N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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CEO Blog Long-term Short-term 305

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Develops and implements strategies for continuous improvement. But it’s not just about the immediate impact on day-to-day operations. Attendance and punctuality also speak to an employee’s overall work ethic and dedication to their job. Displays a strong work ethic by always showing up to work on time.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 25, 2023

Consumer non-durables refer to products that have a relatively short lifespan, like food, beverages, and personal care items. Marketing Managers: Marketing managers are responsible for creating and executing marketing strategies to boost product sales. They work on strategies to enhance brand recognition and loyalty.

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Career Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals Industry 78

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. Just like an algebraic formula, business also functions according to rules governing order of operations. Thanks for stopping by William.

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Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 395

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. Culture needs to vary depending on your business strategy.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 112

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Poor Communication Skills : Show me a leader with poor communication skills and I’ll show you someone who will be short-lived in their position. Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium.

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Blog Meyer Short-term Learning-by-Doing 420

Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Importantly, “That perspective enables us to rein in our smartness and harness it to serve a larger purpose in an ethical and appropriate manner.” Some focus on short-term goals and on deepening their depth of knowledge in their domain of interest. It’s about “transcending it and gaining a broader perspective.”

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Crisis Workshop Short-term Business Model 284

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Ramcess Jean-Loiuis, Pfizer’s Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Officer, is not short on ambition. Pfizer’s DEI Strategy is built around tangible efforts that can be measured against three key stakeholder pillars. . In an interview with The HR Digest, Ram explains the crucial importance of DE&I in the workplace.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Operations are sound, professional and productive. You have and regularly update-benchmark a strategy for the future, shared company Vision, ethics, Big Picture thinking and “walk the talk.” In short, never stop!

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

.” Paul Polman, the CEO of Unilever, announced that shareholders should sell if they did not agree with his decision to stop giving quarterly results and focus on the long-term creation of value that is “equitable, shared and sustainable.” Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. .”

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Short-term Company Long-term Ethics 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2014

And, the negotiation process is a lot like a chess game where strategy reigns supreme — one thoughtfully considered move at a time. Make a careless, short-sighted, ill-conceived move and suffer the perilous consequences. It’s a mindset you have to operate from in order to become not just a good negotiator, but a great one.

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Short-term Document Ethics Competitive Advantage 68

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. One of its major suppliers is under an ethics investigation resulting in significant delays. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises.

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Long-term Short-term Strategy Brainstorming 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times. How sad is this?

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

And management techniques, practices, and strategies are no different. It relates to what Michael Porter meant with being “stuck in the middle”: if you try to come up with a strategy that does everything for everyone, you will likely end up achieving nothing. When something seems too good to be true, it usually is.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. These issues are referred to as strategic alignment and employee engagement. Connecting the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The company’s more than 80 operating subsidiaries have complete independence and minimal oversight from headquarters, which requires little else besides regular financial statements and the return of excess cash that is not needed to sustain and grow the business. A long-term investment horizon improves operating performance.

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Short-term Long-term Supply Chain Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The experience of Esquel Group proves that a stakeholder-based strategy is feasible in even the toughest of industries. And it has to do so by adopting completely new strategies — those that are able to integrate the industry's pursuit of growth and profitability with the values and interests of its stakeholders.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Patience and a long-term view.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

After surveying corruption experts and business executives (including one who went to jail for bribery) I identified four strategies: Have a resistance plan for bribe demands. This may mean a contraction in profits in the short-term, but in the long run it also means building a more resilient company, with consistent growth year after year.

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Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. It is now clear that companies operating in China are kept on a short leash even when they comply with governmental demands.

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Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. See training as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. The success of this enables trainers with the 'rank and file employees' to be optimally successful.

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Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 23, 2019

There are many types of managers but it takes a certain skill set for a manager to consistently lead their team to long-term success. Good communication skills involve really listening, keeping it short, asking questions, noticing body language and repeating back a summary of what has been discussed. Fair, ethical and honest.

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Skills Team Delegation Construction 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. A firm’s cultural capital is a type of asset that impacts what a firm produces and how it operates. naqiewei/Getty Images.

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Company Banking Incentives Human Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Listen in on MBA classes and corporate conferences and you will hear a lot of talk about the need for inspiring missions, ethical behavior and transcendent purpose. Our system of financial accounting rewards quarterly profits, but struggles mightily to place a value on ethical behavior. Bettinger is not alone.

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Intangible Assets Ethics Short-term Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Forgoing Short-Term Profits in Favor of Long-Term Reputation. Leaders rate the importance of maintaining a sterling reputation in the countries in which they operate 10 times higher than do laggards — the greatest variance we found. That long-term view is rated more highly by leaders by a ratio of 2:1.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

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Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. I don’t try to mislead others or deliberately cause injury to someone for my gain, so I simply assumed everyone else would operate that way in business. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. It is too easy to waste time in unprofitable promotional pursuits without taking time for considered strategy. Don’t be timid.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends.

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

Although good at scaling and operating a sales organization, the leader was unable to succeed in a rapidly changing environment that needed experimentation and nimbleness. He tolerated (and even encouraged) ethically questionable sales practices. Poor understanding of the business, leading to errors in vision and strategy.

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Restructuring Health Care Self-aware Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2017

People often have an exaggerated fear of the consequences of speaking up, and so we tend to prefer the short-term security of staying silent. Then don’t forget to reflect on the counter-argument: what are the long-term consequences to you and others of staying silent? This brings us onto the third key question: 3.

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Power Chief Operating Officer Politics COO 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. His biceps were visible under his t-shirt and his short hair was still wet from exercise.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Organizations get people caught in activity traps…unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. View goals as long-term, rather than short-term.

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Strategic Planning Goal Planning Budgeting 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive. treating suppliers as partners).

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

The way in which the bigger issues are interpreted has direct bearing on strategy and implementation. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. by Hank Moore.

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Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 81

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In eras following downturns and scandals, it is incumbent upon good companies to go the extra distance to be ethical and set good examples. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. by Hank Moore.

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Loyalty Bottom-up Strategic Planning Bond 59

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Values in terms of savings: Time and motion savings. Continuous quality improvement within your own operation.

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