N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? There is a tremendous amount of conflicting data as to whether or not incentive compensation in any form is an effective motivation tool. That is the question.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

Bob is the former CEO of the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company. If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? Guest post by John Hunter. This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Whether paid work or a volunteer role within a church, placing people in positions where they can maximize their strengths, know that they are truly valued and that they play a significant role in fulfilling the vision will go a long way towards preventing burn out and loosing incentive. Great interview Mike! His leadership is remarkable!

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. Many downsizing packages give all employees with similar experience the same incentive to leave. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. R&D Tax Incentives , with their data suggesting that reducing the cost of R&D by 10% results in an increase in innovation by 10%.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

A half-century later, technology has advanced at breakneck speed. Today there is concerned debate about the impact of technology on the economy and especially on the future of work. We found that half of the activities people are paid to do in the global economy have the potential to be automated using current technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Boards must recognize the unstoppable forces at play and drive their CEOs to reinvent the business while they still have the resources to do so – and before they come under pressure from activists to whom the necessity of digitization is obvious. .” Be sure you have the right CEO.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

And we have figured out why: analytics forces changes on the C-suite that the CEO has to anticipate and manage, but many don’t. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics. CEOs must anticipate this reaction.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

The word can be uttered by a CEO speaking to employees or Wall Street analysts. But there are thorny cultural, strategic, political, and budget issues that must be confronted by CEOs and other leaders if they want to ensure that their organizations can be hospitable to — rather than hostile to — new ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives. While well-intentioned, these efforts fail to recognize that CEO behavior is largely circumscribed by firm structure. Note the solution is not to avoid outside CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The proliferation of C-suite roles is an indication of the increasing strategic and operational complexity organizations face. Brad Peters, CEO of Birst, a business intelligence company, raised the issue of incentives and structure with me in an interview at Saleforce.com’s Dreamforce conference.

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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. I don’t mean to downplay culture, as a diverse corporate culture is something to be strived for, but only if quality is not sacrificed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In aggregate, such dynamics would operate in a similar manner as unions, systematically raising the wages for low and middle earners relative to high-earners, such that the wage gaps between them are narrowed, thereby lowering wage inequality. Since that time, however, the U.S. has transitioned to a market-oriented system of employment.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Navy One example of a leader who intentionally developed a Connection Culture using all three bridges is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. Knowing that their input has been factored into a leader’s decision is motivating and it positively impacts their future participation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“We want to be the number one or number two in all the markets in which we operate” is one of those. For example, consider “We want to increase operational efficiency; we will target Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and we will divest business X.” Many so-called strategies are in fact goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. As digital technology becomes more pervasive, more and more companies will present this sort of valuation challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Xerox's failure to conquer the personal computing market — this despite developing revolutionary technology — demonstrates the importance of aligning all segments of your organization in the pursuit of innovation. However, despite the fact that Apple brought it to the general public, the company didn't pioneer the technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Over the last decade, most companies’ digital agendas have focused largely on technology — moving to cloud-based software, modernizing IT infrastructures, adding digital channels, and digitizing business processes. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

According to CEO Elon Musk, the sophisticated robots actually slowed down production instead of speeding it up. For Tesla, adding more human labor to the mix means extending traditional jobs with additional responsibilities that would help ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the Alien Dreadnought. Adding Humans to the Mix.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Incentives or other extrinsic rewards—individual bonus schemes, promises of nice offices and titles, and other tangible benefits— create transactional relationships , not deep bonds to an employer. First, it must start with the CEO. The CEO had a cubicle in the middle of a hangar with 3,000 other cubicles.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

But it stands for incentives. Discussing teamwork without identifying its incentives is akin to debating effective diets while ignoring willpower: the most important ingredient may be missing. Whether working in teams, groups or as individuals, people respond to incentives. They also respond to the absence of incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Create incentives. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

What many don't realize is that as part of those funds, the incentives created to digitize medical records were massive — amounting to $40,000 to $65,000 per physician and $11 million per hospital for the "meaningful use" of health information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Our findings point to steps that security executives and other cybersecurity professionals can take to work around CEOs’ human biases and motivate decision makers to invest more in cyber infrastructure. Replace your CEO’s mental model with new success metrics. Appeal to the emotions of financial decision makers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. This links directly to his second theme around “getting the incentives right.” That scares me. This made a huge difference.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

But Chinese companies of all sizes are already operating in the U.S. Under private equity investment, the CEO—formerly the top decision maker in the company—has to answer to the representative assigned by the private equity firm. When a Chinese company operates in the U.S., in a big way. More than 80% of last year’s special U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

it is cheap to operate and expensive to upgrade. Do we need a new set of incentives that can help manage the internet's growth? Or do we need better technologies that can be more efficient at using the internet we've already got? Full disclosure: I am the CEO of BitTorrent, Inc., We need a better solution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In my work as an investor, an operating executive at growth companies, a mentor to startups, and a business school lecturer, I’ve come to believe that the quickest way to understand a company’s model is to look at these two documents. Financial incentives are the key tools used to implement a strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Zerhouni, the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health, Arab immigrants have made major contributions to American science and technology. Arab inventors show some technological specialization in information and communication technologies. especially those with R&D operations. This growth rate was about 2.6

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Consequently, they pay less attention to external strategic issues like competitor moves, customer needs, and technology trends. I asked the CEO to estimate how many global initiatives (multicountry, more than $1 million in scope and budget) he thought were active at the enterprise level. He guessed 20 to 25.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Leila Kamal, vice president for design and expertise, not only reports to the CEO but also is a member of the board. Support incentives within the organization that both recognize current expertise and encourage it to be shared. Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, a company that provides social software to businesses. That means you need compelling incentives to have people join your community.

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