N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 20, 2016

Before we get to the leadership lessons found in Finding Dory, Pixar delighted the theater audience with a short film called Piper. They have to migrate back to their base of operations. There will be a time you have to call on someone else with more expertise or a skill you don’t have. You need to.

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CO2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

For example if you were Kodak and your strategy was to be the number one film maker in the world and no one wanted to buy film what kind of strategy would that be? A strategy is about making a set of decision based on the current and ever changing facts of the environment that you operate in as an organization.

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CO2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

For example if you were Kodak and your strategy was to be the number one film maker in the world and no one wanted to buy film what kind of strategy would that be? A strategy is about making a set of decision based on the current and ever changing facts of the environment that you operate in as an organization.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 7, 2013

He describes it as “ co-operation on steroids ”, an apt description, I think. Those who are skilled collaborators see the value in the tension that disagreement can produce and use it as a bridge to get to something different, or something better. ==. Manage disagreement well. The bottom line for me is that collaboration is hard.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

The other day I came across this little film clip that was, I gather, designed to draw our attention to the need for vigilance on the road. Please watch the film. While operating from intuition alone can be a dangerous thing, there are times when those gut feelings serve a very useful purpose. It takes less than a minute.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2012

." -- Eric Sheninger, principal of New Milford High School, New Jersey "One of the most powerful ways school administrators can use Facebook is to provide parents with a unique inside view of the daily operations of the school.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 20, 2013

Recently I watched a documentary film called “ Jiro Dreams of Sushi “ – it was about 85 year-old Jiri Ono , who is considered to be one of the top sushi chefs in the world, attracting a 3 star rating from Michelen in his little 10-seat restaurant tucked inside a subway station in Tokyo.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. No wasted film, slides, or prints. These are character traits, not matters of skill, practice, knowledge, or experience. You just hit the ‘delete’ button, and it disappears.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2019

The reality of 2019 is that this alone represents a large scope of the necessary skill set to get started using video at the sales level. This takes very little time and can be filmed with a camera at your desk. He started with AT&T, where he built award-winning teams in sales and operations from coast to coast.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. No wasted film, slides, or prints. These are character traits, not matters of skill, practice, knowledge, or experience. You just hit the ‘delete’ button, and it disappears.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

During Tootsie, walking in the shoes of a woman had such a profound impact on Dustin Hoffman that, 30 years later, recalling his decision to make the film brought tears to his eyes in an interview with the American Film Institute. Once you’ve started to develop empathy as a skill, you can make it integral to the work you do.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The debauchery-laden film by Martin Scorsese The Wolf of Wall Street is a prime example of financial corruption, excess, and corporate greed. People who behave like this are what I call Seductive Operational Bullies (SOBs). Some of these people rise to astonishing heights, but in the process they cause enormous damage.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations. One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. No wasted film, slides, or prints. There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

These teams were large — ranging from 66 people in one case to 133 in another — and included members with a wide range of skills and from many disciplines. There was no overlap in the responsibilities of the sound technician and of the camera operator, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. Glitches at Netflix have caused outages as well as strange mashup summaries for different films. Quantum computing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Michael Blake's 1988 book of the same name would be adapted into the 1990 Hollywood blockbuster western film directed, produced and starring Kevin Costner. For instance, increasingly, robots are making their way into the operating room. Innovations like the da Vinci Surgical System is designed to make complex surgeries easier.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

One solution is to use a flexible, fluid team structure that consists of three tiers : a core, an operational level, and an outer network. In another provocative study , researchers investigated how companies could use online role-playing games like "World of Warcraft" and "EverQuest" to build leadership and teamwork skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

How many people in operations truly understand what it takes to run finance or HR, and vice versa? I can think of no better way to broaden your views and deepen your skills. Her cockades are regularly worn by historical reenactors and have been used in historical films.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

At Uber, the idea for the business has been portrayed as this stroke of ingenuity, but I learned it was actually inspired by a product placement in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. Uber was up against taxi companies, which are skilled at lobbying local governments. The same is true for the hotel owners who oppose Airbnb.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Many businesses aren't skilled in talent management or team nurturing. Clusters actively seek the variety of skills, talents, and personalities necessary to create a high performing team (see the Belbin model for a good example of nine discreet team roles.). Team management, in particular, is often a scarcely recognized activity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

What the film doesn’t mention is that so do a vast swath of men , at least those that didn’t die in the mud of WWI without ever having voted. Most are genuinely committed to gender rebalancing as part of this package — if not always skilled at leading it. It is also a damning portrait of the men in their lives.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

While urban areas continue to afford new opportunities to employees and businesses from all walks of life, they are increasingly split between wealthy, high-skill knowledge workers and low-paid service workers. Most cities fall well short of that ideal. Exploring opportunities to integrate workforce training can help close this gap.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

He is a skilled metal fabricator, but that label doesn’t do him justice. In the California leg of the 3DRV roadtrip, I talked with Jason Lopes of Legacy Effects , best known for its ingenious contributions to The Avengers, Avatar, and other Hollywood films requiring special effects, animatronics, and creature designs.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

7 Biggest Communication Obstacles: Lack of people skills, manners. Rather than risk going out on a limb, employees either don’t learn or use their communication skills. This resurgence in photography comes after a conversion of the industry from film to digital. Nourish Communications Skills. Wrong facts.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

The program, led by bank staff who had been training similar groups for years, taught women basic financial literacy and business skills and showed them a film showcasing successful role models in their community. We also paired them with a trainer to help them set a medium-term financial goal and identify steps to achieve it.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. 5) Operational Transparency -.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The story, which apparently has echoes in some other school districts around the country, is but one more salvo in the wars of educational reform (recently depicted in the film Waiting for Superman — dont miss it). His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 12, 2017

After all, investing in new technologies is one thing, but investment in technology also requires investment in training so that your staff have the skills and expertise to implement it effectively. Here you will find some tips on helping your app to get featured thereby bringing millions of potential leads into contact with your business.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Welcome to the paradigms that many of us have operated under for some time. Concepts which have changed names over the years… Peep show | film arcade | silent films | talkies | movies | cinema | video. Futurism is a series of thinking and reasoning skills, backed by planning. Toilet paper. Bathroom tissue.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

My analysis: You achieve your own future, with the help of skilled advisors. Many managers have poor people skills, as well as poor verbal-written communications skills. Nothing – not even reputable films – should be judged only by fickle box office ratings. Self-promotional brochures. We Earn It.

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