N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. I fired him from my team realizing he would never understand how to relate to a client on their terms. This approach is often executed in a pre-canned fashion. And he was considered an expert!

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 8, 2009

While this practice may show some positive results in the short term, it is not easily sustainable. The bottom line : If you don’t represent yourself honestly where ever you are, the example you set will not ring true for those you want to influence the most. And, being human, we are not always going to act in exemplary fashion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In recent years, the fashionable suggestion has been that companies sell experiences and solutions, solving the needs and aspirations of customers. This removes any opportunity for steady, high margins over the long term. Working in projects throughout my career, I have identified these as the important ones: Revenue streams.

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Project Productivity Products Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I interviewed people for a university research project 23 years ago about networking, many people weren’t familiar with the term. While it’s easy to think that vast technology-enabled networks aren’t as real or valuable as the old-fashioned, face-to-face variety, research doesn’t support that view.

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Supply Chain Mentor Stress Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? His biceps were visible under his t-shirt and his short hair was still wet from exercise.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

” So, in short, put away your devices while you’re on vacation, until you take them out again multiple times a day so that you can work, and apparently vacation activities will need to be scheduled around work check-ins! If you’re a leader in your organization, your actions influence the culture. What Leaders Can Do.

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Short-term Creativity Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Emotional groups, which represent communities of growth, are difficult to value in terms of their contribution to the organization, given their unpredictability, and it can be risky for management to try to engineer them. We suggest that HR leaders make minimum interventions in trying to influence communities of growth.

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Innovation Diversity Bond Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

And the cost in terms of lost output, lost jobs, lost houses, lost opportunities, as well as political repercussions, was so enormous that it seemed to mandate a very big rethinking of the financial system. The size and influence of U.S. Career Bankers Alone Can’t Solve the Financial Industry’s Problems. Regulation.

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Banking Crisis System Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Currently, our alumni include the Head of Design at every car manufacturer in the world, apart from BMW, 8 of Apple’s 18 product designers and at least one designer in every Paris fashion house.” Not just at the top of the organization, but two or three levels further down too — where key knowledge and influence often sits.

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Organization Learning-by-Doing Open-book McKinsey 9