Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

In the past week or so, there’s been much discussion and debate over the merits of disruption and with it, how we view and understand what it means to innovate. Innovation is vital to the successful completion of these unmanned missions to Mars. And it needed to be accomplished within NASA’s newly streamlined budgets.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

N2Growth, as a premier executive search and leadership advisory firm, recognizes the transformative influence a skilled Commercial Leader can wieldone who interlaces strategic vision, operational excellence, and people-centric leadership into a cohesive path toward profitability and innovation.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When it comes to leadership, the terms manager and leader are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. A manager is responsible for maintaining the status quo and ensuring that tasks are completed on time and within budget.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2024

By fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence, academic leaders create a dynamic learning environment that prepares students for the ever-changing demands of the modern world. They are accountable for devising and executing policies advocating academic honesty, inclusivity , and innovation.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2012

For example, if a company claims it welcomes innovation and risk taking, but then only rewards employees who toe the company line and reinforce the status quo, sooner or later people will simply stop asking questions, innovating, and stretching themselves. Sticking to a budget. Staying focused on a goal. You know the rest.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. At the lower level of an organization, employees usually have direct knowledge of specific activities.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As a manager, your employees need to know what is expected of them in order to meet and exceed your expectations. Make sure you give your team the tools, information, and budget they need to complete their tasks successfully. To be an effective leader, you need to be able to motivate and inspire your team to do their best work.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The arrogant CEO doesn’t value the input of line and staff management.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We’re told there isn’t enough time to implement what we first thought, or that the budget was slashed and now we have to produce the same outcome with less money. We start to push back against the constraints, claiming we need more time or more budget money. It’s easy to look at constraints as the enemy of your ability to innovative.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As organizations increasingly rely on technology to drive growth and innovation, the role of digital leaders has become paramount. Additionally, the CIO must champion innovation and promote a culture of continuous learning and adaptation, ensuring that the organization remains agile despite constant technological advancements.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Dependence limits innovative thinking. And earlier this year, New York’s Mayor Bloomberg doled out awards specifically recognizing the city’s most innovative nonprofits. But here’s the challenge: most nonprofit innovations come from socially minded start-ups that invented themselves from scratch. Most of the 1.5 million do?

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Management must be OK with the team changing the steps, as long as the change goal is met you cannot micromanage the process. Example – Working with a large Coffee and Bake Shop franchise headquarters wanting the district managers to use Coaching & Feedback as opposed to authority and demands with the franchise owners.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

When I was a CEO, I managed to squirrel away a “rainy day” fund for nasty business blips. Having come out of a consumer goods background, I’ve seen many a case of cuts to the advertising budget. Fortunately, in the social media world, massive budgets aren’t required to engage consumers. At best, they are managers.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Today’s Executive Search and Management Consulting firms are famous for espousing “Best Practices.” Today’s successful companies continuously innovate and disrupt the marketplace. He was entirely closed off to innovation. But guess what? Nothing could be more detrimental to your organization. This is simply not the case.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

What happens to most staff and support units when budget time rolls around? Less impacted by budget pinches are revenue generators—or, the numerators. I listened to an IT manager explaining on a speakerphone to a colleague he served in the marketing function why it was going to take two days to get a requested report.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Unless you are a very large enterprise it is unlikely that you have the time, money, staffing, or external professional relationships to execute a brand management strategy such as the one outlined above. Never sacrifice quality: Your products, services, leadership, management, culture, customer service, communication, etc.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 16, 2013

This week''s post is by Andy Posner , Co-Founder & Executive Director of Capital Good Fund ( CGF ), a non-profit microfinance organization targeting the root causes of poverty through innovative micro-loans and personal financial coaching. Maybe you can help! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 2, 2012

Once you master then innovation inevitably happens.”. For example, a new manager who has to set-goals, develop plans and delegate tasks BUT was never taught a method for how to do this. It was just assumed that once you become a manager you know these things. The project got-done, no-one supplied this manager with any feedback.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

