N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Sidebar : This post was inspired by a conversation I had last month Mark Oakes ( @MarkOOakes ) about the historical origin of the term&# Plan B.&# Great planning (so long as it's not overdone) actually catalyzes velocity. Thanks for shedding light on a topic that has far too long remained in the dark!

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement. 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. Thanks for sharing Todd.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I really don’t have a problem with increasing efficiency so long as the tail doesn’t start wagging the dog. If efficiency starts diluting productivity rather than increasing it something is woefully amiss. What I want you to recognize is that sometimes the least efficient thing can be lead to the most productive outcome.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In fact, more likely is the case that the opportunity will completely evaporate if you wait too long to seize it. I’ve observed the risk adverse take due diligence one step too far, the greedy negotiate too long, the impulsive jump the gun, and the plodders move to slow. As the saying goes “timing is everything.&#

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Long story short; if a leader receives a vote of non-confidence from their subordinates…game over. “My way or the highway&# leadership styles don’t play well in today’s world, will result in a fractured culture, and ultimately a non-productive organization.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

It is absolutely possible to build very productive relationships with even the most adversarial of individuals. The sad fact is that many business people are absolutists in that they only see things in terms of rights and wrongs. Clarity of Purpose : Everyone who works for me knows that I care about them as an individual.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

The HP Board of Directors has to be focused on prevention and good business practices to build a long term strategy. HP Has Decreasing Product Quality. HP used to be synonymous with great products, but lately quality is not the immediate adjective you would jump to when you describe HP Products.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

And as women, we can learn a great deal about how we behave in the work world; not to imitate our male counterparts, to align with them in positive, productive ways. In the masculine model of success, power and prestige take precedence, compassion, and long term consequences are secondary. Think about our world at this time.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Sell relationships not just a service or product. Yes, a good product may encourage sporadic customers but a good relationship will establish long-term, loyal customers. Take something that has already been done and repackage it in a way that attracts or addresses a need from a different target market! Sell what you love.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

He then proceeded to communicate in no uncertain terms that he wasn’t nearly as concerned about the faults he would find, as he was about how our leader (guess who?) No one remains a leader long without being competent. People will not long support someone who's going nowhere. link] Mike Henry Sr. Great reminder Mike.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. It's also important to very clearly define our terms when working in an organization for the reason MPFriedman describes above.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Baby steps work just as well as long as you keep to a reasonable timeframe. Whatever you consider the “monkey on your back,” just know that you’re better off in the long run by letting it go and taking some new risks…and don’t even think about looking back! You don’t have to rip off the band-aid and do it all at one time.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Long-term experience will either validate or invalidate first impressions.That said, it's the first impression that buys you the privilege of having the chance to be in the game to begin with. Thanks for highlighting that thought in your comment.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If a leader’s primary obligation is for the care and well being of those under their charge, then I would suggest that you cannot be an effective leader over the long-term without love, compassion and empathy. In fact, some of the toughest leaders I know are the most compassionate leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution. As always, I welcome your comments below… Share and Enjoy: View Comments myersk Agree.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

While this coming weekend simply signifies a long awaited prelude to summer for some, it is much more than that for me. They could not be more wrong - I’m here to tell you that strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive terms. The strongest leaders are in fact the most compassionate leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

In my opinion politically correct thinking is a large contributor to a decrease in workplace productivity, and of greater concern, to the moral and ethical decay of our society. Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. How sad is this?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

In the years leading up to 2010, estate planners believed that an estate tax-free 2010 would never happen, but Congress never got its act together long enough to change the law. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Design and re-engineering of products-services. Each product-service is budgeted. Long-term investments plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Public relations plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Study and refine your own core business characteristics.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms. Your comment got me thinking, which grew long enough to warrant a blog post: [link]. link] Allan W. link] Allan W.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2010

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For example, we might call a long-term customer on the day his annual report is due, and take it personally when he doesn’t have the bandwidth to give us feedback on our new product offering, or we might take rejection personally when a new sales call tells us it’s not a good time, not knowing that he’s late for his anniversary dinner.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation. It is about people.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Covey has garnered the loyalty and love of her students, something that she still evokes in my daughters even though they have long since left her classroom. link] Scott Eblin Earlier this year, I spent an amazing afternoon with the wounded warriors at the Mologne House which is the long term lodging facility at Walter Reed Army Hospital.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Make sure that security is included in discussions on new products and services. Their job, in fact, depends on it. Focus as much on culture as technology.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

And, whether by means of Facebook, Twitter, streaming video, or by old-fashioned word of mouth, public relations, or personal sales skill, the goal is to win, right? If that person also happens to be highly qualified, then it will only benefit you and your company in the long run. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Perspective – ability to see or sense the big picture, long-term thinking. You will have created a culture conducive to collaboration, greater employee engagement and enhanced productivity. Only a long-term commitment to maintaining a culture that fosters trust will pay off. 4) Knowledge Sharing -.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Think, for example, of the influence of a strategic adviser who retires from the executive team, or the CEO’s long-standing assistant. His research shows how new employees can succeed without a formal mentor by developing productive relationships with key opinion leaders. Trust in the long-term benefit of the relationship.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

It seems hard to imagine now, with all of the excitement over the arrival of the iPhone at Verizon, but last summer Apple faced a huge crisis that threatened its reputation, one that could have caused it long-term damage. How did Apple achieve this seemingly impossible public relations feat? They now look like fools.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Consider the reputation damage caused by product failure at GM, or unpopular workplace practices at Walmart, or the multibillion dollar fines for fraud levied against Bank of America – which, not incidentally, came in dead last in a recent Harris Interactive reputation ranking. Products and services. Emotional appeal.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Her request was not granted, and not long after, she was written up for an unrelated and trivial infraction. In another case, Janet, a public relations executive, saw the chief legal officer of her company sexually harass an employee, but didn’t report it. ” The Bystander Effect. .’”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

First, they are less likely to take risks – which means they are unlikely to invent new products, processes, or business models. This suggests that in addition to short-term policy changes, Greece needs a longer-term cultural shift. Their cultures’ comfort with uncertainty helps to make all of this possible.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Then a few people adopt the term. And before long, a once-sparkling phrase has gone all Woo Woo on us. Those who occupy even the smallest corner of the innovation “space” will sooner or later use such terms. It may be, as Dan Pallotta points out, the use of certain terms is rooted in an inferiority complex.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

While the days of retiring from one company after a 40-year career may be long gone, many believe that the pendulum seems to have swung far into the opposite direction. In conclusion, it helps to remember that loyalty looks different now than it did during the days of long-term employment with one company.

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