N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

This guest blog post by Julie Winkle Giulioni celebrates the September 18 launch of her book with Beverly Kaye, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want. She consults with organizations to develop and deploy innovative instructional designs and training worldwide. News flash! Let’s face it.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 10, 2019

I created a series of sketch notes for Tiffani Bova’s “ What’s Next ” podcast where she meets brilliant people to discuss customer experience, growth and innovation. Tiffani Bova is a Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. I will post sketchnote versions of selected podcast episodes that enlightened me.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” Donaldson and Karl Weber extract relevant lessons for leaders in Entrepreneurial Leader.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. In either case, Digital Transformation is an opportunity for established companies to play a more innovative role in non-traditional ways. You took away share from competition or they took it from you.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 11, 2018

People get used to operating in this “Big Chief” motif because their egos crave it. In addition to limiting innovation, it creates smaller chiefs who want to maintain power they assume they have. So, the employee who craves your approval cares little about advancing your vision, and more about advancing his or her own career.

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

To do that, we had to lean into a “brand renegade” mindset and apply it to our daily operations. The idea of curated customer experiences was something that had to be taught, and we chose candidates who wanted to learn and improve their careers. How it’s always been done” was never our standard. Invest in strategic partnerships.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

His book The Innovators Dilemma has impacted the business world perhaps more than any other book in recent history. In this interview author Jeff Howe asks Christensen questions about his career and sheds thought-provoking light on how he became so important to the business world. So how do leaders make lasting change?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

David Grossman of The Grossman Group provided Get a Sneak Peek of My New Book – Heart First: Lasting Leader Lessons from a Year that Changed Everything. Dana explains: “ While many of us experience challenges with the Imposter Syndrome earlier in our careers, high stakes jobs bring on imposter feelings with ferocity.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Accountability versus Ownership “Be yourself [period] Everyone else is taken” Bibliomotion CIO Career Path Corporate Board Cost versus Innovation David C.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 19, 2020

Organizations have undergone massive shifts over the last decade in terms of how they operate. The workplace of today is unrecognizable compared to when baby boomers (born between 1946 – 64) started their careers. Dr. Ranya Nehmeh , author of the book The CHAMELEON Leader. The CHAMELEON Leader is her debut book.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 28, 2012

At a time when discretionary efforts and intellectual property are essential to drive innovation and organizational growth, those who are able to earn natural and enthusiastic followers will deliver the best results. But, doing that means operating with the right actions, not the right titles. Operating with trust.

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2018

Most entrepreneurs never went to college, and most did not start their companies until they were well along in their careers. Many entrepreneurs who started their own careers in large corporations regarded them as critical to their subsequent success. Innovators are curious and have a voracious appetite for learning. The reason?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It’s an approach that futurist April Rinne believes can equally be applied to our careers. In her latest book Flux: 8 Superpowers For Thriving In Constant Change , she argues that scenario planning can be invaluable in helping us to map out the possible futures available to us. ” Scenarios of your life.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Careers stall, innovation stops, and strategies grow stale. In her fascinating new book, " Rookie Smarts " Liz Wiseman shows how being new, naive and even clueless can be an asset. But, I found that rookies actually operate with higher levels of self-awareness and move faster than their experienced counterparts.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 25, 2022

It’s also pretty well established that diverse teams tend to produce more creative and innovative solutions and are generally higher performing. A part of the challenge surrounds the environment we want cybersecurity professionals to operate in.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? Well actually, no it’s not. All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Still, in the year that Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg published " Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead ," women everywhere made impressive economic and political gains. Diverse business leadership and governance are correlated with stronger business performance, employee engagement, and innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

And finally, business model innovation is getting the recognition it deserves. That’s why I was thrilled when my friend and one of business model innovation’s gurus, Saul Kaplan , wrote a must read book sharing his real world experiences - The Business Model Innovation Factory. For many, this is frightening.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

But as a company who also values innovation and “looking around the corner,” we are always challenging the status quo—so absolutely, there is always room for improvement! What would you say have been the most interesting transformations in your career? You’ve been with Adobe for quite a while.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 11, 2012

You’ll be part of a team Effective working relationships within and across teams are important for more than operating efficiency. Your development will be a priority Faced with a challenging economy, some organizations may be tempted to shift their focus away from activities related to fostering employee advancement and career development.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 4, 2019

You get the chance to create a powerful culture for your company and a successful career track for your employees. That’s the theory behind the career of my guest on this week’s “Aim Higher” podcast, Patty McCord. The goals are the hard things: creating great products, innovating, keeping customers delighted. Patty McCord.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

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. Several years ago I led a professional development workshop for the alumni association of my alma mater.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 27, 2014

“ Innovation is serendipity, so you don''t know what people will make. So, come create some luck by signing up at ThunderClap and get the book for free too. He helped build the Asian operations of GETCO LLC, one of the worlds largest trading technology firms, listed on New York Stock Exchange today as KCG.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Join us in this cover story celebration of Liz Ryan, a change driver of the decade, as she unveils the secrets to creating workplaces where authenticity, trust, and innovation thrive. The HR Digest: In your podcast “Break the Rules To Get the Job You Deserve,” you discuss unconventional career advice.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 3, 2023

. “Credentialism runs wild in slack labor markets, ratcheting up qualifications well beyond what is genuinely needed to do a job,” explains Johns Hopkins University’s Katherine Newman in her recent book Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Russell''s book, " TRUST INC: How to Create a Business Culture ," shares how you can create a workplace where engagement, passion and great work thrive. . Authentic trust , the trust that''s broken or missing in most workplaces, fuels innovation and engagement, and ignites passions in those we lead. Broken-Trust Experiences.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 24, 2020

I am always studying what makes a team great, and I enjoyed reading Mike Robbins’ book, We’re All In This Together. Mike has worked with a number of top companies and enjoyed a baseball career with the Kansas City Royals. After reading his book, I reached out, and he shared more about his philosophy of teamwork with me.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Tenure Inhibits Change and Cripples Innovation : Organizations that favor tenure also tend to be prone to majoring in the minors. All of these traits preclude the advancement of change initiatives and cripple innovation. Walking into these organizations is often like traveling back in time 20 years.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Yet in business, leaders too often feel as though they’re operating under life and death conditions. Failure supports innovation and improvement. She consults with organizations to develop and deploy innovative instructional designs and training programs. You get wet, climb back on, and start again. Mistakes fuel progress.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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