N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2017

Every company has a set of capabilities that, when properly leveraged, can serve to devastate the competition. Here’s a simple framework that I use with clients to form their company capabilities profile. Here’s a simple framework that I use with clients to form their company capabilities profile.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 20, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I have firsthand seen the price that companies pay when their leaders become overwhelmed in the details or preoccupied with the specifics that they fail to see the bigger picture. Additionally, their actions of being stuck in the nitty-gritty result in the company lacking in innovation.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

One thing is clear: advances in technology have not been matched by the necessary innovation to our social structures. What is it about the top tech product companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and Tesla that enables their record of consistent innovation? If we live to 100, will we ever really stop working?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Upstanding : How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth by Frank A. Calderoni discovered that character is just as vital for companies as it is for individuals. Edward Newton. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2023

Instead, marketing research has focused mainly on developed countries with advanced economies. The role property plays Research from Cambridge Judge Business School attempts to better explore the link between marketing innovation and property rights among microenterprises.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Bezonomics : How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It by Brian Dumaine. How Innovation Works : And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley. Far from there being too much innovation, we may be on the brink of an innovation famine.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This emotional shutoff valve could make him callous, but it also made him a risk-seeking innovator. “He First principles and the Idiot Index: As he stewed about the absurd price the Russians wanted to charge, he employed some first-principles thinking, drilling down to the basic physics of the situation and building up from there.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. Radical Product Thinking : The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter by Radhika Dutt. They catch “product diseases” that often kill innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 17, 2024

As Amazon endeavors to accomplish 10,000 drone deliveries in Europe this year and Walmart sets plans to extend drone delivery services to an extra 60,000 homes in the United States, there’s a surge in research and development investments in drone delivery by various companies. However, drones and robots were less favored options.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Several companies have gone headfirst into the plant-based meat industry. This isn’t a flash in the pan, and led to a strong showing in new food innovations. Instead of making something that only appeals to a specific group of people, companies realized that plant-based meat can be an addition, or an actual replacement to real meat.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

To begin: In the digital age, competitive advantage is the ability to win the ultimate prize—the consumer’s preference— repeatedly , through continuous innovation on behalf of the consumer, and to create immense value for the shareholders at the same time. In other words, it’s more about what a company does than what it has.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress? That a certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to pay for inventing the future.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We have been told by companies and governments that it holds the solutions to some of our greatest challenges with little to no negative impacts and the price we pay for it is a largely unregulated sector for the sake of ‘progress’, the researchers explain.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 31, 2020

The study explores the impact of such ecosystems on other industries, and found that when VC money floods into a region, it produces understandable benefits to some companies, especially those who serviced the wealthy new residents, but other companies did much worse as a result. A common problem. Uneven fortunes.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 28, 2020

Autopilot It’s well accepted that you can extend the product lifecycle of a brand and return to growth through innovation. Innovation expands usage occasions and helps reach new users, but remember, humans like to take shortcuts. So, I developed a list of questions I try to answer whenever I enter a new market.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Welcome to the September 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Anne summarizes, “When the CEOs of Ford Motor Company, Nokia, and Microsoft began changing their respective companies’ core business and/or culture, they each established golden rules for leading transformation. Beth Beutler of H.O.P.E.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Airbnb has perhaps avoided some of the criticism aimed at fellow sharing economy behemoth Uber, but nonetheless there are many who believe they harm local neighborhoods and push up house prices for those who actually want to live there. It’s an approach the researchers believe would mitigate some of these price rises.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 5, 2022

“In doing so, employers have ignored the high price their organizations pay: unfilled positions that reduce output and increase overtime, direct and indirect costs caused by constant churn, and the “soft” costs of eroding morale.” The post Why Companies Should Invest In Their Workforce first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

As the oilfield service industry recovers from the oil price crash in 2014, producers are demanding more from their service providers. Expertise and Knowledge Oilfield services companies provide various solutions to the oil and gas industry. However, it is important to keep in mind that innovation can be a risky strategy.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

