N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I love the way you have clearly differentiated between strategy and tactics – so many people get them confused and end up playing checkers instead of chess… Thanks, Landon Creasy [link] [link] Roger Martin Mike: This is an excellent tool. It is as comprehensive for leadership traits as I’ve seen in many other assessments.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When that happens, you don’t need a lot of rules because people make judgments that are in sync with what the business needs and how the business operates to get there. When the two are highly aligned, we see that spark where employees are rowing hard in the same direction to execute the business strategies quickly and effectively.

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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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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. Case in point, like I joked about earlier, you ruined Everett Rogers’ model of diffusion innovation for me.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. It transformed my business and career. I visited his church on numerous occasions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. When they are operating from their strengths, Pleasers can become the glue that holds a positive corporate culture together. Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Career functions include direct teaching, advocacy, coaching, visibility, and challenge. She got the same tough assignments and challenging watches as her male counterparts, all of it designed to immunize her for the operational challenges ahead. Excellent mentors generally provide two clusters of critical mentoring functions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Such challenging goals require leaders to operate in areas where the pathways aren't paved, and the moves aren't already choreographed. The difference is illustrated by a classic joke about old-time movie dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. He led Ginger Rogers around the dance floor flawlessly. He had a goal.

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Rogers Health Care Education Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Doctors operated and told me to hope for the best. Dr. Derek Roger had spent 30 years researching why some people in difficult situations become overwhelmed, while others persevere. My stress levels went down, my health improved, and my career took off. Cat Yu for HBR. The tumors returned a year later, this time in my liver.

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Stress Rogers Learning-by-Doing Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

In 1962, an academic by the name of Everett Rogers released a book called The Diffusion of Innovations. 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

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. “We were Abelson-Frankel, yet operated as two separate agencies.” Near the end of his career, it also helped him decide to sell Frankel.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

After a successful career in publishing, consulting, speaking, and business, he was approached by the board to help resurrect the institution. As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P. Everything operated as its own unit. Successful careers are important, but more so is leaving a legacy of significance. Groups didn ’ t connect.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

In their book in Getting to Yes , Harvard negotiators Roger Fisher and William Ury define an interest as a broad desire that a person or group of people have for something. voting versus non-voting shareholders), participation levels (owner-operators versus passive owners), gender, and generations (senior versus next).

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

I see the leader from the big picture perspective and how he-she paints career panoramas by interconnecting the pieces. They are forced by circumstances to change (career obsolescence, down-sizing, marketplace factors). Career Worker. Career Manager. Career Professional. ” Will Rogers said, “Mr.

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Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 51

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan. There’s no other way to put it. Have lunch.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

So it was notable, to say the least, when Roger Martin recently wrote in Harvard Business Review that he thinks that all the talk about adaptive strategy is a cop-out. We’ve seen these changes in our own lifetimes, and even over the span of a single career. The days when we could simply plan and execute are long gone.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

The Cardinals, quarterbacked by an inspired Kurt Warner in the twilight of his illustrious career, mounted a spectacular comeback to go ahead 23-20 on a 64-yard touchdown bomb to Larry Fitzgerald with 2:37 left in the game. But in the business world, their precise equivalents are standard operating procedure.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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