N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. If we look around and see that people are disengaged, that leaders are driving toward tactical outcomes and short-term wins, and that organizations are blindly driving ahead. Rethinking Leadership.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Online and Outage Work Management.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2014

In today’s competitive environment, that is no longer sufficient. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Relate Articles: Complimentary Resource – Why IT Struggles to Innovate, and How IT Management Can Fix It. Complimentary Resource – Emerging Trends in Project Management.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2013

Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2013

To further aid you in your ongoing strategic planning and tactical business execution decisions, StrategyDriven is proud to host an online advisory forum, The Advisor’s Corner. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Block provides operational executives and managers with the insight needed to relate ‘shop floor’ decisions and activities with the organization’s financial future. Strategy Management. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. by Robert S. About the Book. Whole Business Thinking by Robert S.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. His processes – which were based on the assumption that employees derive personal value from a job well done – required more skilled workers and a team-oriented environment. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But we have come to tolerate the illusion that the essential matters of work can be invented, managed, and sustained through the creation, storage, retrieval, display, and publication of information. What was invented as a means to replace the post office has now become the most common management tool in organizations.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 23, 2013

The Myth of the Super-Manager. It challenges the conventional, tactical thinking so many managers get locked into. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Are you a strategist? Begin with Purpose. Turn Purpose into Reality.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Roxi Hewertson has joined StrategyDriven as a Principal Contributor and author of a bi-weekly column providing practical advice, tools, and practices for addressing everyday leadership issues and management challenges. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Everything within the lake reacts to the impact.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

This will require a dramatic shift in the way we train our leaders, managers, and team members, but it is the key to inventing new, more powerful futures together. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2013

marketplace shortage of executives and managers with business acumen skills and the impact on companies with this skills deficiency. business acumen skills differences between executives and managers. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Artower Advisory Services, LLC partner to provide healthcare industry executives and managers with Affordable Care Act mandated Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) program consulting services. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Corrective action programs.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

People simply cannot or will not perform to their potential when their work environments are negative, unhappy places to be. Yet contemporary management theory rarely recognizes the importance of moods and the impact they can have on productivity and profitability. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Sometimes we can ‘manage up’ and work with our boss or manage differently with others to mitigate the root causes of our burnout. We look forward to answering your strategic planning and tactical business execution questions. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unfortunately, contemporary management theory offers no alternatives to this style of organizing work and designing organizational structures. This process is called commitment-based management, and it will be as powerful for the next generation of managers as quality was for the last. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Those in senior-management roles may have trouble seeing or identifying with this phenomenon and may mistakenly assume it only happens in other organizations. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Shift Your Understanding.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2014

Tactical: Moving the pieces to get where you want to go. While strategic thinking used to be considered a planning process relegated to those in the executive suite only, it is now, more than ever, a critical part of day-to-day decision making, precisely because the environment keeps changing all the time. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

This is a frequently-used tactic by Asians themselves. from Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management and his M.Sc. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Be ambiguous, so as to leave options open.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Koreans and Chinese may use it tactically, but not in their general comportment. from Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management and his M.Sc. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Never disagree openly.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Leadership authority Roxana (Roxi) Hewertson is a no-nonsense business veteran revered for her nuts-and-bolts, tell-it-like-it-is approach and practical, out-of-the-box insights that help both emerging and expert managers, executives and owners boost quantifiable job performance in various mission critical facets of business.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Leadership authority Roxana (Roxi) Hewertson is a no-nonsense business veteran revered for her nuts-and-bolts, tell-it-like-it-is approach and practical, out-of-the-box insights that help both emerging and expert managers, executives and owners boost quantifiable job performance in various mission critical facets of business.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The four well researched core emotional intelligence metrics of: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness and Relationship Management are directly correlated with successful or failing leadership. We look forward to answering your strategic planning and tactical business execution questions. Ask yourself, do I…?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Leadership authority Roxana (Roxi) Hewertson is a no-nonsense business veteran revered for her nuts-and-bolts, tell-it-like-it-is approach and practical, out-of-the-box insights that help both emerging and expert managers, executives and owners boost quantifiable job performance in various mission critical facets of business.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

If the product itself is mature, salespeople have to continue to reinvent themselves and their tactics. A veteran sales representative and manager with experience that spans more than twenty-five years and multiple industries, he is currently senior vice president of business services for State Bank and Trust Company in Mississippi.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Some compile complex Customer Relationship Management algorithms to develop and maintain these relationships. Even when brands claim to desire lifetime relationships with customers, many tactically distance themselves from the humanity of their interactions. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A 2008 survey of 250 managers in the UK revealed that 90% of them believed that political skill is required to succeed and to improve one’s career prospects. A 2013 study published in the Journal of Leadership Studies finds that men and women see themselves as equal in relation to their political abilities.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. To this end, we are creating a collaboration of researchers and managers to explore what works, what doesn’t, and why.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Today, Weaver’s mass-mailing tactics seem quaintly out of date. The CoE has worked with IT and purchasing to procure a global set of tools for social media management, which are also integrated with our CRM systems. We’ve come a long way. Keep it simple.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

An environment of rapid change demands more and better questions from us. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. It is structured so that you can thoughtfully and tactically look at each of these areas to see where you can better prepare yourself. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Now, management needs focus on enabling and optimizing the connection, communication and collaboration between employees, customers, and partners. Adaptable, agile management above all sustains competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. by Hank Moore. Next comes Crisis Planning.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. “If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I’d say decisiveness. It is possible for a company and its managers to know much about certain arts and sciences without having the will to pursue them. by Hank Moore. Paul Getty.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. Don’t have sufficient management skills or resources to do something well. Crisis management and preparedness can minimize negative impacts of any emergency.

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