N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). But I have been doing people and project management for years. And I believe that management is about applying common sense. So, people management is applying common sense on common people. I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer. I have recently started blogging.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Some residency programs across the country are developing career tracks specifically for those interested in management and leadership careers, but these paths are often targeted towards individuals explicitly seeking management positions or healthcare management projects in their training, missing the fact that to be a physician is to lead.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I think your approach makes most sense in project teams. One just left to lead a new project so now there are three of us.) Here I'll just add a couple thoughts. Where levels of responsibility and consequences for success or failure fall differently on various participants. In my case. I work with a small group of leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

averting disasters (scheduling an annual checkup at the doctor or creating a crisis management protocol for your business). Examples: making a will, investigating a lump, succession planning for your business, actually reading your insurance policies, or creating that crisis management plan.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He was on the creative planning team for catalyst, works with leadership development of Chick-Fil-A, and is quarterbacking many projects for well known leaders. but you’ll not find that here. He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In a recent article in the journal Environmental Systems and Decisions , a group of risk management experts dissect how Venice responded to the Black Death in the 1400s. This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management. But not everyone likes being part of someone else’s cool engineering project.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Anyone who has ever launched a new initiative understands the inevitability of running into numerous barriers over the life-cycle of any project. With strong will, and relentless enthusiasm, he pursued his goal and achieved it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

A few months ago, a former client called me in a panic : Her CFO wanted to start several process simplification projects immediately — and she needed a proposal to review with him the next day. It's not just in regard to external customers or clients, as in my example.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections. Every task should be assigned and managed according to a plan and in the light of day. Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Rebel Brown : I began to realize that regardless of my client’s size or market focus, from early stage to small business to enterprise, I was constantly having to deal with the same challenges in thinking and planning, before we could focus on the project objectives. As humans we are Natural Born Gravity Machines.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. Damage control, crisis management mode. Less successful include Somalia and Bosnia where there was less local support for their presence. 61% of those students did nothing about it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Under Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany has occasionally been willing to bear a disproportionate burden of the costs of crisis management. Even when this was the case, it could not always mobilize support among other member states for its stance on issues such as the refugee crisis.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

In Benjamin Franklin's own words, "I conceived the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral perfection. As Bre Pettis once said…"There are three states of being; Not knowing, Action and Done" M [link] Avil Beckford Mike, Once again a great post.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

If you don't have consistent data and results to prove your expertise, and I don't mean one project, but multiple for many years, then don't practice. If you can prove the results, like improved market share, increased employee engagement, increased customer retention, then you have proven you know what you are doing.

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