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

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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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.

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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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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. You should manage appearances on creating a feeling of comfort and engendering confidence…not on trying to impress.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

On this Labor Day, I give homage to those who shaped my own early career: Mom: Who taught me the art of domestic engineering: how to wash dishes, vacuum floors, make beds, and do the laundry with a sense of pride in the finished product. Supervisors too numerous to remember when I worked in factories during the summers of my college years.

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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. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 12, 2010

In contrast to the seedy and classless drama engineered by James and Gilbert, this weekend marked the passing of Bob Sheppard. Once again, classless. Unless you’re a New York Yankees fan or a long time lover of baseball, you may not have heard of him. 

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Alexa Rank : 251,748 Google Page Rank : 5 PostRank Leadership Score : 18 Number of Posts in last 30 days : 30 TwitterGrader Score : 100 All Things Workplace : This blog offers opinions and general information on leadership and leadership development by Steve Roesler. Steve’s insights are thoughtful and always spot-on.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. Another reason why managers need to make the effort; what organization couldn’t benefit from having people work harder because they feel appreciated? What keeps you from gifting your kindness?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

Staying ethical when you are in power ie any kind of power – you dont necessarily have to be the top dog, even a manager or leader of a small team – would need to keep his ethic in check every now and then. It isn’t that their team are bad people, it is simply that the relationship with their manager prevents anything but.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As Tony Mayo, director of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School, has put it, “Success in the 21st century will require leaders to pay attention to the evolving context” a business is operating in. This means more of us are operating in more contexts, more of the time.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In the State of Nevada we, Professional Engineers, have to have 30 professional development hours of learning to renew our licenses every two years. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

What makes time management difficult is that I might have a “to do” list together and a goal for that day, but depending on the needs of our customers I might not even touch that list. If you have to approve things, if you are the bottle neck in the process, you are having an impact on your employees time if you manage yours poorly.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. What was most striking was the attitude of everyone.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

When it comes to preparing organizations for a complex, high-speed future, many people who work in those organizations, or in management science, talk about the imperative for “ continuous improvement ” in operations. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Perceiving a need for a more cerebral breed of managers to preside over corporations of unprecedented scale and scope, both looked for models to the research-driven natural science fields. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values. What can and should we do?

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This caffeine giant that former president Howard Behar wrote a book entitled: “It’s Not About the Coffee”, drives success through servant leadership. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. And that’s what’s it all about.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This caffeine giant that former president Howard Behar wrote a book entitled: “It’s Not About the Coffee”, drives success through servant leadership. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. And that’s what’s it all about.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age. These include skills such as search engine optimization, digital media allocation, and digital analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. What role does he or she play in the organization? What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

“Increasing demand for clean, affordable electricity combined with an aging infrastructure, retiring workers, growing regulations, rising capital costs, and intensifying budget pressures challenge utility executives and managers now more than ever. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and EUCG Peer Advisor.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. He believes that CEOs and the top management should not be bean counters but rather should be a "product guys.".

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

When employees are busy and disengaged, businesses are missing out on cost-saving ideas and innovations that could be developed from the bottom up. We believe that one of the ways managers can tap into this discretionary effort is the practice of service-based leadership. This stands in the way of serving employees.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

For a number of years, Allan has reported to a highly visionary manager, and they made a great team. His company's executives view Allan as a strong manager and flawless implementer, but they question his ability to create a forward-looking strategy independent of his boss.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Operating in more than 170 countries, in multiple businesses that range from financial services to jet engines, and with more than 60% of our workforce based outside the United States, we must compete in every geography and get it right. General Electric Global business Talent management' Our leaders take this seriously.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

These messages tell women who have managed to succeed that they are exceptions and women who have experienced setbacks that it is their own fault for failing to be sufficiently aggressive or committed to the job. In our work with leadership development programs, we focus on a "small wins" approach to change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders.

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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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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a recent interview, Benko discussed AT&T’s efforts and offered advice for HR leaders and individual managers on how today’s workforce can avoid obsolescence. HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target. Long road ahead.

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