Next Level Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

At least three things seem to be critical for executive leaders and their leadership teams in a BANI operating environment: agility, seamless, no drama collaboration, setting the early warning radar system to high. Insist on transparent and open communications as the engine of trust. Role model it. Forewarned is forearmed, folks.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Don’t get caught in the trap of perpetual spending or development as a solution. Process by default will never provide the benefits of good process engineering by design. It is in fact working down through the aforementioned hierarchy that allows process to be engineered by design to support mission critical initiatives.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2013

By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. The quest for perfection fires a great leader’s engine and should fire yours too. Leadership Miscellaneous Operations & Strategy Success Brian Layer Good Leadership leadership and perfection leading towards perfection making right decisions N2growth perfection'

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I like to call this collection of systems the organization’s “ Human Operating System.” ” Your firm’s Human Operating System is, of course, informed by your vision , enabled by your strategic plans and is translated into company culture. Here are the key parts of every Human Operating System: 1.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

Back then, the vast majority of Akamai’s 100 engineering staff had been recruited directly from MIT and other top universities. Make it a point to keep the lines of communication open, so that team members feel free to speak to you about day-to-day operations. He is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

An engineer by training, he began his career as a Navy officer and member of the US Naval Construction Battalion (Sea-bees) and the Navy Dive Community. In 2005, he brought his experience and insights into the performance of engineered systems to McKinsey and Company, where he worked as a consultant and member of the Operations Practice.

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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 21, 2013

Do you value operations, maintenance, customer service , engineering, information technology , sales , finance, marketing , accounting – all departments, equally? In Good to Great, Jim Collins explains the best CEOs are not external hires, but brought up through internal development.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Indeed, the European Commission regards them as the engine of the European economy. In relative terms, this may be a small number, but when set against the 20 million or so SMEs operating across Europe, it’s a vast number of innovative firms. The post Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

In order to reliably maintain an organization nothing beats a well-organized and well-developed hierarchy. It is a dual operating system. The second operating system does not take away from the existing organization but it adds to it, enhances it, feeds it. John Kotter provides that extra something we need in Accelerate (XLR8).

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Ghosn spent two decades building a colossal partnership between Nissan and Renault that looked like a new model for a global business, but the alliance's shiny image fronted an unsteady, tense operation. Edward Newton. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This led him to develop what he called an “idiot index,” which calculated how much costly a finished product was than the cost of its basic materials. A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle,” he repeatedly declared. It made his engineers engage in first-principles thinking. Musk’s focus was on root causes.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

While my personal practice is focused on providing leadership advice and counsel to Fortune 500 CEOs, as the senior operating executive at our firm I also have oversight responsibility for our talent management practice. From my perspective, I can’t imagine not integrating services throughout the talent management lifecycle.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Guiding Principles: A universal operating standard that guides decision-making both personally and organizationally. The technique in developing a vision is to do it as a team. The team who must buy-in must also have a role in developing the vision. The Innovative Leader "Out Thinks". . gray values vision'

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Leading Blog

MAY 16, 2020

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. To streamline operations and control costs. He was born in the U.K.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In 1943, Lockheed Martin commissioned an engineer to create an experimental team to begin work on a secret fighter jet for the U.S. Your innovation team need not operate with the same degree of secrecy as Skunk Works but should be given the autonomy to explore and develop new and innovative projects. Form an innovation team.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Part of the problem is that we have developed a mindset of indefinite optimism or hoping the future will get better with no plan—the future just-sort-of-happens approach. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Creativity & Innovation'

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Unlocking the full potential of your marketing operations requires a precise blend of strategy, technology, and insight. This article provides a blueprint for those looking to refine their marketing engine, ensuring every component is tuned to perfection. It’s about more than just hard work; it’s about working smarter.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

[As a leader], you—not the IT department, nor the VP of IT, nor the chief information officer (CIO)—must understand, drive and be accountable for how technology is structured in order to reach the strategic goals of the operation….Technology Younger generations will not operate like the current generation of leaders ….If

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. The combination of these six words, derived from Latin, translates into an executable language leaders can use to overcome the challenges in overall organizational performance and development. Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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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 today’s post I’m going to focus on what you want out of an investment partner post closing.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2019

A highly engineered conversation—engineered serendipity. And collisions can be engineered. Your requisite variety group needs to operate with energy and an expectation that the right answers will arise from the right kinds of interactions together.” Put people On A Collision Course. Advance Iteratively and Emergently.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? I believe great leaders will mentor and coach subordinates for the purpose of identifying and developing other great leaders. Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Understanding the Duties of a Chief Commercial Officer In the past ten years, the role of the Chief Commercial Officer has evolved to include more than just sales operations. The CCO often serves as a crucial bridge between a company’s day-to-day operations and long-term goals, offering valuable insights that influence its direction.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The authors define performance as “what an enterprise does to deliver improved results for its stakeholders in financial and operational terms. Then ensure that performance initiatives are engineered to promote the necessary mindset and behavioral shifts. Health is about the how. Act : Generation of energy.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

Moving forward requires seamless systems and technology platforms, taking advantage of the latest technical developments, meeting a range of consumer preferences, and processing massive amounts of data to improve the outcome of things.”. Most of these digital giants operate with only three or four layers below the CEO.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Flexible Work Arrangements and Pay Flexible work arrangements are not commonly offered to F1 team employees, especially those in roles that require on-track activities, such as mechanics, engineers, and drivers. In F1 racing, teams must find the best drivers, engineers, and mechanics to compete at the highest level.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership. But one angle that hasn't yet been covered is the brand-inspired cultural revolution he led inside the organization.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

With so much stuff coming at me from all angles, daily prosperity relies on spam filters, Internet search engines, and personalized music and movie recommendations. Machine learning develops predictive capabilities with a form of number-crunching, a trial-and-error learning process that builds upon statistics and computer science.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Ford did not think up the combustion engine or automobiles, Edison did not think up incandescent light bulbs, Larry Page did not think up search engines. Most don’t even care to find out—and most app developers fail. Let’s look into the history of some household entrepreneurs and their industries. Can it really be that simple?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 15, 2020

First, let’s talk about software engineering. The main objective of studying this career is to know the tools, techniques, and methods to develop quality software and solve all the problems that arise during its development. Here’s what you need to know about the prospects of your software engineering degree.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

As the leader, once you’ve developed a healthy relationship with feedback , you need to ask yourself: what’s the right tool for you? Some systems are designed for engineer personalities that crave a high level of detail. There are a lot of business consultants and nearly as many solutions for “fixing” a struggling organization.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

DaVita operates more than 1,800 dialysis centers and employs over 40,000 people domestically. He then founded Crescendo Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and Catalyst, a private foundation supporting Colorado-based nonprofits and micro-lending in the developing world. www.shortcuttoprosperity.com.

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