Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

There have been some really great reads on the topic ranging from the 2011 ebook, Race Against the Machine by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson out of MIT, to the recent LinkedIn post, What Happens When Millions of Jobs Are Lost Because of Automation? Automation and the future of work. Are enough citizens taking this topic seriously?

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Education Wireless Resistance Technology 155

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 24, 2011

Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings by Kevin Eikenberry on January 24, 2011 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning Lots of things happen in meetings – some of them even helpful! Duncan Brodie Reply Sonja Froyen January 26, 2011 at 11:05 am Sometimes leaders forfeit their role in a consensus decision.

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Consensus Blog Workshop Learning-by-Doing 210

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? While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO. I Think Not.

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Entrepreneur CEO Blog Welch 365

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. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

The cost per employee is half the EU average, and the number of days spent on training is at its lowest since 2011. Work Based Learning Lead, phs group I know more about budgeting, about innovation, about how to manage the finance side of a business, I know more about commerciality and strategy.

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Productivity Products Short-term Proposal 52

Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

The cost per employee is half the EU average, and the number of days spent on training is at its lowest since 2011. Work Based Learning Lead, phs I know more about budgeting, about innovation, about how to manage the finance side of a business, I know more about commerciality and strategy.

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Productivity Products Short-term Proposal 52

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design. I Think Not.

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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. I Think Not.

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Business Model Blog Depreciation Brand 269

Coaching Tip

MARCH 13, 2011

Google clearly hopes to recapture some of the nimbleness and innovative spirit of its early years. Let the engineers do their stuff. Source: The New York Times, March 13, 2011. But the key question is: Will Project Oxygen help a grown-up Google get its start-up mojo back? They wanted to build better bosses.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Breaking Away: How Great Leaders Create Innovation That Drives Sustainable Growth – and Why Others Fail Jane Stevenson and Bilal Kaafarani McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why to create a “magic mix” of innovation leadership with innovation processes Year after year, annual lists of the most highly creative organizations include “the usual suspects”: Amazon, (..)

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Review Books Innovation Creativity 70

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Countries around the world have made a concerted effort to try and encourage more young people to take an interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), with an understandable belief that these topics are vital for the competitive edge of a modern economy.

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Pharmaceuticals Education ROI Project 70

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. It will be interesting to see if the next round of Google innovation will be as successful as the beauty of their initial simplicity. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 320

Women's Leadership Exchange

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Second, he is a perfectionist when it comes to both engineering and design. He also has recruited a team of top notch engineers, designers and marketers who can bring his genius to life. Steve Jobs KNOWS and is totally confident in creating innovative break-through products and making the final decisions regarding them.

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Decisionmaking Engineering Brand CEO 77

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 412

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? This expectation helped foster an innovation focus throughout the company.

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Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I Think Not.

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Blog Gordon Brand Media 355

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. Million; not big, but interesting.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 22, 2013

Gore & Associates, the materials firm famous for innovative products such as Gore-Tex and for its radically nonhierarchical management structure. Software engineers and designers are basing their thinking on what has come to be called Dunbar’s Number. . So do the offices of W.L.

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Energy Tips Software Engineering 117

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.

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CEO Innovation Constraint Hypercompetition 15

QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists? People get blinded so much by checklist that they stop innovating, experimenting and learning. You can have detailed checklists for specific engineering activities (where outcomes solely depend on inputs and process). Why checklists?

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Process Management Tools Quality 84

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 27, 2010

For example – Excel spreadsheets, fixing and engine, calculus, HTML coding, CPR, reading, etc… When thinking of soft skills these are skills that are more inter and intra-personal. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. People always need and ask for definitions and examples.

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Team Building Skills Team Open-book 120

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

We all know innovation has its own language conventions, rich with revolutions , evolutions , ecosystems , and more. Innovators, after all, are trying to communicate the promise of something that may not exist yet, and sometimes that requires some optimistic adornment. We wanted to learn more.

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Innovation Construction Engineering Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Can he do it?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

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. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Cambridge, U.K.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2011

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. It is a sequel to one published in 2003. What we have here is a series of brief discussions “the most influential management books you’ll [.].

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Books Review Management Ansoff 85

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Moore Harper Business/A HarperCollins Imprint (2011) How to free your organization from “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom” The quotation in the title of this review is from Leading Change in which James O’Toole brilliantly explains why most [.].

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Women in the LEAD

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

RE-ENGINEERING MISTAKES. Let's take it back and re-engineer it." Ask yourself often perhaps at the end of each week How did I do this week LISTENING, COMMUNICATING, RE-ENGINEERING MISTAKES and SUBORDINATING my ego to the task at hand.    Peter F. All you have to do is to keep your mouth shut."

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Advice Drucker Leadership Letter 45

Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

Brand Relevance provides the tools companies need to generate innovative offerings that can create long-term financial success. The strategy is to engage in incremental innovation to make the brand ever more attractive or reliable, the offering less costly, or the marketing program more effective or efficient. All rights reserved.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. Realize that it does belong in your everyday interactions at work, and that you must give it away in order to model the compassion you want expressed at work. What keeps you from gifting your kindness?

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). How to define your vision Jim Collin’s suggests asking three questions to determine your vision ( Jim Collin’s Vision Framework ): What can you be world best at?

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). How to define your vision Jim Collin’s suggests asking three questions to determine your vision ( Jim Collin’s Vision Framework ): What can you be world best at?

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I’m not an MBA.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business. An increasingly important element of marketing is search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

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Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

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. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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