N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From Sun Tzu to Julius Caesar, the ancient Israelites to Zelensky, there’s a bold and highly effective tactic seen throughout history—when leaders want to motivate their troops for success, they destroy all opportunities for retreat, and go all-in on the mission. Change is not the exception, it’s the rule.

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Books Leadership Norton Edmondson 290

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments. Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Quotes on The Future.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 29, 2019

And to be honest, it wasn’t hard to get people talking, and certain themes took shape very quickly: speed of service, restriction of access, rigidity of policies, complexity of technology, easy of process. Technology has dramatically changed our expectation of what fast, convenient and “broad selection” means.

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Competitive Advantage Short-term Policies Open-book 82

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Coaching is about delivering what the client needs - it is not about a cute set of questions you picked-up during a certification class. It’s not about definitions, it’s about people. Now that I’ve stated my case, it’s time for you to weigh-in…what say you? It is about getting the result the client wants.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Do you understand small unit tactics? Technology. You could graduate at the top of your law school class and pass the bar exam on the first try, but if youre clumsy with people, if you arent strong as a person, you wont succeed. Is it the restaurant business? If so, do you understand that business? Can you cook great food?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While I think I’ve come a long way on that journey, I never fully understood what it takes to be a world-class communicator until I read Nancy Duarte’s Resonate. Read this book, absorb this book, practice what it preaches, and you’ll be on your way to being a great communicator. Thanks, Nancy!” Some are just 140 characters long.

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Tips Audience Newsletter Armstrong 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Most companies are hard at work building technology to better protect themselves and their users or customers. But technology can only get us so far. In the spirit of keeping things fun and engaging, we also offered a series of lighter events that reflected our hacker culture, like hands-on lock picking classes. Weak passwords?

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Workshop Education Brand Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. Hyundai has succeeded in India precisely because it developed lower-priced subcompact cars tailored to the needs of the Indian middle class. #4 GM will keep its technology center in Bangalore. Understanding it takes time and focus.

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CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 9

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. Business writing and public speaking classes should be mandatory. World Class. ‘World Class.’ by Hank Moore. Fastest Growing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, it can take five years or more to develop today’s high potentials into leadership roles. A hedgehog would start with a confident position such as, “the middle class in emerging regions will be the main source of consumer growth over the next 20 years,” and deeply focus predictive analytics on how to meet that future.

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Human Resources Information Technology Uncertainty Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

We live in a world in which amplified individuals — people empowered by technologies and the collective intelligence of their social networks — can do things that previously only a large organization could. All you have to bring to the class is interest and curiosity. Socialize your underused assets.

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Mission Statement Class Learning-by-Doing Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

None of these tactics work, because, as research shows, the dynamics of interpersonal relationships depend on individuals’ personalities, not on hard skills or expertise. You can put world-class talent together on a team, and it may still fail to perform as a cohesive unit. Leading teams Collaboration Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. Today, Weaver’s mass-mailing tactics seem quaintly out of date. How technology is changing the way we work. We’ve come a long way. Insight Center.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Brocade’s Net Promoter Score went from 50 (already a best in class score) to 62 (one of the highest B2B scores on record) within 18 months. The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?” The results? Invest in the end-to-end experience.

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Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Their supply chain team offered to reformulate products using a different and cheaper technology, so that they could cut down on costs instead of having to raise prices substantially. Country and regional leadership teams should ask: 1) What is our broad objective in this market? Is it middle-class consumers? Is it market share?

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Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

Global leadership is much more complicated than leading people like you," says Mansour Javidan, the Director of the Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird School of Global Management and author of " Making It Overseas." When our usual tactics fail and we are forced to seek out new ones, it can be uncomfortable. What the Experts Say.

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