N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. If you believe the hype, social media will immediately solve all your problems and require no time, energy or effort on your part.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

It’s also ideal for managers, who in the past have often seen talent development as an overwhelming task. Armed with bite-size coaching tools, even the busiest managers can find time to teach one narrowly defined skill and follow through to make it stick. And yes, it gives your people a very brief jolt of energy.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005) ‘Father of Modern Management’ and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2002 Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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Leadership Newsletter Drucker Strategic Planning 50

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. Ben : Yeah, I think always of Southwest, and it’s actually probably a little different take on the spirit, but I always think of Herb Kelleher and the natural high energy that they have in the excitement and energy around that. Bad Boss to Servant-Leader Bad Boss 6:12 24:18.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 186

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. Ben : Yeah, I think always of Southwest, and it’s actually probably a little different take on the spirit, but I always think of Herb Kelleher and the natural high energy that they have in the excitement and energy around that. Bad Boss to Servant-Leader Bad Boss 6:12 24:18.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. They also hide the declining energy density, higher cost, and lower flow rates of these new resources.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. Managers spent a great deal of time on the plant floor watching Norman draw suggestions from the employees while asking questions about the jobs that they were performing.

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Process How To Attrition Operations 14

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. This book states the case for more of a macro-focused approach to management. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Conflict, when well managed and focused on a team's objectives, can generate more creative solutions than one sees in conflict-free groups. New members bring energy and fresh ideas to a team. Misperception #1: Harmony helps. Smooth interaction among collaborators avoids time-wasting debates about how best to proceed.

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Teamwork Efficiency Team Long-term 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Characterizations of what happened in the early years of PARC (founded in 1970) range from strategic fumbles to "wild geysers of creative energy" perfectly appropriate to early-stage invention , but those early years didn't yield the stream of profitable innovations that Xerox had imagined. PARC fell off the innovation radar screen.

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Innovation Business Model Wilde Brainstorming 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. But is this a realistic expectation for directors?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

Despite the bitter disappointment of failing to get tenure, I landed a great job and went on to spend six exhilarating years as executive director of the Economic Policy Council, managing a debate across the political divide and testifying on the Hill on issues from immigration reform to LDC debt. But in my early 40s I hit a second wall.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Asked about retirement in 2002, he replied , "I had a great-grandmother who worked until she was 108 and then died in an accident.". And we just can't know if the management approach that served the company well for decades would have been as effective in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime crisis. He apparently doesn't know how.

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Insurance Long-term Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Insight Center.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Since 2010, we've been conducting an ongoing survey of managers' attitudes about the strategies of their organizations ( click here to take the not-for-profit version of the profiler). For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp.

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Crisis Mayo Strategy Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Individual symptoms in each domain, such as sleep, appetite, energy, and concentration, are categorized using color-coding — red (severe), orange, light orange, or green (absent or mild) — to flag patients’ top-priority concerns.

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Report Mayo Health Care Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

A leader with significant experience in negotiating international energy agreements moved from Petronas, the national oil company, to Telekom Malaysia where she acquired skills in operating an integrated telecommunications network. Talent management Leadership Developing employees'

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet, when the company shifted from being an energy supplier to the hucksterish energy trader, the charitable activities were dispensed with. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Executives never stayed long. Corporate Culture. Communications. The News Media.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Likewise, where mechanical engineers once predominated, the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are increasingly looking for software engineers, energy management experts, and data scientists able to build electric and self-driving vehicles.

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Industry Technology Engineering Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. But they focused their energy on the technical issues — methods of connectivity, standards of information sharing — without having asked a fundamental question: What new things could each of our connected devices do that people would actually want them to do?

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Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Women's Leadership Exchange

SEPTEMBER 15, 2006

She was our closing keynote at our very firstconference in New York City - November 2002. She founded the North Dallas Democratic Women to give more power to women in the Democratic Party in the sixties, and managed her first campaign in 1972 to elect Sarah Weddington to the Texas Legislature. The energy. Wade before the U.S.

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