N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2017

In essence, business processes need not be limited by reporting lines or geography in this kind of operating model. Of course there are several implications that must be addressed, including: Processes will need to be re-engineered, independent of current organizational boundaries.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 29, 2025

Innovation Engine: Stuck on a problem? Five years from now, the companies thriving wont just be using tools like ChatGPT - theyll have integrated them so seamlessly into their operations that it feels like second nature. In internal operations, it can automate repetitive tasks, saving time and resources. Need fresh ideas?

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General Leadership

MAY 7, 2014

Consider the following: If EQ is to us, what an engine is to a car – then self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate. The drive train or transmission of any vehicle, transfers engine power to its wheels creating forward or backward movement. Lose brand power. Lose situational power. Lose opportunity.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

With this in mind, they offer a new standard of performance defined by nine key strategies in three areas—growth, operation, and organization. Reimagine core operations to deliver societal impact and hence long-term, sustained total shareholder returns rather than regarding social impact as an activity apart from the core.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2014

Another common complaint about Business Review Meetings is that nearly always the time gets hijacked with discussions on day-to-day operating or tactical issues, especially when we have a room full of engineers turned managers; they quickly dive down into trying to fix the problem right then. Like a broken record every meeting.”.

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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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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.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

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. Think long-term, and if you must, bridge with a phased solution, but be planful in approach.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2013

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' Of course, in a perfect world, you’d already know.

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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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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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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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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 21, 2013

Do you value operations, maintenance, customer service , engineering, information technology , sales , finance, marketing , accounting – all departments, equally? How do you view each department in your organization? Therefore, your organization is best served by looking across the entire company for future leaders.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Your Best Practice Might Not Work Everywhere Javier was a well-loved director at an engineering design firm. Every year he would conduct an operational excellence rally that he personally catered with spaghetti made from homemade noodles, […]. He was also an accomplished Italian chef.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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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

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. Expertly reported, Collision Course explores the complex suspicions around what and who was really responsible for Ghosn's ouster.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

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. Management is the guts of the engine, but “the name of the game is leadership, and not from one larger-than-life executive.” Logic alone is not enough.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The scene I want to spotlight is one in which Apple CEO John Scully sent over a man charged with managing the General Magic engineering group. ” One of the General Magic engineers immediately responded, “Thanks, but we don’t need a manager. We get overall leadership from Marc, which is all we need. .”

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Your business now operates as part of a global digital eco-system where leveling the playing field has become a digital impossibility. Don’t attempt to compete with those who are more evolved, piggy-back off of them, partner with them, engineer around them, on move out in front of them. Think next chapter vs last book.

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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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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle,” he repeatedly declared. It made his engineers engage in first-principles thinking. The biggest change Musk wrought was to put the design engineers in charge of production, like he had done for a while at Tesla. The sense of urgency was good for its own sake.

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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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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2021

Strategic Clarity – leaders must constantly assess how well their organization’s strategy is understood across operations staff. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard. Here’s What Leaders Must Pay Attention To 1.

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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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HR Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

The Fairfax Assembly plant, which has been producing the Chevrolet Malibu, is now halting operations to retool the next-generation Chevrolet Bolt EV. Our future is all-electric , Barra said in a 2024 statement, underscoring the companys shift away from traditional combustion engines. Why are the General Motors layoffs happening?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. What we need to restore is our sense of adventure—our sense of possibility. Are we too busy competing to do something new? And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

I will not have nattering nabobs of negativism as part of my operations. It was one of those pivot points that you look back on and think “whew, I’m glad I learned that when I did, when it could make a real difference” I’ve been a human version the little engine that could ever since. Do you hear me?”

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Leading Blog

MAY 16, 2020

To streamline operations and control costs. Steve holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in Micro-Electronic Systems Engineering from Manchester University. It will transform how we develop, market, sell, distribute, support, and monetize products and services. He was born in the U.K. and became a U.S.

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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).

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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

People, culture, and work design form a “social engine” that drives innovation and execution personalized for each customer. The social engine, a company’s culture and way of organizing work, helps drive the growth of the big digital companies. Most of these digital giants operate with only three or four layers below the CEO.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 17, 2019

He was the electrical engineer who invented the game “pong” and founded Atari. The rat would urge children to eat more pizza while they played coin-operated video games. There are a lot of stories about Nolan Bushnell. For a while there in the 1970’s, Nolan Bushnell could do no wrong. The scheme was Chuck E.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Regardless of how it’s asked, “are we earning a return for our digital dollars” is a “hot button” marketing question poised by leaders, management and operating staff. Some measurements become indicators that help with operating and strategic direction. Other measurements provide hard ROI data.

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