N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Following are a few of the ways Admiral Clark and his leadership team built bridges so that everyone felt connected and a part of the Navy. The Value Bridge Admiral Clark described his strategy as using the Navy’s “asymmetrical advantages” of the “best technology in the world” combined with the “genius of our people.”

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2014

What issues would need to be agreed upon for a solution to get group consensus and buy-in? To have greater success, you’d need to begin your initiative – whether it’s sales, change management, leadership, or negotiation – by facilitating the components of systemic change first. What would be the time factor?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. How could I refuse? About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

let’s begin listening for, and designing, tools to facilitate the movement along the decision path that change decisions goes through; let’s ensure the right people are all involved (some not so obvious) and address consensus-building. Relate Articles: A Technology Case Study: Implementing What the Customer Wants.

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Marketing Consensus Content Follow-up 81

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

In the last couple of years, every auto giant has launched alternative vehicles, which they've been touting aggressively at the current Detroit Auto Show (see my newsletter on the different strategies the big companies are pursuing). The 2011 Ford Explorer, for example, is using EcoBoost engine technology to improve fuel efficiency by 25%.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Mistake #1: The content focuses on “thought leadership” Most marketers would describe their current content strategy as an effort to demonstrate “thought leadership” in their industry. We like the example set by Jeff Lowe, CMO of SMART Technologies, and his team.

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B2B Content Marketing Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

They must manage to both craft the new world with smart strategy, often in the wake of disruption, and cause the organization to embrace the required change. Lou Gerstner’s arrival at IBM in 1993 is a classic example of leadership through a liminal period. Business education Informal leadership Leadership' Lawrence A.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Simon Sinek @simonsinek / Author and consultant on inspiring leadership / In a nutshell: Know WHY you’re doing what you’re doing “Share one’s passion and purpose as you inspire others” “Hire people who believe what you believe – and they will work for that belief. “Management is not a science, it is an art.” Ctrl.Alt.Del.

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Management Simon COO Blog 48

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Maybe your company tells people to be consensus-builders, but promotes people who are solely authoritative decision makers (behavior-practices gap). Likewise, inspirational leadership, the repetition of value statements, and letting people be themselves are important, but they are by-products of a healthy culture, not the drivers of one.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

When I was the chief marketing officer at Deloitte & Touche, we would have our annual leadership off-site in Las Vegas or Orlando. I remember people practicing their presentations far into the night, and the next day we'd sit for hours in uncomfortable chairs in a huge room listening to our leadership talk about the future of the business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While basic technologies such as Google and Pubmed exist that can help automate the search for specific information, they are not sufficient and will prove even less tenable in the future as the advancement in medical science continues to accelerate. We need a similar “para-medical” function in medicine. The path forward is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. In the U.S., Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L.

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Health Care Innovation Pharmaceuticals Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. Doctors were once viewed as ill-prepared for leadership roles because their selection and training led them to become “heroic lone healers.”

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Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The rapid pace and impact of these changes did not allow the luxury of time and resources to endlessly research or build consensus around an idea or course of action. Decisive leadership characterized all the firms that emerged as winners. The very survival of many firms was at stake.

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Globalization Bottom-up Class Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Such seismic moves would be unsettling in any company, but the real problem is that HP is not trusted to execute on its new strategy well. One company might be patient enough to allow a new strategy to evolve while another panics when returns don't start coming quickly or positively enough. DNA sounds like a soft thing and it is.

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Software Intellectual Capital Maturity Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Incremental innovation can be pushed down into the organization where the strategy is clear, decision metrics are understood, and management models like Stage-Gate create a level playing field. Organizational change is driven by marketplace factors: customers, competition, government regulation, and science and technology.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Growth strategy Innovation'

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

In the 1990s, P&G, like other companies, sought to take advantage of global scale and technology platforms, rolling out their products worldwide. At some point the value for hierarchy must contradict egalitarianism or consensus decision-making runs up against clearly demarcated decision rights. Healthy debate.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Self-aware Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Common pitfalls are a lack of cultural understanding between the integrating parties, poor integration leadership, and a focus on the wrong activity set or the wrong targets. This helped inform initial design discussions and narrow down the choices open to the new leadership team. Step 4: Get the Plumbing and Wiring Right.

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Process McKinsey Due Diligence Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Today’s most competitive marketplace isn’t technology but talent. Their function has been turned upside down and inside out as a result of digital technology, empowered employees, and connected customers. These strategies address who you hire, how you hire, and what you do once they’re on board. Who: Look for dual superpowers.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Brand Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. They have a pugnacious, single-minded determination to make their vision happen.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I have watched companies spend tremendous amounts of money, time and energy debating logos, taglines, color pallets, font styles, ad campaigns, positioning strategies, marketing messages, brand promises, etc., Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate.

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Blog Marketing Succession Brand 303

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

This is perhaps even more the case in the world of management outside of academic medicine — whether it is finance, consulting, or technology — as the path from professional to senior executive requires more than individual success. This gives you a good sense of their thinking process, communication skill, and level of interest.

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Mentor Emotional Intelligence Project Career 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

Guest post from Georg Vielmetter and Yvonne Sell: In “ Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you need to understand to lead your company into the future ,” we outline the repercussions of the convergence of globalization 2.0, The meaning of leadership is changing, as are the skills it requires. the top should be a crowded place.

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Leadership Globalization Maturity Agility 244

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who as recently as last month has reported not believing that human activity or carbon dioxide are primary contributors to climate change, contradicting 150 years of basic physics and decades of scientific consensus. ” I hope more business leaders in the U.S. will follow his lead.

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Supply Chain Health Care Apparel Leadership 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

He also mentioned a plan for some sort of a stimulus to technological innovation, starting these manufacturing centers [like the one in Youngstown, Ohio]. There is sort of a consensus that what we need to do is lower the corporate tax rate. But I think we need a concrete proposal and leadership in that area.

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Price Aggregate Demand Proposal Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

How will leadership teams and boards of directors orchestrate the strategic transformations of their currently successful businesses? The consensus is the challenges facing them will be daunting and organizations will be strained to finance and manage it. What new investments will be required?

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry Business Model Finance 8