N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

The next step in the process is learning where to apply your new found listening skills. Organizations can no longer guarantee work and careers, even if they want to. A key point for all leaders to consider is that it’s impossible to stick your foot in your mouth when it’s closed. None of these assumptions apply today.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Don’t be quick to hire based upon gut feel, but rather take time in the interviewing process to let the prospective new hire get a feel for your culture and your company. that can be administered as part of the hiring process.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. If a newly implemented business process has design flaws, will employees follow the process or circumvent it? Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process. While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2010

Over the years I have found that you really can't change anyones wiring until they are committed to being part of the rewiring process. That said, changing behavior really only requires one thing – the willingness to do so. Thanks for adding to the discussion Randy.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

The mandates for compliance along with the accompanying maze of bureaucratic processes and procedures, will often take precedence over doing the right thing. Tenured organizations also tend to embrace comfort zones and are often built upon the “DITWLY&# (Did It That Way Last Year) principle.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Take an assessment of what you do well and what you don’t and then apply rigor, process, structure and discipline to each of those areas. If you want to become a true standout as opposed to someone who has great potential my message is simple – become very intentional about bringing discipline to every area of your life.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. Bottom line…the way you identify leaders is not through psychological profiling or some miraculous transformative process. I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential.

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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. Does your organization focus more on process than success? Are any of your executives thought leaders?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have found that business-speak can be particularly beneficial in using just a few words to explain situations, scenarios, processes, trends, attitudes and any number of other ethereal and esoteric concepts that might have otherwise needed several sentences or paragraphs to describe.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

Consequently ownership of any delegated task is a necessary, ongoing and never ending process where we also take ownership of the persons results as a product of our teaching. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Lack of Feedback : If as a leader you don’t subject yourself to a 360 review process, then you are not earnestly looking for personal growth and development opportunities. I ask myself, what would make the other person have a "WOW" experience and make me feel really good in the process. The boss will never go for that.&#

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. Okay, my question is this: What constitutes best practices in this situation?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process. It is essential for organizational health and performance that conflict be accepted and addressed through effective conflict resolution processes.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Continuity should flow from values to vision, mission to strategy, and objectives to tactics to process. Be consistent: Consistency in all things throughout the value chain is critical. Mixed messaging or practices has killed many a brand.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

It is essential for organizational health and performance that conflict be accepted and addressed through effective conflict resolution processes.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

There is much research written about “deliberate practice”- a specific and detailed process that enables the leader to identify the new behavior and practice it in a way that leads to sustainable change. Of course traits like poor character/lack of integrity probably don't get changed through any deliberate practice.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

I do it one “D” at a time: Discover (what is important or of value to my customer), Decide (what their experience will look like), Deliver (what I set as their expectation) and Do It Again (it’s an ongoing process that changes and improves with feedback). It’s an ongoing process that is never complete.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

With these fundamentals in place, it is helpful to have a roadmap to outline the process for setting strategy and tactics. However, I would say that Vision determines Strategy, which surfaces Goals that frame Objectives, which in turn drives the Tactics that tell an organization what Resources, Infrastructure and Processes.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It was this taste of disappointment that led me to share my personal process for finding and implementing game changers – I call it SMARTS(C) ( S imple- M eaningful- A ctionable- R elational- T ransformational- S calable). The way I view the process it’s something like this. Flash-analysis/trial again and again until it clicks.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Coming up with Creative Solutions I am fascinated by the creative process. Related posts: The 80/20 Way to Make a Living… and a Life Have you ever found yourself working long hours, skipping lunch, How to attack the business doldrums It’s nearly mid-October and we’ve all been shuffling along in. Do you find. Want that job?

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

That choice of living a remarkable life starts with waking up to our current realities, setting your terms for the unconventional life, challenging the status quo, undertaking contrarian adventures, building serious competence, organizing your personal finances, living in possibilities and thinking about your legacy now.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Develop a planning process that consists of setting measurable objectives. Address personal fears, listen to your own instincts and intuition, and start believing in yourself to have the tenacity and drive to see your goal of business ownership actualize. Offer support to others with similar goals of business ownership.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. Tim, Mark, Hans and perhaps others correctly offered alternatives to a team decision making process based exclusively on consensus. There are no conditions.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Younger women are looking to those who have made it, have successful careers and families that thrive to give direction. Women Leaders and Male Partnership In any learning process, there is a tendency to go. We are not here to become like our men. We are here to cooperate with them in a new and more productive way.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

When I was working for an employer, I knew going through the recruitment process that there was some bad “juju&# around the opportunity. About a year before I left my C-suite role in Corp America, I had a very strong intuition that I needed to move careers to work on something that would be more meaningful for me. 500,000 can.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Yet, the question as I talked with women in the Purdue leadership program is still the age old one of how to balance it all; career, family, community, and time for oneself. Women Leaders and Male Partnership In any learning process, there is a tendency to go.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

There is lots of conflicting research about what really matters in the process to educate children. Were you a social butterfly or more prone to stand on the sidelines? Were you an academic star or just muddled through? It leads to so many deep philosophical questions about what really matters in life.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

Don’t Get Ripped Off – Tips for Saving Money on Credit Card Processing Guest post by Stella Fayman (learn more about Stella at. Tahera Dudhwala Joins the Women on Business Writing Team I love to have a variety of viewpoints and experiences. What We Can Learn From Football Post by Jane K.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 19, 2020

The researchers conducted a comprehensive analysis of the economic impact of industrial robots over 17 countries between 1993 and 2007 across 14 different industries. “The process of machines replacing human labor is not something that is new,” they say. “It’s been going on for 200 years.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

How consistent is your product or service, customer experience, internal processes, etc.? That makes him dependable and customers always know what they can expect. Elves love to tell convincing and captivating stories. What stories have you created about your brand that makes it believable, credible and relatable?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Fish are rich in omega 3 fatty acides, which are necessary in the process of function and development for the brain. Are You in Career Quicksand? Protein is known to keep you satisfied for longer periods of time. Fish, in particular, has long been associated with being an excellent brain boosting food. EPA’s Green Power Partnership.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Sell, Sell, Sell with an E-commerce web site that has Credit Card Processing capabilities Go through your garage, attic, storage shed, or closet to find items you don’t use that could bring in some extra cash. Some will take unsolicited articles, many will give assignments to freelancers.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I'm hopeful that today's comments will help us all process things in a healthier fashion while not forgetting the sacrifices that have been made for us. Please thank Chris's family for his service. link] mikemyatt Hi Erin: Thanks for sharing your memories of that day, and your prayers for all affected. Best wishes Erin.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

Perfecting Your “Gut&# Trusting the intuitive process as much as the logical one. Stand Up and Take Responsibility Assuming responsibility for failure in order to achieve success. Sum of the Parts Finding and keeping good habits while avoiding the pitfals of. You Can’t Win ‘em All No one wins when someone has to be right.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

 Each story brings a relevant analogy to the business issue at hand, making the learning more fun, the process guarantee more impact, and the happiness-meter on high. Please join me in welcoming Tanya Maslach of Elevati, Inc. to Women On Business. You can learn more about Tanya below.Â

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Keep it up, Dan David Brand Mike, One of the elements I so appreciate about your blog is that it always gives me an opportunity to think about an important topic and process & sometimes further refine my perspective on that topic. To speak "your truth" is perceived to be a potentially career limiting, if not ending move.

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