N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Firstly, executive coaching has long been shown to bring ROI to businesses overall, with one study showing that executive coaching produced a 529% ROI and “significant intangible benefits to the business.” Marc Benioff (Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Salesforce), Brian C.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Senior executives need to balance the long- and short-term demands of their businesses, and meetings need to mirror this balance. Roger Schwarz. Leaders also like to solve problems and check them off, and short-term items provide us with visible ways to mark progress. How Top Salespeople Land Hard-to-Get Meetings.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 21, 2019

That takes long term thinking and considering the large scale systems within the country and creating, implementing and adjusting system improvements with an understanding of Deming’s ideas. Balaji Reddie went on to discuss his belief that India is ready and needs to take an Deming approach to improvement country-wide.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Sustaining high growth over the long haul isn’t easy. Leaders who suffer the tough days of turnarounds and manage to resurrect a business are the ones who think about momentum in strategic terms. Winners are suddenly losers. Look at Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders , and Nortel. Each rode the wave of success, only to come crashing down.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In days long since passed, leaders had access to information that followers did not. Because we have been so conditioned for so long to look up the mountain when we hit a stumbling block, by force of habit, we continue to do so. Ponder, just for a moment, how different leadership was back then—in so very many ways. Daunting tasks!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# In fact, more likely is the case that the opportunity will completely evaporate if you wait too long to seize it.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long. LARRY: Sure.

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

Vincent includes valuable ideas from Russ Ackoff on an organizational decision making process (including the importance of learning from decisions over the long term ). 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor? At times different models are useful and shouldn’t be rejected out of hand. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

Unfortunately, the term “thought leader” has been co-opted by so many posers that it’s lost some credibility in the business world. With that in mind, here are seven bona fide business thought leaders I’m watching in 2017—and some of whom I’ve followed and been influenced by for a very long time. So what is a real thought leader?

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Sustaining high growth over the long haul isn’t easy. Leaders who suffer the tough days of turnarounds and manage to resurrect a business are the ones who think about momentum in strategic terms. Winners are suddenly losers. Look at Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders , and Nortel. Like the phoenix, some rise again.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Thinking long-term has led this retailer’s CEO to investigate real estate purchases at lower rates and to buy up high-end equipment now while the prices are low. Where can you find long-term strategies for your business? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. We want to come out strong.”

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 14, 2009

You need to build those relationships to let clients know you’ll be there for them in the long term. Once you have a solid relationship with customers and you help them through a crisis, their memories can be pretty long. Instead, this is the time when you should spend more money with customers.

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Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

Unfortunately, the term “thought leader” has been co-opted by so many posers that it’s lost some credibility in the business world. With that in mind, here are seven bona fide business thought leaders I’m watching in 2017—and some of whom I’ve followed and been influenced by for a very long time. So what is a real thought leader?

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 2, 2011

" The term itself deserves the quotes thus employed in the previous sentence because it conjures in people's minds many different definitions. This results in the need to blame someone external to themselves, and from there, well, that would be an article long enough to give War and Peace a run for it's longevity record. 

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

” – Will Rogers. Information received from any source is considered in terms of accuracy and implication. In terms of future strengths (those things you’ll need to be able to do to lead and succeed in the years ahead: start developing them now. They know the importance of thinking for themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

For a long time, Facebook Messenger seemed to be secondary to Facebook’s core business – a product feature rather than something more. After using Messenger to speak with Rogers, my internet provider in Canada, I believe the new service and others like it could have positive effects on customer service.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Do something well and commit to long-term excellence. I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. Understand conflicting societal goals.

