N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. How sad is this?

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Financial Health and Sustainability Sound financial management, diversification of revenue streams, and long-term financial planning are vital in weathering financial crises and market fluctuations. The pathway of organizational success is littered with one-hit wonders: companies that were high fliers but only temporarily.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Effective ones can make valuable and well-educated decisions, weigh in on critical issues, operate ethically, cultivate and execute long-term strategies, and encourage healthy board succession and turnover. Board effectiveness can be measured internally through a self-audit system, but this can be challenging without bias.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

The term artificial intelligence first appeared in an article by Stanford professor John McCarthy in 1979. It will be one of the many technologies that comply with Amara’s Law (named after the scientist and futurist Roy Amara): We tend to overestimate the effect of technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Edwards Deming described the purpose of an organization in The New Economics , 1993, on page 51, as: The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain – stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment – over the long term. CONTINUE YOUR DEMING JOURNEY.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Even more, we have a moral and ethical business obligation to be savvy in how the world works. By this, I mean being aware of the nuances of political systems, cultural norms, and psychological mindsets of whom we do business with and for. Build long-term business relationships. Understand customer behavior. Play memory.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Financial Health and Sustainability Sound financial management, diversification of revenue streams, and long-term financial planning are vital in weathering financial crises and market fluctuations. The pathway of organizational success is littered with one-hit wonders: companies that were high fliers but only temporarily.

Organization 40

Organization Agility Ethics Operations 40

CEO Blog

JANUARY 22, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Saturday, January 22, 2011 Secrets of Business Success I am having a productive morning. Success is the result of a little small things done repeatedly like: 1 - Work ethic. Success is the result of a little small things done repeatedly like: 1 - Work ethic. I worked hard and long.

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Succession Leadership Pipeline eBook Long-term 190

Leading with Trust

MARCH 28, 2023

There are many popular personality typing systems in use today, but these systems tend to be too complex for most people to apply them in their moments of need. They value competence and mastery, and are usually oriented to logic and operating principles that provide long-term results.

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Blanchard Motivation Influence Learning-by-Doing 55

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

But here’s a caution: You can’t fake this stuff … for long. Understand the clash of belief systems. Whereas a lawyer is paid to win the case for his or her client by any legal and ethical means possible, a judge is not. Your character is what ultimately determines your long-term influence. Be a judge, not a lawyer.

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Influence Emotional Intelligence Belief Systems Long-term 279

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Edwards Deming described the purpose of an organization in The New Economics , 1993, on page 51, as: The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain – stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment – over the long term.

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Deming Long-term Proposal Tactics 28

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. These factors form a formidable foundation for effective organizational governance when paired together.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2011

At the time our mission statement was, “ Anything for a buck, as long as it is legal and ethical. &# So we were paid to take a newsletter promotion Sid was doing for his business, we was a gifted writer (and a student of great copy writers), and attach a penny to each of the 18,000 newsletters.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

There comes a time, however, when an extra hand is needed to get something done and I don’t want to hire someone long-term or for a lot of money. Since they don’t typically end up as long-term employees, you shouldn’t have to spend a lot of time training the person for the job. Enter an intern! Who’s on the Bus?

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

is the only country running all four systems. We all know about private insurance, the VA hospital system is an example of government run health care, Medicare is an example of public insurance and we all know that there are millions of uninsured who either pay out of pocket or don’t get the health care they need. Based on what facts?

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. Engagement is concerned with the level of effort people put forth at work.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 7, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe How to Get Lazy People to Work by Kevin Eikenberry on November 29, 2010 in Devloping Others , Leadership , Learning In our Bud to Boss Workshops we get asked different versions of this question frequently.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

As is always the case when writing my blogs, I hope that this information inspires you to think more about not only what you do but why you do it. As mentioned, they are long term relationships and friendships based on a shared belief in values, doing the right thing, giving natures and of course highly capable and skilled people.

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Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Your Voice of Encouragement

JANUARY 25, 2010

But there are times when you really have to evaluate whether getting what you want at the moment is going to be in the best interest of you, the other person and your relationship for the long-term. Sometimes this is important when it’s an ethical or moral issue. Case in point. January 31, 2010 6:10 PM Ben Power said.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 5, 2012

We got another slap in the face on what this game can do to you long term when "allegedly" Junior Seau took a gun and put it to his chest yesterday. It's another chilling reminder of something all football fans try to forget, the effects this game has on it's players long term health.". I am not some anti-sports prude.

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Sports Long-term Leadership Education 102

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. If you’re successful, your brand will leave an impact long after you’re gone. It's an extension of yourself that lingers even long after that person has left your website, book, show, or other piece of content.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2012

You’ve placed a value on yourself that reflects in your selling skills, your attitude, your belief system, your truthfulness, and your ethics. If you are willing to compromise any of those, you’ll never be a successful salesperson in the long term. Do not have a blog. That’s you. And then there is the customer.

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Reputation Customer Loyalty Belief Systems Seminar 50

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A Race to the Bottom If this scenario ever came to pass, the term “work ethic” would be cancelled and parents would stop telling kids to try their best, because fair-to-average would be good enough for them. How long could a company remain in business if they excused lazy, incompetent, uncaring, apathetic employees? Why bother.

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Ethics Bottom-up Morale Metrics 108

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Key components of courage include clarity of one’s own values, a deep sense of ethicality, being positively self-critical,being able to let go and move on, resilience to setbacks. Discipline to complete the task no matter how long or tough the journey. Stay human. Everyone has a back story, everyone is fallible and fragile.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Looking back on my journey, I feel buoyed by this quote from investor Charlie Munger: “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” You can expect to work pretty long hours during the first few years of opening a business.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Relatedly, managers tend to hold on to long-held assumed truths that often management scholars’ studies have dispelled. Unfortunately, in our view, it’s not likely that business schools will redesign performance management systems to include the metrics we listed above.

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Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. But everyone else was making similar loans and as long as they could be off-loaded through securitization, the company could continue to make money and was under pressure to do what all the other major banks were doing.

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CEO Benchmarking Long-term Banking 13

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

In terms of finding the right career, research shows that it’s really hard to predict what you’ll be good at ahead of time, especially just by “going with your gut”, and it turns out career tests don’t work either. It saves a lot of time and heartache in the long run.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. We strive to build a long-time dedicated partnership and to share knowledge and experience with them. The board should step out of its traditional focus on governance and compliance and be more involved in setting the corporate value system.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 23, 2016

Chris doesn’t realize it but she’s just placed her fledgling business at a long-term disadvantage. Bill is frustrated with the work ethic and low levels of engagement within his management and employee ranks. Chris and Bill are at two ends of the same CEO-led management system. The CEO System Exposed.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. I have long been an opponent to term limits, believing that "we the people" are smart enough to figure out who should serve. Now is the time for term limits.

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