N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

If gossip pervades your organization and you are not aware of it, then you clearly don’t have the pulse of your organization, your public statements about the importance of culture and morale will seem disingenuous, and you’re likely guilty of being what I refer to as a disconnected leader. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the often misunderstood value of influence… Let me be clear…when I mention influence I’m not referring to manipulation, elaborate schemes, or other forms of skulduggery. Influence is built upon making others successful : This is often times referred to as the law of reciprocity. Trust Matters…. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

While most C-level execs have a general idea of what I’m referring to, it is also quite clear that most can’t even begin to define it, much less articulate the specific constructs of a sound business model. I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

There has been no shortage of information published on the topic of Emotional IQ or what’s referred to as EQ in recent years. However I believe the more important emotional trait for CEOs and entrepreneurs to gain mastery over is what I call EC or emotional control. From N2Growth [link] [.] I will be curating again, soon.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary. Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

As I stated above, having an underexposed brand, or what I like to refer to as having a brand in stealth mode, means that you really don’t have much of a brand. Whether you’re assessing the strength of a personal or corporate brand, finding the appropriate level of brand exposure is key to sustainable growth in brand equity.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The best leaders are focused on leading change and innovation to keep their organizations fresh, dynamic and growing. They find ways to consistently engage them and incorporate them into their innovation and planning initiatives. Others include a lack of focus on culture, failure to question assumptions, and poor innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Lastly, conducting a background check and thoroughly vetting references is also something that should not be glossed over. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. I’ve never been a fan of what I refer to as “make-work” disciplines. They are the ones who have earned the trust, loyalty and respect of their co-workers. They are the ones people turn to when things get tough. They are the ones that inspire, motivate and challenge others.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

I couldn’t disagree more…In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on what I refer to as the fallacy of no. The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. While inherently obvious, it should not go unnoticed that the use of the word no is 100% negative.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process. In fact, most differences don’t require intervention as they actually contribute to a dynamic, creative, innovative culture. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

As a CEO Coach I am often asked to provide counsel on the political hot potato de jure, and let me be perfectly clear that it is not only possible, but preferable, to successfully handle highly charged political topics without being politically correct. Are these extreme statements?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy. Click on the table below to see at full size.).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Every winter, my colleagues and I invite CEOs of some of the world’s largest businesses to join our students at Stanford University. Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. The Old Dilemma.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As a CEO when you start to lower the chinning bar by allowing for the hiring of someone based more on their diversity segment than their talent you are enabling the demise of your enterprise. link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters).

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Deming referred several times to the need to have a senior statistical leader reporting to the CEO. Hunter: an Innovator and Catalyst for Quality Improvement. For those of you that have read Out of the Crisis, Deming asks in that book: Need any country be poor? And that was a sincere concern of his.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

PwC, meanwhile, calculated the economic cost of large global companies getting their most important C-suite appointment – CEO – wrong: well over $100 billion. Would you hire a surgeon who wasn’t trained in medicine or delegate a major financial investment decision to someone who hadn’t studied finance?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail. Whether you like it or not, your success as a CEO will be largely tied to your team building ability. Great CEOs realize the importance of being consistently, purposefully and intensely engaged with their CXOs.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Two years later the company was the poster child for reengineering success — the subject of speeches, a Harvard Business School case study, articles, and book references. Two years after that, the CEO was gone and the reengineering program was defunct. Engage the finance organization. What happened?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Behavioral science research tell us that households, small business owners, and CEOs of multinationals alike are prone to overweight recent adverse events, follow the decisions of their peers , compartmentalize risks , and engage in many other behaviors that economists have traditionally considered peculiar.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation. You make an excellent case for cultural innovation and leadership. For what it's worth, I'm a big fan of all three leaders cited in your comment and appreciate your reference. Sounds like an interesting event and line up. Thanks Mark.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

But, as my co-authors and I discuss this month in HBR , this flexibility is essential to emerging-market innovation and product strategy. Expectations could not have been more public for what the Sydney Morning Herald's Amrit Dhillon referred to as "the pop star of the car world.". But, as pop stars come to understand, fame is fickle.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

As Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world, and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S., I refer to this as receiving “the gift of ears.” Mike Myatt : How has social media impacted you as a CEO? They humbled me. It all starts in my head.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2010

In fact, while these three individuals wouldn’t necessarily refer to themselves as such, I believe it’s vey fair to call them thought leaders on the subject of leadership. professing leadership acumen and expertise that it can be tough to distinguish between the posers and the players. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

The first 100 days are usually the honeymoon period for any new CEO to make their mark and get others on board. However, for Airbus CEO Christian Streiff, it was just a brief window before his abrupt departure from the European aircraft company that’s part of the EADS consortium, along with DiamlerChrysler and Aerospatiale-Matra.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Beijing-based telecom security company NQ Mobile has gone so far as to create a separate headquarters in Texas for its developed-market business, managed by an American co-CEO and entirely comprised of American employees. A local, adaptive culture, not just presence, is vital for Chinese brands to make the right decisions overseas.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Bill Gross, the founder and CEO of Idealab, who described the design challenges faced by Worldhaus , a $1,000 house for the poor that his team has been working on. billion people has always called out to me as a problem needing new and innovative solutions. Think Reverse Innovation: This isn't just for developing economies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Huggy Rao and I like to refer to scaling challenges as the “ Problem of More ” because they always involve getting some existing seed of excellence to take root in more people and more places. My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

link] mikemyatt Interesting questions Awinash – What Seth refers to as Tribes are really nothing more than very passionate constituencies. Whether in future these groups will replace the continents and we all will be known as entity bringing from one group or another. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

It is little surprise that direct employer-purchasing of bundled care is a burgeoning area of healthcare payment innovation. The elements of ProvenCare bear a notable resemblance to current payment innovations such as certain Medicare bundles and employer-purchased bundles. While Medicare has led the development of bundles in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Relationships with referring physicians and the emergency medical services community were broken. We saw the blood drain from the CEO’s cheeks as he realized that the double-size ED actually had fewer treatment areas than the old one did. Our patient- and staff-satisfaction scores were essentially zero. Set the standard.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Stop setting goals by reference to other companies. That may be the journey from unhealthy to healthy living, or from being broke to being a good steward of their finances. Innovations driven by obstacle-as-competition insight: In-app bar code scanner to make it easy to track packaged foods.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The past 10 years have seen a wave of innovative big data software designed to analyze, manipulate, and visualize data. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, maintains that Excel is still the one Microsoft product that stands above the rest — and 750 million knowledge workers worldwide support that claim every day. hours a day.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

Second, researchers have documented at length why it matters and why everyone, not just CEOs, should care. Most people are used to thinking about inequality as the pay gap between a CEO and an administrative assistant, or a software developer and a manufacturing worker. Some will succeed, and effective innovations will spread rapidly.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

During a recent interview I was asked how I felt about the coaching profession - I jokingly referred to myself as a coaching heretic, and went on to say that I really don’t like the word “ coach &# as a descriptor for what I do. Honesty is a big issue for me. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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