N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

CEO Interview: Sam Walsh. This edition of the CEO interview features Sam Walsh, the recently retired CEO, of Rio Tinto. Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. (as featured in mining.com).

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Swedish company Alight have been working to help encourage larger companies to utilize solar energy to power their operations. The company, which was founded in 2013, currently has around 46 solar installations generating over 500 megawatts across Europe. Solar as a service. consumption.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

His 2013 book, Strategy: A History, which took 40 years to write, is the best book ever written outlining the entire history of the development of strategy. When a client or manager or CEO asks, What are we doing here folks? They’re prescriptions for the way things might operate in an ideal world. Survival depends on it.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 22, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. Weak profits are never the problem, they are always a symptom of not operating on the other five P’s. Michelle Seiler Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated. She has appeared in Forbes, Inc.,

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

At Encore Capital Group, a debt collection company, CEO Brandon Black and his employees decided that “restoring dignity and creating a path toward financial independence” for their customers was a core tenet of their noble goal. Brandon Black retired as CEO and Director of Encore Capital Group in 2013.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 12, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. Weak profits are never the problem, they are always a symptom of not operating on the other five P’s. Michelle Seiler Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated. She has appeared in Forbes, Inc.,

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 20, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. Weak profits are never the problem, they are always a symptom of not operating on the other five P’s. Michelle Seiler Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated. She has appeared in Forbes, Inc.,

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers. General Business'

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

During my tenure as a CEO, my Board of Directors never posed questions pertaining to corporate culture. Jacobs Suchard Directors expected me to run their North American operation as an entrepreneurial enterprise, and as long as the returns were favorable, they assumed I was doing just that. That’s a big mistake. . Some do it well.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 18, 2014

My dad operated a two-pump gas station. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013. This “pay-for-results” idea wasn’t mine.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

Riverside Auto Group, a second-generation company owned equally by three brothers, operates seven dealerships employing 190 people throughout Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Marquette, Escanaba, and Iron Mountain) and Wisconsin (Marinette).

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Pawel Motyl – Formerly CEO Harvard Business Review Poland, noted speaker, consultant and executive coach, author Labirynt Sztuka podejmowania decyzji. Harry Kraemer – Former CEO Baxter, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management Professor of the Year, author of From Values to Action and Becoming the Best.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 26, 2015

Nonetheless, sheer size provides huge economies of scale throughout their operation, especially in production, overheads, distribution and marketing. Then in 2013, the giant decided to divide the company into two autonomous entities – Kraft and Mondelez. The consequence of clout is a tremendous competitive edge in the marketplace.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Rather than striving to be content experts on every aspect of their operation, they need to be able to collect, sort, analyze data, and edit all communication and collaborative streams of information that could potentially influence their business. A CEO I counsel keeps a notebook on his desk with the heading: What makes you happy?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

percent of Fortune 500 CEOs. In the two decades from 1990 to 2010, our country fell from having the sixth-highest rate of female labor-force participation among 22 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, countries to 17th on the list. percent of the U.S. percent of executive officers, 8.1 They hold just 16.9

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Jake Wood , author of, Take Command , weaves together hard-learned lessons in leadership and teamwork from his experiences in college football , as a former Marine sniper and as cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon -- a disaster relief organization that unites military veterans with first responders deployed to areas hit by natural disasters.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. An organization’s customers, transactions, operations, and reports can all be affected by its data integrity. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

” A quarter century later, not much seems to have changed: fewer than five out of the 100 CEOs on HBR’s 2014 list of best-performing CEOs even mention “return on capital” on their official biography — and none of those five lead companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or in the EuroStoxx50.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

29% of Americans believe that armed rebellion might be necessary in the near future to protect their liberties from government intrusion (Cassino, Jenkins, 2013). Or, “We all agree, everyone is operations is ancient and smells like moth balls.”. I stayed in touch with the CEO for two years to see if Shelly succeeded and she did!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Mary Barra, Meg Whitman, Indra Nooyi: These are just three of the women who have successfully broken through the notorious “glass ceiling” to become CEOs of large public firms. We found that female CEOs face a greater threat of shareholder activism than male CEOs.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In China the basis is the family system which operates not only in the People’s Republic, but also overseas in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Europe and North America. Kai has conducted numerous CEO and board-level assignments for major global companies. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

CEOs have a lot to worry about, but what are their greatest concerns? We interviewed 24 CEOs and asked them to name the biggest challenges facing their organizations. Please note that titles used here reflect the positions the individuals held in 2013, when we conducted the interviews for a separate article ). Talent Management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star. Henrik Bunge is one such leader.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They want to operate where they are most comfortable. Here are suggested words to say to help you stay focused on the project and away from nonproductive behavior: “Let’s focus on finishing the quarterly projections instead of the latest gossip about the CEO so we can get home early.”. They will not set the boundaries for you.

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

New CEO of CIPD. 2013 marks the 100 th anniversary for the institute, all be it in a variety of names and shapes. The recognition that many members are now operating in a freelance capacity is critical. At this year’s #cipd12 event Cheese addressed the membership and other conference attendees for the first time.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Less than a year later, a new CEO came in from the outside and disbanded the internal Lean program. A similar thing happened with one of the hospitals I featured in the first edition of my book Lean Hospitals , when a new CEO came in and made it clear that Lean was no longer needed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said something to a shareholder that you very rarely hear: take a hike. Cook went on a tirade — or at least what passes for one from the very cool and collected CEO. Cook went on a tirade — or at least what passes for one from the very cool and collected CEO. I’m paraphrasing, but only slightly.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

As a 2013 company report* stated, “Navistar was selected as a name with a strong sound, a resonance to Harvester, and a connection to its root words “navigate” and “star.” Although the name is “made up,” it broadened the brand and has strong connotations of movement and direction. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Right about now you are feeling like you have this CEO thing down cold! Dig hard into your operation to see what’s wrong. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. You found that out by accident. Maybe it is finally time to work on that golf game. You couldn’t be more wrong. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. “I’ve had at least five instances where decisions like that had to be made,” the longtime CEO of Tupperware, Rick Goings, told me.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

New research, conducted with HBR, The Economist , CEB, and TNS Global, reveals that CEOs believe CIOs are not in sync with the new issues CEOs are facing. CEOs also tell us that CIOs do not understand where the business needs to go and how IT should support strategic goals. Structural changes. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. We have developed a simple yet powerful framework that leadership teams can use to navigate the digital landscape and avoid the kinds of problems that Co-operative Bank suffered.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the words of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, the partnership was “love at first sight.” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” and compete successfully.

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