N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

I’m often regarded as a thought leader, but I don’t run an organization, and don’t have any desire to. Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion. Marshall Goldsmith : Not to be a leader. They only job I ever had that I hated was being a Dean.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

My suspicion is your best memories are of those teachers who inspired you, encouraged you, brought out your passion, and challenged you in a positive fashion. They either don’t value your contributions, or they know from experience that you’ll treat their inquiry in a belittling fashion. The boss will never go for that.&#

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Here’s the thing…you really don’t need to work too hard to identify leaders within an organization – they are the ones taking on the greatest levels of responsibility and delivering on their commitments. They are the ones that put the needs of others, as well as the needs of the organization, ahead of their own.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor. They make bad decisions. link] mikemyatt Thanks for sharing Rob.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

“My way or the highway&# leadership styles don’t play well in today’s world, will result in a fractured culture, and ultimately a non-productive organization. The best leaders are focused on leading change and innovation to keep their organizations fresh, dynamic and growing. You must get your employees to engage.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I only care that they are totally committed to making a positive contribution to the organization. Great leaders lead all people under their care, not just those who agree with them. If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

The following list of suggestions is my gift to you in hope that it will allow you to outsmart those that feel they cannot be outsmarted… Define Acceptable Behavior : This first thing all CEOs need to do is to accept responsibility for any “corporate crazies&# who have taken residence in their organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. Are IT organizations ready for the challenge? How to Design Your IT Organization for Constant Evolution. How to Design Your IT Organization for Constant Evolution.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Unfortunately, your typical high school curriculum doesn’t cover that subject, but we felt they needed to interact with people in a commercial fashion. I had been an engineering manager at GE, so my areas of expertise included managing projects, inventory, and finances, all of which would be helpful.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I said no, not an organized one. I'm hopeful that today's comments will help us all process things in a healthier fashion while not forgetting the sacrifices that have been made for us. Share and Enjoy: View Comments Jane Yesterday I spoke with 5 men from Ireland that are here in the US. Best wishes Erin.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. For managers of industrial-era organizations, the economics of investing in disruptive opportunities were vexing. Such was the nature of disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The capacity to operate a 747 is incompatible with social media smarts. In the case of Qantas, the collision came when a marketing gimmick collided with far-reaching challenges to the company's internal operations; when the Twitter channel was mistakenly perceived as purely external instead of (inevitably) internal as well.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion. We are not proposing the elimination of functions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Companies are both operators and investors. Shift to providing advice on business models, not just strategy and operations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. By banding together, firms in an industry can make life harder for free riders who seek to act less responsibly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Executives who buy into this myth set up their own shadow IT organizations, introducing extraordinary complexity into the digital architecture. Integrate your digital skills with operations, marketing, and all the other kinds of functional expertise a business requires. Test those innovations quickly, and pursue only those that work.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. Size once gave organizations purchasing power. Most existing big organizations — the 800-pound gorillas — subscribe to Michael Porter's value chain framework. Big Isn't Enough. Being big ain't enough, anymore.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Perhaps the greatest of these misconceptions: The notion that, particularly in big organizations, the lean methodology alone will be enough to allow innovation to flourish. But to simply assume that these are present inside a large organization would be a mistake. or you might not. The boat can turn on a dime.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In fact, it is most often the organizations that demonstrate a “heard mentality&# when rushing to adopt the latest ideas that are the farthest thing away from being innovative. Simple : Whether the new idea is intended for your organization, vendors, suppliers, partners or customers it must easy to use.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. That knowledge helped them understand how to make change happen inside an organization. ” Make no mistake, they have substantial relevant experience.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. How can you possibly be expected to grow an organization if you’re not growing yourself? If you are anything less then you are not only cheating yourself, but you’re also cheating your organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

If you’ve grown to really rely on that person, “you may feel deserted and alone,” says Anat Lechner, a clinical associate professor of management and organizations at NYU Stern. “Ideally you should operate at some level of overcapacity so that when you lose an employee, you don’t need to panic,” she says.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

As I’ve said in other posts, great leaders have the innate ability to call on the right skills in a contextually and environmentally appropriate fashion. The truth about why some organizations succeed and others struggle and fail is more complex than the desires and actions of any single person.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. Culturally, organizations that are too data-driven (yes, they exist) will blindly follow the implications of flawed models even if they defy common sense or run counter to business goals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

This approach is often executed in a pre-canned fashion. All organizations are different from one another. For-profit organizations differ from non-profit ones. In fact, even within for-profit organizations, the need for a certain type of leader may change as situations change. All Rights Reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. Financing the clean economy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances.

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