N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? At the risk of drawing the ire of corporate elitists, I submit to you that the dumber your business is, the better off you are.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 295

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

She was the model for executive assistants and office managers everywhere. Some performers made careers as supporting players. Back characters on TV shows included restaurant and bar operators, where the stars went top relax. Think as a manager, not as a worker. The CEO is made stronger with a good C-suite team.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

In it, Bogey reprised the 1930’s Broadway hit and movie that launched his career. It was written by Rod Sterling and starred Jack Palance and Ed Wynn. The Petrified Forest , starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda. The Ford 50th Anniversary , a two-hour musical starring Ethel Merman and Mary Martin.

Energy 75

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 75

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

Above that, Customer Focused Management needs to be implemented, meaning that all actions and decisions should be tied to customer outcomes. Where mid-managers buy the hype of the marketing slogans but stonewall the progress that would enable the company to live up to its claims. Celebrate great customer outcomes. About the Author.

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Company Self-aware Creativity Marketing 51

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor. They make bad decisions.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 386

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Make an equitable blend of ambition and desire: Fine-tuning one’s career is an admirable and necessary process. This premise also holds true for each corporate operating unit and department. Those who have captained teams tend to make better collaborators and members of others’ teams. Entrepreneur is as entrepreneur does.

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Entrepreneur Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting 51

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. Managers and employees begin seeing themselves as leaders and grow steadily into those roles.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I have had many excellent ones in my long career and have in turn mentored hundreds of others. The mentor becomes a role model, offering insights about their own life-career. The mentor stands for mentees throughout their careers and celebrates their successes. ” Approach your career as a body of work.

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Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Deep questions: What diving teaches us about risk Words Caroline Roberts. In a hazardous world, managers can learn from the world of scuba diving: train hard, because you’ll never get rid of risk Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content Gareth Lock, founder of The Human Diver. Additional reporting by David Waller.

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Uncertainty Risk Management Training Compliance 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Chance plays a much greater role in our careers than we might wish or even realize. But the downside — the thought of our careers as the playthings of fate — is almost unbearable. If you imagine a game of “career roulette,” you end up a starving artist 99 times for every time you end up a rockstar.

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Career Planning Kahneman Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. What does that mean for the supply chain workforce? Adopting AI.

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Supply Chain Technology System Engineering 8

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Do employees feel that their boss honors their career aspirations, building needed skills that serve their organization now and in the future? John Hunter , from Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog , says “ One item I think every leader should have in their IDP is to continue to improve coaching their staff. Tacy Byham, Ph.D.

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Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

When I graduated from business school and started my career with Touche Ross in 1982, I planned to stay just two years. Realizing that I am accountable for assuming career responsibilities commensurate with my life goals has been an epiphany for me. People say how lucky I am to have "such a good life."

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Kaplan Short-term Career Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

Professionally, I help large businesses manage risk by focusing on how their recruiting, compensation, training, and other systems encourage people to behave. Bees are masters at risk management. Take, for example, their approach toward the "too-big-to-fail" risk our financial sector famously took on.

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Diversity Long-term Human Capital Risk Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Volunteering offers participants the opportunity to strengthen their skills, broaden their networks, break out of a career rut, and find new meaning in their job. Such volunteer assignments can do more than inject excitement into a humdrum job; they can ignite a career. But karmic satisfaction is only part of the payoff.

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Participative Library Entrepreneur Survey 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The region with the greatest board-level skills gap is Asia, where risk management and M&A adeptness are sorely needed.

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

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. Managers and employees with the most to lose are most fearful of change. Tie activities to customer outcomes (the tenet of Customer Focused Management).

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Strategy Budgeting Audience Risk Management 95

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

The art with which we build our careers and our legacy is a journey that benefits many others along the way. I remarked to Sonny that I often quoted his song “The Beat Goes On” as analogous to change management, and he was pleased. Understands that careers evolve. As an integrated process of life skills, career has its place.

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Balanced Scorecard Budgeting Risk Management Learning-by-Doing 71

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Clearly shared values among leaders in the business can help prevent or resolve conflicts as operational options and objectives are weighed. In an increasingly complex and turbulent world, any day could be the one that your career or even your company depends upon your skill leading through a crisis. Are you ready?

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Crisis How To Crisis Management Media 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

In it, Bogey reprised the 1930’s Broadway hit and movie that launched his career. It was written by Rod Sterling and starred Jack Palance and Ed Wynn. The Petrified Forest , starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda. The Ford 50th Anniversary , a two-hour musical starring Ethel Merman and Mary Martin.

Energy 57

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 57

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail. How will we measure them, and what hurdles do we need to hit to be successful? to hit your objectives? Why should we make this investment?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

We will pay far more for a medical operation that increases our chance of surviving from 0% to 1% than one that increases it from 10% to 11%. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. A Beekeeper's Perspective on Risk. Before You Take a Risk, Lay Out the Logic. Embracing Risk in Career Decisions.

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Tversky Kahneman Rate of Return Sports 11

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

This holds for corporate operating units and departments. You must always educate corporate opinion makers on how you function… and the skill with which you operate. Top management must endorse corporate imaging and other forms of practice development, if your company is to grow and prosper. Risk management team.

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Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. And without centralized oversight of projects, any single subsidiary’s missteps risked taking down the entire company.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

My think-tank colleagues and I were stunned to see how many concurrent businesses the typical entrepreneur owns and manages in Africa. We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth.

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Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

What's more, an innovation that disappoints in development — or worse, in the marketplace — can be a career path setback. At Microsoft, for example, the Office and Windows operations have tended to suffocate innovations over the past few decades. It's difficult to make assumptions about the unfamiliar.

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Kahneman Tversky Company Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

When we looked at board service, we found that FOB and non-FOB directors had served on an almost identical number of boards in their careers (5.8 Strategic Challenges and Talent Management. respectively) and were currently serving on the same number of boards (3.1). Skills and Assessment.

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