N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. Resist the temptation to just advance a broad number of disparate initiatives, and alternatively focus your efforts on the completion of a few high impact objectives. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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Blog Leadership Brand Depreciation 412

HR Digest

MARCH 22, 2021

This means employers have to now market themselves as viable options where people can build a rewarding career. Companies that have resisted furloughing their employee or cutting jobs have definitely acquired added value to their brands. 65% said they would leave an employer being negatively portrayed in the public or social media.

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LDRLB

MARCH 12, 2012

My business career is characterized with many David versus Goliath encounters. As long as the “Davids” of the business world are able to resist the urge to become generalists by expanding into too many markets with too many products, they can win. They are obsessed with efficiencies and processes. They are slow. You be fast.

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How To Brand Management CEO Resistance 111

LDRLB

MARCH 12, 2012

My business career is characterized with many David versus Goliath encounters. As long as the “Davids” of the business world are able to resist the urge to become generalists by expanding into too many markets with too many products, they can win. They are obsessed with efficiencies and processes. They are slow. You be fast.

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How To Brand Management CEO Strategy 95

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? link] ATIG Dear Mike, Reasonably at the crucial moment, We can’t resist and reject that process. Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

While the presenting issue – resolving a budget shortfall, agreeing on a new strategy, or choosing which products to develop – is undoubtedly important, it’s often an unstated, underlying issue that stands in the way of a solution. Successful decisions engage stakeholders effectively and efficiently.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Resisting change. The best project managers and teams know how to adapt to this efficiently. Planning will increase efficiency considerably, and there will be a much better chance of meeting the expectations of the stakeholders. Yes, no one wants to make changes to a project halfway through it. Projects change all of the time.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

link] Scot Herrick Best practices excuse management of really understanding their business and strategy. True leaders will most likely intuit a number of best practice scenarios before they discuss, research or implement their own strategy. They moved with the most efficient best practice as they unfold.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Managers provide the continuity needed to execute efficiently and leaders drive the kinetic energy needed to respond dynamically to the needs of the marketplace. Starting his career as a trainee at 7-11, he worked his way quickly through the ranks, gaining a reputation for operational excellence. Every organization needs both.

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IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. They had no career consequences — no one outside of HR, not even managers’ bosses, saw them. We asked ourselves: What could we do differently? Lear had gone into bankruptcy during the Great Recession.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 2, 2020

New ideas are resisted and decisions delayed. It is likely they will become part of the “new normal,” given the efficiency, reduced travel, and enhanced productivity they bring. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared How to Enhance others’ Perception of you at Work. What can you do?

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Crisis 259

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We designed a data center that was 38% more energy efficient and that cost 24% less to build than a traditional data center. Since then, we’ve continued to lead the way in terms of energy efficiency. By instituting environmental impact reductions, we gained important cost efficiencies. We need both.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Using these publications as the main “currency” for career advancement has produced four unintended consequences. One review of methodologies concluded that, management researchers “…do what they know, what they have done, what is efficient and easier, and what is rewarded (i.e.,

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Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Despite Joe being brilliant, driven, insightful, and knowledgeable about the industry, and having a long and successful career in the organization, his pattern of critiquing and disagreeing led to his termination. Opposition is necessary, but people typically don’t like it and resist it. Explicitly ask for opposition.

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Team How To Self-aware Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. Consider, for example, the bathtub.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

What distinguishes members of one group from another rarely has anything to do with intellect, wealth, social pedigree, career standing, or other like pursuits…It has everything to do with desire. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

“Visionary leadership is frequently mentioned when a company is on a new path, adopting a new strategy, or at a tipping point in its growth,” one respondent noted. Another said, “Driving an organization or function to a higher level of performance, efficiency, or growth requires a ‘take-charge’ leadership.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

On a personal level, “you have genuinely lost some friends” from the organization, says Kevin Coyne, the co-founder and managing director of strategy consulting firm Coyne Partners and a professor at Emory’s Goizueta Business School. It catapulted my career.” ” Even stars may have trouble staying positive.

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Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

Ronnie, whose son had Asperger's, had been working with special needs children his entire career and had been with the company since the start. He's still resisting the new protocols for time sheets. When you took over Kid Spectrum, you said you wanted to run it more efficiently, more profitably. I know, but it's true.

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Case Study Insurance Hamel System 11

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Branch 5: Sales strategy, sales training, marketing strategy, customer service, advertising, direct marketing, public relations, special events, video production, promotional specialties, graphic design-production and website design-production.

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Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

They explain that capitalizing on uncertain opportunities requires a starkly different mindset than when pursuing strategy in your core business. 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. I don’t think so. Copyright 2011.

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