N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

” This ROI comes from many places, including increasing employee productivity, positive outcomes on employee management, talent management, and retention in an organization because executives who work with coaches are better equipped to lead their teams more effectively. Marc Benioff (Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Salesforce), Brian C.

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Executive Coaching Execution Self-aware Company 318

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.&# If a person has a small business with product people might use, it could be a great opportunity to add another client.

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Blog Leadership Self-aware Crisis 403

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Leaders can be extremely strong in any of the areas above, but if they are not leading effectively or productively, if they are not meeting performance expectations, then they have work to do. Both of these traits are covered in the exam above as either a by-product or a sub-component thereof. Want to find out?

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 310

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Will Rogers. Capitalizing upon change, rather than becoming a by-product of it. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. Case in point, like I joked about earlier, you ruined Everett Rogers’ model of diffusion innovation for me.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Most people are more products of pop culture than they are of training. 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. Being productive and fulfilled.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 1, 2016

Have you been building your business in a way that you can succeed with one good product? Security breaches happen : Nicky Parsons, played by Julia Stiles, was a former CIA operative who knew her way around computers. Hearing Aaron Kalloor say this reminded me of the Kenny Rogers song The Gambler. There’s too much risk.

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Leadership Cost Planning Rogers 120

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 322

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The good news is that you can control a good deal of this, and even more importantly, you can positively influence the fulfillment, productivity and retention of people in your organization. When those goals are aligned with the organization, we see higher productivity and business results. Optimizing Your Talent Investments.

Company 50

Company Survey Rogers Skills 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity. In this experiment, the researchers varied the list of features for the new product. Join the conversation.

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Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

It's amazing how much one troubled employee can undermine a department's productivity. Otherwise positive and productive team members begin to dread coming to work, and the group's best thinking gets siphoned off the company's mission as everyone scrambles to stay out of the bully's crosshairs.

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Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

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. ” They’re using it not just in designing new products but in designing kind of ways to engage with the customer.

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Innovation Tools Open-book Learning-by-Doing 104

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. simple to use (or do) and understand.

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Innovation Rogers NGO Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The party has been selling pretty much the same product for more than three decades now, while market conditions have changed. It's like the flailing companies in Ted Levitt's classic HBR article " Marketing Myopia " that err by thinking their job is to sell a product rather than satisfy a customer need. Lafley and Roger L.

Brand 8

Brand Productivity Products P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By 2007, PBS.org audience growth had stalled and the product pipeline was dry. Its top two priorities — a redesign of PBS.org and a new video player — had churned on for two years with little to show except a thick binder of product requirements from key constituents. The product manager? It’s easy to understand why.

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Team Metrics KPI Rogers 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the leadership of Opportunity's Geralyn Sheehan , a CED specialist, we forged ahead, investing resources to build programs in four areas: agriculture financing, training, and processing; artisan training and product distribution; a rural technical high school and community infrastructure; and leadership development work.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

As people opt into these disruptive services, the big studios and distribution companies, armed with their outrageous overhead structures, will be unable to compete with small production studios designed to leverage novel distribution channels at much lower cost. It was one of the first comprehensive studies of the innovation process.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Doctors operated and told me to hope for the best. Dr. Derek Roger had spent 30 years researching why some people in difficult situations become overwhelmed, while others persevere. Rumination is ongoing and destructive, diminishing your health, productivity, and well-being. Cat Yu for HBR. I was a mess for the next six months.

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Stress Rogers Learning-by-Doing Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. He believes that CEOs and the top management should not be bean counters but rather should be a "product guys.". Strategic judgment.

CEO 15

CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises. Roger Schwarz. The company recently took a hit on the stock market. You and Your Team Series.

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Long-term Short-term Strategy Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

In season three of Mad Men , Sterling Coopers rainmakers — including Don Draper and Roger Sterling — are planning to leave the ad agency and to take as many clients as possible with them. I spoke with him about his findings. HBR: Whats the main takeaway of the research? Its not that creative people arent valuable!

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Cooper Rogers Advertising Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” We see this with Digital India and the telemedicine program.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Digital natives such as Didi and Uber are operating customer-facing mobility platforms in cities around the world. But that’s only one side of the story.

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Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Don''t get us wrong. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.".

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

An advocate will stand by the brand even in times of difficulty, isn't afraid to react to criticism or correct factually incorrect statements about the brand, and will purchase brand products as gifts for friends and family. They will forgive shortcomings (such as price) when buying products, and treat the brand as part of their inner circle.

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Brand McKinsey Loyalty Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We were supposed to be coming up with ideas for improving the company’s customer experiences, but the head of operations could not think of a single new customer service idea to explore. And the merchandising vice president had difficulty understanding why “product” was one of the categories we were discussing.

Brand 8

Brand Reis Objective Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Over the last two years, much has been written about patent trolls, firms that make their money asserting patents against other companies, but do not make a useful product of their own. Both the White House and Congressional leaders have called for patent reform to fix the underlying problems that give rise to patent troll lawsuits.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Comparison Sample 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Levitt agreed, noting that the trouble starts when over time companies come to define themselves not by what they do for customers but by the products they sell or the categories in which they compete. As it notes, “When we operate according to these principles, the stockholders should realize a fair return.”.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

David Foster Wallace provided an eloquent description of how muscle memory contributes to "kinesthetic sense" in a brilliant New York Times article about Roger Federer in 2006. A new product launch can be great training for innovators. That's all well and good, you are probably thinking, but what does this have to do with innovation?

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Innovation Rogers Creativity Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Consider the approach to front line engagement taken at Martin Health System , a community healthcare system in Stuart, Florida, which implemented a new enterprise-wide system for managing patient records and core operations. We were able to quickly define what the finished product would look like before it was finished.

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Technology Software CIO Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments. As a result, a new era is emerging.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

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.”. He added: “Anyone can acquire the ‘means of production’, i.e., the knowledge required for the job, but not everyone can win.”

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

You will have created a culture conducive to collaboration, greater employee engagement and enhanced productivity. Poor organizational trust is also an indicator of lower cooperation, productivity, and sales (Davis, Mayer, & Schoorman, 1995; Davis et al., 5) Operational Transparency -. Fosters humility in upper management.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

One chief operating officer I worked with was appointed to her newly created role with the expressed purpose of integrating two supply chain organizations resulting from an acquisition. Having risen through the supply chain ranks, she spent most of her time reacting to operational missteps and customer complaints.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Operating Officer Execution Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

” Procedural ground rules are useful but don’t help your team create productive behavior beyond, say, everyone being on time and having their smartphones on vibrate. Roger Schwarz. A more productive way to deal with this situation is to have a ground rule about testing assumptions and inferences. Stu Heinecke.

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Construction Rogers Commitment Team 8