N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. Here's link to a post of mine a couple of years ago: Dan Nigro, Rick Rescorla and the Leadership Lessons of 9/11 [link]. I had decided to go over and stay at a hotel on 9/10 in order to make the early morning meeting and beat the commute.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If these countries are important for your company's future, commit to spending at least two weeks in each market over the next year. Make sure to get out of the six-star hotels to actually experience real life. A third wanted to "expand the minds of its regional leadership team." The investment of time will pay big dividends.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

When I got there, he pointed out that I had never done my obligatory military service and that it was time for me to pay my dues with a one-year commitment to my country. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. That was the beginning. Turbulence. Build bonds to strengthen trust.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Jamming has become a popular way to unearth innovations — bringing together people of many different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm around a company's competitive challenges, expressed as "problem statements." If your company is one, you may be interested in our experience at the European Center for Strategic Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Previously strong barriers to entry have perished; fixed assets such as car fleets, hotels, bank branches, and landline infrastructure have become weaknesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Consider Walmart’s significant commitments to energy efficiency and renewables. One of the largest hotel chains in the world showed me the questions it got from big corporate customers — the ones deciding where to buy hundreds of rooms for big events. Apple Leadership Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

As we move from one hotel chain to another and order the same Starbucks drink in London that we do in Shanghai or Tokyo, it can feel like just another business trip as opposed to a personally meaningful cross-cultural adventure. It must experiment and innovate. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Even though the client's office was a few minutes away from the hotel, we left at 8:00, an hour before the start of meeting. If anything, it made them more committed to finding creative ways to drive innovation and growth. The purpose of my visit was a full-day client workshop the next day. You are either very early or late."

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Of course, it’s what comes after that breakthrough moment – how unique the idea, how quickly you move, how you continue to innovate – that ultimately separates the wheat from the chaff. . You’ll inevitably miss important commitments. Walk Your Way to More Effective Leadership. In doing both, you’ll need to make sacrifices.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The short answer is intentional leadership. Always open to new challenges, he seized the opportunity to lead a university with facilities that were a bit long in the tooth and that lacked any signs of innovating in the future. . When Qubein took the leadership role, the university ’ s culture wasn ’ t defined.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

You’ll know as you read this interview – the wealth of leadership wisdom, strategic foresight, and transformative insights shared by Norm Smallwood—a luminary shaping tomorrow’s leadership landscape–will completely reframe how you look at the modern workplace! We labeled these foundational competencies the “leadership code”.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job? What would this leadership look like over time? And what did they say was their biggest concern? Not competitive threats.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

.” The history of the founders and entrepreneurs behind unicorns is therefore rich in failures; this allows them to instill in their companies a culture that emphasises the importance of anticipating the constraints behind an innovative idea as fast as possible by testing its viability. Financed by VC firms. Narrowly focused.

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