Many leaders see their roles as presiders/managers, with a primary focus on keeping results consistent with past performance and on budget. They need to learn to launch new initiatives, inspire others, and champion innovative approaches. For those wanting to make a lasting impact, new skills are required. Innosight's Mark W.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership. Allocate resources, budget and staff while delivering the commitment within a framework of measured accountability.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Stop thinking about managing the risk of technology, tools, and process improvement. Beating your competition to the future will be accomplished by those companies with vision, talent, grit, purpose, agility, creativity, commitment and determination – not just those organizations with bigger budgets.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

We don’t have time” “Our people don’t have the skills” “We don’t have the budget” “That’s not what we do” I hear them all the time. Sometimes they’re said when a company is starting to invest in building their innovation capabilities, sometimes […] GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Have you heard any of these sentences recently? “We

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

They are risk managers who believe in protecting what was rather than embracing what is, and what will be. . They are opportunity managers who believe engagement to be more valuable than silence, they believe in dialog not monologue, they believe in change and innovation – not in status quo. .

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Educational leaders are not only responsible for the overall management of an institution but also for creating a vision, setting goals, and driving positive change. Additionally, the education sector often faces budget constraints, limiting the resources available for recruitment and retention efforts.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 28, 2024

This meant they got to do something usually reserved for managers – making choices and allocating budgets. This effect was more pronounced for highly innovative ideas. Management needs to fully support the idea of giving decision-making power to employees and make the source of the funds clear.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 16, 2013

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In fact, no less than 92% of megaprojects come in over budget or over schedule, or both. Explore the challenges of once-innovative tech giants like Facebook and Google and the factors behind their struggles. But most of the time big visions turn into nightmares. Remember Boston’s “Big Dig”? But you're ambitious.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

These employees psychologically “own” their work, helping move their organisations forward by driving performance and innovation. unable to compete projects on time and within budget. the business is losing marketshare and is failing to innovate. The bulk of employees in the U.K. there is no compelling vision.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 20, 2011

This drink wasn’t invented in a product development lab at Starbucks headquarters; it was the creation of an assistant store manager who took the initiative to experiment and come up with something new and different — and it ended up being a big hit. You don’t have to be an executive or even a manager to be a problem-solver.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 16, 2011

While a designer will solve a problem visually, a manager may solve it by developing a new process. Creativity is about exploring, innovation, and the next big breakthrough. But it’s also about budgets and deadlines. But they're both using the same creative tools and wrestling with many of the same obstacles."

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 16, 2011

Tough-Minded Ways to Innovate. But after Pearson’s corporate life atop PepsiCo, he became an insightful HBR contributor, particularly with regard to innovation. Innovative companies are led by innovative leaders. Successful companies get things done, control performance, spot problems and bring in the budget.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But too few are willing to carry out that principle in policies and day-to-day management. Here’s what happens when you put profits first: Innovation is stifled. Innovation happens when people feel appreciated. When you treat them as a budget line item, they do the minimum. Most people agree, at least on the surface.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The CSO shapes business strategies that balance economic growth with ecological and social impact, turning sustainability into a powerful lever for innovation and brand strength. This level of innovation sets the company apart as a leader in sustainability and technological advancement.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. It includes the board of directors, the management team, subject matter experts, and consultants.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Moreover, COOs are the gatekeepers of risk management, ensuring that all operations adhere to legal and regulatory standards. Problem-Solving Skills : Navigating challenges with innovative solutions. Project Management: Mastering the art of overseeing projects from start to finish.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 4, 2013

All companies, no matter the size, need to continually innovate in order to remain competitive. Innovation is a two-part challenge. Organizations are not Structured to Execute Innovation. So why is innovation execution so hard? It is on time , on budget, and on spec--every day, every week and every month.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The end result being local people who have not received the full value of what is possible, exacerbation by limited budgets, gaps in resourcing—especially staffing, and a dispersed geographical area to manage. It has been a fascinating, enlightening, and at times, sad experience.

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