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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

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Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. Resist the temptation to just advance a broad number of disparate initiatives, and alternatively focus your efforts on the completion of a few high impact objectives. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 38a – Overcoming Resistance to.

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StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

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Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? While there is an element of truth in that statement if this is what you aspire to as a leader it constitutes a complete under-utilization of leadership responsibility.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They moved with the most efficient best practice as they unfold. We did not formulate our own style but tweaked it to our leadership style and vision plan. Being questioned by people resistant to change is not out of the ordinary, and nothing to be concerned about. It was not a Caterpillar, Goodyear or US Steel.

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Data Quality Should Be Everyone’s Job

Harvard Business Review

In the face of errors, most people’s natural reaction is to correct such errors in the data they need — after all, when you’re dealing with a mountain of day-in, day-out demands, that seems the fastest, most efficient way to complete the task at hand. Writ large, it is expensive and time-consuming.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business Review

This may sound obvious, but it was in sharp contrast to typical patterns in the pharma industry of recruiting from within, resistance to new thinking, and sclerotic bureaucratic structures. Their mandate: Come up with fresh ideas for making the notoriously expensive and time-consuming drug-development process more efficient.