N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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Management Craft

APRIL 24, 2011

As we shape our careers and lives, making decisions that enhance our success and happiness will call upon us to peel and strip away the clutter, chatter, and excesses that are getting in our ways. If we do not move our careers and lives in the direction of our callings, we will find it difficult to be happy. More than we need.

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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. No wasted film, slides, or prints. You just hit the ‘delete’ button, and it disappears.

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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. No wasted film, slides, or prints. You just hit the ‘delete’ button, and it disappears.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

This video speaks to the culture that is prevalent in more workplaces than any of us would like to admit, workplaces that operate on the basis of positional power with an undercurrent of fear. While it is a clever film, it highlights very disturbing things that go on in some organizations. I have seen them.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This premise equally applies to the environment businesses operate in today. Human error is a very real consequence of people operating in the real world. Image: Gareth Lock Train hard, fight easy Gareth also has a 25-year RAF career behind him.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The debauchery-laden film by Martin Scorsese The Wolf of Wall Street is a prime example of financial corruption, excess, and corporate greed. People who behave like this are what I call Seductive Operational Bullies (SOBs). Attempting an ouster is likely to be difficult and will jeopardize your own career. Managing people'

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 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. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

My daughters are now in their 30s, and looking back, they agree it made them smarter about business and more satisfied in their careers. It’s all too easy to build (or fall into) a career inside a particular organization or function or team without ever really knowing how the rest of the organization works.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

Throughout most of my career, I've made a big mistake in the way I've lead teams — and wouldn't be surprised if you have, too. There was no overlap in the responsibilities of the sound technician and of the camera operator, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

At Uber, the idea for the business has been portrayed as this stroke of ingenuity, but I learned it was actually inspired by a product placement in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. I’ve covered tech for 20 years, so I’d interviewed people like Mark Zuckerberg and the Google founders early in their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

And that's the story I sling every time I walk into a meeting with film and TV executives. Rogers, who spent much of his early career studying the adoption of agricultural innovation, aptly pointed out that many innovations are slow to see adoption not for lack of appeal but for lack of an appropriate ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

After repurposing many of the original structures and facades, the district is now evolving into a retail, restaurant, arts, and culture destination, a forum for local events, a flexible work space for businesses, and a residential area, all while evolving its manufacturing with 21 st century operations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The story, which apparently has echoes in some other school districts around the country, is but one more salvo in the wars of educational reform (recently depicted in the film Waiting for Superman — dont miss it). His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

The wise employee has the building of knowledge a part of their career path… sharing with others what we most recently and most effectively learn. This resurgence in photography comes after a conversion of the industry from film to digital. Managers and employees with the most to lose are most fearful of change.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 16, 2011

Please watch the film. While operating from intuition alone can be a dangerous thing, there are times when those gut feelings serve a very useful purpose. It made me think about how easy it is to miss what’s going on, even when it’s right in front of us. It takes less than a minute. How’d you do?

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio. As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. I’m glad I did. An elaborate hoax.

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Cooperperson

OCTOBER 21, 2019

” -Peter Curcio, Chief Operating Officer, Arrow Security. A must read for anybody looking for success in either their personal life or career. ” –Morgan Mason, Film Producer, Investor, Entrepreneur. Inspirational on all counts! Always uplifting and far reaching! Can’t wait to finish!” ” -Chong Foo.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. Since Knudstorp took over, Lego’s revenues have increased by 400%, and its operating profit margin has increased from -21% to 34%. The results were amazing. Nothing about free fall is easy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

What the film doesn’t mention is that so do a vast swath of men , at least those that didn’t die in the mud of WWI without ever having voted. The head of the US operation of a global company was incredulous when I suggested this wasn’t the most effective way forward. The women are courageous, hard done by, and united.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Nothing – not even reputable films – should be judged only by fickle box office ratings. Doing nothing causes much more organizational damage than making mistakes while operating in good faith. Greatness is earned over an entire career. It’s a sick phenomena. ‘Accelerate Your Business.’ We Earn It.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers.

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