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Management Craft

APRIL 24, 2011

The concept of a fully functioning person from, On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers. What's clear to me is that getting the fundamentals of life right will make the greatest difference in terms of success and happiness. So it is never too late to redefine how we want to live as long as we get to it in small daily ways.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2012

But these challenges demand something else – a new approach to leadership – the kind of leadership that puts the shoulder of good judgment up against the door of immediate rewards and keeps pushing until it shoves it wide open for the possibilities of long-range, future gains. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser. I'm at a loss when it comes to managing Cynthia," Roger confessed. Roger is the oldest son of an electrical engineer in the Midwest. While he longed to advance in his career, Roger had developed a bad habit of avoiding conflict.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

How does the concept help business people make critical trade-offs between short and long term or between competing, legitimate concerns of stakeholders — employees, suppliers, customers and shareowners? Yet this has been a long process of product design, introduction and success. Apple has paid no dividends since 1995.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Likewise, marketing wants to clearly quantify the impact of its long-term branding efforts while finance is more focused on macro-economic drivers of marketing performance, such as interest rates, employment levels, inflation and retail sales. This has spurred re-thinks that include changes to key executive relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

As long as I have to pay 70 bucks a month for high speed internet, is the additional cost of cable really that much? In 1962, an academic by the name of Everett Rogers released a book called The Diffusion of Innovations. If I can pull myself together before boarding a plane, I always respond with Rogers' observation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

After a long search, the surgeons found a new procedure to remove them, but I knew this was, again, perhaps only a temporary fix. Dr. Derek Roger had spent 30 years researching why some people in difficult situations become overwhelmed, while others persevere. The tumors returned a year later, this time in my liver.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

And the flow of words is not likely to abate in the coming months, as articles on the need for a more holistic model of capitalism (including those contributed by Roger Martin , Michael Porter and McKinsey's Dominic Barton in HBR pieces) are expanded into books.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

When such partnerships are done well, they lead to more equitable and inclusive solutions where leaders can consider, and calculate, the impact of their decisions for society over the long run. Like value investing, Social Value Investing employs a long-term investment strategy that unlocks hidden or intrinsic value.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 20, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS A Technique for Producing Ideas: The Simple, Five-Step Formula Anyone Can Use to Be More Creative in Business and in Life! James Webb Young HBR Guide to Better Business Writing Bryan A. Garner Know What You [.].

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

ANDREW: It’s actually a long, drawn-out story I can talk about when I joined the Batten Institute about seven years ago. Jeanne has a good relationship with Roger Martin and he introduced her to the ideas many years ago and all of a sudden these themes began popping out and almost in a design-like way.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Last month, Fox News agreed to pay Gretchen Carlson $20 million to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network’s former Chairman and CEO, who resigned in the summer. Her request was not granted, and not long after, she was written up for an unrelated and trivial infraction.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

And short-term numbers at that. Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. In the end, your shareholders, the real ones—the ones who care about long-term performance — will thank you for it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Segments of the public were outraged at the lightness of this penalty, and Commissioner Roger Goodell subsequently announced a new policy: a mandatory six-game suspension for a first incident of domestic violence. What is the long-term effect on football as a business if all the teams follow these short-term incentives?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 6, 2011

Doing Both: Capturing Today’s Profit and Driving Tomorrow’s Growth Inder Sidhu FT Press/Pearson Organizational transformation is not — repeat not – a zero-sum game One of the most self-defeating mindsets is suggested by the admonition, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.&#

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Perspective – ability to see or sense the big picture, long-term thinking. Only a long-term commitment to maintaining a culture that fosters trust will pay off. Daniel Goleman used the term in his book Ecological Intelligence. Zest – enthusiasm for life, work, learning…. 4) Knowledge Sharing -.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

In a memorable, hour-long PBS interview with Charlie Rose during the 2008 crisis, Buffet gave a master class in how the world got into its economic mess and what we can learn from it. But it has also become clear that the rapid growth of microcredit. has made the loans much less effective.".

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Using probability, it is easy to see that if you have a large enough population doing things in a mediocre way for a long enough time, you'll always get some streaks — think monkeys, typewriters, and Shakespeare. What's more, those streaks were still made by the skillful, such giants as Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby. But we didn't.

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