LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales.

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Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 101

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Resist the temptation to just advance a broad number of disparate initiatives, and alternatively focus your efforts on the completion of a few high impact objectives. The simple reality is that if you continue to add new responsibilities to an already full plate, all of your obligations will suffer as a result. Have a "focused" day.:)

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales.

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Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 90

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

Our Inside ROPE teams were comprised of colleagues in our company’s marketing, accounting, finance, engineering, support, purchasing, and other functional units. They may feel overburdened and resistant to shouldering new responsibilities. As a sales leader, I was responsible for assembling both “Inside” and “Outside” ROPE teams.

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Organization Team How To Career 150

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. People’s resistance to display compassion, other than to family and friends, is what makes it so complex. I don’t know anyone whose been on the receiving end of authentic and appropriate love and compassion that has a distaste for it.

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Blog Leadership Brand Reputation 404

N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer N2growth Author/Moderator Facebook Twitter LinkedIn You Tube Blog Feed Favorite Posts Dont Negotiate.Facilitate Leadership and Opportunity Leadership & Political Correctness How To Make Great Leadership Decisions Buzzwords Arent All Bad Success vs. link] Principal (le?)

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Blog Leadership CEO Brand 315

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. by thecoachingconnection on July 15, 2010 This was reprinted below in its entirely by Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth, who originally [.] This applies to everyone!) [.]

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Blog Leadership Emotional Intelligence CEO 402

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

When you notice an approaching showdown between logic and emotion, resist the impulse to procrastinate. Work within your resistance level. When a task sets off procrastination triggers, we resist doing it. But just how resistant are we? But there’s a way you can give the logical side of your brain the upper hand.

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Strategy Resistance Cost Advice 14

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. Strategic agility enables entire enterprises to detect and assess major trends and environmental changes and dynamically adapt their vision, business models, human capital and strategy to the new reality. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change.

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Agility How To Decentralization Morale 86

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Think About Finances. No matter how good your product, service or strategy is, if you don’t have a good team behind you, the rapid growth of your business can quickly become overwhelming. By doing this, you’ll be able to free up your time and invest it in your overall strategy. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

link] Scot Herrick Best practices excuse management of really understanding their business and strategy. True leaders will most likely intuit a number of best practice scenarios before they discuss, research or implement their own strategy. link] Todd Hockenberry Best practices is a follower strategy.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 293

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Have you ever been in a situation where everyone seemingly agrees on a particular strategy , but somehow it never happens? Over 90% of the managers said that they, personally, were aligned with the strategy — but 50% felt that their peers had doubts. So instead they try to work around it and end up sub-optimizing the strategy.

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Strategy Finance Execution Survey 14

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Yet, my teacher persisted and encouraged me to find a way to make “lemonade out of lemons”.

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Press Release Discount PR Leadership 192

Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

" Not to be confused with the derogatory word which, coincidentally, can accurately be applied to many bureaucrats, creep is a term used to describe a specific strategy nearly perfected by governments. The camels, however, resisted this fact. Here's how it works.

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Blog Leadership Crisis Travel 125

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2015

Resistance to Guidance: Why Sales, Coaching, and Leadership Practices Falter. Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. The post Making Negotiation Win-Win appeared first on StrategyDriven. Relate Articles: Motivation Is An Inside Job.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2020

The metal is pretty resistant to corrosion or rust where even the best give up. Platinum is a soft white metal with a very beautiful sheen. Not only is it ductile but malleable too, which means that it can be industrially processed to make wires or sheets to be used in many things.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2015

That’s a hell of a lot to think about, and that’s why change is so perplexing, so resisted, and often so fought against. Think: health and finances. In short, how does this change affect me, my family, my lifestyle, and my position? The answer to this age-old problem was discovered more than a thousand years ago and has been hidden.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Keynes asserted that a naive strategy in such a game would be for an entrant to pick based on their own personal opinion of beauty; and that a much more sophisticated strategy would be to make a selection based on the broader public perception of what beauty is. Well, it’s becoming increasingly hard to resist that pressure.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 7, 2014

Oh, there’s big inspiration in success and possibility, but be sure it ressonates with your life strategy. ” I was sure my new friend, Laura, (not her real name) was going to tell me about tight finances, a booked business calendar, or kid’s soccer schedules. Trust me, you don’t know the whole story.

