N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

In fact, if you're reading this text, just stop right now and benchmark your activity against your reflective thoughts – Is what you're doing, in alignment with your true priorities, or have you been sucked down into the weeds? The old "what if I only had 'x' number of hours to work in a week, what would I focus on?"

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” I asked her a question that I ask CEO’s of major corporations all over the world. . Fueled by his personal and corporate desire to give to others, Paul developed skills and techniques in Leadership, Goal Setting, and Sales Techniques, including his Grid Square Technology. She went on to share her personal story.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 17, 2019

According to a recent study from the University of Technology Sydney, it’s satisfaction that is the most prized of all. In today’s digital technology-intensive and data-rich environment, it is important for managers to know which metrics count.” ” Key metrics.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The three most critical items to focus on when conducting your planning are: Insure that personal accountability is present on any major benchmark, milestone or deliverable. In most cases your wins won’t put you out of business, but your losses most certainly can.

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

"We're experiencing double-digit growth and as a result, we need an executive coaching program like Six Disciplines to help us manage this growth profitably and to keep us on track and focused on the most important tasks. " ~ Randy Joseph, VP of Sales and Operations, Laminate Technologies.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 25, 2010

During a recent conversation with the CEO of a debt collection company I was told, "I reduced my staff by 30 percent and we actually collected more debt."   Benchmark the position.    When you benchmark the job (not your best talent), you have the foundation for employee performance.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

A goal is a specific target and the objectives are the attainment components/benchmarks/hurdles which will lead you toward achieving said goal. An organization's purpose often changes over time as advances in technology, changes in customer demands/preferences, etc. impact the competitive arena.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models. over this period.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

We're fortunate to own a leadership position amongst our traditional competitors but recognize that we're at a point at which our benchmark must move. But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. Reinvention is hard and frightening.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2018

The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot. Amid this, department leaders began to hear anecdotes about burnout and change fatigue and questioned whether the pace was sustainable.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference. Are these extreme statements? Perhaps some may think so, but being authentic to my politically incorrect self, I think not.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Benchmark data isn''t sexy stuff, but occasionally the numbers reveal surprising findings. The absence of efficient financial management systems reflects comparatively low spending on information technology. This issue is one of my pet peeves," says Rich Stearns, CEO of World Vision US, the largest affiliate of a $2.8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

But more recent studies show the upside of the 10,000-hour benchmark for collaborative knowledge work — the type of expertise required to create, or lead, or grow a company. For instance, a technology vendor in our sample wanted to create a new, lower-cost offering to target customers who couldn't afford its custom software.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

The CEO of a large telecommunications firm announced an enterprise-wide cost-reduction and simplification effort as a way of responding to rapidly changing technologies and new competitive threats. A month later, the CEO delayed the meeting again due to a customer problem. Consider this example.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Technologies will change, distribution channels for content will change, usage environments will change. This is often the reason why thoughtful quantitative analysis that incorporates macro-economic trends, market share, competitive strategies, retail analysis and technological assessments so often misses the mark. Think about it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. This photograph from the period, O home e o neno , shows a man and his son crying as some of their dearest relatives board the boat to Buenos Aires.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

I recently delved into this meld of art and science when I spoke at a meeting held by Terra Technology , a relatively new and successful player in the "demand sensing" world (the difference between "sensing" and "planning" is about gathering data as close to real-time as possible and feeding it back up the supply chain quickly). I was wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

I recently got a call from a CEO of a health system that encompasses several hospitals, medical practices, and clinics. The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. How, the CEO wondered, could Lakeland reinvent the experience of healthcare for its patients?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

For a group of CEOs and other business leaders gathered on World Environment Day , the view from the 44th floor of the tallest building in the Benelux region was dizzying. This makes it almost impossible to benchmark their performance. Both, of course, were metaphors. People at this event acknowledged that elephant long ago.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Who has the best technology? So General Motors CEO Dan Akerson was simply echoing popular sentiment when, on the day the new GM went public, he threw down the gauntlet: "May the best car win!" Companies benchmark each other's practices and products. With Cyber Monday, the tablet wars kicked into full swing. Is it the iPad?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis. Timing : It must be detailed and deliverable on a schedule.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Our study clearly shows that great leadership is a strong competitive advantage, with the top 20 BCL firms far outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark on shareholder returns. Beyond strong financial performance, the top 20 BCL companies have something else in common. BCLs foster opportunities for new ideas to flourish regardless of their source.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” ” Moore answered without hesitation: “He would get us out of memories.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The article draws from the work and writing of Ashish Rajpal, founder and CEO of iDiscoveri and its innovation thought leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Meta-analytic studies reviewing 50 years of research suggest that personality traits such as curiosity, extraversion, and emotional stability are twice as important as IQ — the benchmark metric for reasoning capability — when it comes to predicting leadership effectiveness. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Lynn Dessert from Elephants at Work completes a hail mary pass with Using the Benchmarks® Assessment for Leadership Development. "As As with many assessments, Benchmarks® delivers insights to many leaders about their actions and behaviors through feedback from a broad range of groups they interact with inside their organization.".

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

For a group of CEOs and other business leaders gathered on World Environment Day , the view from the 44th floor of the tallest building in the Benelux region was dizzying. This makes it almost impossible to benchmark their performance. Both, of course, were metaphors. People at this event acknowledged that elephant long ago.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

And when asked at the recent Gravity Summit if his company's program was profitable for merchants, the CEO of BuyWithMe (another deals site) responded: "We don't know." Add benchmarking — when coupon customers try not to spend more than the original deal amount — and we need to start looking for solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO. She knew that to have a role in steering strategy, she had to earn the trust of her CEO and board. “To To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Founded in 1928, Motorola diversified over the decades from car radios into a host of communication technologies, ranging from equipment aboard Apollo 11 to the best-selling RAZR mobile phones. Amply rewarded for their activism, Icahn and his allies exited the boardroom, but a new activist investor soon came knocking.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

” Publicly, CEOs talk about digital transformation, but privately, they wonder if their efforts will be enough. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Or it could be indirectly, as Opower does in giving people benchmarking data on energy usage to foster conservation and efficiency. ” the response was “You don’t.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Building scale for your distinctive capabilities must be at the top of the CEO agenda. Indeed, much of the distinction in a powerful capabilities system stems from the sparks created when people with different backgrounds, skills, technologies, and perspectives build practices and processes together.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

Topics discussed include the society that produced business scandals, accountants and auditors, pedestals upon which CEOs are placed, spin doctoring, compensations and accountability issues with managers. Failure to benchmark results and accomplishments. That the CEO can make or break the company single-handedly.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Topics discussed include the society that produced business scandals, accountants and auditors, pedestals upon which CEOs are placed, spin doctoring, compensations and accountability issues with managers. Failure to benchmark results and accomplishments. That the CEO can make or break the company single-handedly.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Perhaps Thorsten Heins has longed to run a big, public company. But probably the dream didn't look like this.

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