N2Growth Blog

MAY 22, 2015

Delivering on strategic initiatives on time, every time, is the hallmark of organizations that are best in the world at executing strategy, and they’re rewarded with a premium put on the value of their company. There is a lack of integrated participation from the business and support area leaders in strategic initiatives.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

His presence no doubt stirred animation in the storytelling; his participation likely made the teller of the tales feel celebrated and valued. Ask any parent frustrated by a resistant child; authority is the last resort of the inept. Hemingway spent most his evenings at the lively bar listening to the stories of sailors and fishermen.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 4, 2016

“Think Grey” Steven Sample shared this concept in his landmark book The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership as an encouragement to resist making a critical thinking judgment sooner than necessary. I’ll never forgotten what FBI Executive Assistant Director Janet Kamerman told our consulting team several years ago.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. Why do many business leaders resist it? Company executives were split on the matter. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Execution is an odd word. ” When leaders “execute a strategy,” they usually mean the former — putting an idea into action. Execution is often where strategies go to die. So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In 2016 we asked 80 senior executives from 20 countries and 25 industries where they focus their attention throughout strategic execution. We then asked what, in their experience, were the biggest barriers to long-term execution — and 76% cited employee interaction. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. There is some very good news here.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

As part of this process, we formally surveyed more than 150 executives; the sample represented a broad cross-section of health care, with respondents serving in leadership roles at organizations as diverse as physician practices, hospitalist staffing agencies and large health systems. But this optimism is not a sign of complacency.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 19, 2021

In your research did you find some leaders more oriented to vision and others execution? The vast majority of leaders are managers focused on execution and juggling with the consequences of their blind leadership. What are some ways to test a vision before execution to be sure it is viable? Oleg Konovalov. Oleg Konovalov.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

I’ve paid attention to how the best of them operate — how they nurture creativity all around them — and I’ve noticed three things: They build core enthusiast communities inside and outside of their organizations. The company nurtures its creative community and recognizes participation at every level.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

If you’re theoretically deciding on the Tampa expansion strategy and the executive in charge of Southeast operations isn’t in the room, it’s likely you’ll have to repeat the whole process again for her benefit. In the end, that’s a hard message to resist. Force others to prepare.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to my own research into dozens of bribery cases and five years of reporting on four continents, it’s because executives believe that their competitors are using bribery as a tool to get ahead, so they must, too. authorities on charges of overseas bribery. Why do kickbacks continue? How can companies kick this habit?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

It’s not uncommon for our executives to acknowledge our team’s accomplishments during company-wide presentations. Offer to send a security representative to participate in the ideation and design process with product teams. After all, hackers have P&L sheets too. Driving Financial Goals. This isn’t the case.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Executives dedicated to data-driven excellence accept the reality that smart algorithms need greater autonomy to succeed. Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. That’s hard.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. This means that Facebook is the largest participant in the program, and we are really proud of that. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. Andrew Liveris.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Management is about commitment, execution, and follow-through. Efficient operations that inflict misery on food animals. Experiments and experience show that people resist leaping from innocence to evil, but they can be lured into it one innocuous step at a time. Did you act? Did it work? Do it again. It didn’t?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Consider that the basis for the health care market’s inertia — the resistance of the incumbents to changing the volume and direction of the money flowing in the current system — is counted in trillions of dollars. Who willingly will forgo their portion?

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

3 steps to building virtue into your organization: Introducing and executing this commitment to virtue requires you to adopt a consistent, three-stage process of, 1) establishing standards, 2) reviewing standards, and 3) making adjustments accordingly. 5) Operational Transparency -. Rigorously (with honesty and diligence).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Even a full professor typically remains ignorant of vital skills related to organizational behavior, operations management, finance and strategy. And no tailored management or leadership training is regularly offered for physicians who become departmental service chiefs, chairs or deans, or who assume hospital executive roles.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Across industries, staff such as retail category managers, sales representatives, financial advisers, and wealth managers are awash with reports and insights that comfort their companies’ top executives and by making them feel that they are leading a “customer-centric” organization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care. Capitalize on success.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The idea that customers can't or shouldn't participate much in the innovation process is one barrier to creativity that companies are rapidly knocking down. This new view and way of operating actually helps companies come closer to achieving the ideal of giving customers what they want, when, where and how they want it.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Don’t get me wrong, recognizing the value of participating in the most powerful medium on the planet by getting in the game is a good thing, but it’s an even better thing when coupled with a plan. I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. Social Media Influence [.]

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Eventually, the former chief operating officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston was brought on (pro bono) to oversee the collection and control systems and work in concert with Bank of America to create a robust system for processing payments. City innovators everywhere would do well to resist that temptation when it arises.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

In one of my company’s workshops, we use this simple exercise to illustrate some of the pitfalls: After dividing participants into groups of three, we show one team member an image and ask him or her to describe it to another team member over the phone (without naming it outright). Coordination.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. When all departments are consulted and participate in the decisions, then the company is empowered. In the 1990s, another international conglomerate purchased Bridgestone-Firestone. Doing Things as We Always Have.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

France: Pushing quotas and operational roles. There has been a subsequent improvement from 11% to 15% of female Executive Committee members, and 70% of companies in the top 20 now have at least one woman on their senior executive teams – up from 60% last year. And three companies still have men-only executive committees.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. Have an idea, execute it and deliver it in a matter of a few short hours. To resist the urge to self-censor. I’m glad I did. It wasn’t brutal or destructive. Exciting new tools.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Welcome to the paradigms that many of us have operated under for some time. Yet, out of fear, they fight, resist and are combative toward change and to those who are change agents. Most consultants are vendors who sell packages of products and services, displaced executives, computer vendors or people in transition.

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Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 69

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. Just imagine the operational demand if primary care providers also had to actively monitor their patients’ health data between office visits. These are most effective in inducing desirable behaviors when patients participate in lotteries.

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Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

However, hospital or insurance executives in these hospital-based ACOs retain ultimate decision-making power. Physicians resist change, especially when they see their physician leaders in subordinate roles. Physicians own and operate these medical groups and hold seats on the foundation’s governing body. Making the Model Work.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. Conglomerate executives actually prefer to avoid close ties among divisions, so they can easily sell off any division at a profit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. Afterwards, each participant was debriefed. The success of the pop-up events helped overcome this resistance.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Some cultures are deliberate – built and crafted carefully by the executive team and often consultants. Due to this resistance, I believe that culture CAN trump strategy, to the extend that the strategy and execution thereof are unsuccessful. I think not, and I’ll explain why.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

When executives create teams to pursue breakthrough innovation they typically push the work down to the operating levels, just as they do so successfully with their core businesses. But it masks the fact that executives don't want to get involved in big innovation. Here's a story to illustrate that point.

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