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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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 24, 2024

How will you leverage their influence and advocacy? This can be to shadow someone for a week or two, or be trained to do a “stretch” job for 3-6 months. Where outside programs require great expense, these solutions for inward mobility leverage internal assets, expertise and resources that most organizational leadership can’t turn down.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

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? In most cases the answer is no it’s not…however this is often times exactly how the decision is made. That’s about it.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 22, 2010

Simmons C-level Strategies and Awakenings Execupundit Fistful of Talent Great Leadership HR Bartender Inflexion Point John Baldoni Leading Blog Management Excellence Managing Leadership Michael Lee Stallard Mountain State University LeaderTalk QAspire Blog: Tanmay Vora Ramblings from a Glass Half Full Reflections for Personal and Business Development (..)

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Advisor and Speaker at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Leading innovator in HR for over 25 years.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 27, 2010

Simmons C-level Strategies and Awakenings Execupundit Fistful of Talent Great Leadership HR Bartender Inflexion Point John Baldoni Leading Blog Management Excellence Managing Leadership Michael Lee Stallard Mountain State University LeaderTalk QAspire Blog: Tanmay Vora Ramblings from a Glass Half Full Reflections for Personal and Business Development (..)

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

John Purkiss ​"I help people to transform their businesses, their careers and their lives." I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. When you express your values with confidence and have the outcomes to back it up, your influence will draw others in.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 26, 2010

Reply Harris Silverman - Business Coach July 29, 2010 at 12:39 pm Inquiring minds are not just for leaders. Too many corporations prefer conformity of thought to original thinking, and this limits their potential and inhibits growth and innovation.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 31, 2010

They stifle creativity and innovation. And most will come to a place where they are no longer useful or relevant to our lives or businesses. If we are to encourage the innovators of our time we must also accept that rules should be subject to rigorous question and challenge.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 23, 2010

I really believe that people who can get the celebration part right generate a great environment to work hard, play hard…just the thing for innovation, creativity and commitment! Monica Diaz May 25, 2010 at 2:33 pm Such contagious music and good memories! I agree with you. Reply Gwyn Teatro May 25, 2010 at 11:09 pm Hi Monica!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Mentor/coach: Contributes through others as a formal manager, an idea leader, a project owner, or an informal employee developer. Sponsor/strategist: Sets or influences strategic direction and important decisions; exercises power on behalf of the organization; prepares future leaders. What are the innovations you find most exciting?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Over the past five years, we have followed the rise of customer experience efforts from small outposts to central players in executing company strategies, especially as firms have faced growing challenges in maintaining meaningful differentiation based on product innovation alone. They have power and influence resources.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I like your reminder: “Rude and self-indulgent remarks simply get in the way of achieving a satisfactory outcome. &# Politeness ensures that you take the time to consider what is being said – and gets you past knee jerk rejections that so often get in the way of discovery and innovation.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Both of these attributes lead to innovation and finding new pathways to success. And, I see the *process* of exploring innovative ideas is through those other things… like openness, empathy, adaptability and collaboration etc. Reply Gwyn Teatro October 30, 2010 at 12:33 am Hi Terry, Yes, I agree.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 29, 2010

Being the leader can be more difficult when you care deeply, but you also foster amazing relationships, remarkable innovation, and genuine passion, the very best from those that work with you. I think it is sometimes difficult because it forces some vulnerability as well, the admission that you are human as well as the leader.

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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. What influenced your thinking?). They carry on monologues, not dialogues. asking follow-up questions.

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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 15, 2018

Pair newcomers and network influencers through staffing or mentoring. Often, this means connecting people across units or geographies doing similar work to yield benefits of scale, or identifying points where integrating different perspectives yields agile innovation.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I write about how passion fuels innovation in our work life merge, but sometimes I forget to use that juice for the things that are on the fringe of my creative impulse waiting to be born. Reply Judy Martin October 15, 2010 at 2:19 pm Gwyn, I’ve just added your blog to my Google reader and Tweeted you out to the universe.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 11, 2009

When you are trying something new and the risk of failure is high In any enterprise, innovation is crucial to growth and sustainability. As such, risk is an inherent part of business life. If a project being contemplated carries with it a high risk/reward ratio, it also requires full involvement by the leader.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Instead, you should go in with “an attitude of innovation” — how can everyone take something satisfying away? “People often don’t want to take away control or power — they just want to introduce a new idea” or have more influence, Uzzi says. You may be able to expand the pie.”

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

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 Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

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. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Failure to understand what business they’re really in.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

To foster collaboration among employees, we’re focusing on celebrating our differences so we can unlock fresh perspectives, new ideas, and innovations to help us succeed. I’ve experienced firsthand many of the policies, changes, and environments that I influence today. I am a product of this company in many ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Here at Machine Shop , the wholly owned innovation company of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, we identified the need to think differently years ago. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. of course). We also looked beyond music for insights.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Numerical predictions offer a range of benefits for large, innovation organizations like Twitch. So I decided to make a prediction: If we build auto host I’m 70% confident that, within 8 weeks, 15% of our partners (our largest influencers) will be auto-hosting. The Arc of Forecasting at Twitch.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. The final reason for Israel’s entrepreneurial dynamism is based on the logic of innovation clusters: Early success breeds continued success. That’s the good news.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Most companies, whether start-ups or long-time players live in a world shaped by the laws of demand where low pricing can trump quality, and where targeted marketing, carefully crafted keywords, and social media engineering can build awareness, influence opinion, and generate sales. We need to go no further than the Pet Rock for an example.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The HR Digest: How did your journey in leadership and business development shape your perspective on organizational change over the past decade? Your firm brand is what you want your customers to know your business for. Every answer crackled with such wit and wisdom, that it felt like unearthing buried treasure.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But if culture is developed outside of strategy, if it’s not driven by strategy, then said culture can become a very dangerous intoxicant. Maybe this is what you are saying – they are collaborative in some nature? I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

When everyone in the organization feels empowered to make decisions that can influence change, it creates a palpable energy: People tend to work harder, offer more ideas, and become far more invested in the process. The company defined a new growth strategy that would require a significant improvement in its ability to innovate rapidly.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

to solve the complex problems we face today, and have been more in the way of innovation than at the source of it. And it seems to me the principles and practices we currently use to run our democracy in the US are a testament to the flaws in any system designed around voting, debating, etc.

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