N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Don’t get caught up in attempting to develop something catchy to be encapsulated within a piece of framed artwork that hangs in your reception area yet never put into practice. Our responsibility is to respect the ethic. Furthermore, the enduring anchor of an organization is found in its values and ethics, not its mission.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” Trust, in turn, is the product of two components: Integrity and Ability.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Capitalizing upon change, rather than becoming a by-product of it. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. Quotes on The Future. ” Yogi Berra. The future is not a gift.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

The production was The Sound of Music , starring Carrie Underwood. I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. Ready… Set… Be productive.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Planning, tactics, organizational development. Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Operations are sound, professional and productive. Business Development. Culture and Mission.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. When an organization stops learning they begin dying. Great insights Susan.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Therefore, our loyalty to the company rises, and we are more productive. Those vital employees in the business world might include the IT guy, the receptionist, the mailroom manager, the ethics adviser and the secretary to the Board of Directors. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Crisis management is the ultimate stress test for the CEO and other top leaders of companies. The mantra for all leaders in crisis management must be: “It is our problem the moment we hear about it. It is better to say nothing—and develop accurate facts—than to issue deceptive or incomplete statements.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Most people are more products of pop culture than they are of training. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. Amplify discussions on community standards and ethics. Exemplifying ethical behavior. Helping others.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Design and re-engineering of products-services. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Each product-service is budgeted. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Business development. Make investments toward quality controls.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Websites that sell products are digital platforms, not the arbitrators of quality in the business world. That means doing things correctly the first time, without wasting counter-productive time in cleaning up mistakes. Productivity translates to profitability in an advantageous climate in which to function.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Professionals who succeed the most are the products of mentoring. The sharing of trust and ideas leads to developing business philosophies. The management that takes steps to “fix themselves” rather than always projecting problems upon other people will have a successful organization. It’s not when you learn.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. How sad is this? Their responsibility is to be correct; not politically correct. Are these extreme statements?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

However it is my opinion that diversity is not being addressed properly, and as a result has become one of the leading killers of corporate productivity. When you force the diversity agenda for the wrong reasons (no matter how well intended) productivity suffers and resentment grows. In fact, the report points out how “U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues. These ethical questions arise in the whole range of corporate activity from technology and manufacturing to marketing and sales.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 7, 2016

It’s called the Golden Hour Strategy because the intention is to launch all five steps within the first 60-120 minutes of a crisis incident, whatever the crisis happens to be. Crisis response is a management responsibility driven by a simple, sensible, constructive, positive, and clearly achievable strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. We make a good product… that should be enough. We can dispense with all that employee training and professional development. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. We just bought a piece of computer software.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

link] ATIG Mike, authenticity and transparency for better and ETHICAL business. Registration for this free online event will not only give you access to my video, but also presentations featuring some of today’s leading influencers. In fact, you might be interested in reading a previous post that I authored on this topic: [link].

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. How much further should we extend ethics?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Business development. One-third of the Gross National Product is sent each year toward cleaning up mistakes, rework, make-goods, corrective action and correcting defects. According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters. Running the business.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

The production was The Sound of Music , starring Carrie Underwood. Business development. I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. Body of Knowledge.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Business development. How do you handle crisis management and preparedness? Walking the Talk: ethics, values, quality, vision. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Product-service movement at business-to-business levels. Productivity gained.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Business development. Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). Product recalls.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. The simple truth is that people strongly desire to work with and for great leaders. Great CEOs are talent magnets…people want to be led by those who have much to offer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Even now, the highly skilled — and highly paid — specialists who power the leading financial institutions are supremely confident in their own abilities, speak a technical language few of us can understand, and apply their expertise to develop sophisticated, complex, and opaque financial products.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

This is the distinction between what he terms the 'Character Ethic' vs the 'Personality Ethic' The prior depends on deep changes within each of us including our view of creating a legacy for future generations. Another key distinction is one highlighted by Stephen Covey in his 7-Habits books.

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