Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

All organizations, lawful and unlawful, face the same corporate governance problem: how to attract, retain, and motivate a self-interested workforce to achieve the organization’s mission and strategy. The mob bosses constructed enduring crime rings using core economic concepts of corporate governance that lawful managers also must follow.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 15, 2019

There are many things in life that rely heavily on your personal finances. In short, your personal finances, if healthy, can promote your overall wellbeing – and if poorly managed, your personal finances can cause you a great deal of discomfort.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 20, 2020

But if you’re new to the industry, you might now know how to go about it. Read on for 10 expert tips on how to get started flipping houses. When financing your flipping project, you need to ask yourself these 3 questions: Am I buying at the correct price? It’s important you know how to avoid hiring cowboy builders.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This post was first published in SmartBlog on Leadership on 11/29/2012: Have you ever noticed that committees or management teams tend to spend way too much time in meetings endlessly debating the most unimportant or mundane topics, while at the same time, not enough time on the most important or strategic issues?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

In addition, he or she should be skilled and confident in connecting your business growth with integrated and holistic wealth management that includes tax, financial and investment strategies. Any adviser should provide a great deal of clarity about what you can expect from the relationship.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Good Fight : Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track by Liane Davey (Page Two, 2019) Liane Davey shows you how to create the productive conflict your organization needs to get along and get stuff done. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Portfolo, 2019) Do you know how to play the game you’re in?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Once KPIs (key performance indicators) have been identified and constructed, they will help to determine the direction and focus of your business in its finance, operational and strategic objectives,” says Leonard Johnson, a writer at Last Minute Writing and Writinity. Identify Outcomes.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

While most C-level execs have a general idea of what I’m referring to, it is also quite clear that most can’t even begin to define it, much less articulate the specific constructs of a sound business model.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

These CEOs can often go undiscovered for great lengths of time before their poorly constructed vision bubbles-up to the surface, by which time it is often too late to repair the damage. The good news is that CEOs without vision will take care of themselves in short order, as they simply won’t survive for long.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

A leader’s message has a direct impact on their personal and corporate brand equity, how they manage a crisis, marketing initiatives, investor relations, press and public relations, team building and employee engagement, and virtually any other mission critical area of chief executive responsibility.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? I now own two small construction companies, I believe this industry could actually change to commission//Salary. That is the question.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

The very bane of human existence, which is in fact human nature itself, will always create gaps in thinking & philosophy, and no matter how much we all wish it wasn’t so…it is. So the question then becomes how to effectively deal with conflict when it arises. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2019

You might have heard the stereotype that millennials don’t know how to work hard, how to pound the pavement, how to put in the blood, sweat and tears it takes to build a business from the ground up but, I am here to smash that stereotype into smithereens. Constructive criticism may well be your best asset.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Establishing an incident management plan to ensure a safe working environment for their customers and employees.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Establishing an incident management plan to ensure a safe working environment for their customers and employees.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Vision statements, as implied in the construction of the phraseology itself, put forth a statement of envisioned future. So hear's the big learning: never assume we're meaning the same thing when we use similar words, or risk constructing a Tower of Babel! Adam Williams “Where there is no vision, the people perish.&#

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2012

The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton provides methods for constructively dealing with the workplace bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, and egomaniacs – regardless if they are seniors, peers, or subordinates. Recommended Resource – How to Win Friends & Influence People. by Robert Sutton.

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Building Personal Strength

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

She told me that when her kids were teens she decided to send them to private school at $25K per year each because she felt the public system wouldn't teach them how to think. She gave me the name of a friend who is writing books for teens about how to manager finances and other life skills.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2021

Business loans can only be used for specified purposes such as construction, payments to suppliers, employee salaries, or new equipment. Such loans do not give any control to the borrower on how to spend their money. Similarly, home loans can only be used to purchase property, home renovations, and similar things.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. Recall how the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

What effective managers and leaders must recognize is that it begins with caring about the people who drive your business. Poor Management Leads to Poor Employees. Nothing will drive an employee away or decrease their performance and motivation faster than poor management practices. Managers and leaders are not made equal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

By Focusing on Resilient Risk Management Ebola Battlers Can Learn from Venice's Response to Black Death NPR Every now and then, a story comes along that makes us editors say, "Why didn''t we think of that?" This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

Good companies always strive to be better and a potentially useful way to catalyze such improvement is to consider how analyst and public criticism might be used to institute corporate change. In both cases, however, constructive use of criticism only requires a dose of humility and an honest desire to make things better.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In a hazardous world, managers can learn from the world of scuba diving: train hard, because you’ll never get rid of risk Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content Gareth Lock, founder of The Human Diver. Want to learn more about what diving can teach managers about navigating risk? Additional reporting by David Waller.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Difficult conversations — whether you’re telling a client the project is delayed or presiding over an unenthusiastic performance review — are an inevitable part of management. How should you prepare for this kind of discussion? How do you find the right words in the moment? What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center constructed a business-government-education coalition, bringing in the Michigan DOT, eight major automakers to work, and University of Michigan researchers for a pilot project on adding sensors and network connections to improve auto safety. With a similar goal, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

To start, here’s how things have gone for the main broad job categories (and three smaller ones of interest: finance, construction, and information) since 1980: The most remarkable line in the chart is education and health services, which just keeps rising and rising, paying no mind whatsoever to the rest of the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

A negotiation is “a courtship, a dance,” says Michael Wheeler, a professor at Harvard Business School and author of The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World. ” Here’s how to negotiate to produce a lasting relationship and an outcome that works for you. Make small talk. Be creative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Let’s look at how The Salvation Army, a 150-year-old Christian charity that provides a variety of social services across the U.S. ” So the Seilers responded by piloting a program called the Pathway of Hope, which focuses on providing case management for families. Frontline Data as Wake Up Call.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

On the product side of the house, the key experts were "managers" who reported to vice presidents. The client relationship managers, however, were all vice presidents, and only wanted to deal with their vice presidential (but less knowledgeable) counterparts.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Its the managers responsibility to lead their employees, manage performance, and provide guidance. Yes, managers often interview job candidates or identify the most talented employees as part of a talent management program. Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Fortunately, we’ve learned a few tips from working in open source communities about how to create and manage a vibrant feedback loop within our organization. That’s how you can begin to establish trusting relationships that are strong enough to withstand any constructive criticism that might come along.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

But the most important trait, Doerr argues, the critical distinction that separates high-impact entrepreneurs from those who don’t make a big difference, is less about what they do and more about what they believe and how they behave. .” “We exist to build great things,” DPR declares in its Core Ideology. .

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. Second, signing long-term power agreements for 15 to 20 years is hard for any company to swallow, and they often struggle with how to handle the accounting (is the contract a lease? Is it a liability, an asset, or something else?).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Praise is always good to hear, but 57% preferred to hear constructive criticism. Practically three quarters of them thought their performance would improve and their careers advance if their managers gave them corrective feedback. But if so, how to explain why those in sales also show a strong preference for negative feedback?

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