N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? If you don’t have direct competition you’ll surely have indirect competition. You will also be competing to retain talented employees that other companies would like to lure away.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently. Product management — at every level — is a leadership role within the organization. Leadership – the personal side is next on my list.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The following fundamental concepts of influence, which if properly understood and implemented, can help anyone become more efficient, productive and successful: 1. What are some ways that influence can be possessed by my leadership staff? i.e. Will my employees ever respect/lean on an assistant manager rather than the manager?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Have a great Thanksgiving Sir.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 25, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Real Dysfunction Today, Hidden in Plain Sight Published by Michael Lee Stallard on August 25, 2010 04:42 pm under Uncategorized Many individuals and organizations today are in a funk. How did we get to this state? why is everyone smiling?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core.

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CO2

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Business organizations are not built for innovation; they are built for efficiency.&# – Vijay Govindarajan In The Other Side of Innovation the authors demonstrate their absolute knowledge of an area that many organizations need more of, innovation! The Authors are both credible and far from academic sounding.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 10, 2021

Within an organization having an objective or goal of 15% profitability – and measuring the goal through proxies of efficiency (time and budget) and customer experience (how the customer experiences the end-to-end process). So, what does this have to do with work, teams, and leadership? Reference: Aporetics (Rescher, 2009).

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

These are critically important to make sure your organizational leadership index is healthy, balanced and aligned with your strategic intent and vision to meet the organization’s objectives going forward. Crisis Leadership exams can help find problems early when your chances for treatment and cure are better.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. It’s really this simple…if it’s not a priority for you to efficiently and effectively engage with your stakeholders, then you need to reevaluate your priorities. Best wishes Sir.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 28, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Five Minutes – a Key to Successful Time Management by Kevin Eikenberry on January 28, 2011 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning , Manage Projects , Personal Development Every leader I talk to tells me they are busy.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day. Women Leadership and Mad Men Some revolutions are bloody, and some are flash-in-the-pan moments.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 1, 2010

He consultants, teaches, coaches, writes and speaks about leadership, gratitude, stewardship and the social/organizational dynamics of organizations. He consultants, teaches, coaches, writes and speaks about leadership, gratitude, stewardship and the social/organizational dynamics of organizations.

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QAspire

AUGUST 17, 2010

Change the tracks for better efficiency. When we research or try to innovate, we essentially do that with the objective of learning. On a second thought, you can only innovate when you don’t have to worry about doing the routine stuff right. Based on your experiences, you should be able to improvise your processes.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Doing things right is efficiency. Effectiveness/Efficiency Matrix. I do not believe Dr. Ackoff was downplaying the need for efficiency, but rather was saying that it may be counterproductive to do things right if we were not doing the “right” things. Doing the right thing is wisdom, and effectiveness.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Know where to apply your energies and you’ll be working faster and more efficiently. Filed under: Leadership Tagged: | competition , goals , John Durfee , success « Three practices of successful product managers Leadership and Product Management » Like Be the first to like this post.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

This is the case because innovation occurs when an individual sees a potential connection between two previously unrelated ideas e.g. shoes + wheels = roller skates. A diminished marketplace of ideas reduces the likelihood the innovative connections will be made to birth new products, processes and businesses.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

As such they were keen to discuss the ‘hard’ variables – profit margins, efficiencies, headcount, labor climate and strategic initiatives. Envision Google without innovators, or Zappos cutting corners on customer service. In 2009, Amazon bought Zappos for $1.2 Boards Pay Attention to Shareholder Value. Jeff Bezos thought so.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

While this sounds simple enough at face value, I have consistently found that one of the most often overlooked leadership attributes is that of a positive attitude. Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. ” Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

While I might spend a bit of time evaluating the most efficient strategy for getting to the other side of said wall, it will ultimately be my focus on the tactical execution of conquering the challenge that will determine my success. Rob [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] }*/.feedback_prompt

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 25, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. In other words you start becoming “efficient.&# HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog. Its even 100% free! .&# That’s a possibility.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If as a leader you don’t take the time to get to know your team members on a very personal basis you simply won’t build the trust necessary to successfully weather the seasons of leadership. Does this effectively and efficiently support our values, vision, and strategy? Does this add value to our core business?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. If you aren’t sure where to get started, take a cue from other companies that have taken innovation to heart and used it to successfully win and keep customers. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. But in a different sense, the health care system is starved for innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit. Here, then, is the conundrum.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2009 it was reimagined as an online shopping festival. Smart business then, is when all participants involved in achieving a common goal are coordinated in an online network and use machine-learning technology to efficiently leverage data in real time to generate relevant responses. The business model is efficient and responsive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Technology supporting innovative teachers and school leaders will be the solution for our students.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. billion in net economic benefit between 2009 and 2011 and is on course to cut region-wide power plant carbon pollution by half from 2005 to 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. In that brutal environment, a handful of private Indian hospitals, led by compassionate doctors, have found innovative ways to drive down health care costs to unimaginable levels while maintaining high quality.

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