Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Organizations have many walls that hamper culture, development, and operations. While we love our “bottom line” tangible measures of results, Beth Beutler of H.O.P.E. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” ” – Michael Jordan. Follow David. Follow Beth.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. A leader simply operates at their best when they understand their ability to influence is much more fruitful than their ability to control. Bottom line – what you do or don’t surrender to will define you.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

And the bottom line is that trust is anything but soft. Trust needs to become baked into the DNA, strategy, and day-to-day operations of all aspects of business because it impacts relationships with all the business stakeholders. Customers are willing to speak up, organize, and boycott when their expectations aren’t met.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

Other leaders operated machines. Well, they were made up of interchangeable parts. Leaders aren’t super-powerful beings that design and operate organizations. They’re made up of unique human beings, not interchangeable parts. Give up control. Children may pull up plants for fun. Bottom Line.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

The hotel opened in 705 AD and is still operating. Professor Makoto Kanda from Meiji Gakuin University studied the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan Hotel and other long-term operating businesses to understand their longevity. Picture the playground teeter-totter with one side up and the other down. Impressive. His findings?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 27, 2014

There are some moments in your career that leave an indelible imprint – moments that end up defining WHO you are. ” And sometimes, you get to ask a brave follow up question, to those who have witnessed the moment. This sets up a wall between management and the rank-and-file that is very, very hard to knock down.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

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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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2018

People show up with emotions that affect how they act. People have lives outside business that affect what they’re like when they show up. They come up with good ideas. That’s operational trust. Bottom Line. When someone asked him to sum it up, he said, “In the end, it was all about the people.”.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

These priceless individuals value results and the bottom line. The leaders people want to follow balance bottom-up and top-down decision-making. They’re pros at the “science” part of the job, knowing the technical, operational, financial, regulatory, and process components of their job stone cold.

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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. Simon operates from London with a Dublin-based support office. Not really.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

Topping the list of experiences is a thorough understanding of your marketplace; most often, your candidate will have previously operated as a senior leader within a relevant sector. The CEO might find it incongruous the drive for re-invention and accelerated growth bottom and top line with market realities.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2013

When it comes to understanding how to balance the need to keep a sharp eye on the bottom line and keep a workforce fully satisfied and productive, some managers and companies seem to get it while others don’t have a clue. Tony, a newly hired sales manager, went to his manager, Joanne, and confessed: “I screwed up!

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

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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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

AND then, I became a large team operations leader. And also importantly, I knew how to measure their impact on bottom line business results. Except for one random dude who came up to me after a keynote I gave that first year. I’ve lived want I yearned to teach. I had taught leadership decades before in my HR roles.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

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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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face. The bottom half is comprised of 11 Reactive Tendencies. How do you show up as a leader? As our context change, we have to grow with it.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Too often, information technology and operational tools are minimized as costs to be controlled. If you screw up, own it. Clearly, excessive cost control at the risk of the companies operational foundation played a role.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Leading executive search firms operate in very specific ways to find top leaders who can take a company to its desired future state. While executive search firms have been around for decades, there’s been a recent, revolutionary shift in the ways executive search firms operate. How do executive search firms work?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. His story is told in Made from Scratch. Most [leaders] are made.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The residents of those islands had never seen airplanes, or canned food, or many other things that the military uses to support operations. But they were intelligent people and they observed what the military people did to make all those goods show up. The soldiers would go up into a tower with little poles sticking out of the top.

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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. You should also know that this year brings with it new taxation and new regulations that may add expenses and affect the way you operate your business. Start with a post-mortem of how your business operated last year.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Posted on March 24th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Is the customer really always right? 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.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Amazon’s impact is so pervasive that business leaders in nearly every sector around the world need to understand how this force of nature operates. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

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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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The truth is, it was a good way to fill up the space on the wall when we moved into our facility.”. If done right, a Statement of Cause sets the foundation for culture that aligns strategy and influences operational execution. I complemented the CEO on the impressive presentation of their vision statement.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

You set up a kind of conflict debt. In part 3, Davey focuses on “what you can do to systematize conflict so it’s a part of the standard operating procedure of your team.” In this case, you become the absentee boss and set your team up to fail. What if one of the team members gets fed up, rolls her eyes, and walks away?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Vukelic notes that boutique firms create team structures to work on projects, and their “top-to-bottom” approach offers the client extraordinary attention to detail. This sets both the client and candidate up for success on the first go-around, saving everyone involved valuable time, money, and energy.”. Typically, Ms. Earlier, Ms.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2019

The executive signs the company up for everything. A top executive gets bored with day-to-day, boring yet efficient and profitable operations. He or she decides change will spice things up. Boss’s Bottom Line. Business book authors today come complete with pre-designed change package. See paragraph above.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

From my perspective, the issues surrounding conflict resolution can be best summed-up in three words…&# Deal With It. &# While you can try and avoid conflict (bad idea), you cannot escape conflict…The fact of the matter is that conflict in the workplace is unavoidable. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

In stressful circumstances, as leaders, we need “to be the person to pull others up, set the right tone, and keep everyone else on track.” Here’s the bottom line : We can’t—and shouldn’t—erase emotions from our lives. When you are in a position to make the lives of the people around you better, step up.

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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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Rich Gee Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Are you someone who shows up to work, or are you the person who shows up on fire for what you do? You’ll show up, perform your tasks, and clock out. You begin to understand the intricacies of how your company operates and the way every piece fits together to form a bigger picture. That’s when the magic happens.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

There was no riding the elevator up to mahogany row on the top floor. A radiotelephone operator (RTO) carried the 20-pound radio and talked on the field commander’s behalf—the reason: enemy snipers looked for signs to identify the leader as their first target. .” Why the insistence on a title when the role is obvious?

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Karl Moore takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to understanding what drives millennials and generation Z and how the education system they were brought up in has informed their worldview. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Buried within the text, Peters and Waterman offer the bottom line of how to identify excellence in companies. Customer capitalists abide by the Golden Rule with customers, whereas financial capitalists make decisions with the bottom line as their only guide. Perhaps not. Love and greed. You know them when you see them.

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