Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

Be sure to check out the book's Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. How do you recommend readers read the book and use it to apply the learnings?

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 85

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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Business Model Blog Brand Depreciation 269

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Which hat, or hats do you wear? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it?

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Entrepreneur CEO Blog Welch 318

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

gutted by the Internet, threatened by electronic books and plagued by inconsistent management - filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today, 40 years after Borders started as a used bookstore on South State Street here in Ann Arbor, MI. Borders Group Inc., To be sure, some see new opportunities in the problems facing Borders. “The

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Marketing Godin Venture Capitalist Chief Operating Officer 102

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 295

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. logistics, and finance.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 269

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Small Business Administration Business Plan Engine. The $100 Startup, the website for the best-selling book of the same name, has a ton of stripped-down resources for entrepreneurs, including a super simplified business plan template. Reflect your goals in the day-to-day operations of your business.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.

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Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. How did the brick and mortar book stores let Amazon get the jump on them?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 300

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I want to be clear that I’m not advocating for form over substance, extreme self-indulgence, narcissism, or masking insecurity by the trappings you surround yourself with.

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Blog Gordon Brand Media 312

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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Process EVA Letter Blog 73

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement.

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 63

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I tend to agree with most of Michael’s positions (except when he left my book off his list) and find his business logic to be solidly grounded. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). You can follow Michael on Twitter @LeadershipNow. Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer.

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Blog Leadership Follow-up Media 367

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bob Lutz in his recent book Car Guys vs. Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The result, he says, was inferior cars and a decline in the firm. Strategic judgment.

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CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. What was most striking was the attitude of everyone.

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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 352

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic. Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss. There’s the Alfred P.

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Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them. Strategy & Execution Book.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Listen to the words of a finance manager in a large consumer products company, whose efforts to improve his business team's profit margins were repeatedly undercut by people in the sales department: "I learned that pricing for one of our key accounts has already been confirmed to the customer, without any prior approval or review. [.]

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Management Engineering Price Brainstorming 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Even people who have achieved a great deal of career success aren’t immune to these feelings, says Whitney Johnson, an executive coach and the author several books including Build an A-Team. ” Even if you cannot change your circumstances, “you might be able to change the microenvironment in which you operate.”

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Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Much like every other business, a healthcare facility also comprises functions that support its operations. These may include finance, administration, marketing, etc. ASSIST IN DEVELOPING A USER-FRIENDLY WEBPAGE: Many patients now look towards booking online appointments through websites or calls.

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Marketing System Marketing Strategy Reputation 65

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Yet now, with Innovation Engineering – a data-driven, reliable system for creating fresh ideas and successfully turning them into reality – companies can transform innovation from a random act to a reliable science. Innovation Engineering methods and tools are designed to engage both left and right brain thinkers.

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Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs, only to watch the company’s initial CEO return to the day-to-day operations alongside yet another chief executive, who joined well after the founding. The venture’s finances become more complex, and the CEO needs to depend on finance executives and accountants.

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Succession Leadership CEO COO 8

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Many businesses have shut down, with many more having to drastically alter their operations to support social distancing or new patterns of consumer behavior. From physics to psychology, computing to mathematics, the book contains thoughts from some of the leading thinkers of our age.

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Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 97

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Different operational skills. If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. which quickly gained acclaim as an Amazon.com Number 1 Bestselling Internet book. Diversity on your founding team will give you strength. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0

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How To Long-term Learning Curve Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Despite the Wall Street-engineered financial avalanche, investors lost money in African equities largely because some audited statements were revealed to be patently deceptive. When investors lack confidence in the books, they rarely invest, which deprives markets of liquidity.

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Insurance Incentives Quality Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The first reason that many companies decide to outsourcing is that the operational and labour costs are much cheaper than hiring an employee into the business. Things such as administration, finance and statistics can be outsourced by a business if they do not want to complete these tasks themselves. Mundane Tasks.

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Outsourcing Offshoring Content Engineering 68

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

You can read about it in recent issues of The Economist , The New York Times , and in the book The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All this talk about permanent unemployment in the United States is making people nervous. The arguments are familiar.

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Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Establish "an unbending standard of performance" : Since 1965, Buffett has annually compared Berkshire's compounded growth in book value per share to the growth in the S&P 500 (plus dividends). But why compare apples (book value) to oranges (share price and dividends)? billion more than their total tangible book value.

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Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 15

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. whether this would lead us to become like face book groups,linkedin group,twitter group ?Whether I have a question where this all lead to in future?

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 357

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. ” [link] lightridr Great post, Mike.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 307

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale.

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