N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

An organization's purpose often changes over time as advances in technology, changes in customer demands/preferences, etc. link] Michael Martinez This framework scales down very well to my area of focus, projects and project management. The use of a project vision is what many projects are missing.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management. MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# Inc.com Inc.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

To this day I’m amazed at how many CEOs still own tasks, roles, projects, and responsibilities that should be delegated to others. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

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JULY 11, 2014

We recall compiling the case notes or sales projections just before the presentation meeting. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. I watch them to experience the magical energy of live performances.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

What if the costs exceed projections, and the benefits fall short of projections? Have you sought counsel and/or feedback before making your decision? Conduct a Cost/Benefit Analysis : Do the potential benefits derived from the decision justify the expected costs?

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JUNE 29, 2010

I am working on a consulting project where we have run into "Crazy", We had started down the path you outlined here, but we appreciate the clarity of your message. Agree wholeheartedly about positive conflict, though [link] mikemyatt Hi Bob: Thanks for your comment and I'm glad we're in agreement.

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APRIL 5, 2010

The most important decision a leader can make with regard to any implementation, initiative, project, objective, goal, task, etc. One of the reasons I think some organizations end up charging sub-par leaders with mission critical objectives is that leaders of projects are all too often chosen based on position in their hierarchy.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

a 12 month project. I now own two small construction companies, I believe this industry could actually change to commission//Salary. As we grow, I will create this type of pay structure. Salary, with the abillity thru bonuses or commissions.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

No, he has the problem and is projecting it on the paying customers. Business evolution is an amalgamation of thoughts, technologies, approaches and commitment of the people, asking such insightful questions as: What would you like for you and your organization to become? “Every one of them has a problem today.”

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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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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Duties, activities, tasks, behaviors, attitudes, contracting, project fulfillment. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. One rarely advances more than one rung on the ladder during the course of service to the organization in question: Resource. Equipment, tools, materials, schedules.

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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

APRIL 27, 2011

Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. I know new technology can bring much creativity and value. Investments in technology were so low for so long that we were having technological blackouts with frequency. Nowadays, technology is at the core of our urban planning and management of public policies.

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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 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

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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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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Given the growing complexities of businesses today — in terms of global footprint, changing business models, more complicated constituency networks, risk management, digital technology forces, evolving competitors and other societal shifts — any company in good times is still facing a pretty daunting array of potential challenges.

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AUGUST 1, 2014

We’ve got the latest technology. We have annual sales projections. Our company has got the most up to date technology. Companies spend disproportionate amounts of money on technology and neglect their people, processes and policies. Technology represents less than 1% of an organization’s pie chart.

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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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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. In some ways, technology has turned us into rapid-response junkies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2012

Harris is the CEO of PRG, a leading supplier of production and event technology, and Cohl is arguably one of the most successful concert promoters in the world, having represented acts such as U2, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson and even Frank Sinatra. They believed in the project, the committed cast and production team, and themselves.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

We recall compiling the case notes or sales projections just before the presentation meeting. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. I watch them to experience the magical energy of live performances.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Most of us don’t oversee huge IPOs, but sooner or later, every team faces an unexpected crisis: technology breaks, a competitor makes a disruptive move, a promising project fails, a key employee quits, consumers have a negative reaction to a new product—the list goes on.

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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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MARCH 21, 2011

In the long term, however, multinational firms cannot afford to stay away from Japan, considering its advanced technology and established market access. Dr. Tomoko Hosoe is a project specialist at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaií. She specializes in energy policy and environmental issues, with special reference to Japan.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

This question of BP's responsibility for overseeing contractors is critical because so many risky, high technology projects involve use of specialized vendors upon whom safety and quality depend. That is what will happen in the January trial, unless the case settles.

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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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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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