N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A few years ago, around the time my book, Overworked and Overwhelmed was launched, I wrote a series of blog posts under the theme of Mindful Mondays. First, there’s awareness which operates in two dimensions – external and internal. I left that theme when I felt at the time that I had said everything I wanted to say on being mindful.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 9, 2019

In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain. Simons’ team defines behavioral integrity as “managers keeping their promises and demonstrating espoused values.” of annual revenues.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Vertical integration extended their chain of operations, bringing inside their boundaries suppliers at one end (“upstream”) and customers at the other (“downstream”). He is the author or coauthor of 21 books. His latest book is Understanding Organizations…Finally! Structuring in Sevens.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Your business now operates as part of a global digital eco-system where leveling the playing field has become a digital impossibility. Don’t attempt to compete with those who are more evolved, piggy-back off of them, partner with them, engineer around them, on move out in front of them. Think next chapter vs last book.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

At the epicenter of their multiple best-selling books, assessments and workshops, lies a simple premise: “Leaders are made … and not born.”. We then accepted a front-line management job where we were responsible for ensuring other people (perhaps even former peers of ours) did the thing we knew how to do. It was simple.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 15, 2021

These folks are actually team leaders with broad scopes of responsibility so they have the platform to operate as a leader across their enterprise but they haven’t let go of the superstar, go-to person modus operandi that got them noticed in the first place. It’s actually pretty simple and not that complex to operate that way.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

The truth is that many change-management efforts fail simply because the vital human component is underappreciated, when in fact it is at the heart of change. The enemy is poor management of change.” This post is an excerpt from his excellent, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. Change is not the enemy.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2022

In the new book, Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier , you’ll discover how seven companies from around the world reinvented the talent management process to become better functioning companies and talent engines that drive impressive growth. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Leaders of small and medium size businesses (SMBs) often think their size lets them operate under the radar, as less attractive targets to bad guys. CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ 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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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Vijay Covindarafan and Chris Trimble argue in their book, " Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization ," the real innovation challenge lies not in the idea but rather in the long, hard journey from imagination to impact. Quite the contrary, they are built for ongoing operations. Related articles.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 3, 2017

is a thought leader on the subject of operational excellence, a prolific writer, a sought-after speaker around the world, and the author of the new book State of Readiness.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

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. This turnaround occurred at Jacobs Suchard’s North American operation, eventually sold to Kraft/Mondelez after many years of profitable growth as a coffee specialist.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. And even change management is changing as well. The way we think about experience has changed.

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Career Advancement

JANUARY 23, 2017

Over time, I’ve learned to manage my anxiety and turn it into an engine that propels me forward. That’s why Out Front is balanced between identifying women’s challenges in communicating, and providing an operating manual on how to overcome them. As I tell my clients, some anxiety is a good thing.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 25, 2012

The New HR Analytics: Predicting the Economic Value of Your Company’s Human Capital Investments Jac Fitz-enz AMACOM (2010) A brilliant explanation of “the first holistic, predictive management model and operating system for the HR function” Those who have read one or more of Jac Fitz-enz’s previously published books know that (..)

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

How many leaders and managers of large corporations watched Hayward implode on television and thought to themselves, "I never want that to be me"! How are risk assessment, and more specifically -- enterprise risk management ("ERM") implemented in your organization?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

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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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In his latest book, Built to Innovate , he chronicles the Tech Warrior Enterprise event run each year by the Air Force Research Laboratory. Alongside the event, the Pentagon operates various CONNECT events each year to provide support to startups and help them ensure that any technologies they develop truly meet the needs of the military.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ 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 65

Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 25, 2017

He’s an engineer by background, and serves as an operations manager for a local branch of a major international building automation company. I’m an engineer. I went to school for engineering. And I’m an operations manager for a large manufacturer in Philadelphia.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Jonas Altman’s book, Shapers: Reinvent the Way You Work and Change Your Future crossed my desk and grabbed my attention. The new style of leadership is premised on trust , and the practice of management is now more art than science. We are witnessing the most progressive organizations operate as engines for learning.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2020

It’s a great monetization strategy of any peer-peer marketplaces to charge service providers a service fee each time they receive and process a new booking on your platform. You can also incur service free from guests which can range up to 20% of the booking subtotal. Carefully plan your operations. Setting your own ad system.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ 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 93

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

The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2019

In the wake of two fatal crashes of Boeing’s new 737 Max jets, Harvard Business School professor and author of a new book on creating psychological safety in the workplace, Amy Edmondson, published an article on Boeing and the Importance of Encouraging Employees to Speak Up. It is nothing less than a full organizational culture change.”

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

Our smart digital campus Adobe Life app will be at the center of this transformation, giving in-person and remote employees access to a variety of health and wellness tools as well as being able to book meeting spaces, order food from the office café, and make appointments with IT.

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Software Engineering Learning-by-Doing Diversity 98

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Scientific Management An industrial engineer in the early 1900s, Frederick Winslow Taylor was obsessed with productivity enhancement. This study examined thousands of managers across industries with two basic parameters: Was the manager successful? Did the team or group the manager led hit their productivity targets?

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

According to one former employee, “Management made it clear that no employee was allowed to complain about the unethical practices that were going on within the branch.”. One of the things we preach in the book is for leaders to be more “long-term greedy.” There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

When you have reams of unnecessary policies, approvals required for simple things, and an us-versus-them attitude between managers and employees, you need to step back and look at the level of fear vs. trust in your business. You can tell when the good energy that should be flowing in your organization is blocked by fear.

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Liker is Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and principal of Liker Lean Advisors, LLC. He has authored or co-authored over 75 articles and book chapters and ten books.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

These connection and observation activities enabled our great bosses to get reliable, valid, accurate information about how the team was operating and how the team was performing, every day. We could see our great bosses’ efforts to ensure they were seeing things “as they were” as opposed to how they assumed things were operating.

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Lessons in Using Checklists for Managing Processes Most quality management theories and modern management practices rely heavily on checklists as an important tool to get things right the first time. I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists?

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Change Starts Here

OCTOBER 25, 2016

I love to hear the stories of how each one came to the change management profession. Others start as project managers — IT, product development, logistics, and many other types of projects — and realize that project management without change management is often fruitless. What’s your story?

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