Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

They bring: Local Market Insight : Their deep understanding of Minneapolis’ business environment is invaluable for entrepreneurs, providing insights into regional trends and opportunities unique to the area. Fostering Innovation : Encouraging out-of-the-box thinking, these coaches help entrepreneurs push beyond traditional boundaries.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

They bring: Local Market Insight : Their deep understanding of Minneapolis’ business environment is invaluable for entrepreneurs, providing insights into regional trends and opportunities unique to the area. Fostering Innovation : Encouraging out-of-the-box thinking, these coaches help entrepreneurs push beyond traditional boundaries.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Agility, innovation, disruption, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment, and above all else a bias toward action will lead to the creation of change.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 24, 2024

Where outside programs require great expense, these solutions for inward mobility leverage internal assets, expertise and resources that most organizational leadership can’t turn down. If you already use Situational Leadership® practices, how could these opportunities continue moving your people from potential to performance?

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

When you make everyone feel as though they belong and avoid creating unnecessary divisions, you open the doors to communication, cooperation, innovation, and motivation. The post The Biggest Leadership Mistake You Can Make appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. Most of all, you […]. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Several years ago I wrote that you can’t fake leadership. In my “day job” as a product manager I create software products that help companies fight against internal fraud. In my “day job” as a product manager I create software products that help companies fight against internal fraud.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

This may sound harsh, but the truth often is… I’ve witnessed far too many people in positions of leadership that wouldn’t recognize an opportunity if it hit them squarely in the face. If you cannot recognize, attract, and acquire opportunity you should not be in a leadership position. Click To Tweet.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

They are risk managers who believe in protecting what was rather than embracing what is, and what will be. . They are opportunity managers who believe engagement to be more valuable than silence, they believe in dialog not monologue, they believe in change and innovation – not in status quo. .

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. I Think Not.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 24, 2017

From time to time through the years, I’ve written on the difference between leadership and management. I am revisiting the subject now because it’s not enough to understand that leadership and management are two different things. Of course we do have defined tasks as leaders, and managers have a specific role to play too.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The keystone of effective governance lies within the trapeze act of balancing stakeholder interests, harmonizing corporate objectives, maintaining legal and ethical standards, and ensuring a robust risk management system. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. But recently, these financial outcomes have been found to predict only about 50% of a firm’s market value. Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s. Marketing departments deal most often and immediately with the side effects of poor quality. Access to global markets.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader. Jennifer V.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Quotes on community stewardship, leadership and related topics. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Strategic planning, how-to instructions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points. Similarly, marketing loves the virality that social media and network effects facilitate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Pressures from institutional investors for stock price increases, as well as stock-based compensation for executives, have led many business leaders to manage to the "expectations market" of the public stock exchanges. In other words, we must turn our attention back to the real market and away from the expectations market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software. But CEOs serious about confronting autonomy opportunity and risk should consider four proven organizational options.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. Low-carbon leadership isn’t just confined to the coasts. Government Risk management Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. We asked the management team if we could eliminate the narrow metrics and bonuses, which rewarded only tactical performance, and focus more on the adaptive. Before, tricky problems would be redirected to a risk manager.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If as a leader you don’t take the time to get to know your team members on a very personal basis you simply won’t build the trust necessary to successfully weather the seasons of leadership. Which markets, partners, clients, or other opportunities can add significant value to our business? to hit your objectives?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Unfortunately, failing to assess the risk of the status quo does not mean the risks won’t materialize—it just means you won’t be adequately prepared when they do. If you are a member of a leadership team facing a critical strategic decision, you have an obligation to address these biases before inaction leaves your business irrelevant.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

So, do companies now need to manage risk differently than they have in the past? First, in terms of managing the current uncertainty. The ups and downs of the stock market, shaky economic outlooks in different regions, and other various events are creating a great deal of volatility that may be short-term in nature.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. By understanding the data around which leads go on to become great customers, a sales leader can then work closely with their marketing colleagues to figure out new sources of potential customer prospects.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Data from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) shows that the vast majority of college graduates want to amplify their commitment to good causes through their employer. Volunteering offers participants the opportunity to strengthen their skills, broaden their networks, break out of a career rut, and find new meaning in their job.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Years of economic mismanagement.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. When they are compelled to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering…two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

The same fate had fallen the electronics industry, whose innovator (the Thomas Edison Electric Company) fell behind others in leading the trends and usage. Promote and graphically portray your company’s designated cause-related marketing activities. Photographs convey thoughts, ideas and experiences. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

That's my management tip for today. Andy Grove, Intel's legendary former CEO, famously touted the virtues of paranoia as a leadership asset — running scared about imagined enemies or competitors. A gradual accumulation of innovations, however small, prepares any system to respond rapidly to crises or demands for change.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Innovative Then and Now… Still Creating. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. Individuals and organizations are more resilient than they tend to believe. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. NASA is one organization that has in fact put a lot of effort into predicting which individuals would succeed as project leaders.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Courage and leadership. Professional innovation. I was then challenged to come up with such a program, the result being the Leadership in Action Awards. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

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