N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Designing broad involvement into the strategy development and execution process will rapidly increase the quality of your strategy, build broad ownership and commitment, reduce resistance, mitigate execution risks and accelerate results. Any resistance to change would simply be overcome with rules, policies and managers to force compliance.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

Take ownership and use these tips to guide you in finding creative solutions when others are trapped by paranoia, resistance, drama and disempowering paradigms. Use the 'How' question to uncover critical success factors necessary to develop an effective strategic plan. Timing will be one of your critical success factors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

Taking the time to develop a clear mission – your personal purpose – and a vision of what success looks like is essential if you are to be judicious about determining what is important enough to get on your list in the first place. Start by looking what’s already on your to-do list. Does it really need to be done?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

But it doesn't work unless leadership leads, and helps everyone understand why change and innovation must happen and why they need to work together in new and different ways toward a common goal. Notice how so much of what resists change is embedded in the culture, in protecting what is rather than getting excited about what could be.

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Organization Critical Success Factor Innovation Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

It can sometimes seem like magic when we get the right people together with the right attitude, motivated to work toward a common goal. 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.

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