N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. The third under appreciated area is the call for statistical leadership. And that was a sincere concern of his.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. Direct Attention Away from Immediate Urges. “We Avoid temptations.

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Long-term Short-term Metrics Rogers 221

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

Among other things, this presentation is a good option for those seeking an example that provides historical business results of an organization practicing Deming management methods. by Will Rogers, or somebody else. Variation, risk and chance within a system mean that individual results are a poor measuring stick.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The more common case, however, is that someone (the coach, general manager, or owner) plays a strong role in consciously and consistently putting together the right players, coaches, and front office that form a cohesive, effective unit. That is why most great leaders spend the majority of their time on the art of people management.

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Team Rogers Diversity Franchising 100

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2013

It takes the “suggestion box” management approach of the 1970s and ’80s and turns it upside down. At AES, the global energy company I co-founded with Roger Sant, we did not always do a good job of carrying out the advice process, especially the requirement to reach beyond the team or business unit where the decision-maker worked.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

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Rogers Leadership Newsletter Strategic Planning 50

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 18, 2011

It calls for absolute clarity about the mission, extraordinary adaptability, and precise management of complex systems. Military work — like business — is risky, pressured, and fast-changing.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

DECEMBER 10, 2010

“I have found it of enormous value when I can permit myself to understand the other person.&# - Carl Rogers, American psychologist "When learning about life and people, make no more assumptions than are absolutely necessary. Ive been doing that as president of Performance Support Systems and as an entrepreneur for the past 27 years.

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How To Rogers eBook Video 94

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Peter Turney, CEO of Cost Technology, suggests using activity-based management techniques to recognize which business activities and which customers are causing a drain on your bottom line. With that understanding, focus on how you will continuously recycle resources from invention to deployment, management, offloading and back.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Processes, trends, fads, perceived stresses and “the system” force adults to make compromises in order to proceed. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. Quotes on community stewardship, leadership and related topics.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder. I’d like to share some thoughts and stories that embody leadership for me. This story is about the notion of real, raw, leadership, and OS!M’s. Leadership is a funny word.

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Energy Learning-by-Doing Rogers Follow-up 58

Management Craft

APRIL 24, 2011

The concept of a fully functioning person from, On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers. What would a model of leadership look like? What would a talent management system grounded in happiness research look like? Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being by Dr. Martin Seligman. Positive emotions.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder. I’d like to share some thoughts and stories that embody leadership for me. This story is about the notion of real, raw, leadership, and OS!M’s. Leadership is a funny word.

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Energy Learning-by-Doing Rogers Follow-up 40

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

The question on the tip of everyone's tongue when this type of nightmare takes hold is, "Why doesn't senior management do something?" The less obvious, but equally culpable, individual is often the manager who fumbles the job of taking this employee to task promptly. I'm at a loss when it comes to managing Cynthia," Roger confessed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

These were among the questions addressed at a luncheon in New York convened by CFA Institute President John Rogers with financial industry leaders that included representatives from private and not-for-profit asset managers, public pension funds, insurance companies, and diversified financial services firms. How Did We Get Here?

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The following article shares one practitioner’s journey to uncover new models and expand his change management toolkit. Change management models. I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management. So whilst I might be a process guy it is change management that pays my mortgage.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Expanding Leadership Effectiveness with Learning Styles. In total, the nine learning styles give us access to capabilities that are broad enough to successfully manage any situation and present a complete portrait of our total potential. Learning styles are not traits or pigeonholes; they are more like a habit or steady state.

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Self-aware Rogers Learning-by-Doing Analysis 232

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Did you notice how quickly the Ray Rice story turned into the Roger Goodell story? All eyes were on Goodell, the Commissioner of the NFL, to step up, assert the League’s values, and provide the leadership needed. They are systemic. These moments are about larger systems of roles, beliefs, behaviors, and history.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

For example, a major bank tried to do a technological transition of their system without sufficient pre-testing. The system crashed and customers didn’t have access to their accounts for three days. Another bank, doing a very similar transition, ran parallel systems and user acceptance training for several months.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

John Shuttleworth, a member of BTFG’s Executive Management Team, is responsible for Platforms and Investments. The company, Australia’s largest wealth platform provider, is the wealth management arm of the Westpac Group (Australia’s second largest bank in terms of market capitalization). Popularized by David M.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In most organizations talent management is left to direct supervisors. The problem for continuous improvement is that managers tend to hire for expertise, not for behaviors such as improvement. Scott Beaird, Director of Talent Management at Tufts Medical Center , told me, "We hire what the manager wants. They struggled.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Roger Martin and Sally Osberg argue in their new book, Getting Beyond Better , that the answer is social entrepreneurs, who target unjust and unsustainable systems — or “equilibria” — and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. Photo courtesy of Riders for Health.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And shortly thereafter (and not long before he died in 2005), Drucker declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was “the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century.”. How should managers alter their approaches to fit the times? A 2014 McKinsey & Co. Embrace employee autonomy.

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Such experience-based engagement platforms — assemblages of people, interfaces, processes, and artifacts whose configurations evolve with value-generating experiences — are the key to unlocking the next sources of value in the system.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Washington's bogged down in games of brinksmanship instead of practicing the art of leadership. Listen to what Robert Gates has to say about it : I do believe that we are now in uncharted waters when it comes to the dysfunction in our political system — and it is no longer a joking matter.we But where are the fire engines?

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Budgeting Rogers Crisis Politics 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and Owner/President Management Program. “For managers, this is not a trivial decision,” Ofek says.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

In their book in Getting to Yes , Harvard negotiators Roger Fisher and William Ury define an interest as a broad desire that a person or group of people have for something. Where anyone stands on a particular issue will be influenced by where they sit in the family business system. The seven stages: 1) Interests diverge.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 26, 2010

Ive been doing that as president of Performance Support Systems and as an entrepreneur for the past 27 years. Our product, ProStar Coach , is a unique virtual coaching system that empowers people who want to take their performance to a higher level. Thanks for joining me.

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Development Rogers Video eBook 104

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. Many books have been written on the subject of leadership. They came from training, team building and people management perspectives. People who are managed by others. Push paper, systems, technology. System upholders. Mid-Manager.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The short answer is intentional leadership. Similar to what we learn from physics, a system at rest stays at rest, and Qubein had to challenge the existing mindset and behavior of faculty and staff who were mired in outdated education methods. As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P. Leadership by Being Engaged.

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