N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. Just like an algebraic formula, business also functions according to rules governing order of operations.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 22, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Saturday, January 22, 2011 Secrets of Business Success I am having a productive morning. Success is the result of a little small things done repeatedly like: 1 - Work ethic. Success is the result of a little small things done repeatedly like: 1 - Work ethic. I am CEO between positions.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Ramcess Jean-Loiuis, Pfizer’s Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Officer, is not short on ambition. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions: We operate to uphold justice, promote the rule of law, and develop ethical, transparent, and representative decision-making.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

Consider these three examples: In 2014 the US healthcare retailer CVS decided to stop selling cigarettes, at an estimated cost of $2 billion, due to it being “the right thing for us to do for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better health,” according to Larry Merlo, CEO. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2014

Make a careless, short-sighted, ill-conceived move and suffer the perilous consequences. Most of the time it merely takes tenacity and good old preparation to ensure you are aptly equipped to assert mutually desirable terms, anticipate objections, and discern what are motivators or ‘hot buttons’ will resonate with your opponent.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times. How sad is this?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. His biceps were visible under his t-shirt and his short hair was still wet from exercise.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Warren Buffett is rightfully admired for his investment record as chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, which has outperformed the S&P 500 Index by more than 10% annually during his 50-year tenure. Subsidiary CEOs communicate very infrequently with Buffett — on a monthly or quarterly basis — even though he is their manager.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. One of its major suppliers is under an ethics investigation resulting in significant delays. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. It is now clear that companies operating in China are kept on a short leash even when they comply with governmental demands.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. Connecting with core employees is essential to a leader’s long-term success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. CEOs manage them, employees work for them, customers buy from them, suppliers sell to them, investors buy their shares, and governments regulate their activities. What Can CEOs Do? treating suppliers as partners). Educate and Motivate Others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Listen in on MBA classes and corporate conferences and you will hear a lot of talk about the need for inspiring missions, ethical behavior and transcendent purpose. Our system of financial accounting rewards quarterly profits, but struggles mightily to place a value on ethical behavior. Bettinger is not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

The Commonwealth Bank’s shareholders were reacting to the board’s annual Remuneration Report, which contained a recommendation that the CEO be granted a bonus based on what critics saw as “soft” measures. Should CEO performance be assessed only on “hard” measures?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Patience and a long-term view.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Murdoch is the latest in a series of CEOs who become the story when their companies are caught in scandals, because their rise has been accompanied by shoving, bullying, and disdain for the concerns of others. The emperor, dictator, or CEO finds himself increasingly isolated and abandoned to the wolves. Executives are not baboons.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Firms should calculate these costs into their business plan, says Frederick Davidson, the CEO of Energold Drilling. This may mean a contraction in profits in the short-term, but in the long run it also means building a more resilient company, with consistent growth year after year. “That’s enlightened management.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2017

There is always someone or something more powerful than you are — when we spoke with company CEOs, they’d express concern about their boards, and when we spoke with board chairmen, they’d admit to being afraid of the media. So how much do you care? How would you feel if you didn’t speak up? ” This lie?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. 70% of corporate CEOs think that business is too much focused on the short-term. What many of them think is a plan include some accounting figures or sales goals. That is not a full-scope plan.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Imagine you’re the CEO of a casual dining chain. Even in one of the most market-oriented societies in human history, it appears very difficult to make most people appreciate that ethical and profitable business practices do not fundamentally conflict. In short, they provide little insight into the task of value creation.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Unfortunately, one can get caught in a trap of being on the short end of the equation. ” Sizing you in terms of immediate benefit to them, they either probe further or move on. These people couch their requests in terms of your benefit. There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Transformative change requires an organization to change not only how it operates but, even more importantly, how people think. However, a few days later, the CEO called and apologized for our experience. Day-to-day support work is concrete, urgent and short-term. Strategic work is ambiguous, conceptual and longer-term.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. I have long been an opponent to term limits, believing that "we the people" are smart enough to figure out who should serve. Now is the time for term limits.

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