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What Can Leaders Learn from Elite Athletes About High-Level Performance?

Leading Blog

Indeed, executives often see themselves as industry or functional domain expertswhether in tech, health sciences, finance, or as an engineer, designer, or head of operations. For example, evidence shows that for most of us, operating on fewer than six hours of sleep is equivalent to operating while drunk. In the U.S.,

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Older Executives: Keep Your Eyes Wide Open

Rich Gee Group

Management teams are always looking at the bottom linealways. Lets do the math Im not saying this to scare youIm saying it to wake you up. Over the years, youve moved up, earned those raises and promotions, and you deserve every penny. If youre still operating like its 2010, thats a problem. But it's also an opportunity.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

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Capital vs. Influence

N2Growth Blog

Astute investors mitigate risks and help to insure operational success by adding value to the business model, and by filling gaps that may exist in any of the areas I mentioned in the opening sentence of the preceding paragraph. Will I have unfettered access to other CXOs within your portfolio companies? . Thoughts?

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Bottom line…success equals focus. I Think Not.

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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Bottom line…Just because a business has a particular advantage doesn’t mean that it can disregard sound business logic. Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement.

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Loyalty vs. Tenure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation. The bottom line is this…as an employer you need to possess an extreme bias toward performance. Walking into these organizations is often like traveling back in time 20 years.

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