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Succession Benchmarking Career Finance 414

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

And our analysis suggests there are strategies that they can use to compete successfully online. Moreover, in instances where borrowers want to shop and compare myriad options in one place, they turn to online credit brokers like Fundera or Intuit’s QuickBooks Financing for a one-stop shopping experience. Eastern Bank).

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Businesses sometimes need to invest in new opportunities that do not fit the current business or current strategy well. But synergy can also come from cross-selling, coordinated strategy, or many other sources. When Innovation Is Strategy. Strategy' Synergy may come from economies of scale. An HBR Insight Center.

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Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Until they figured out what they had to stop doing, the marketing team was perceived to be resistant and ineffective. However, marketers prided themselves on being responsive to every request from product managers, which meant that they continued putting as much effort into low-priority products as those with more potential.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives. In a separate study on digital disruption, we found that adopting an offensive digital strategy was the most important factor in enabling incumbent companies to reverse the curse of digital disruption. The biggest challenges are people and processes.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and detailed plans are signs of great leadership. Could we be overlooking – even resisting – one of the most essential catalysts of personal and business breakthroughs? When bad things happen unexpectedly, it’s natural to resist them. Most leaders are taught to avoid uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

One epiphany from my immersion into the non-private sector is how strenuously social sector organizations resist the notion they have a "business model." Non-profit corporations may not be providing a financial return to investors or owners, but they still capture value to finance activities with contributions, grants, and service revenue.

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Business Model Kaplan Finance Health Care 14

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. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you choose to dive into the social media world without a strategy, without understanding how to create social media influence, you will not be pleased with your results. Following are a few tips to help you build influence online: Have a Strategy - If you want to create success and influence using social media you better have a plan.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 357

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The failure stemmed from resistance in the U.S. Pharmaceutical companies spend millions upon millions preparing meticulous plans for new drug launches – and yet their route-to-market strategies haven’t changed in decades, even though the reality of the market has. What builds management perspectives?

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Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Over the course of a year, we learned a lot about how the Navy trains leaders, and have incorporated many military training strategies into the leadership education for our young otolaryngology trainees. So, we contacted the ROTC to see what we could learn from them. That, after all, is what the best leaders do.

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Training Health Care Leadership Education 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Adoption of these services is still unevenly distributed, as people resist switching from the familiar and flexible interpersonal transactions to electronic ones. Finance Global business Technology' But the possibilities for ecommerce and consumer marketing are enormous.

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Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

So when people believe that they have a strong understanding of a subject — say, finance — they tend to overclaim more, asserting that they know concepts that researchers present to them, even when the concepts are made up. If the answers are vague or confrontational, I would put in for a redemption.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

It’s tempting, therefore, to view the CEO as primarily a thinker ; someone who mulls and shapes strategy. But the best CEOs know that strategy is just theory unless it’s actually translated into frontline routines―unless the rest of the company actually is executing the strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Interestingly, individuals working in customer service, sales, production, logistics and R&D were more likely to feel that bureaucracy was growing than those working in functions like HR, finance, planning, purchasing, and administration. How do you overcome pockets of resistance? Bureaucracy undermines empowerment.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

It’s a risky strategy that can leave startup CEOs in mis-aligned partnerships with unrealistic expectations. They can also run into trouble syndicating later rounds of financing if other VC firms see that they are losing partners, or suspect that they are a “zombie” firm, unable to raise a subsequent fund.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. Top management told store managers and staff to honor requests and obey directives from their new “colleagues”; the resentment and resistance were palpable.

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