Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

From our back and forth on Instagram, I made a longer blog post about entrepreneurs, business development, and change. This content borrows from the great work of Ichak Adizes and his research into corporate lifecycles, and management. If an organization can develop these four roles, then it will be successful.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Noticing fellow teachers struggling with technology adoption, she moved into the role of instructional technologist, implementing IT projects and training teachers how to use technology in the classroom. Business development. Digital transformation managers. Software and app developers. For Individuals.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Under the right circumstances for learning, the experience of failure sparks new rounds of problem solving, unleashing innovation and creativity. These failures need to be tolerated and managed. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide . . It allows discovery, surprises and novel solutions to emerge.

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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? What about competing to maintain key business relationships with vendors, suppliers, partners and the like? Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Sure, it’s your business, your idea, your net worth at risk and certainly nobody else will work as hard as you will, but is this really the right way to evaluate who should be the chief executive?

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Coaching Tip

JULY 6, 2015

In strategizing, the processes of strategy creation are no longer restricted to top management. . So fast is the pace of change today that, with shrinking product life cycles and success ever more fleeting, companies are finding that the basis of competitive advantage is rapidly eroding and their business models are soon obsolete.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 26, 2011

In my industry I see a lot of individuals who were really good at their chosen profession and that skill got them thrust into the management arena. I think sticking to these points will help you encourage your inner leader and learn how to actually lead your staff. Lead by Example. Learn from Your Staff.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

1 killer of collaboration, cooperation, great ideas and innovation in organizations. Stephen is a recently promoted Director in the Business Development division of a large financial services company. How frequently do you encounter “ Yabuts ” in your own yard? You know what “ Yabuts ” are, don’t you? And it’s worth it.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you are like most women in business, you are looking for new strategies to stimulate growth. Whether solutions to better communicate or how to best manage employees, here are 5 Proven Strategies to Accelerate Business Growth: Expand thru Alliance Partnership. Go Green Business.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

With hiring freezes and layoffs, companies increasingly are asking themselves how to produce the results they need with limited or decreasing human resources. One innovative firm in the Bay Area, Flexperience, has created a different talent market: experienced professionals who seek flexible work opportunities.

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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. One of the ways in which you can optimize your business activities would be the focus and attention to detail that a checklist can stimulate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Yet most organizations don’t manage internal collaboration productively, and assume that technology or formal org charts can yield agility. Here’s how: Managing the Network’s Center. This story is not unique. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

I’m a rising junior at Brown University with a passion for supporting entrepreneurs and understanding how businesses develop. The University provided me with an exceptional opportunity - to work in Hong Kong at a financial company in their asset management and private equity divisions.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There are practical parts of the job that training, no matter how good, will never be able to teach. The goal here is to get rid of the ‘push button’ mentality where the employee only knows how to push a specific button.We want to get them to the point of expertise where they know exactly what to. Create a one to one atmosphere.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. Managers can no longer take months to develop requirements, then wait for IT, then tell IT that wasn''t what they wanted.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

. “You have to think carefully about what to say and how to say it so the hiring manager thinks, ‘This person can do what I need done,’” she says. Heifetz agrees: “The hiring manager is the buyer, you’re the product, and you need to give him a reason to buy.” How to Write a Cover Letter.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Brett, professor of dispute resolution and negotiations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Instead, you should go in with “an attitude of innovation” — how can everyone take something satisfying away? The manager makes the decision and neither one of you will lose face.”

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Jacoway "I leverage my avid love of learning and mastery of online technology to facilitate career management for trend-setting professionals who strive to be dynamic and high achieving in their business." John Purkiss ​"I help people to transform their businesses, their careers and their lives."

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? &# To know what you need, determine your strengths and strategize to supplement your weaknesses. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

What keeps small business owners up at night? How to grow revenues? How to profitably service existing customers? You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” You’ll learn how to: Approach post-decision prospects using best practices and proper etiquette.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking. That means making the commitment to reskill and move people to other areas of the business where they can add value.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Having spent thousands of hours observing executives in similar, real-world situations — from prospecting to performance reviews, business development to innovation — I can tell you this is a common problem. It's how deals get done, projects get run, and profits get earned. Recognize your blind spots.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

To sustain a competitive edge, your company''s new business development engines must similarly fire on all cylinders at supersonic speed. As a CEO or a leader of a business, how do you build this competency? Competition Execution Innovation' Regenerative speed made the Hydra formidable. Measure, motivate and model.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike. That has resulted in some misconceptions that can be counterproductive in the quest for innovation. If anyone knows how to succeed in intrapreneurship, it''s George. three times.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. They add that strong support comes not only from the CEO and IT executives but also from all other C-level officers and the board of directors.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 13, 2011

As a former time-management trainer, I have intimate knowledge of the folly of depending on lists, planners and other such tools. Organizers, calendars, and the latest apps all focus on managing time a finite entity. Organizers, calendars, and the latest apps all focus on managing time a finite entity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Is it the responsibility of your company’s most senior managers, or should it be a more distributed responsibility? How much and how often is time devoted in your company to revisiting its core organizing principles and discussing how to build capability for tomorrow’s customer, versus focusing on today’s business?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But increasingly, at the local level, innovative approaches involving unlikely partners playing unlikely roles are disrupting the status quo and addressing seemingly unsolvable challenges like those posed by Sandy. Government must adopt innovation practices that mirror those used by leading entrepreneurial companies around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

It is often costly to career momentum and earnings as much as it is a boon," says Amy Wrzesniewski, an associate professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management and coauthor of " Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want." Here's how to make the most of an imperfect job situation. What the Experts Say.

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 27, 2010

If not, perhaps that should be your next order of business. Develop your goals and then create a vivid mental image of success. When you can define your objective that clearly, you have a significantly better chance of finding him. Are your objectives as clearly defined and as visual obvious as Waldo?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Before describing those, let’s look at how we identified the exceptional firms that rose to the top of our ranking, a group we call the Transformation 10. We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. Rita McGrath , Professor at Columbia Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

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Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

Management 3.0 – a psychological shift. You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. Should you follow conventional wisdom and write-up a thirty-page business plan? In my management 3.0 In this article, my description of management 3.0 In the management 3.0

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Here, I will show how to identify and win over a suitable champion—the crucial sponsor who can help you navigate the labyrinth of opinion, prestige, and politics between you and the approval of your project. At the time, Charlie was an internet security specialist at IBM, and I was running business development at a company called Zone Labs.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business.

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