N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

He has expanded his research and applied his theories to other industries like health care, higher education and even governments and tax systems. I found two recent articles about Clayton Christensen that have increased my understanding about leadership: The first is published in the BYU Magazine’s Spring 2013 edition. (As

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

These noble families also held positions of power in the English political system, from which they were able to pass laws that protected their privileges and claims. It was a system that remained essentially unchanged for centuries, and it assured these families a continuous flow of income to maintain their wealth across generations.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2021

This allowed Amazon not only to develop a sophisticated and comprehensive system but also to expand aggressively. Google was even later to the party, with its Cloud Platform not launched until 2013. This allowed the company to drive sales of Azure alongside its existing products, such as Office and LinkedIn.

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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. We take all of our clients through this GPS system. What’s the best time to sell my business?

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 24, 2020

As I show in the accompanying chart, the impact of that, as physiological systems elevate and lower, is dramatic for both short-term performance and long-term health and well-being. Without mitigation, all of that can leave you and your team members in a state of chronic fight or flight.

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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. We take all of our clients through this GPS system. What’s the best time to sell my business?

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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. We take all of our clients through this GPS system. What’s the best time to sell my business?

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

95 on the 2013 list, Mars boasts employees who love not only the products they make but also the office culture and the company's long-standing principles. For example, a typical Mars plant manager influences associates by his or her ability to pace development of operational systems and innovative approaches. Related articles.

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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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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. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 19, 2013

The Top Brain, Bottom Brain theory predicts that people fit into one of four groups, based on their typical use of the two brain systems. Depending on the degree to which a person uses the top and bottom systems in optional ways, he or she will operate in one of four cognitive modes: Mover, Perceiver, Stimulator and Adaptor.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 18, 2014

This compensation system gives everyone–coach, client, and stakeholders—an important role in the process. 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. This “pay-for-results” idea wasn’t mine.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

During this time, we raised the quality systems and actual performance to allow exports of Australian-made Nissans to Japan. I started my career in purchasing; migrated to sales and marketing; moved to manufacturing, mining, and then general management in a business operating in 40 countries.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Over 90% of business operations are now stored digitally, so this increase is not surprising. After the 2013 Yahoo data breach and the recent Equifax hack, operating without proper security measures in place is no longer acceptable. What’s surprising is how so many businesses still take information security lightly.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2013

While many requirements necessitate one-time actions, others govern ongoing business operations. Compliance with regulatory requirements governing ongoing, dynamic operations benefit from dedicated performance measures. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Enterprise Performance Measurement.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. Consider leaving a comment!

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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. Plant Maintenance and Operations. About StrategyDriven.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Non-value-added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Overproduction , the first of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the unnecessary production of product before the customer demands it. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

You’re able to face criticism with confidence and courage When the collections industry later came under fire, Encore felt confident they had nothing to hide about how they operate. If there were flaws in their system, they wanted to learn about them because it accelerated their ability to fulfill their mission.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

This will “flatten the curve ” and reduce the chances of overburdening our healthcare systems. Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. Global banks are much stronger and less leveraged than in 2008.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 31, 2014

Before my trip to Catalyst Atlanta 2013 , I purchased the Acer C710-2856 Chromebook laptop. I wasn’t sure how I was going to like this laptop as it uses a different operating system than I’m used to. However, that was easily overcome after a short period of usage.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2013

A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

.” “An effective safety culture is far more than slogans and posters,” continues Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven’s Chief Operations Officer. ” Nathan and Greg authored Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents based on their decades of experience managing nuclear and industrial complex operations. .”

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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. Data integrity can become compromised intentionally, via cyber thievery, or as a result of system changes, human error, or natural causes.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Greg’s complete biography, click here. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 30, 2013

Over time, leaders can grow their performance measurement systems to include almost countless numbers of interrelated metrics. We can work with you to assess and improve your performance measurement system; yielding metrics and reports that are operationally relevant, organizationally consistent, and economically implemented.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. They are transforming each and every business model. The reason?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

We can work with you to assess and improve your performance measurement system; yielding metrics and reports that are operationally relevant, organizationally consistent, and economically implemented. The resulting system helps improve managerial decision-making, organizational alignment, and individual accountability.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 10, 2017

Businesses that have a deep appreciation for what their customers, and potential customers, desire and that create systems to deliver solutions that delight those customers benefit greatly from that effort. And even within that system they can segment the offering a bit and create coach class, business class and first class.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 20, 2013

Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Greg’s complete biography, click here. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Common system generated notification mechanisms include: The text above is only a small portion of this article. We can work with you to assess and improve your performance measurement system; yielding metrics and reports that are operationally relevant, organizationally consistent, and economically implemented. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Every organization is challenged by risks manifest through its many different day-to-day operations. Well-conceived risk management dashboards aid oversight organizations including internal audit, management oversight, and compliance groups, in monitoring the organization’s overall risk profile and risk-based operational performance.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. Concerns for legacy systems and the defense of historical practices must not be allowed to limit the capacity for people to work together effectively.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2013

The paper describes how best practices in measuring organizational performance in the nuclear power industry can be applied to healthcare providers facing the daunting challenge of concurrently increasing production, efficiency, and quality – all while reducing operating costs. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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