N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy). I probed further to ask if they considered holding similar events for the CFOs, CIOs, CSOs, CTOs, CMOs, etc.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Being servant leaders as Chartered Managers In an opinion piece in the Daily FT , Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI, president of CMI Sri Lanka , reflects on a successful year and assures that CMI Sri Lanka will continue to facilitate the processes of up-skilling, multi-skilling, and re-skilling managers. Read it here. CMI members always see more.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. The bottom line in regard to today’s thoughts on business modeling can be summed up in the following three points: 1.)

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Which hat, or hats do you wear? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it? Priority number two is team building and talent management.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

If a newly implemented business process has design flaws, will employees follow the process or circumvent it? Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Yet, the question as I talked with women in the Purdue leadership program is still the age old one of how to balance it all; career, family, community, and time for oneself.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Since it is about designing behaviour of individuals to achieve business success, this requires an understanding of decision sciences (psychology, sociology, neurosciences, etc) much like a Finance professional needs to know accountancy. So, how does people strategy work in start-ups? Since it is more by trial and error, errors happen.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Cruise yard sales and pick up items that you can resell online for a quick profit. You may be able to pick up really valuable items for a fraction of their value and resell them with an E-commerce Web site. Good with kids?

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Yarin follows and researches news stories regarding ignored warnings that lead to bad business outcomes, along with the social psychology theories that explain why these warnings were ignored. This week, Yarin shared with me insights into compliance and risk management, his forthcoming book, and leadership. Q and A with Dave Yarin 1.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I was in the Marine Corps stationed on the West Coast, and I was up ironing my uniform and turned on the news. What I remember in the following months were American Flags everywhere, political solidarity, and a rebirth of national pride. Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Most of you who have been following this blog know that I’ve been an a strong evangelist of social media, and perhaps even more so of blogging for several years now. So why is it that so many people still seem paralyzed when it comes to taking the plunge? Taking into account the above considerations, not everyone can or should blog.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Ask yourself the following questions: Why should anyone be led by you?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Why do some consultants get $50,000 a day for their time, while others have to give their time away?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. True, we can point to the fact that airplanes are massively engineered for reliability, but let’s look beyond the machinery. To understand how aviation has achieved process excellence, we need to back up a bit. logistics, and finance. finance, I.T.,

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

What happens if you don’t “keep up&# your profile, connections list, or friends list? When we first opened up shop, we worked with a wide variety of clients, some of which were not the best fit for us. Follow her on Twitter as @monicadear. What if you’re too busy to spend hours on these sites? Guess what?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

those who have the talent and drive to be inventive and enterprising) were happy at work, or at least felt that their ideas are being valued, they would contribute to innovation and growth in their employers' organization, rather than setting up their own company. Indeed, if entrepreneurial employees (i.e., Not really.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

She had launched her career 12 years earlier with no connections — she just picked up a camera and started making small-budget films, including one she financed out of her own savings account. The following four actions can help. When they asked her what she knew about engineering, she made a zero with her fingers.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. This is also true of executives.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Better meeting techniques , like distributing agendas, holding meetings standing up, or enforcing a “no device policy,” are all well-intentioned practices. To fix these issues in your organization, establish the following three elements. They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Some of the efforts cast out into the marketplace stir up action. Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need. So, in teaming up with those who can do what I can’t, they might need what I do. So many intelligent women just don’t speak up! Mine your backyard.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The net result of being a late stage trend follower is that you will likely experience little more than yet another in a long line of great adventures that ended in frustration due to the time wasted and the investment squandered. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you’re still asking these questions WAKE-UP – get your head out of the sand, and stop broadcasting your ignorance. Anybody can amass tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of followers just by following as many people as they can and waiting for them to reciprocate. News Flash: you can’t.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

A lot of research has already been done on the significant contribution of immigrant scientists and engineers to the U.S. Less research, however, has been done on the presence of migrant and immigrant leadership in corporate America. companies spent 24% of their budget training on leadership development. executive leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

You not only had to be able to come up with great winning ideas, you also had to deal with the complexities of financing, engineering, distribution, recruiting staff, and legal liability — to name just a few. He listened as people debated his idea, and answered questions as they came up.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

I chalk up the success of Vanguard’s Personal Advisor Services to several factors. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. Emergent firms would do well to follow their example. The world faces many complex problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Their product development teams followed a traditional software development method – called “ Waterfall ” – in which they spent months defining customer requirements and functional specifications, coding the software, and testing it for quality and reliability. They faced a culture clash, however.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our audacious challenge was followed by a spirited effort, in a series of HBR blog posts by experts in design, energy, finance and urban planning, to answer the following questions: How can organic, self-built slums be turned into livable housing? What might a house-for-the-poor look like?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. He's a man of strong opinions, generally backed up by lots and lots of research. As I show in my book, successful managers, like those engineering the turnarounds at IBM and Deere and Co., JF: What about quarterly earnings? BL: Not really.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

in January 1968 as a young 22-year old with $8 in his pocket and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Bombay. Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. If the opening paragraph caused you to wince, then the text that follows is written just for you. link] Mike Henry Sr.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

For example, Frank was a highly-skilled finance manager who advanced quickly early in his career based on his technical knowledge and desire for results. Hang in there; your time will come; things will open up soon. Over the past few years, however, his progress had stagnated, and he missed out on several promotions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

With these criteria in mind, our final list is as follows: Our analysis revealed characteristics shared by the winning firm’s leaders as well as common strategies they employed. On a separate track, he launched the device and content ecosystem, starting with iPod and iTunes, that would become the company’s new growth engine.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The value of the shares bought then, in fact, makes up a big chunk of Yahoo’s value today, and the windfall from that purchase is what many hope will allow the company to remake its future. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Both were offered free to consumers and merchants.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What is missing is growth capital for the small companies that should be the economic engines of their communities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

That help includes public sector expenditures, whether for clean-up or compensation for losses. While these examples don't specifically address extreme weather change, they do provide a three-part framework that cities wanting to address the new reality could follow. Big problems require big new approaches.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In the text that follows I’ll share my thoughts on how the practice of sales must change in order to survive. Lest you think I’ve lost my mind, I want to be clear that I’m not advocating taking your eye off the revenue creation ball. The hunters are revered and the farmers are tolerated.

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