Two world-renowned strategists detail the seven leadership imperatives for transforming companies in the new digital era. Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson. We the Leader : Build a Team of Equals Who All Lead AND Follow to Drive Creativity and Innovation by Jeffrey Spahn.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Lessons from the Titans : What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success br Scott Davis, Carter Copeland, and Rob Wertheimer. Before Silicon Valley disrupted the world with new technologies and business models, America’s industrial giants paved the way.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2024

The challenges with LTL shipping range from understanding complex pricing structures to effectively coordinating multiple shipments. These classes, determined by density, stowability, handling, and liability, affect prices and must be accurately assigned to keep shipping expenses in line with budget expectations.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 25, 2019

With all the emphasis on leadership development, I always find it interesting so many companies continue to struggle with being able to retain their best people. Ask any CEO if they have a process for retaining and developing talented people and they’ll quickly answer in the affirmative. They are built to change and innovate.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

He also emphasizes the importance of closing the "empathy gap" between management and staff in order to create a more connected team that operates to its fullest potential--and how developing each team member's unique dreams, goals, and abilities sets up the company for success. Now, Reichheld has raised the bar yet again.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The Innovator's Book : Rules for Rebels, Mavericks and Innovators (Concise Advice) by Dr Max Mckeown. Both enlightening and entertaining, Dr Max Mckeown delivers concise advice on how to move from original insights to new ideas, and from new ideas to valuable real-world innovation.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

Schulze led the company to unprecedented multi-billion dollar growth, setting the business vision and people-focused standards that made the Ritz-Carlton brand globally elite. Innovating Innovation : Leadership Tools For Moving Your Business Forward and Making Change Happen David Morey. Innovation is broken.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

It is about investing in the development of other people. His own special innovation, it's a nonjudg­mental, nonreactive way of coolly assessing problems and analyzing crises, a mode of attack that offers luminous clarity and su­preme calm in the critical moments before taking decisive action. This is Life's Great Question.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

One of the core questions at the heart of Gallup’s employee engagement survey is “Does the mission/purpose of your company make you feel your job is important?”. Petrochemical companies buying carbon offsets, for example, or businesses that perpetuate inequality donating to homeless shelters and food banks.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

From Michael Dell, renowned founder and chief executive of one of America’s largest technology companies, the inside story of the battles that defined him as a leader. For the first time, Dell reveals the highs and lows of the company's evolution amidst a rapidly changing industry—and his own, as he matured into the CEO it needed.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 11, 2023

billion in shares in these companies, with many arguing that this indicates a lack of quality in the IPO itself. A recent study from Texas A&M University looks at the role innovation potential can play in terms of providing a sufficiently credible signal to reduce the impact insider sales have on perceptions of quality.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from Hastings’s own career, No Rules Rules is the fascinating and untold account of the philosophy behind one of the world’s most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. The company has changed strategic course.”

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 24, 2023

Loyal employees are typically more committed to the company’s goals, values, and culture, and therefore are more likely to stay with the company for an extended period. Loyal employees are also more likely to put in extra effort and go above and beyond their job requirements to help the company achieve its goals.

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CO2

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the ROI of Executive Coaching is crucial for organizations committed to fostering growth, innovation, and sustainable success. Therefore, investing in a higher-priced coach can be synonymous with investing in quality and effectiveness, leading to a more significant and measurable impact on the organization.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 29, 2013

But the more I studied for the GMAT and researched programs, the more I wondered if the options and price tags fit. All of this helped me to learn practical skills in marketing, business development, project and client management, and community building, among other things. Over time, the idea of an MBA surfaced. How would I do that?

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2023

When making such a charge, a recent paper from the University of Mississippi argues activists would be well served by using the company’s own words against them. “The basic premise is that it’s very hard to figure out what companies are actually doing,” the researchers say. I get that,” they conclude.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2019

Now, after almost five years of pioneering research, O'Mara has produced the definitive history of Silicon Valley for our time, the story of mavericks and visionaries, but also of powerful institutions creating the framework for innovation, from the Pentagon to Stanford University. Designing Experiences by J. Robert Rossman and Mathew D.

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