N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. Instead of offering discounts, focus on product and service quality.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2017

It was the sidearm of choice for Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill Coty, “Bat” Masterson and Wild Bill Hickok. However, a pistol with interchangeable parts would not only be more efficient, he could realize his dream of an assembly line process for greater productivity. Wild West performers sported Colt pistols.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 29, 2015

The product of an entrepreneurial household, he cut his teeth in banking before running (or helping run) four small, growing companies. For the last seven years, he’s been helping entrepreneurs clarify, simplify and achieve their vision by mastering the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). […].

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Sure, you can do a ton of research to forecast how customers and suppliers will react to an incremental change to an existing product or service. Whether new or old ideas, all successful entrepreneurs ultimately operate under the same guiding principle: They make their customers so happy that they gladly give them money in return.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Despite a natural tension between the front of the house and the kitchen (in other industries, that tension is between operations and sales) his retention rate is unusually high, over 80% of employees have been there over five years. Can you have it all? I recently interviewed restaurant co-owner Rob Evans.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Can diffuse the negative energy in a crises and channel it into productive action. Balances day-to-day operations with a longer term view. Partnering up team members as peer support to help one another. An Example. Here’s what such an informal competency could look like in the call center director world. A Legacy Mindset.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 3, 2023

“Credentialism runs wild in slack labor markets, ratcheting up qualifications well beyond what is genuinely needed to do a job,” explains Johns Hopkins University’s Katherine Newman in her recent book Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2014

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services […]. Special Operations Command UChicago University of Chicago USSOC Voltaire Western Union The Wall Street Journal Whirlpool Corporation'

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

The seemingly more attractive (and logical) option is to do more and more – the theory being the more markets, products, and businesses a company engages in, the better the results. Mired in the complexity of an unrelated product line, Campbell’s leaders keep plugging along trying to do more of the same, only better. This is not true.

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Company Apparel Competitive Advantage Long-term 177

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Activists and politicians demand the modernization of energy production, supply, and consumption. Rapidly-growing Asian economies need them to support their population and production boom. What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. Sustainability is the new business benchmark.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services and transportation companies. Special Operations Command University of Chicago USSOC Western Union Whirlpool Corporation' His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […].

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2022

.” Frank also came to realize how much he loved and believed in the products and services his company provided. Hospital operating rooms could go dark. Factories could lose production and become less efficient. Factories could lose production and become less efficient. Cars could malfunction. Nobody responded.

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CO2

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Entrepreneurs Operating System). Then a training model to develop consultants nation wide to deliver the product. EOS seems to simply skip over this fundamental on how it suggests a business should operate. Additionally, entrepreneurs have a way of letting the idea machine run wild. One big problem it lacks strategy.

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RapidStart Leadership

JULY 18, 2017

Should we launch a new product? Eons of conditioning in the wild has set the default to “caution.” If you can do this for your operation and the decision was still worth the risk, there’s a strong sign to move forward. To break the stalemate, here are nine ways to help you make that decision with confidence.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I spoke with Nick about their research and their book, WILD THINKING: 25 Unconventional Ideas To Grow Your Brand and Your Business. What is wild thinking? Wild thinking is what happens when you pose 25 thought-provoking questions to 25 intelligent, creative leaders in organizations as diverse as Google, Gap, Time Out and Twinings.

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Wilde Brand Open-book Creativity 67

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. and ATIG, Productivity links. Once a brand’s appeal begins to erode, it will require significant time and expense to recover. link] Scott Williams Very well said sir!

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 26, 2015

In this competitive marketplace, an organization’s ability to innovate by staying ahead of the competition and delivering products that command the market’s attention is more important than ever.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

There is also evidence to suggest that the entrepreneurs that are in operation are less creative and innovative than their forebears. Indeed, his data shows that research productivity has declined by a factor of 41 since the 1930s, which equates to over 5% per year on average. Hype run wild. in 1985 to just 5.3%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Many organizations today are wondering how to get into machine learning, and what it means for their existing analytics operation. And it has the potential to make human analysts wildly more productive. Turning your current analytics operation into a machine-learning-savvy “model factory” requires some changes, of course.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2016

How was it possible that they missed the fact that ALL brains operate this way, even their own? Why is ‘listening’ a ‘soft skill’ when it informs all client interactions, team productivity, and creativity? Did readers not grasp how our brains are wired to make it highly unlikely we understand what others mean without bias?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. And, you operate in a fishbowl. They may not be the first to go; but eventually, and in many cases when it’s too late, the founder who hasn’t made the turn will be removed by the investors or by the board of their newly public company.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

One of the by-products of being high-profile is that you get hangers-on. What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career? Most mean well and want to associate with someone successful. Some are groupies, and some are outright users. The art is to discern and marginalize the weeds from your path.

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CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses. One of the wild horses kicked the man’s only son, breaking both his legs. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Executive Coaching Wilde Strategic Planning Taylorism 87

CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses. One of the wild horses kicked the man’s only son, breaking both his legs. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Executive Coaching Wilde Strategic Planning Taylorism 87

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2019

A pendulum tends to swing too far at first, and pretty soon we were in the second Wild, Wild West. We give each business unit as many resources – tech support, product management, marketing – as we can to enable them to operate as autonomously as possible. But there’s always tinkering to be done.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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CO2

JANUARY 5, 2011

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Just as both “Jobs and Gates reaped enormous benefit from studying the works of their contemporaries, extracting crucial insights, and applying those lessons to develop new products, says Ron Friedman in Decoding Greatness , you can too. Nearly every example you admire was developed using a blueprint. 4 Don’t Mimic, Evolve.

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Engineering Succession Audience Metrics 329

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration and requires minimum experience of 1,500 hours of flight time, 500 hours of cross-country flight time, 100 hours of night flight time, and 75 hours of instrument operations time. The second question to ask, then, is how important it is to capture user data in the wild.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

In the VUCA world in which we now operate many businesses have become more agile, networked and team centric in order to respond to the challenges of more competition and digital disruption. However, up to now many of these approaches have been implemented in functional areas like sales and operations, and the C-suite has been left unchanged.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 14, 2016

The ability to collect large amounts of data is increasing daily, and organizations are attempting to use analytics to transform this data into usable information to help them gain better knowledge about their products, services, and customers.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

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. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

They therefore seek investors who understand their initial losses and can facilitate secondary rounds of funding when their operations grow. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced. Public-market investors, therefore, cannot hope to become wildly rich as can some lucky private equity investors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The authors of a Harvard Business School working paper, Goals Gone Wild , reviewed a number of research studies related to goals and concluded that the upside of goal setting has been exaggerated and the downside, the "systematic harm caused by goal setting," has been disregarded. An operations goal might articulate a cost savings.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. The constant need to drive towards operational efficiency can be avoided through the creation of new organizations.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But the strengthening creates a serious challenge for the big American multinationals with large foreign operations. The standard concern is that the high US dollar hurts America’s manufacturing cost position because US production costs are inflated by the dollar’s appreciation.

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