Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. That theory, says Roger Martin, “had the unfortunate effect of tightly tying together two markets: the real market and the expectations market.”

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy). In fact, many investors simply don’t carry much clout, or add very little value once the deal is closed.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

As the investor leader, you are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. Part four will balance needs with compromises and float tangential opportunities to expand horizons and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘pink giraffe’ management candidate. The bar is set high.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. So, what’s wrong with tenure you ask?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

As the old saying goes “you only get one chance to make a first impression,&# and often times it is the perception of appearance that determines whether or not you are even afforded the opportunity to get up to bat. The truth is most people when first meeting someone will quickly attempt to size them up.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Recruiters might also be inclined to let a company’s hiring managers bear the brunt of vetting with little transparency on why this candidate was even selected. When companies partner with N2Growth, they get transparency, including bi-weekly meetings where updates are given on go-to-market activities on behalf of clients.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 4, 2011

See the small (size: 5-point) print on the bottom of your receipt?&# To make matters worse, my wife and I went through the store looking for a suitable replacement, but it was virtually empty due to the holidays. &# So I put on my best Rich Gee smile and politely asked for the manager. Customer Service is a part of marketing.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

It’s also important to understand that a toxic culture cannot exist if toxic people are not allowed to take up residence. Bottom line - toxic individuals kill productivity, and if allowed to run unchecked can have a much broader and deeper impact on an organization than one might think.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Bottom line…personal responsibility and accountability have always been the ultimate leadership “hot potato&# in that everyone wants to be in charge, but few are willing to take ownership of the never-ending obligations that go along with the privilege of leadership. What say you??? 2 Tweets Who’s In Charge?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

The achievement of current goals and objectives free up the time & create the resources to move on to bigger and better things…Trying to do too many things at once will impede progress, dilute effort & energy, add to chaos and lead to burn-out. Bottom line…success equals focus.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 4, 2011

Watch This Video I hope it provides a new perspective on the leadership vs. management argument. When working above the leadership line you are working “ on “ the business in a true leadership capacity, and when working below the line you are working “ in &# the business in more of a management capacity.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

You know you’ll have to work smarter and harder every day to improve your bottom line. — and what you need to do externally — with customers, marketing campaigns, and so on. Without effective leadership, your employees have no idea what is important, what to manage, or what success and failure look like.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. will go into decline.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

While I’ve often addressed what it really takes to create a talent driven organization, few companies seem willing to make the requisite investments needed to successfully align their actions with their management speak. If your company doesn’t have a Chief Talent Officer, Chief People Officer etc.,

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

They were the born leaders we all grew up with. I meant this post to be more of a thinking exercise than a choosing-up sides and fighting till the bitter end drill. They were your class presidents, team captains, club leaders, and the people who held virtually all the available leadership positions you can imagine early in life.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I have a lot of friends, colleagues, and clients who lost their job and quickly took up with an organization as an account executive. This is basic sales management. It must be with a company that spends big bucks on marketing, advertising and promotion. This is a big one. It must have some type of salary base.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I am currently finishing up the book and I am frankly blown away with all the great ideas, tools, and practices he espouses. Pick this up today at Amazon. Get Shareaholic Tagged as: Book Yourself Solid , Branding , Clients , Marketing , Michael Port , Sales { 2 comments… read them below or add one } Michael Port 11.23.10

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 18, 2011

You have to have your head on straight all the time, attack each problem head on, and make sure you clean up the kitchen after you’re done. Sometimes you need to armor-up, get your troops in order, and take on the enemy to make the obstacle disappear. Bottom line, If you are going to have battle scars, so will they.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bottom line, organizations are seeking to reconstitute themselves as a network of teams, ditching the traditional hierarchy. Leaders are at the bottom of the pyramid supporting those in the team above them and not the other way around. His new book is “Wake up and smell the coffee – the imperative of teams” [link]. Not really.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

No is not all it’s cracked-up to be…Still don’t believe me? It means your vision is not understood, your team is not aligned and your talent is not performing up to par. The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

A few years ago when I was managing a high energy, informal, friendly, and fun team, I could count on everyone to work well together–with one exception. We “flex” and show up differently depending on the situation, the people around us, and what is needed. People are extraordinarily complex individuals.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 3, 2014

Top-Down or Bottom-Up? In general, there are two types of approaches to change in an organization: top-down and bottom-up. Author Bios: Dr. William Seidman , CEO and President of Cerebyte, is a recognized expert on management decision-making in high-performing organizations.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. Bottom line…Just because a business has a particular advantage doesn’t mean that it can disregard sound business logic.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Bottom line…Don’t manipulate for personal gain, rather facilitate for mutual benefit. i.e. Will my employees ever respect/lean on an assistant manager rather than the manager? To the extent that anything under your direct or indirect control is scarce or proprietary your ability to create influence will increase significantly.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 17, 2019

Invest in training for all hiring managers. Consider making this training compulsory for anyone involved in hiring and go one step further by requiring a level of competence to be demonstrated before authorizing the manager to undertake hiring for the organization. Review your hiring process. Measure your retention and loss of talent.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

As I’ve said many times before, things don’t always have to boil down to either/or types of decisions – not everything must end-up on the altar of sacrificial decisioning. Bottom line…check your motivations. With the proper perspective and focus it is quite possible to be both efficient and effective.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Give me real leaders who possess courage, vision, and a bias toward action, and spare me the timidity of mediocre managers posing as leaders. If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Lost Ancillary Revenue : On average, a single account is good for a 30 -40% cross-sell and up-sell revenue increase over time as new products, services, joint ventures etc. Over a 10 year period of time, assuming only 2 annual referrals, without any cross-sell or up-sell value being added-in, you just lost another $200,000 dollars.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2019

Unfortunately, the term is often confused with management, which can be defined as the process of dealing with or controlling things or people. Not just from the bottom up, but from the basement. When organizations are led from the basement, management is ultimately unnecessary. So, how can we fix this conundrum?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Bottom line…the way you identify leaders is not through psychological profiling or some miraculous transformative process. Identifying leaders? Have we really degenerated to this point? You identify leaders by their actions and their performance. Identifying leader… [link] [.] E-leader need to recognize the INTERNET new challenge.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

According to Christensen, you keep nimble and respond to up-and-coming innovations at the bottom of the market. The Product Management Perspective: Product managers operate in a very interesting position (in light of Clayton Christensen’s theories): they need to innovate and keep their products viable.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., Business models must be designed with great care at the outset, but they must also be fluid in order to react to changing market conditions and avoid becoming stagnant. are also not business models.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

That’s two hours when I could have been curled up with my book (er Kindle), catching up with The New York Times beyond the headlines, or in a really daring move, simply lying in bed relaxing and talking with my husband. Me and the 99 percent feel your pain.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium. Bottom line – leaders who build a static business doom themselves to failure. Not Customer Focused : Leaders not attuned to the needs of the market will fail. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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