The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

To explain what I mean, I’ll lean on my background as an engineer. In my engineering design classes, I learned about the concept of design or safety margin — a factor built into design calculations to allow for minor errors, miscalculations, under estimations, and other variables that are difficult to accurately determine.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The authors define performance as “what an enterprise does to deliver improved results for its stakeholders in financial and operational terms. How do we manage the journey? Architect : Influence levers. Then ensure that performance initiatives are engineered to promote the necessary mindset and behavioral shifts.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Vertical integration extended their chain of operations, bringing inside their boundaries suppliers at one end (“upstream”) and customers at the other (“downstream”). Yet its influence on our social discourse has caused it to be treated like common property. It funds itself by soliciting donations from its users.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This saying holds good, especially when you’re keeping up with day-to-day restaurant management. Just make sure that you have operational software in place to track the financial impact of delivery expenses. Optimize your Restaurant’s Menu Engineering: One of the most visible pieces of restaurant marketing is its menu.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 15, 2021

These folks are actually team leaders with broad scopes of responsibility so they have the platform to operate as a leader across their enterprise but they haven’t let go of the superstar, go-to person modus operandi that got them noticed in the first place. They want more impact and influence but their behaviors are holding them back.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Now that you’ve decided what you’re going to sell in your store, it’s important that you look at who your competitors are and how they operate. Finding your competitors can be as easy as the results of a search engine or browsing social media to see who the big players are. Choosing A Supplier.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2021

Fortunately, there are ways that you can manage your online reputation to ensure that it remains positive and a true reflection of your business. Fortunately, there are a number of tools available to help businesses manage and improve their online reputation. Criticism is a natural part of operating in business.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. For example, self-awareness is critical to understanding how to improve your influence and executive communication.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

A recent study by the Association for Change Management Professionals (ACMP) shows that 73% of change management professionals surveyed also have other, non-change-related job duties. To drive real improvements, HR must see themselves as influencers and not enforcers. Project Management. Process Improvement.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2019

She writes, “The accidents and the resulting media attention together create a real wake-up call for Boeing… what’s required, however, is more than operational fixes. ” An engineering leader said, “there was a theme of just follow the plan, and that was code for don’t bring me bad news.”

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 17, 2021

The use of search engine optimization is one that’s becoming increasingly focused on. Try Out Influencer Marketing. Influencer marketing is something worth giving a go, especially as these influencers often have a bigger influence on their audience than some celebrities do. Maintain Your Branding.

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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. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

R EVERSE ENGINEERING is systematically taking things apart to discover how and why they work. To reverse engineer is to look beyond what is evident on the surface and find a hidden structure—one that reveals both how an object was designed and, more important, how it can be re-created. 5 Embrace the Vision-Ability Gap. 10 Ask Wisely.

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Change Starts Here

OCTOBER 25, 2016

I love to hear the stories of how each one came to the change management profession. Others start as project managers — IT, product development, logistics, and many other types of projects — and realize that project management without change management is often fruitless. What’s your story?

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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.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2020

You can choose to open a physical store at another site, and you can either run it or operate it as a franchise. You can hire digital marketing companies skilled at optimizing your website for better search engine results. When you open your business at a new location, you aim to gain access to new markets and customers.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity? what drives your economic engines (focus areas)? Isn’t that what productivity should be doing? And equally important – what are you not be the best at?),

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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? Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 12, 2015

We say that time management is a symptom because there is an underlying problem. . Being clear on your intangible assumptions allows you to engineer a dynamic equilibrium where all the parts of your life work synergistically in a highly interrelated whole. Values often influence people''s choices about where to invest their energies.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 9, 2017

It covers everything from setting up a blog on your business’s website to guest blogging and making contact with important industry influencers in the blogosphere. Everyone has a mobile phone, and your business should make use of that if you want to make sure that your business is operating in this century. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research published in Harvard Business Review’s 2016 State of Leadership Development Study, indicated that only about 33% of Line-of-Business respondents said that they have become much more effective as managers after taking part in development programs. After all, some apps do not run on old antiquated operating systems.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. A brand is defined by how OTHERS perceive you/your company (yeah that's what it really is, not what you as brand creator think it is) and design goes a long way to influence perception.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

With so much stuff coming at me from all angles, daily prosperity relies on spam filters, Internet search engines, and personalized music and movie recommendations. This veritable Big Bang delivers a plethora of examples so great in number, only a computer could manage to learn from them. These predicaments matter. Introducing.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

While the great majority of managers today believe employees exit for more money, research shows only 12% leave for compensation concerns. They operate more as a partnership—a confederation of equals with different skills and talents but a shared calling and a collective zeal to see it through. Leadership as a Force.

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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. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine how managing appearances can have a substantial impact on your personal brand and your success. Whether consciously, or unconsciously, they will make quick value judgments in an effort to assess your credibility and flesh out your agenda.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

While anyone can have a social media presence, not everyone possesses social media influence. You might have something to say, but without influence, nobody will be listening. Put simply, having a social media presence without influence is little more than an exercise in frivolity.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

B2C companies invest millions to understand the various personas, segments, demographics, and geographical nuances to help them determine how to position and manage their brands to appeal to the faceless masses. Yes, I’m a Coke advocate. In the retail category (e.g.,

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2018

When you have a physical store gaining footfall is a huge influence on your advertising and how you design your store. The first thing to consider is the base of your operations; your website. Search Engine Optimisation are key words and phrases that increase your standing on a search engine results page.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

While using the educational foundation established in The Machine That Changed the World , I suggest being ever mindful of the influence of our respective paradigms in filtering out data that doesn’t fit our own paradigms. I also continue to refine my thinking about continuous improvement, including how Toyota operates.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Most leaders are unaware of the intensity of their ability to shape the climate of the workplace and to influence the attitudes of the people who work there. They may choose to influence in such a way that the people working there feel as if they are making a contribution or just taking home a pay check. Thanks for adding yours.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2019

Such an effort would require the field to break free from the constraints of computer science and engineering, taking in such disparate disciplines as economics, biology, psychology and various other social sciences. Robotic colleagues. Changing our thinking.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Accept Help:   The rescue operation appears to have been a model of private and public sector cooperation and coordination. They managed expectations and created the margin they needed to prepare the rescue attempt in the most thorough way possible. Chilean government ministers and officials coordinated the rescue masterfully.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

By parallel, managers themselves might similarly benefit from "reverse-engineering" the criticism of not only outsiders but of their own colleagues: considering both parties as their benefactors on the road to greater performance. Most PR firms only offer cosmetic remedies to firefight reputation threats as they arise.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Bill has been a long time member of The Deming Institute’s Board of Trustees; a valuable guiding influence for more than a decade. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Bill is also an editorial board member, as well as columnist, for the UK’s Lean Management Journal. Bill Bellows.

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