N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2016

My mind is spinning around as I try to defragment and reorganize the many experiences, images and memories that have made 2016 such a fascinating year. As he started to explain his various considerations, I realized that he fitted into a pattern I have been observing throughout 2016. Abyss of Boredom. The Way Forward.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Covid-19 has been many things, but the digital transformation it has encouraged has been significant, whether due to the newly remote workforces, the urgent need for online sales channels, or the need for cloud-based technologies to maintain business operations.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

This post is a part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. The title of my presentation was “Toy Box Leadership” loosely based on the book by the same name, with a subtitle “Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child,” by authors Ron Hunter and Michael Waddell. The workshop was a success.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Along the way, the leaders of these organizations turned their backs on the tenets of great branding, defined as carving out unique brand positions and adding to that strategic advantage with innovations that thrill customers. In 2016, the Cayenne will be produced in Slovakia. Porsche is enjoying a vibrant auto market. Not at all.

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CO2

OCTOBER 31, 2017

ARC Advisory Group conducted research in Q4 of 2016 to understand how companies were dealing with the “great digitization”. The responses are broken down by Leadership and Employees. And from the survey data, there is a huge gap in perception between what Leadership thinks and what Employees think.

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CO2

OCTOBER 31, 2017

ARC Advisory Group conducted research in Q4 of 2016 to understand how companies were dealing with the “great digitization”. The responses are broken down by Leadership and Employees. We have a culture of innovation, experimentation and risk-taking. Leadership: 75% Employees: 37%. Leadership: 76% Employees: 41%.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

This is a radical leap from 2016, when the same survey placed climate change in a lowly 13th spot, with just 2% of respondents believing it to be crucial. This often results in minimal changes being implemented, with what change that does occur not really impacting the core operations of the business. Sustainability leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

First in December 2016 in Phoenix where they learned from Alan Mulally as well as me. Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. I wrote “great teachers” and “very generous.”

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

The HR Digest: Under your leadership, SAP successfully implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade in 2017. Let’s innovate, disrupt, and challenge the status quo. In HR we now have the chance to move from an operational, back-office function to a leader of change. How did you approach this unique task? PHOTOS: SAP.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

billion into Nissan, but in return it required more than 36 percent of the company’s ownership and a commitment from Nissan to appoint Renault executive Carlos Ghosn as Nissan’s chief operating officer. Under his leadership, Ghosn said, the struggling automaker would return to profitability in a year and halve its debt a year later.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the recent past, businesses had only external, third party vendors to rely on for major projects, operational emergencies, and other labor-intensive initiatives that required resources they did not have. Both industrial, machine-like robots and digital, computerized robots have revolutionized the way companies operate.

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ExactHire - Leadership

AUGUST 19, 2021

Companies need employees now, and if companies do not meet their staffing needs to operate, doors will close—maybe permanently. That was in 2016, so take into account five years and the influence of a global pandemic, and those numbers have grown. It’s never been more clear. So what can companies do to find more employees?

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Stephen Covey similarly described this concept using the metaphor of a ladder, stating, ”Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall” (Covey, 2011). Leadership and Management. 2016, March 17). Subscribe to our mailing list today!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Quotes on community stewardship, leadership and related topics. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Strategic planning, how-to instructions. Communications programs for NPOs. Helping others.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity. After escaping GM, I had an opportunity to attend graduate school at MIT, to study operations management, system dynamics, and other topics. One long-standing issue had been relatively poor attendance at weekly chapter meetings.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

“Sidra is introducing innovative education and training programs for medical students, trainees, and physicians in various specialties, which has never been done in this region before,” said Dr. Muhammad Waqar Azeem, Chair of Psychiatry at Sidra and Professor of Psychiatry at WCM-Q.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. They are often the first to recognize and raise up areas of improvement, and it’s important that leadership is ready to listen. What lessons can we share?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. There were more than 5,000 craft breweries in the United States alone in 2016, compared with 1,400 a decade ago, according to Statista.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio. It starts with leadership support. In Year One, we have avoided 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. November 2016). This age is ripe with opportunity. Discipline and Focus.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 20, 2016

T he guest for today’s Answers From Leadership podcast is Keith Wilmot. In this capacity, he founded and launched IGNITOR, an internal creativity and innovation approach. What does leadership look like to you? Things like: Being people first, compassionate, operating with empathy, or integrity. We do it differently.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

For the 2016–2017 season, thousands of constraints needed to be taken into account related to travel, player fatigue, ticket revenue, arena availability, and three major television networks. Make sure leadership teams are fully immersed in defining and setting expectations across the entire organization. Increase market share?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 In fact, by the end of December 2016, Thales traded at a 21.8 When your company ultimately becomes a more legitimate digital player, you can be more flexible in how you finance future deals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

That purpose is bigger than the company itself, providing natural cohesion, and it demands expansive thinking, driving innovation and progress. Personal leadership is indispensable to operationalizing your purpose. Everyone at SpaceX knows their company exists to make space radically more accessible. ” Aim for the golden mean.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

corporate boardroom representation , despite solid evidence that greater women's representation in corporate leadership correlates directly with improved business performance. European nations, so often criticized for stifling innovation in a tangle of tradition and regulation, have decisively leapfrogged the United States on this issue.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

Few would argue with that, and even if they did, there is evidence to support the idea that resisting distraction and staying present have benefits: practicing mindfulness for 10 minutes a day , for example, can enhance leadership effectiveness by helping you become more able to regulate your emotions and make sense of past experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?” Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.” What makes marketing creative?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. ” GE adopted its FastWorks initiative, based on lean startup principles, to cut bureaucracy around innovation. Make the tough calls on people.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. Fortunately, companies can build the capacity for strategic leadership. By setting up ways for people to bring their innovative thinking to the surface, you can help them learn to make the most of their own creativity.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet. Check out these healthy habits of #leadership experts @MichaelHyatt, @MarkTimm, and @48DaysTeam Click To Tweet.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

We also invested significant leadership time in performing final interviews for all roles — from medical assistants to physician leaders — to ensure that each team member would strengthen the team’s dedication. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams.

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