N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? While this position may seem a bit harsh, it is nonetheless true. In today’s blog post I’ll examine why design matters. What do you think when you experience poor design in your life?

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

Jobs most at risk: machine operators and assemblers, clerical workers, elementary occupations, crafts and related trades. You could argue that all jobs are at risk: Machines can already analyze data, pick stocks, make decisions that touch on operational efficiency and logistics, sift through resumes and make hiring decisions, etc.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

computer software engineer and computer programmer positions. CEOs of large groups are keen to design, implement and support mentoring programs for women because they know very well the benefits they get from them. As a consequence, women hold only 22 percent of all U.S. The case for mentoring and sponsoring is clear.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Goals could include discovering the next great drug, having a large loving family, becoming a vice president, achieving financial security, having great friendships, finding a life partner, and yes, even becoming a CEO. It you are not a technology geek, picture being asked to sit in a software class. Talent fit is also important.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

If you're among the many multinational CEOs planning to appoint a local executive as your next country head in an emerging market such as Brazil, China, or India, you may want to think again. That long stint earned him the trust of the global CEO, Bill Hickey, and his top management team.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Less than a year later, a new CEO came in from the outside and disbanded the internal Lean program. A similar thing happened with one of the hospitals I featured in the first edition of my book Lean Hospitals , when a new CEO came in and made it clear that Lean was no longer needed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Depending on the engineering background of these data scientists, these work products are either deployed directly to the production system, or if they are prototypes they are handed off to software engineers to help implement, optimize and scale them. In larger and more sophisticated data operations, more fine-grained roles are necessary.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. When the U.S. It is not about you.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Virtually every company we spoke to relied on nonprofit intermediaries to find candidates who had committed to training programs or apprenticeships in both hard and soft skills for the chance of stepping onto a career ladder.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

And the individual level, this can hurt our career prospects, relationships, even our health. At the senior leadership level, it can influence other people’s careers and prospects as well. ” The recipe for ongoing success would be hardware and software: what had made it successful in the past. .”

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

A lot of times, especially if it’s a piece of software, it’s going to change many, many times in a very short period of time. We’re talking about the cloud and broadband networks and just the sort of component-based technology we’ve got for hardware and software. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. At many companies, new innovation initiatives get the blessing of the CEO — but have little interaction with the business units. Operators in the business units love hitting goals and finding new efficiencies. So how to improve?

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In relative short order, today’s sought-after new skills in robotics, software, virtual reality and the like will evolve or obsolesce, so it’s smart to invest, as AT&T is doing, in building a culture of continual reinvention, rather than relying on wholesale talent swap outs. level is a pretty dated concept.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The good news, from a competitive standpoint, is that most people have turned their brain over to bad software, resulting in the all-too-familiar “death by PowerPoint.” For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. Whose will be gored? Who will get promoted?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. As Adam Davidson recently argued , "Today, the computer moves the cutting tool and the operator needs to know how to talk to the computer.".

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

All sorts of commentators, on this site and elsewhere, are asking all sorts of questions about the resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple, Inc. Even the most highly focused specialists (software programmers, graphic designers, marketing wizards) are at their best when they appreciate how the whole business operates.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP followed Jim, or at least attempted to…While Bill has a successful track record in business going all the way back to his years as an entrepreneurial teenager, his presentation was horrid (sorry Bill). Up next was Calos Brito, CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev. Double your ratio of questions to statements.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

For example, building open source software, like we do at Red Hat, involves collaborating with people outside of the company who volunteer their efforts. But we have come to embrace the concept of a “career of achievement” in addition to a “career of advancement.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Workfront CEO Alex Shootman says digitization is happening in most companies on a function-by-function basis, leaving teams to work in silos instead of executing new strategies together. And today I’m talking with Alex Shootman, President and CEO of Workfront. ” Download this interview. Alex Shootman, Workfront.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The former you can do with a few staffers and the CEO’s blessing, but the latter requires broad organizational support and ongoing effort. At the storage and software company EMC Corp., Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use. Manufacturing is not the most glamorous business, and MBA recruiters are known for tempting people into more “prestigious” careers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This remains a CEO’s prime responsibility, and it has become much harder in an era defined by lower growth, impatient investors, geopolitical uncertainty, and rapid technological change. Software, sensors, and analytics are shifting value creation from stand-alone products to combinations of products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

When he and his partner, Joe Marino, walked away with a small fortune from the software company they helped lead for 20 years, they vowed to devote their next act to creating an organization where great ideas and people would flourish. For my whole career I did it wrong," says co-founder and CEO Lavoie. You behave, you stay.'

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Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Topics discussed include the society that produced business scandals, accountants and auditors, pedestals upon which CEOs are placed, spin doctoring, compensations and accountability issues with managers. That the CEO can make or break the company single-handedly.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 6, 2015

This means that even those on the lowest rung of the corporate ladder are thinking about the vision or direction of their own careers (self-leadership) while executing their day-to-day tasks in order to remain employed (self-management). This indicates whether success is in reach or whether a shift in strategy or execution is required.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Topics discussed include the society that produced business scandals, accountants and auditors, pedestals upon which CEOs are placed, spin doctoring, compensations and accountability issues with managers. That the CEO can make or break the company single-handedly.

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Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

We call them harmonic careerists , because many of them have constructed their working lives by combining multiple jobs rather than taking on a single monolithic career. In fact, many of our harmonic careerists talked about their careers as evolving, and they were open to this change. ” They allow their work to evolve.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

A friend of mine, Godfrey Sullivan , asked me to consider running the operations for the Americas unit at Autodesk. The Carol he was referring to was Carol Bartz , now of Yahoo, then CEO of Autodesk. By the CEO. A seriously ass-kicking CEO. Only sheer politeness kept me from hanging up. That CAD stuff, I asked?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Vip Sandhir, the founder and CEO of HighGround, the Chicago-based HR software company, says he has dealt with two types of needy team members. ” Earlier in Vip’s career, he founded a tech company that experienced intense, “shot-gun growth” over a period of four years. “Some are emotionally needy.

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Management How To Brainstorming Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Barksdale was the veteran of IBM, FedEx and AT&T Wireless (he mostly worked at it when it was called McCaw Cellular) who was brought on a few months after Netscape’s founding to provide adult supervision as its CEO. Andreessen: It also demonstrates a huge advantage to having to leave for a plane. Barksdale: That’s right.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Your career depended on that business going forward, and the numbers that mattered had to do with the performance of that business, not with Sony as a whole. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. Imagine you’re the guy who was running the Walkman business at Sony a decade ago.

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