N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap? Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. The fact is that business is not a static endeavor.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

We demonstrate that agile organizations possess both strategic and tactical agility. Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Risk management is now a fully-developed rich scientific discipline.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership. Habecker “Doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different results, is the definition of crazy.&# - Unknown “Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Through observation, we can develop a sense of mindfulness that can help to inform and shape our understanding about a particular situation or process. Likewise, your employees are not simply cogs in the organizational wheel, but should be treated as collaborators with a shared interest in your collective efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

I'll spare you the results, and focus instead on the definition we use at Harvard Business School. The opportunity may entail: 1) pioneering a truly innovative product; 2) devising a new business model; 3) creating a better or cheaper version of an existing product; or 4) targeting an existing product to new sets of customers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Guest post from Dee Ann Turner: During my tenured career at one organization, I had the “best of the best” leadership development opportunities. In that organization, no expense was spared for leadership development. It was single most effective leadership development activity of my entire career.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

While creating successful teams isn’t as simple as mimicking the processes of emotionally intelligent groups of people, what you can do is create the necessary conditions in which team members can develop their emotional intelligence. Stephen Ufford from Trulioo tells SUCCESS: “Team members should definitely hang out outside of work.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

She outlines how to rid yourself of failed motivational tactics and shares ways to go beyond discipline, willpower, and goal setting. You write, teach, and consult on motivation, so I’d like to start with the Susan Fowler definition of motivation. Find ways to align goals and expectations with your developed values. What is it?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2019

With the customers demanding faster deliveries, field service businesses are now looking to develop a more time-definite supply chain. The successful logistics businesses will be those that can quickly find innovative solutions to new problems and are ready to find solutions to more problems the day after that.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 5, 2020

Racing on Zwift is definitely very different from racing on the road,” EF Pro Cycling’s Lawson Craddock told me. “On the road, you have to focus on the tactics, being in a good position in crucial moments, saving energy whenever you can, and being at your best at key moments of the race.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. But a team doesn’t imply unanimous opinion.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters). That said, the way to minimize the impact of discrimination is not through bureaucratic mandates or by playing the diversity card – these tactics increase the diversity gap and heighten resentment.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 15, 2015

Seeing Ariana Richards play Lex Murphy and developing one of my first movie crushes. In your leadership, what old tactics can you bring back out or refresh to help you lead better? They were constantly trying to innovate to increase their profits. Being an innovative organization is a must. With our teams.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When I urge managers in a company to make open innovation part of their innovation strategy, they get it conceptually. A vice president of the group had been to a presentation on Open Innovation and was intrigued by the concept. Or: "the technology is close, but not quite developed enough." It might not actually work.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Instead of a monolithic one-way interaction, business is now being conducted through constant and meaningful two-way conversations between organizations and constituents – at every stage of organizational development. And it’s a good thing, too. Examples of Social Nations are everywhere. Still skeptical?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

An “innovation engine” is an organization’s capability to think and invest in long-term opportunities along with the competence to drive continuous innovations for top-line growth each year. This is your bench of corporate innovators: your intrapreneurs. You already have natural intrapreneurs in your company. Failed Leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Instead of beating yourself up or giving in, it is critical that you develop the ability to learn from setbacks. Turn setbacks into development opportunities by asking positive questions such as: What are the positives surrounding this situation? A bias toward action is always a better path than falling prey to analysis paralysis.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Though definitions vary, EQ always comprises intrapersonal and interpersonal skills — in particular high adjustment, sociability, sensitivity, and prudence. Lower levels of creativity and innovation potential. A well-developed ability to manipulate others. An aversion to risk.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

As we began our research , we limited our definition of tech companies to those that create technology as a product or service. This definition of tech differentiates organizations like Google, Facebook or Uber, from Walmart, Toyota or The Taj Group. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. All of the latter use technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. This simple tactic is seemingly backed up by the research.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

They're already good at analyzing structured data from previous incidents and real-time oceanographic conditions — and they're definitely seeing some results. We're starting to develop genuine predictive models. One fascinating example of this trend is the work that maritime professionals are doing to stop piracy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

They're already good at analyzing structured data from previous incidents and real-time oceanographic conditions — and they're definitely seeing some results. We're starting to develop genuine predictive models. One fascinating example of this trend is the work that maritime professionals are doing to stop piracy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Amidst the acrimony, it seems hard to imagine that public leaders could envision and operate such a platform, or that private innovators could work with them more collaboratively on it — but it’s not impossible. Without more public entrepreneurship, it’s hard to imagine meeting our public challenges or making the most of private innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

While most bosses would frown on playing Halo at the office, it’s video games that are driving much of the innovation in video, virtual reality, and collaboration technologies today—something that has important implications for how we work, especially with far-flung colleagues. Think about the last game you played.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

As any experienced corporate leader knows, engaging entrepreneurs has potentially the same spectrum of pleasure and pain reflected in the formal definition, from the prospect of inextricable involvement including conflict, to the promise of partnership, to the happy possibility of union in blissful corporate matrimony and acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

First, let’s define the terminology: With this definition in mind, think about what’s bothering you most. After all, he had entrusted us with this important job and was giving us a lot of room to innovate and maneuver. Let’s say you’ve got a manager who’s too much of a hands-off boss for your taste.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2010

In fact, three of his books (The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Developing the Leader Within You , and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader) have sold more than one million copies each. John Maxwell : Definitely in the home. Mike Myatt : What was your first recollection of experiencing great leadership?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Over centuries, the military has developed an approach to managing “ the fog of war.” The formal definition of doctrine is important: “Fundamental principles by which the military forces guide their actions in support of objectives. Google has its nine principles of innovation. Wikipedia has its five pillars.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

Second, there has been little motivation for Chinese firms to develop branding capability, in part because most top companies have not been in a competitive context in which branding was important. Third, Chinese firms lack not only talent to develop and implement brand strategy but also the will to do so at the top.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

While much has already been written about this challenge in the developed world, there are also some important lessons to be learned from the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP). These strategies may sound familiar, but implementing them effectively at the BoP requires distinct tactics. Groundbreaking solutions often never reach scale.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

businessmen are known for their well-developed spirit of enterprise, a knack for innovation, and an ability to identify untapped growth opportunities,” he says ingratiatingly. “I That of course is the ultimate irony of embargoes — they’re a tactic aimed at avoiding a fight by not doing business together. and the U.S.S.R.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet. Rinse and repeat, over and over.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Business development. Developing communications as a vital tool of business and life. This stymies employees’ professional development and hampers company productivity. Avoid technical terms, unless you include brief definitions.

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Mark Sanborn

MAY 10, 2019

The people we lead want innovators, not just imitators. Nassim Taleb, a Lebanese–American essayist, scholar, statistician, and former trader and risk analyst, wrote the definitive book about overconfidence in our ability to predict, anticipate and plan. Business model innovation. Too much screen time and not enough face time.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Clinging to obsolete definitions and viewpoints have a way of perpetuating companies into downward spirals. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Symbolic are these phrase definitions which I have created for familiar business words.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Business development. These executives spend much of their energies on planning, tactics, organizational development and business development. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree. Running the business. Philosophy.

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