N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. Thanks for commenting and best wishes for continued success.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. million times. Non-profit CEOs.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets : Why buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell and what you can do about it by Sharon Drew Morgen Every day, business people face critical buying decisions – from new software to revamped website design to employee training programs. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®.

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. It starts with employees who have been trained in the science of service.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. But the key was knowing when to stop growing.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2017

Their operations involve partnerships, specializations, and supply chains. Rather than thinking of a clandestine hacker working out of a basement, you will be better served to picture a sophisticated, professional operation working out of an office tower. Integrate email security into your organization’s risk management program.

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Supply Chain System CFO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Over the past 10 years, the hospital’s managers have transformed their institution from the usual, grim, human-repair shop into a bright and comforting place. An example of a more complex change to the hospital’s operations is the newly created culture and training program called “Eye Care Air.”

Health Care 8

Health Care Airlines CFO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

In the The Capitalists Dilemma, Clay Christensen and Derek van Bever suggest that leaders have been trained and socialized to their role as capitalists, and thus come to rely too heavily on familiar and traditional finance principles. Human resources Leadership Talent management'

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Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

A lot of HR professionals think in terms of the functions activities, such as, ‘We need to change the organization structure’ or ‘We need to run a training program’; I think in terms of the business outcome I want to get to, then figure out how I’m going to get there.”

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

A few years ago, the chief operating officer launched a customer quality initiative to improve six core processes and assigned executives to "own" each process. Some point to politics in the C-Suite, especially to competition between the COO and CFO. How can you break this cycle? They blocked each other's progress.

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Company COO CFO Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

CEOs cannot manage their silos via hub-and-spoke and expect digital expertise to be properly incorporated in key decisions. ” Immelt elevated marketing and digital media when he promoted Beth Comstock to vice chair, while other positions, including that of the CFO, are at the senior vice president level. Cut layers.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Today, as the power of data and analytics profoundly alters the business landscape, companies once again may need more top-management muscle.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

I listened in this morning as Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer explained what they're planning to do with Apple's $98 billion in cash (pay a $2.65 The current setup for taxing the foreign operations of U.S. An economic distortion caused by the tax code — by which foreign corporations operating in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. This won’t be a “Chief Customer Officer” or a “Customer Success Manager.” In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. What to do. Early Stage (5–20 employees).

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The success of an activist strategy is contingent upon placing a management team in an extremely reactive, frenzied and compromising position. Because by the time the activist has engaged senior management, they have already performed extensive due diligence on the company and have a detailed strategy they intend to pursue.

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How To Due Diligence Strategy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. Don't get me wrong.

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Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. 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. Please don’t let that cloud your judgment as CFO.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

The gurus have written detailed descriptions of how companies should establish the process owners, process councils, and other pieces of a formal process governance structure to manage their six to 10 core, cross-functional processes. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. from 2004 to 2007.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

She said, “We all managed to make time for our executive MBAs, while still doing our day jobs. For example, a sector manager for an internet commerce organization decided to stretch her skills by forming and leading a community of marketing experts from different organizations. Career planning Leadership Managing yourself'

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Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

For example, Cesar Bocanegra started as VP for operations, then asked to take on human resources as well. Senior management encouraged the employee’s creativity and coached her on how to implement her idea. Education crowdfunder DonorsChoose.org, which finances classroom-based projects, is a good model of success.

Development 8

Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

They might impersonate a bank, saying, “Hey, I know you’re about to go and get an operation, don’t forget to transfer some money by clicking here,” or whatever. And then you think, “Well, they know I’m having an operation tomorrow, so they must be a legitimate bank.”

Health Care 8

Health Care Hedge Banking Training 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. During an intensive 8-week pilot, each team was trained and then it analyzed the cost structure of one function and recommended cost reduction tactics. Capitalize on success.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

But not ever as fast as the manager wants!” ” “Where is the manager?” “I have no education or training to do anything else. The manager says I’m the only one she trusts with the toilets.” As Ken clocked out at 2:30 PM, the manager told him, “You do good work.

Case Study 8

Case Study Airlines COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How talent management is changing. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Then practice and apply new behavior back on the job while instituting routines for manager, peer and coach feedback.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

His money would allow her to pursue a new, perhaps more comfortable, growth strategy, directly managing 10 new centers instead of franchising them as she'd done with 11 of the 12 existing locations. Gloria surmised that Dr. Chavez needed another round of training. She found a bench and pulled the document out of her purse.

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