N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Whether they’re developed in-house or brought in by outside strategy firms, many strategy methodologies are of little value if they don’t keep up with the times. Clearly, it’s time to reconsider how your organization goes about developing and executing strategy at all levels. The priorities are on people and capabilities not things.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is about developing hypotheses about the future. However, if the past is suspended and a holistic view of the future is envisioned, then it's easier to recognize tidal forces of change and (surprise!) the company may not look so relevant in that future. For this process, it is best to take a 10-20-year perspective.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 17, 2020

It’s a critical success factor in a competitive world. One of the very best books I have read on speed is Lead with Speed: Fire up your team, power your engines of development, and make your organization soar. I developed a mindset for speed that includes a guidance system. Of course, speed follows strategy.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Leadership lessons from The Book Of Mistakes I recently had the pleasure of reading The Book Of Mistakes. Skip Prichard, my friend and a leadership guru himself, penned this fiction book with success principles woven throughout the missive. The Book Of Mistakes is full of practical wisdom you can use in leadership and life.

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Tim Milburn

AUGUST 14, 2012

Our prescription for rapid realignment has the following steps: Align the leadership team. Develop a tool to assess current alignment. Align the Leadership Team. The first step toward rapid realignment is to get leadership team members aligned with The Main Thing of the enterprise and its strategy. © 2012 Dr. George H.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 9, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 29, 2009

By now, you might have guessed that measuring the performance of a leader is not as cut and dried as assessing the performance of an individual, mostly because in making this shift to leadership, the environment also moves from being mostly black and white in nature to being mostly gray.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: Why is it important to develop future leaders within your company? In his book, Built to Last , Jim Collins describes the very successful succession planning process that GE’s CEO, Reginald Jones, took to find a new CEO. Start Now.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Especially today , recruitment, retention, and development of human capital is a critical success factor for almost any organization. But this also takes time, both to develop people and to build the processes necessary for them to be effective.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Leadership Actions to Renovate Your Culture. And yet organizational culture is a critical success factor to nearly everything. Study: Only 15 percent of companies are successful in changing culture. The very first step of our 18 step blueprint is “Develop and Deploy a Comprehensive Listening Strategy.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

” He was raising an issue I had struggled with when developing the program, which is called Giving Voice to Values. My aim was to take a new approach to values-driven leadership development, one that was a stark departure from the way companies and educators had been teaching business ethics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2014

Many articles have been written about what makes process improvement projects fail and usually they list critical success factors. In the Chartering and Staffing phase of the BPI project there are many critical success factors (It is the beginning of the project! Uncommitted leadership.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 11, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

The move to electronic books has caused booksellers to take a close look at how they do business, but the jury is still out on whether Barnes & Noble’s response to the dramatic changes in the publishing industry will be successful. Barnes & Noble appears to be doing a lot of the right things.

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The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

While there are many classic leadership books that are still relevant today – like Good to Great and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – and a flooded market of other business books , I wanted to share …. Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership. Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work.

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