N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. That is the question.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Are you shooting yourself in the foot with your pricing strategy? Do you have a pricing strategy, or do you set your prices by some ethereal or arbitrary method? How much is your time worth? What does your pricing say about your personal or corporate brand?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 15, 2020

And these firms also plan to change rewards, compensation and benefits strategy, the survey found. They fret over the upcoming election and its potential impact on their families and finances. Consider including employee performance metrics for achievement against these new initiatives.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information. Let me cut right to the chase – real leaders don’t participate in gossip, and likewise they don’t tolerate gossip from others. When you take part in gossip you do none of these things.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Reward talent, innovation, loyalty, attitude, creativity, work ethic, contribution, and leadership ability…not tenure. I want metrics that mirror experience. The bottom line is this…as an employer you need to possess an extreme bias toward performance. Tenure is too qualitative. I agree that loyalty is critical.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

In today’s post I’ll address a key metric that all companies should be focused on – Customer Experience Management (CEM)… Before I go any further let’s get the semantical arguments out of the way…Some will claim that a well conceived CRM initiative includes CEM as a subset.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 10, 2021

A certified team coach, such as a Certified Team Performance Coach (through Team Coaching International (TCI), will address both the productivity (success metrics, KPIs) and positivity (engagement, relationships) of the team. Leadership Coaching. Business coach, finance coach, sales coach. Career Coach. Spiritual coach.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

As the responsible head for all revenue-generation strategies, a CRO is charged with aligning all revenue-related functions. This calls for an individual with exceptional leadership qualities and cross-functional experience. This C-suite role, although not new, has grown more significant in recent times.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 10, 2020

So after spending much of my 20s working in finance and real estate, and then going to business school, the right opportunity sat in front of me. For a few years, this process worked well for us, and I took it on my own shoulders to grow in my knowledge first and then my role and leadership to include more.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. If you incorporate the following metrics into your decisioning framework you will minimize the chances of making a bad decision: Perform a Situation Analysis : What is motivating the need for a decision? They make bad decisions.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I want to frame my thoughts on the topic of significance by beginning with an excerpt from my book “ Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual “: “By the time you reach the CEO level you should be striving to move beyond success and towards significance. Best Neil Ron Inspiring post! Success is temporal. Significance is eternal.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Thanks for sharing this information.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

When it comes to internal communication, many organizations are primarily focused on direct and frequent communications from leadership urging their people to be calm about how they deal with the aftermath. Review the organization’s performance and reward strategy. Implement the strategy with empathy and care. Executive Pay.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

When it comes to internal communication, many organizations are primarily focused on direct and frequent communications from leadership urging their people to be calm about how they deal with the aftermath. Review the organization’s performance and reward strategy. Implement the strategy with empathy and care. Executive Pay.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

It can be a low-cost endeavor if you know how to strategize and plan properly, and there’s no downside to investing in performance metrics. Skills development courses can go a long way for the success of your leadership and business. Invest in yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

But it's important to know the difference between a one-time error in judgment and a decision to pursue a critically flawed strategy — in fact, your future career may depend on knowing the difference. On the other hand, bad strategies lead to bad performance, bad leaders, and bad companies. Communicate to stop the contagion.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan. The right composition and metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This neglect has hindered their ability to leverage data into talent strategies that can help transform their businesses. We base this claim about HR’s digital skills gap on the results of our latest global leadership survey. Implement leadership planning models. Taking these four initial steps can yield big dividends.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Write a captivating summary, do not use an objective, to showcase your strategic leadership abilities and implementation successes. We know you have impressive, measurable achievements, but don’t let the scientific metrics outweigh your business results and human capital accomplishments. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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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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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. Metrics emphasized speed.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Just because something is written in a vision or mission statement, placed on a website, included in company collateral material, or frequently espoused by corporate leadership as a competitive value proposition doesn’t necessarily mean its true. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. We have taken an intentional approach to develop a vision and strategy that takes all our stakeholders’ perspectives into account – one that our customers, carriers and employees can stand behind. What DE&I strategies have helped C. The HR Digest: C.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Much of Charan’s recent work has tilted towards organization and people (books on strategy execution, leadership pipeline, talent and advice on intensity, change, leadership traits, performance management, governance). This is both unfair and simplistic. It ignores what I call the 20-60-20 rule.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Ideas in and of themselves do not constitute a philosophy, principle, or strategy. However while most anyone can cobble together a high level strategic plan, very few can author a strategy that can be successfully implemented. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Companies acquire to accelerate their overall strategy and digital transformation, as Publicis Groupe did when it acquired Sapient for $3.7 Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Set up post-interaction NPS so you can tell if someone is still upset even after an issue is “solved,” start tracking the volume and quality of requests coming in along with metrics relating to revenue (i.e., Establish models, not just metrics.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wasn’t nearly as dazzled by Jim’s statistics and metrics as I was his outlook on life. Never confuse power with leadership. Where Jim fell short in my opinion was that if you’ve heard Jim before, there wasn’t a lot of new information. What really resonated with me was that Jim seems to walk the talk.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. But in a world that is transitioning from physical to the digital and from firm to network, maintaining this traditional focus is a sure-fire strategy for failure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Adding a chief marketing officer (CMO) became crucial as new channels and media raised the complexity of brand building, while Chief strategy officers (CSOs) joined top teams to help grapple with complex and fast-changing global markets. Defining a data-analytics strategy. Putting leadership capacity where it’s needed.

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