N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    I love those articles because they’re great opportunities for data mining on leadership.  A strong leadership point of view is memorable. 

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? Innovation Capital.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. The first type is known as tactical performance. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. Overdoing Tactical Performance. Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2024

This ensures that organizations can stay up-to-date with the latest HR best practices and technologies. These features enable data-driven decision-making by providing insights into workforce metrics, performance indicators, and other key HR data points. Use a scorecard to evaluate the systems against the requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The real-time feedback means we will learn very rapidly how communications or engagement tactics have been received, thus optimizing our actions in days rather than weeks, as might be the case with traditional approaches. Along these lines, California startup LEDR Technologies is pioneering techniques to predict team performance.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Most companies are hard at work building technology to better protect themselves and their users or customers. But technology can only get us so far. And what tools or tactics can your team deploy to address these threats? Hacktober is also a great learning opportunity for the security team. Weak passwords? Physical security?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. They should be incorporated into integrated solutions that eliminate redundancies, and build in tactical leverage points. It must be actionable through tactical implementation. It must be actionable through tactical implementation.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wasn’t nearly as dazzled by Jim’s statistics and metrics as I was his outlook on life. Never confuse power with leadership. Be willing to change your tactics, but not your core principles. Where Jim fell short in my opinion was that if you’ve heard Jim before, there wasn’t a lot of new information.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Take your pick of the metric — profit, market share and customer satisfaction — we win.”. The shock of the “bad dream” had been central to helping the company extend its leadership for many years to come. The CEO of an autonomous region for a multinational called with a problem. We’re too successful,” he said.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. Today, Weaver’s mass-mailing tactics seem quaintly out of date. How technology is changing the way we work. We’ve come a long way. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

The tactics are clear, well-documented, and offered up in a myriad of flavors. Instead, the manufacturing-era qualities of individual heroism, delivering product on deadline (whether proven or not), and contribution to high-level, often unaccountable business metrics were the main determinants of employee competence, success, and promotion.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

The metrics also changed. The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?” For its background check solution, Checkr wasn’t getting the results it wanted from traditional sales and marketing tactics as it expanded into new market segments. The results?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Others may simply see no alternative to trying to keep the brand going at any cost, even if that means aggressive discounting, cheap licensing, or other tactics that erode long-term brand value. Profitability isn’t a useful metric. Perhaps the source of the problem is that it’s not clear when a brand should be euthanized.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

A notable example I witnessed was when a VP of R&D was bent on using a new machine technology that made ingredients inside a package look twisted like a chocolate and vanilla soft serve ice cream. Corporate culture and design integrity, as well as brand equity, are often compromised in the process.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 29, 2019

And to be honest, it wasn’t hard to get people talking, and certain themes took shape very quickly: speed of service, restriction of access, rigidity of policies, complexity of technology, easy of process. Technology has dramatically changed our expectation of what fast, convenient and “broad selection” means.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

It’s an inside-out process and CRM systems are there to provide data about progression (or not) through that company’s funnel steps — the famous “pipeline” metrics that dominate so much talk about sales. But Gartner research (see here and here ) indicates a very different contemporary buying reality.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This is the impulse that leads to detailed requirements and specification documents, but, as we’ve come to understand, this tactic rarely works in software. This was our success metric: X and Y participants; Z matches; percentage of completed projects. (We

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Romney's Boston staffers would monitor these voluminous streams of disparate data to sharpen their tactical decisions. The database focus also allowed the Obama camp to think expansively in its approach to metrics. "We And it may have been a smart plan, but the campaign botched the execution.

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