Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 17, 2012

Top Row: Steve Jobs, Herb Kelleher; Bottom Row: Steve Wozniak, Tim Cook, Colleen Barrett, Gary Kelly. He was – if you refer to technology and innovation. In Jobs case, I’d suggest this was creativity, innovation and technology. Builds up the organization: Servant leaders place the success of the organization, first.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Underinvestment in Technology. Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Failing technology. A company of Southwest’s scale does not get this far behind in technology without repeatedly ignoring the advice of their IT department. Invest in Technology.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Of course, part of that entailed reestablishing the company’s reputation for cutting-edge technology. In 2022, he upped the ante, investing $10 billion in OpenAI to acquire just short of a majority stake. Innovation powerhouses don’t leave innovation up to chance. From top to bottom, everyone was expected to get on board.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Now I applaud the store for the use of technology to create a more accurate account of inventory, but to run a business you actually have to talk to your customers! He did all this barely looking up from his IPAD. The bottom line is that technology should assist the sale, not create it. What wasn’t great?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

Likewise, just because someone has failed in a previous position doesn’t mean that they might not end-up being a top performer for your company. I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up. Also, start-up companies in the Fujitsu technology accelerator program work in the satellite locations as well, creating a company-startup mashup. But what does this mean?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

While I could go on ad-nauseum with day-to-day operating examples of how a lack of KM discipline can adversely affect a business, I think I’ve probably dredged-up enough painful memories for now. There is an old technology axiom that states “usability drives adoptability&#.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2014

How can new leaders at organizations large and small help stir things up in a positive way that produces new innovations, generates new energy and engages staff? Nadella, by contrast, set a strong direction from day one, clearly laying out a destination in his focus on “mobile-first, cloud-first” technologies.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

These companies have placed themselves far behind the technology curve because tenured managers hire employees with obsolete skill sets and together they create mediocre solutions. The bottom line is this…as an employer you need to possess an extreme bias toward performance.

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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. I Think Not.

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2019

Many business leaders are perplexed by the task of leading in an ever-increasing technological world. Yes, we are leaders of people, and yet it feels as if technology and other digital demands keep us from investing in our most valuable resource, our people. Prioritize the Person, as Well as the Technology. “I Listen deeply.

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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. We must slow down the technology speed and its consequences. They're the ones on behalf of the team who step up and do a faceplant with an oncoming tomato. Thanks, Sami impassioned Hi Mike.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 15, 2014

I have also observed up close and per sonal the leadership styles of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Scott McNealy, Mitt R omney and a number o f others. That''s from top to bottom. T hen the mee ting was open up to questions. Learn more about David and UP YOUR GAME at DavidBradford.com.

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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. Get outside of your old thought patterns and seek out people, technology, collaborative relationships, process and any other solutions that can improve your business. Thanks again for the comment Mark.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 29, 2011

Flat organizations, technology, competition, and complexity. So what are you and your staff giving up, and at what cost? Do you – and your organization – respect the sacrifice employees make to meet the bottom line more than you respect their staying whole, integrated, and balanced? You work incredible hours. Tweet This

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

The most important job for startups is to focus on their (probably one) product and to subsequently scale up. Optimizing innovation makes up the majority of what established organizations already do today. They require great technological conversions. But technology may, in fact, be a minor part of the task.

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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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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

They also flatten compensation structures so the difference in pay-scale between the top and bottom is not astronomical. They ask good questions that open up possibilities and that help people find their own solutions. They flatten the traditional hierarchical chain of command and create networks. Allow leadership to emerge.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Have you noticed the slow advance of the implicit idea that technology could create super-employees on which our workplaces place undue expectations? Speak up against the systematic killing of spirit in the workplace. You can make a difference in this, and you will see the impact on your bottom line.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2012

Driven by technology, our interconnection and inter-dependence as individuals, as companies, and as countries are expanding exponentially. It used to be that strategy was the province of the top of the organization, and the bottom was responsible for execution. Using technology to manage at a distance. Managing the Mid-Space.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Technology Changes How We Think. One big problem caused by technology is that you’ll quit learning because you don’t have to depend on your own resources anymore. What kinds of things do you do differently today because of technology? Where have you stopped learning because you depend on technology? Bottom Line.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 17, 2019

How well does your company communicate and live up to its employee value proposition to its existing employees? Strong onboarding will shorten the time to effectiveness of a new hire which will impact on your bottom line. Measure your retention and loss of talent. Review your talent attraction strategy and approach.

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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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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 25, 2012

Some of us remember the days when we were excited about the possibilities for technology to save us time. Have you noticed that when a co-worker is up against problems outside of work, it often influences their ability to do be at their best at work? We really believed that that all of this connectivity would make us more efficient.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 28, 2013

Forbes the Worst CEO Screw-ups of 2012. Valuewalk says it “used our own proprietary technology to make the final decisions.” The people there used an NCAA basketball-style bracket and had readers vote to come up with their champ: Zynga’s Mark Pincus, who made all of the other lists. Valuewalk’s Worst CEOs of 2012.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

When a new industry surfaces, the early adopters (first-movers) set-up shop, validate proof of concept, carve out their niche, and build very strong, if not in some cases, category dominant brands. Clearly this was the case for many of today’s most successful bloggers.

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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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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. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Bottom line…if you have high employee turnover (see “ Cutting Employee Churn “), a fractured corporate culture, a lack of leadership development and mentoring programs, regressive compensation programs, and a lack of C-level focus on talent then talent cannot be your biggest asset. I Think Not.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 24, 2011

The position of Product Manager is the single most important individual contributor role at any technology (product-focused) company. In my experience, trust is the most important behavior for product managers to master, and is summed up nicely in The Speed of Trust : “When trust goes up, speed goes up and costs go down.”

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Amazon’s business model has not only turned the retail industry and cloud computing inside out, but now its tentacles are squeezing media and advertising, and disrupting the state of technology, the economy, job creation, and society at large. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2010

The second trend is technology’s recognition of the first trend. First is the time pressure for our attention. People simply don’t have the time to listen to, or read, unnecessarily long forms of communication. Emails, voicemails, instant messages, text messages, blogs, Tweets, Facebook updates, etc., I Think Not.

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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. Effective (N2Growth) [.]

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

The ecological divide can be summed up by a single number: 1.5. The social divide can be summed up by another number: 8. A small group of people that you can fit into a minivan owns more than the “bottom half” of the world’s population: 3.8 The spiritual divide can be summed up by the number 800,000. The social divide.

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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. Clogston Hi, Mike.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Stop hiding behind the old and antiquated belief ‘you’re above all that mundane stuff’ — you’re too important/elevated to have to know/understand your own technology. Grow up and learn your tools inside out. .&# — Yes you do. Screw this up and you cut your sales dramatically. It’s your business.

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