N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. People’s resistance to display compassion, other than to family and friends, is what makes it so complex. Should the traits mentioned above be more formally cultivated in leadership development programs? What do you think? Alex Good One!

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Thus, this mindset must be deliberately developed and nurtured by senior leaders – and exemplified in their own behaviors.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now I am researching the first section of my new book “Dipping in the WELL: Women Executive Leadership Learning”. At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. They take some quiet time to think about the individuals who have helped make you who you are. While I didn’t win first prize I did get third.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have witnessed otherwise savvy executives place the need for emotional security and superiority ahead of achieving their mission (not that they always understood this at the time). Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now. consultants, etc.),

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Think About Finances. Finding a good mentor, with a wealth of experience as an entrepreneur or executive in your field, can take a huge amount of the weight off your shoulders. Some of the most successful businessmen in recent history have developed on the advice of a mentor. Photo courtesy of Pixabay. Find a Good Mentor.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Through a study of AI that included a survey of 3,073 executives and 160 case studies across 14 sectors and 10 countries, and through a separate digital research program , we have identified 10 key insights CEOs need to know to embark on a successful AI journey. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs, only to watch the company’s initial CEO return to the day-to-day operations alongside yet another chief executive, who joined well after the founding. The venture’s finances become more complex, and the CEO needs to depend on finance executives and accountants.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

I'm not suggesting that reorganizations are frivolous exercises geared to entertain executives (although I'm sure it seems that way to people on the receiving end ). You have to develop new routines, adjust to a revised cast of characters, and even deal with "survivor's guilt" if any of your colleagues lost jobs or were moved elsewhere.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Changing jobs is an often used and effective way to develop new leadership capabilities. I wrote the following guide when I worked for a large global company (“ABC”) to help support a strategy to move executives across at least two functions, businesses, and countries. These are not educational sabbaticals.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team. Things were looking up on all fronts except one.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments. That, of course, meant he did not have highly competent executives running these functions. The CEO must shift the culture toward one that prizes execution just as much as sales. Later that year, Dave’s got $2.1

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. Carla's an actual executive whose name has been changed.). Carla was literally bred for success as a business manager. Think for a minute.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The failure stemmed from resistance in the U.S. What insights will cause an executive — in R&D or Marketing or Finance — to not only change his or her perspective, but to be able to juggle different perspectives? Yet, in the first quarter of 2016 the company sold only $17 million of Entresto in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Interestingly, individuals working in customer service, sales, production, logistics and R&D were more likely to feel that bureaucracy was growing than those working in functions like HR, finance, planning, purchasing, and administration. Bureaucracy frustrates innovation. Equally troubling is the lack of support for experimentation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

But with their focus on clinical disease management and research, training programs actually offer little in the way of true leadership training – authentic experience that helps young doctors develop the leadership skills they will need. Health Leadership development' That, after all, is what the best leaders do.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

How much time should the corporate executive committee spend on this new activity? New ventures, for example, often complain that the corporate finance function requires them to meet budget or lose bonuses or funding; or they can’t recruit the talent they need because of the corporate job evaluation approach. An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

I can only imagine the resistance involved when an established, hierarchical company like the old Samsung decides to introduce practices that threaten the status quo. New legislation and executive orders were being passed allowing the establishment of privately owned generating plants.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

True, to the surprise of many analysts, the prime minister, Antonis Samaras, abandoned his earlier populist rhetoric and tried to sort out public finances. More serious was the effect on public service employees; any future effort to rationalize public services will now face very stiff resistance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. ” Make no mistake, they have substantial relevant experience.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works. Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Remember that connections are not the same thing as relationships, but that connections can develop into relationships with the proper effort on your part. I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. Do this and you’ll be viewed as just another sales broadcast.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. However, this approach piled more responsibility on an already-taxed primary care system and was inefficient because it didn’t reflect the do-it-yourself trends observed in retail, travel, and finance. Less Time, Better Care.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Empathy, on the other hand, enables leaders to develop a better understanding of their counterparts' perspectives and their customers' mindset. How can organizations get a handle on this problem and strengthen their processes for developing leaders who are well-equipped for the matrix? Ensure that teams are more diverse.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

Over the last decade, assisting the leadership development of many senior executives attempting the transition to shared leadership, I have often noticed the same phenomenon. While they may welcome having the authority to oversee the whole business, Executive VPs will find it harder to oversee each other.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

These silos prevent organizations from understanding the customers’ expectations at critical moments, and cultural resistance makes it tough to get the collaboration needed to solve the problem. “In traditional brand management, marketers are responsible for specific product lines,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Look for development elsewhere. If you do decide to stick it out, whether for financial or personal reasons, remember that there are other avenues for professional development and stimulation outside the office. Resist the temptation to tell your tyrant boss what you think of her on the way out the door. Take the high road.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But if culture is developed outside of strategy, if it’s not driven by strategy, then said culture can become a very dangerous intoxicant. It is something you're thinking about and planning for, therefore it is part of the overall strategy being developed. Culture is important – it is very important. What say you?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Health care is not the only industry that is resistant to change. A recent KPMG global survey of 3,000 leading executives across 20 industries found board leaders were twice as likely to focus on short-term efficiencies as they were to prepare for major business model change. This is simple to say but difficult to do. million people.

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