N2Growth Blog

JULY 13, 2011

James Hotaling : Call it maturity, but I would be lying if I said I haven’t learned from my mistakes and frustrations. This February I attended a resiliency conference conducted by the DoD. The premise of the conference was presenting the answers to some of the problems we havebeen experiencing in the military with suicides and PTSD.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. Attend professional conferences. So what can you do to safely navigate these perils? Once there, connect to the right people.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

Practice Full Spectrum Management . Develop a Zen-Like Mantra. Leaders need to exhibit a mature, wisdom infused demeanor that inspires greater respect. Why do some managers always have to add the “but”, I wonder? Teach Instead of Tell. Be an Enabler, Not a Disabler. Avoid Inertia (and Push Forward). Trust the Facts.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 9, 2019

As our new leadership team began to plan for 2020, I saw my role shifting from one of building something new to more maintaining and managing. In addition, development would become even more important in my role. Those who know me know I am not a good manager and fundraising doesn’t excite me. Teaching/Preaching.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Plus it reminds of of the challenges of work, management and how being a leader in any industry is hard. The response has been negative – just another reminder of why work and management is tough. Losing that job at the conference center was the greatest thing that could have happened! My dedication is really to your success.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Despite maturity, confidence, and by all external accounts, success, I still really, really want to be liked. Governor’s Conference for Women. Categories : Guest Posts , personal development 1 Comments 1 John R. Why does this one refuse to fade? The answer is obvious. And I am not alone.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

While developing an understanding of great communication skills is easier than one might think, being able to appropriately draw upon said skills when the chips are down is not always as easy as one might hope for. So how do you know when your skills have matured to the point that you’ve become an excellent communicator?

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The more mature you get, the better you get at managing ego.” “In Management is not a science, it is an art.” Challenge will be to manage them!” When technology, access, information and how consumers buy changes, so must management.” Time for a re-boot on how we manage and think about business.”

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

We focus on quarterly goals, the weekly conference calls, and the ever-looming concern over what this year’s bonus will be-all the while overlooking ideas that keep us on top of our game. Why do sales reps stop developing the skills needed to stay on top? Playing to Win : The Sport of Selling and How You Can Win the Game by Allen Guy.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. 7 Steps of Professional Development : 1. This requires many years of commitment to learning, compounded by the continuous development of knowledge. Personal Development.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

We believe coherence confers a substantial premium, and we’ve measured it. PL and CM: Our take on capabilities and how they work in systems is new, as is our view of coherence as this three-part balanced system that confers a measurable premium. SD : It sounds logical to develop strategy by starting with one’s capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Sure, you used to love it, and the more successful you became, the higher up the ranks of management you went. I was merely managing the people who actually did and made things. I had little autonomy, little interest in gaining mastery as a manager (in spite of myriad coaches), and felt dissociated from my true self.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. They’re often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. Development matters. Leadership & Developing People Book.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Instead, we should see it as a sign of emotional maturity and healthy psychological development. While the modern workplace is often not conducive to this type of alone time, there are things managers and their teams can do to reclaim solitude and improve their ability to think creatively — without diminishing collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

According to an assessment of over 700 sales professionals and senior executives conducted by GrowthPlay — a sales-focused consulting firm where one of us is Managing Director — the problem stems from gaps between the perceptions, attitudes, and information flows between executives and sales reps. There are other gaps, too.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

These challenges are unlikely to be fatal, but they illustrate the fact that the issues facing mature online communities are both significant and distinct from those faced earlier in their life cycles. Similarly, Wikipedia hosts meetups around the world, along with an annual conference. Rewarding Top Users is Important, But Not Enough.

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The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

I loved my job so it made the long hours manageable, but it was also stressful. On the way to the church I was on a conference call with a client because the call “couldn’t be rescheduled”. I was able to travel to some amazing places and do business in so many developing nations. So many benefits!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

In the past, M&A strategies often concentrated on brands and on growing brands through better brand management and internationalization. Today, such brand growth strategies appear to be either limited (for example, there is limited growth potential in mature markets) or too expensive.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

We recently posed these questions to Harvard Business School alumni founders while designing a new two-year joint degree program that confers both a master of science from Harvard’s Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and an MBA from HBS. The survey results show that no single management skill stands out above the rest.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

It’s one thing to note a person working solo in an otherwise empty seminar room, or a group of people huddling around someone’s desk because a conference room wasn’t available. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2012

This happened despite the fact that the relationship-focused teams worked on the company's largest, most mature accounts — the most difficult to expand rapidly because they were already so large. That's what's going to arrest people's attention and make them willing to develop a closer relationship with you. Research the person!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Here’s how to give hiring managers what they’re looking for. For example, you might write, “I’m an environmental fundraising professional with more than 15 years of experience and I’d love to bring my expertise and enthusiasm to your growing development team.” Hiring managers are looking for people who can help them solve problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

We spoke with Mike Moorman, a senior leader in ZS Associates'' B2B sales and marketing practice and a leading authority on sales management, about how inside sales (which refers to sales positions done remotely from headquarters, without face-to-face meetings with clients) is transforming the way that B2B companies interact with their customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Knowing that mature firms must become more venturesome to continue growing, business gurus routinely advise them to embrace failure.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Drag each of your direct reports into a conference room for a one-on-one, hand them an official-looking document, and then start in with the same, tired conversation. For managers, the discussion is just as tense. Beinecke Professor of Management at Yale School of Management. Performance management is a process, he says.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. As IT steps up as mentor, it needs to mature as well. See also here , here , and here.)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Some years later, Mayer defined it in HBR this way: From a scientific (rather than a popular) standpoint, emotional intelligence is the ability to accurately perceive your own and others’ emotions; to understand the signals that emotions send about relationships; and to manage your own and others’ emotions. Self-regulation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

An evolving approach is to develop customer data hubs with advanced analytics that enable one-to-one segmentation and real-time decision making. Here’s how we managed that transition at SAS. First, we had to clean the data and get it into manageable and usable data stores. coupled with recent purchase history.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Second, even if you do manage to hire stars, their unique skill sets may not be easily portable. But, as the venture matures, and they continue to close a few big annual deals, they can limit growth since the SaaS model requires higher volumes. It’s true that any process is only as good as the people managing that process.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Two developments bear noting. Fox News, for instance, entered the seemingly mature cable market in 1996 and experienced notable upticks in viewers after “big news” events — the 2000 election, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the start of the war in Iraq. After the author was revealed to be Harry Potter creator J.K.

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