N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Disengaged teams stem from disengaged leaders. If we look around and see that people are disengaged, that leaders are driving toward tactical outcomes and short-term wins, and that organizations are blindly driving ahead. After all, some apps do not run on old antiquated operating systems. We chase short-term wins.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Successful leaders in Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations and Medical Scientific Liaison positions will use their resumes to market themselves as cross-functional leaders that have made an impact across many aspects of the business—not just the scientific areas. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. Have you ever been at a loss to identify the motivations of a team member or peer, or felt like they were from a different planet? Well, you could very well be working with a Millennial.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. We work closely with many leaders who are running functions or divisions in large organizations.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. We demonstrate that agile organizations possess both strategic and tactical agility. Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Northern Command. ” -Tilman, Jacoby.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Section IV: Tactics. Great leaders tend to be tactical geniuses and display a strong bias to action. Section IX: Team Building. Great leaders create great teams throughout the entire value chain. Leaders who operate behind a veil of secrecy are only setting themselves up for a rude awakening.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Remember that great CEOs see themselves not as masters of the universe, but as inspirational servants, catalysts, teachers, and team builders…Again, I would strongly encourage you to think “leader&# and not “dictator.&# Reflect back to your time as a student…which educators brought out the best in you?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

It is my experience that they either lack the personal skill sets, or haven’t built the right executive team to lead change, they just don’t recognize the need for change, or they just don’t care. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Kudos to Invoiceberry for figuring out this effective lead-gen tactic too! These plans are tailored to meet your financing requirements which is a huge bonus for those seeking funding through banks. It’s also heavily geared toward financing, making it a good choice if that’s a priority for you.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Treat your brand as an asset not an afterthought: If building brand equity is not a key strategic focus for your executive team don’t be surprised if your brand remains in stealth mode. Continuity should flow from values to vision, mission to strategy, and objectives to tactics to process.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Those professionals that have self respect, and demonstrate a true respect for others regardless of their station in life, are much more likely to be successful over the long-term than those that use the tactics of disrespect to humiliate and intimidate. Once this is done, many other pieces of the team will fall into place.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Think About Finances. Surround Yourself with a Great Team. Continuing on this theme of not thinking of yourself as a one-man-band, surrounding yourself with team members who are significantly smarter than you is essential for anyone who’s at the head of a fast-growing company. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

They're the ones on behalf of the team who step up and do a faceplant with an oncoming tomato. link] mikemyatt Thanks for sharing your observations Mark…Most leaders I know have taken more than a few tomatoes for the team:) Ron Mike, I agree that real leaders will make themselves known. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Tom.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. The first type is known as tactical performance. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The same is true for any team or organization.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2024

It’s a centralized system that collects, stores, and processes detailed employee information, enabling HR teams to work more efficiently and make data-driven decisions. With a centralized database, HR teams can easily manage and retrieve employee records, eliminating the need for disparate systems and manual data entry.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

How do your organization’s strategic and operational goals inform what work roles will be needed in the future? This is also an excellent time to begin planting the seeds of a knowledge culture – an environment where every member of the team enthusiastically shares what they know for the benefit of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In medicine, physicians not only begin managing and directing teams early in their careers, but they rise through the ranks uniformly. Despite this lack of focused attention toward development of leadership capabilities in trainees, evidence suggests that leadership quality affects patients, healthcare system outcomes, and finances alike.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

According to “Spin Selling” author Neil Rackham, when Xerox first established a sales operations group in the 1970s to take on activities such as sales planning, compensation, forecasting, and territory design, group leader J. Second, they must be strategic and tactical.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A full-service agency will also have an account, finance, and creative team. They manage marketing operations. Marketing operations specialists oversee day-to-day functions and use data analytics to evaluate overall performance. They also ensure that systems are linked, and alerts are sent to the marketing team.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. Creating transparency into its operations is the starting point for marketing to help CFOs understand where and how value is being gained or lost, which makes budgeting discussions much more productive. Ask for the CFO’s help.

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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. These collaborations happen in a transparent way and should not be confused with the harmful collusion tactics that we should be vigilant about.).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Organizational politics refers to a variety of activities associated with the use of influence tactics to improve personal or organizational interests. For example, it may be the case that a manager needs to exert a large amount of pressure on a team to get something done by using the power of their position over others. So what is it?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

That said, the way to minimize the impact of discrimination is not through bureaucratic mandates or by playing the diversity card – these tactics increase the diversity gap and heighten resentment. I seems odd to me that people promote diversity as a response to racism when in fact, it is a form of racism.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Diversity on your founding team will give you strength. Different operational skills. If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. Similar work habits.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

They should be incorporated into integrated solutions that eliminate redundancies, and build in tactical leverage points. It must be actionable through tactical implementation. With your permission I will teach these concepts to my creative team. Actionable : A successful idea cannot remain in a strategic planning state.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. They were also cautious.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Liu knew the rules made sales more difficult, but Almond's policy was clear, and he wanted to make sure that every member of the sales team understood it. Ho looked flustered. Are you okay?"

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They didn’t want this book – they wanted a tactical book on sales and marketing. When I see a client’s executive team start to let go of the Gravity and embrace the dynamic methods I’ve developed to help them think differently about their business. We can listen to our teams, listen to our customers, our markets.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

you could create a video on this and present Jason Oiler How to handle a team member who is your most talented and intelligent but who also has a horrible attitude. Jonathan Heng Hi Mike- Consider these topics: - Legacies of Leadership – How the impact of effective leadership inspires the organization to a higher standard (ie.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Operational Statistics. Formerly sainted icons went down in disgrace.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

link] anna smith I just read an interview with Kent Williams, a team leader for Thomson Reuters. I showed this to my team, and they got a great laugh out of it.” ” People in my life that I consider great leaders all have a sense of humor (even if it’s gallows humor).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. The astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree™ and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It’s also a massive operational challenge because companies are not set up to make very frequent pricing changes, whereas currencies can move hugely overnight. For example, one MNC we interviewed would give all local teams price lists fixed in USD and determined by U.S. Russia is just one example. HQ without consulting them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature. Our bottom-up view was markedly less optimistic than the top-down story that the company’s management team had painted.

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