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? Which hat, or hats do you wear? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

We did not formulate our own style but tweaked it to our leadership style and vision plan. Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary. Many things in the church world do cross over. In the Bible belt this is very questionable.

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CO2

AUGUST 8, 2010

— David Whyte from Where Many Rivers Meet ©2007 Many Rivers Press We can have faith that tomorrow will come or we can resist that temptation. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc.,

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time. I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. Do this and you’ll be viewed as just another sales broadcast.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

And it’s a far cry, he asserts, from the version that the company and its current leadership have repeated to the press. If that seems counterintuitive, consider the “fundamental tension” that Wasserman presents in his book (and in a 2008 article for HBR) : founders can choose to be “rich” or to be “king.” Congrats, you’re a success!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? It’s true that reading must be expedient to fit into the crazy days we all engage:-).

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

He had recently commented on a discussion on GHDonline.org regarding critical gaps in the diagnosis and treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis. Creating a professional virtual network that would be high quality, participatory, and trusted required some trial and error both in terms of the content and technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For instance, one of the things you saw with Islamic State in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 was that most of the foreigners that are coming in to fight for them had very modest levels of education, at least as reported by the group itself, and very few useful skills. But there is something sort of funny about that.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For instance, one of the things you saw with Islamic State in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 was that most of the foreigners that are coming in to fight for them had very modest levels of education, at least as reported by the group itself, and very few useful skills. But there is something sort of funny about that.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

” Tell them why they’re losing their jobs, whether it’s because of a drop in demand, changes in technology, or productivity and quality issues. One of them, Accellent, a supplier of precision components for medical devices, had to close a plant in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2008. Address “What does it mean for me?”

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership. You may find it necessary to bring in professional facilitation if you are running into excessive resistance or acrimony. 2, Spring 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

As Harvard Business School professor David Garvin explains, “Culture is remarkably durable and resistant to change.” “The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

A recurring theme in those interviews was bemoaning major changes in R&D strategy that occurred as a consequence of new, often outside, leadership. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth. Should you explore new technologies that will disrupt current products?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. Competing in the Age of AI : Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

So any effective sales model must adapt to changing buying protocols, not ignore or resist them. To add to that, business buyers must justify a decision to others in the organization, especially as capital expenditures flow less liberally in many industries since the financial crisis of 2008.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Due to this resistance, I believe that culture CAN trump strategy, to the extend that the strategy and execution thereof are unsuccessful. I believe that culture is an output of strategy. Further, culture is the hardest element of a strategy to implement / change due to legacy of what culture exists in a company today.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. In the real world, of course, change is not easy, and resistance is not only common, but to be expected. How did we become such nincompoops? Will it ever stop?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Catmull expands on his ideas about managing a creative company that he explored in his 2008 HBR article “How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity.” Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? The resistance is actually wasted time. In his new book Creativity, Inc. I spoke with him by phone.

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