s offering. The competitor fought back too. After a few years of dog fight, both companies closed down citing lack of customer traction.
The Empowered Buisness
MARCH 4, 2014
ability to see the interrelationships between elements … such as, how decisions made in engineering impact other functions). Example of Options Thinking: In 2006, Mike Jackson, CEO, AutoNation, challenged industry assumptions by asking “what if buyers replaced cars every 5 years, not 3 years?” Systems thinking (ie.,
The Center For Leadership Studies
JANUARY 12, 2021
Generally speaking, feedback is the engine that connects Objectives with Evaluation. It also gives us at least a little bit of insight into what it must have been like to be Alan Mulally taking the reins at Ford in 2006. If nothing else, disruptive change is a moment of truth for leaders at all levels.
Rajesh Setty
DECEMBER 4, 2008
Coupled with that our Usability engineers made some changes based on the feedback they received from “ eye-gaze tracking and hotspot analysis. The architecture is such that we could easily white-label our solution. Co-branding , of course is an out-of-the-box feature. We just finished an SEO exercise on our website.
Curious Cat
JANUARY 22, 2015
I have written about my management influences in the past: Active Management Improvement Leaders (2006) and Who Influences Your Thinking? They both shared the scientist and engineering mindset that ideas should be tested and probed and new methods and ideas discovered. Bill Hunter and John Hunter.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 22, 2015
A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. That’s 25% more grads than went into computer and information technology, the most popular industry in the science and engineering category. And not just their parents.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 13, 2011
Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.
Deming Institute
AUGUST 30, 2018
Edwards Deming, The New Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1994, p. William Kalush and Larry Sloman, The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero, Atria Books, 2006. Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Simon & Schuster, 2007, p.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 17, 2010
In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. ” [link] lightridr Great post, Mike.
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 30, 2010
Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. The best legacies are built moment-by-moment and day-by-day. Have fun with your father in law and congratulations to you and your wife on the upcoming birth.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 11, 2010
Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. In a perfect world you would build relationships with the largest possible universe of targeted constituents where you can productively engage and contribute.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 16, 2018
The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 2, 2012
Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).
Harvard Business Review
MAY 9, 2012
In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Engineering departments fetishize the theory that if you build a better mousetrap, the rest takes care of itself. Twitter 2006-2011) and vice versa (e.g., most of Nicolai Tesla's inventions; Web 1.0;
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
In early 2006, Diego Rodriguez and I started teaching a class we called “Creating Infectious Action” at the Stanford d. They were desperately looking for great engineers, designers, and business people – but were very picky about who they hired. That engineer called back the next day: “I fixed it, Dad. Did you see that?”.
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale. If you don’t engineer everything around the client, your client relationships will vanish before your very eyes. A sales person is trying to sell them something.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 20, 2016
Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. By 2006, GMCR owned 100% of Keurig and officially renamed Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) in 2014. New ventures should stand alone to continue their experimental journey. Consumers were outraged.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2015
The commercial engine division, under the leadership of Stephen Heath (since retired) and Todd Kallman spent two intensive days in 2006 “war gaming” P&W’s strategy as its two bigger rivals, GE and Rolls Royce, divided the market between them. Consider the example of Pratt and Whitney, a United Technology company.
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