N2Growth Blog

MAY 22, 2014

There is a new definition of leadership in our lexicon. Let’s say you have the choice to make between choosing one person for a senior leadership role over another. These are people nationwide in all industries, and discovered that a seismic number are miserable in their jobs. By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This dilemma becomes particularly pronounced during downturns in business, industry, or economic cycles. A Dining Experience: Struggling to Balance Two Worlds Another incident that highlights this struggle involved an upscale hotel restaurant trying to merge high-end dining with a more casual grill experience.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Malaika Myers: Our industry has evolved and experienced rapid change over the last few years and I’m incredibly proud of the way Hyatt has successfully adapted to this dynamic environment. I have held many Human Resources roles across industries at global companies. What were the difficulties you faced during your journey?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. Jonathan’s network was more about innovation. The Guardian : Turns empathy into a lens to better serve customers.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. Jonathan’s network was more about innovation. The Guardian : Turns empathy into a lens to better serve customers.

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Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Imagine, if you will, you are in a large hotel ballroom with nearly 3,000 leaders from 115 countries representing 38 different industry sectors. Building and sustaining trust is part of your leadership and organizational ethos. Photo by Gerd Altmann on Pexels.com. It’s a way of being, not just doing. Start with You.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. Jonathan’s network was more about innovation. The Guardian : Turns empathy into a lens to better serve customers.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

The following season NAIB officials invited Indiana State again, and this time decided they would allow Clarence to play, provided he didn’t stay at the hotel with his teammates and wouldn’t be seen publicly with them. Once again the coach declined. He always said, “You’re as good as anybody, but you’re no better than anybody.”

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It wasn’t long after Michaels arrival that he was impressing his co-workers by offering $100 to a waitress at the nearby InterContinental Hotel to expose herself. With the newspaper industry being what it is, the employees of the Trib had some choices to make. Different people chose different options.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

The topic of industry disruption — “a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses” — is rife with misconceptions. Industry disruption, as Accenture research has found, is reasonably predictable. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. Today GE has once again reinvented itself, as “the digital industrial company” — not bad for an organization founded in 1892.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

For example, a hotel or restaurant chain might measure the average time between remodeling projects as an important driver of health. As with the other measures, what is important varies by industry. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

A community of travelers help us select hotels that meet our personal preferences thanks to Trip Advisor. Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive. Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. The auto industry invented the blockbuster product "reveal" long before Jobs, with auto execs unveiling new "concept cars" at auto shows in an annual ritual of one-upmanship that continues today.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

According to MIT Sloan research , the companies that are adapting to a digital world are 26% more profitable than their industry peers. For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

When brands now have to speak to an increasingly diverse global consumer audience, design is critical to delivering a consistent experience and calling attention to innovations. There is another reason that trust is so critical to the innovation process. Only trusted companies are likely to have this luxury in a crowded marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

This year the new mammals and birds of the industry have begun to strut their stuff. Such systems are taking on incumbents in every industry. Airbnb is not only challenging the biggest hotel chains but also challenging the bureaucracy, going after the New York City housing and tax laws that stand it its way.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Specifically, the study found that S&P 500 companies where the founder is still CEO are more innovative, generate 31% more patents, create patents that are more valuable, and are more likely to make bold investments to renew and adapt the business model — demonstrating a willingness to take risk to invent the future.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper. Throughout the news and business coverage, the feeling that sustainability is crucial to the future of the country and its industries is palpable. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. And on and on. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Today, guests interact with this platform by wearing an RFID-enabled MagicBand, which serves as a ticket for entry, a store of FastPass ride and dining reservations, a hotel room key, a payment system and more. Today, Delta has industry-leading operations in metrics such as on-time arrivals, flight cancellations, and lost bags.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the country's main English-language newspaper. Throughout the news and business coverage, the feeling that sustainability is crucial to the future of the country and its industries is palpable. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. And on and on. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. What we found is perhaps not what you might expect: overall, whether by region or industry, the vast majority of directors say their organizations are not doing talent management well. Among the industrial sectors, materials (e.g.,

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The short answer is intentional leadership. It turns out that academia, like most professions and industries, values the status quo. . Always open to new challenges, he seized the opportunity to lead a university with facilities that were a bit long in the tooth and that lacked any signs of innovating in the future. .

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2011

Having industry experts speak about trends in your industry is a good first step. For example, the health care industry has studied hotel and food companies for lessons in hospitality and food preparation. For your next departmental meeting, think about ways you can introduce your folks to outside thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In my consulting work with large, multinational companies, I see a pervasive anxiety among managers who have trouble finding people for skilled positions, no matter what industry or region. Innovations make it easier to find high-performing people quickly and more cheaply than traditional practices. Go digital with training.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. We have seen these forces at work in many different industries around the world, requiring a decidedly closer working relationship between the CEO and CMO. Leadership Marketing'

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