Lead Change Blog

JUNE 14, 2016

When things are not going well, leaders are often the first ones to roll up their sleeves and work alongside their people to make things happen. Their competitors are trying to inch closer to the leader and those who lag behind are doing their best to work their way up and try to chip at the lead.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

You have to know why your product or service is valuable to your prospect. By automating the actual accounting processes, it frees up the accounting team to focus on qualitative problems instead of quantitative ones. But they can’t think – this is the value in your product. Understand Your Value.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I managed a national top-forty accounting and consulting firm (SS&G). Several of our initiatives set the industry standard for successful firm management. Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2020

Financial management is arguably the most vital operational aspect of any establishment. Software designers create these systems to fully automate various aspects of financial management, such as paying your employees and putting together reports. A great marketing strategy plays a key role in setting a business up for success.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

What a sad commentary on the state of equity markets, since it’s the best way for an investor to manage the risk surrounding their investment. The bottom line is this; I view one of the primary obligations of venture capital and private equity firms to be to drive collaboration and innovation across their portfolio companies.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 15, 2021

Online businesses have a low barrier to entry and that is often the reason that most miss planning the key aspects and end up losing profits or creating the distinction for their brand online. Why is it important to contribute the product/services. What problems is my product/service solving? Fixate on the business idea.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Here’s why P2P lending is an ideal business financing option for startups and SMEs. Lenders needn’t support 100 percent of the financing; rather, it is pooled by many lenders. Hence, startups looking to reduce their business costs can benefit from this type of financing. Summing Up. There Are No Hidden Costs.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. they] have enforced a strict separation between the real market and the expectations market …exactly the opposite of the way we have managed it in business.”

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 20, 2021

That can lead to overruns that really cut into their bottom line. It may also lead them to charge more for their products, which could drive away customers. The sources you’re getting your products from are important. Over time, even small amounts of extra expense can add up for a business and cause serious problems.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 18, 2015

Larry is a fellow partner with Social Venture Partners Portland , an organization committed to ensuring all children in the community have thriving and productive lives. A former finance controller at Intel, his passion was and continues to be helping people realize their potential. “ They just shut me out of the discussion.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

It’s also important to understand that a toxic culture cannot exist if toxic people are not allowed to take up residence. Bottom line - toxic individuals kill productivity, and if allowed to run unchecked can have a much broader and deeper impact on an organization than one might think.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. So, what’s wrong with tenure you ask?

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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? Bottom line…Just because a business has a particular advantage doesn’t mean that it can disregard sound business logic. How about competing for the attention of your prospects and clients?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. will go into decline.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

If efficiency starts diluting productivity rather than increasing it something is woefully amiss. As I’ve said many times before, things don’t always have to boil down to either/or types of decisions – not everything must end-up on the altar of sacrificial decisioning.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Fact : bright, talented executives with a bias to action will often take on more than they should.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Manage Your Personal Time. People will look up to you and will copy your habits and ideas. Manage Your Finances. It costs money to stay updated about your industry, to keep up with the trends, and to acquire new skills. You will also possibly want new productivity-enhancing gadgets and apps. The Bottom Line.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2011

Believe me, there’s nothing that can match the turnaround experience in teaching or seasoning a young manager. The means to that end is quickly slashing sku’s and product lines to reduce inventories. So now you’ve cut costs and freed up some cash. While they played catch-up, we were already working on the next innovation.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

The interview also explores EY’s innovative talent management approach, leveraging AI for recruitment and lifelong learning opportunities. How do you ensure that these values are embedded within the organization’s talent management practices, and what strategies do you employ to promote a diverse and inclusive workplace culture?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Put simply; the most productive teams have the best leadership. To further my point, you can examine any organization and you’ll consistently find that the the best performing units have the best leadership, and the worst performing units have leadership challenges to overcome.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It lets you pick up where you left off if you take a break from work for any reason. Selling products is another part-time gig that allows you to make a commission whenever someone purchases a product from you. Social Media Manager. Most people have flexible schedules that they can adapt to their lifestyles.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2022

It lets you pick up where you left off if you take a break from work for any reason. Selling products is another part-time gig that allows you to make a commission whenever someone purchases a product from you. Social Media Manager. Most people have flexible schedules that they can adapt to their lifestyles.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

No is not all it’s cracked-up to be…Still don’t believe me? It means your vision is not understood, your team is not aligned and your talent is not performing up to par. The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Bottom line…the way you identify leaders is not through psychological profiling or some miraculous transformative process. and Mike Myatt, Productivity links. Productivity links said: n2growth.com: Looking For Leadership: By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Really? Identifying leaders?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Give me real leaders who possess courage, vision, and a bias toward action, and spare me the timidity of mediocre managers posing as leaders. If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The following fundamental concepts of influence, which if properly understood and implemented, can help anyone become more efficient, productive and successful: 1. Bottom line…Don’t manipulate for personal gain, rather facilitate for mutual benefit. People will rarely make a leap of faith for someone who hasn’t earned their trust.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

As my grandfather, my own mentor in management, would remind me, “delegate, but don’t abdicate.” Allowing my staff see a more personal side of me has led to a more intimate and productive office. They come to know me better when I share personal experience, or spend time with them in an informal setting.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

How many times have you put up with, or overlooked certain weaknesses in people because of their considerable strengths in other areas? The sad thing is they don’t just exist on the golf course… My bottom line is this…real leaders don’t accept mediocrity - they constantly seek improvement. Know the type?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

The bottom line in regard to today’s thoughts on business modeling can be summed up in the following three points: 1.) if you cannot define your business model, then you likely don’t have one. if you don’t have one, create one, and; 3.) I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

As the old saying goes “you only get one chance to make a first impression,&# and often times it is the perception of appearance that determines whether or not you are even afforded the opportunity to get up to bat. The truth is most people when first meeting someone will quickly attempt to size them up.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Why will someone pay $30,000 dollars for a Rolex, but feel a Timex isn’t worth more than $50 dollars?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2020

Becoming more financially aware and identifying ways to lower costs will boost your bottom line and provide you with more cash to invest in core areas of your company. High staff turnover will also cause disruption in your business, which is likely to harm productivity and overall revenue potential. Lower your office costs.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Every workplace is plagued with manipulative people who use emotion to create conflict in order to cover-up for their lack of substance. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2010

In 140 characters or less, elections are influenced, news is being broken, relationships are being created and expanded, brands are being built, trust is being build, influence is being generated, and products & services are being sold. Don’t underestimate the power of brevity. Thanks for adding to the discussion Randy. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

It’s as if it has become more acceptable to bash users of buzzwords than to actually listen to what’s being said – this in my opinion is not healthy, nor is it productive. Bottom line…While I can appreciate eloquent and detailed word pictures, they are not always needed. I Think Not.

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