N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue? " Great article.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 22, 2012

All too often, business founders embed themselves within the operational fabric of the company they create; setting it up for failure upon they departure. In a corporate setting, the manager can transition via promotion/transfer and the remaining organization continue to operate successfully. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leaders who don’t deal with conflict will eventually watch their good talent walk out the door in search of a healthier and safer work environment. Closing gaps becomes much easier when you can position differences as non-adversarial and operate within a framework of trust. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

As organizations expand and grow, the skills that led to success often won’t sustain further development in a more complex, high-stakes environment. If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. If you don’t hold a finance or operations position, consider cross training.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Great leaders can communicate effectively across mediums, constituencies, and environments. There is so much unethical behavior (what I refer to as situational ethics) at the executive level that continues to create an us versus them environment. They are active listeners, fluid thinkers, and know when to press-on and when to back-off.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The Environment : What should be obvious, but what is often overlooked, is the importance of having your board members look forward to the meeting. If you conduct yourself professionally, and let your board members be white knights, the down-stream communications that follow your meeting will advance your cause as opposed to undermine it.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Gwyn Teatro Mike , so many view kindness, empathy, compassion and love as elements foreign to business environments and strong leadership. The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue. Thanks for sharing Dan. You have clearly demonstrated that nothing could be further from the truth. Mike Henry Sr.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Believe me Mike, we must create a environment for any things and we have always some limitations. It will be much easier for us to install the new habit with peoples how have the good experiments. These techniques need THE EXPERIENCE and when the opportunity are here, we have little interval of time to seize it. Thank you for your post Mike.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In fact, in some cases the use of buzzwords and business speak can actually demonstrate a better understanding of context, environment, audience, etc. What I was attempting to communicate was that the mere use of buzzwords alone doesn't necessarily indicate a lack of substance. Thanks for sharng Sami.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I believe that leaders should also be able to create an environment of trust wherein employees feel empowered. Leaders who operate behind a veil of secrecy are only setting themselves up for a rude awakening. Perhaps results should be filled out someone other than the leader. Kavita Great article. should anything be transparent?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. but only as a means to foster an environment of creativity and innovation within a team or an organization that is the best thing for THAT problem at THAT company at THAT time. But Apple does not manufacture them.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

If you continue to do the same things that you have always done in today’s current market environment you will see your market share erode, your brand go into decline, your talent and customers jump ship, and your potential never be realized.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 10, 2010 · 2 Comments The clock is ticking: next year, in 2011, the oldest of the 76 million Baby Boomers turn 65. Many will decide to stay in the workforce and replenish their savings and retirement accounts.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

At the same time I personally feel its a long way to go to see the environment what has been discussed in the article. I enjoyed it greatly Anand I truly agree with your statements about being humble and gaining the real respect of the people who we work with.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

One of a leader’s most important functions is to create an environment where trust and loyalty are the rule and not the exception. Sad but true…real talent won’t be attracted to, or remain engaged with leaders who operate on fear-based tactics.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

From my perspective the issue isn't that struggles exist regarding subordinate leaders executing the vision and plans set forth by upper level leadership, for this is certainly a struggle in many environments. Rather the real question should be why such struggles exist in some organizations and not in others.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I was so impressed with the detail in every service and the great way they set the environment they wanted. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. It took my personal church from a 100 to hundreds and headed to thousands. Thanks for sharing Dan.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes. All rights reserved.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

This in turn leads to a very focused, coordinated, and ultimately a very passionate work environment. It sounds like a supportive, mature environment you are describing; where ego isn't the main thing but doing the right thing is. silence) … great then lets move forward. That's consensus."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. For entrepreneurs, why start something new in such an environment? We need to find ways to bring that environment back. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". Don''t get us wrong.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He lives everyday in a dangerous environment. but you’ll not find that here. I appreciate it. ronedmondson I nominate my friend Ted Randall. Ted is an army chaplain stationed at Fort Campbell and in our church, but he's currently deployed to Afghanistan. Ted felt God calling him to this.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. When a request arose for a new service that was not operational within our own system (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The post-scandal scrutiny of Wells Fargo’s culture has so far focused on the high-pressure sales environment that drove employees to create as many as two million fake accounts. According to Stumpf’s testimony, a board committee became aware of the fraud “at a high level” back in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In business, volatility used to be more limited to the realms of finance and high tech. But as the tech wave has continued to sweep the globe, the environment for all organizations, including non-tech ones, has shifted from stability and predictability to rapid, unpredictable change. Innovation Operations Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In February 2011, Breton announced that he was banning email. “We are producing data on a massive scale that is fast polluting our working environments and also encroaching into our personal lives,” Breton said in a public statement released through Atos’s website. Atos’s operating margin increased from 6.5

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. Under Rossotti's guidance, the IRS reorganized from a geographic structure to four new customer-oriented operating divisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. On a recent trip, he briefed me on his business plan and on the school's operations with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned entrepreneur. percent lower than its value in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2011, the company dropped its requirement to exit investment positions when losses exceeded $20 million. At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. Dimon likely would not have approved of the bets if he had known they were occurring.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant. For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets. The case is clear. of the time.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The simple truth is that lowering standards is never a good thing in any environment. When you force the diversity agenda for the wrong reasons (no matter how well intended) productivity suffers and resentment grows. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Not only do they read the environment well, but they possess the uncanny ability to adapt their messaging to said environment without missing a beat. Communicate more effectively. Communication skills are so essential for leaders that it is simply impossible to become a great leader without being a great communicator.

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