N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

I believe the same characteristics that are present in the heart of a warrior are also present in the most successful executives and entrepreneurs. They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated, and that they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Coronation marks a new era of leadership, vision and progress under the British monarchy. The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member).

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones. Usually, entrepreneurs have lots of ideas, but it takes them time to really implement them. Leadership. SWOT analysis.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?” Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.”

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Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

The Future of Operations. At a time when the customer end of the business model seems to be getting all the attention, executives must not neglect the equally important operations back end. This will inevitably have a significant impact on operations. Agility cannot be achieved without first tackling complexity.

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System Enterprise Architecture Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. Accenture, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, has created a vision of the operating model of the future for consumer industries.

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Strategy Content Business Model Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Agile minds are our richest resource for sharpening our competitive edge. Patients undergoing complex heart operations, clients getting legal advice and venture capitalists investing millions in entrepreneurial teams might understandably want to know the cognitive health of their doctors , lawyers and entrepreneurs.

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Venture Capitalist Ethics Human Capital Drucker 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. and compete successfully.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Instead of making the leap to an entirely new form of organization — a radical change not without its pitfalls — perhaps we should think more seriously about the problem of agility itself. Frank and honest leadership is usually enough.

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Groupthink Agility Diversity Retail 8

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Picking the right approach to leadership gets the most attention, but execution may be just as big a problem. There are a number of ways to do this, as outlined in co-author David Silverman’s leadership and management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World.

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Silverman Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

Ostensibly, young companies are “acqui-hired” more for their best people than for any real interest in their products, services, or ongoing operations. Leadership teams and newly acquired talent alike typically and unfortunately overestimate their possession of those qualities.

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How To Agility Policies Long-term 8

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. It’s not very agile.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. “I’m an entrepreneur through and through,” he would say. Our revenue is up by 14%, EBITA by 12%, and order intake by 13%.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. And, of course, it would have to learn how to operate in India, a notoriously complex market.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Blog Post ).

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