N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia. Show-up : You can’t make a difference if you don’t show-up. It requires zero talent to be present mentally and physically. I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. The second is to lead innovation. Musk’s long arc in guiding Tesla from highly-ignored sports car, which financed the luxury Model S, which, in turn, made possible the 3, is now crushing an entire global industry. Same for Elon Musk.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Sure it would…Likewise, if I drove up in a new Bentley, wearing a $3,000 custom tailored suit, sporting a fresh manicure, a GQ hair-cut, and with an attitude of arrogance, wouldn’t that also color your opinion of my ability? While I have a few swiss watches, my Timex Ironman is still my favorite. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : Leadership is a contact sport and it’s often messy. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. When black & white becomes permanently blurred so that everything reads as shades of grey, things can become dicey. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

In thinking of your example of sports teams, for example, is it possible that leaders can emerge at different times, for different purposes or tasks? One question: in addition to the hierarchy (focused accountability) you identify so well, is it still possible that leadership can emerge at any level? I Think Not.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Leading innovator in HR for over 25 years.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

Tanya energizes leaders to help them light the spark in their teams that results in: the proliferation of ideas and innovation,shorter cycle times, more collaborative environments, and high customer and employee loyalty. Tanya currently writes about leadership, in sport, work and life on Elevati’s Blog at www.elevati-inc.com/blog.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

One way to appeal to this demographic (and to the parents who often finance young drivers’ transportation) is to focus on safety. The third playbook for an Apple vehicle is to create new categories , via breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation. To me, the minivan is the guiding light.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

Welcome to the brave new world of e-Sports. Some MMOG professional teams players can command six figure salaries, thanks to the finance provided by corporate sponsorships and advertising. Online broadcasting channels are filling up the distribution space just as television did in conventional sports. Innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

Kellond, 43, founded Bia Sport, a GPS sports watch that records time, current heart rate, sending the data straight to an online profile. With traditional sources of financing unavailable, Kellond raised her first round of capital ($408,000) on Kickstarter — the ultimate in creative financing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A “ new model for how winter sports are done” that “feeds an audience hunger for life-treating daredevilry” and drives “ high market penetration and. ESPN started the X Games almost 20 years ago as an effort to reach younger consumers that seemed to be turning away from more traditional sports. Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering. of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. For example, advanced image recognition can be used to track the position of brand logos that appear in video footage of a sporting event, such as a basketball game.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

When it comes to building management strength, these executives are similar to professional sports coaches. At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

If you ask managers to name their favorite sport, you'll hear a wide variety of answers: Football, baseball, tennis. But what they won't tell you is the one sport that all managers play the most: The Game of Reorganization. As one senior executive said to me, "Every time we reorganized, we lost at least a year of innovation.".

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

He's not only the controlling shareholder of Rose Park Advisors; our investment approach is based on his theory of disruptive innovation. These things result in his brain being worked more than mine, and over time, innovative ideas being formed in his brain, not mine. But don't men talk sports during business dinners, you ask?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Adam Richardson, Assistant VP of Strategy and Marketing at global innovation firm frog design , is the author of Innovation X: Why a Company's Toughest Problems are its Greatest Advantage. He can be found on Twitter at @Richardsona.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

This last film sports the subtitle, “Experience Never Gets Old,” surely happy news to any Boomer thinking about their next chapter in the world of work.) These are just a few ideas based on innovations already underway that might contribute to a more comprehensive scheme. And they’re hardly feel-good indulgences.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., Paul Dachsteiner , the Vice President of IS at ice hockey equipment maker Bauer Performance Sports, told me, "Instead of being called IT, I''d rather be lumped into a pool of resources called Business Support or Operations and not differentiate between departments.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Typically ensconced in corporate databases, and tightly held in order to maintain competitive advantage, this data contains tremendous possible insights and avenues for policy innovation. Data collaboratives offer a way around this limitation. Finally, data collaboratives can aid in monitoring, evaluation, and improvement.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. Be guided by appropriateness and tie into what the target values or needs most. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Because it isnt their sport. As I think about companies that compete on consistent, low cost, reliable operations, most have or had leaders who were process innovators, such as Herb Kelleher at Southwest Airlines, Sam Walton at Wal-Mart, Ray Kroc at McDonalds, Jeff Bezos at Amazon.com, and Fred Smith at FedEx.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. The HR Digest: Can you tell The HR Digest readers more about the Chamber’s T3 Innovation Network?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. Previously, working in the call center was a solo sport. This is also true of executives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The main reason is that the problems we have to solve — whether deciding company strategy or bringing an innovative offering to market — are more complex than they have ever been. Don't segregate engineering from marketing, HR from finance, and so on. What's Good for Collaboration is Also Good for Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. In the late 1990s, Porsche avoided bankruptcy by making its manufacturing more efficient and its sports cars more reliable. How Porsche got the product right.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Steroid scandals periodically rock the sports world. The steroids usage norm in some team sports has the effect of institutionalizing breaking the rules, even though the health of some is seriously endangered. The product’s former innovation and dominance has somehow missed the mark in today’s business climate.

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Chris Brady

APRIL 23, 2010

  It's an old, old storythat is neither innovative nor impressive. .   I am never impressed with the angryyoung faces full of rebellion and hatred that I see on the covers ofentertainment magazines.   All I seewhen I look at them is more young people who think they are being creative bybeing bad.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Here at Machine Shop , the wholly owned innovation company of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, we identified the need to think differently years ago. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. of course). We also looked beyond music for insights.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Third, because individuals with unique skills — from celebrities and sport stars to entrepreneurs, investors, and consultants — could now sell their services on a global scale, inequality soared. A second approach uses innovative funding models and new sources of capital to solve some of society’s most difficult problems.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction? It makes me want to call myself something else as I fear non-sports related coaches and coaching is getting a bad name. I Think Not.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 13, 2021

The analysis found that politicians were the most commonly quoted people in the media, followed by athletes and other sports figures. Among the most quoted women were Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott and Canada’s Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland. ” Media voices. Quotable commentary.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. This is why even the most expensive professional sports teams often fail to perform according to the individual talents of each player: There is no psychological synergy. Innovative and disruptive thinkers. 0% of team members were considered innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As Amar Bhide said in " Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups " (a 20-year-old HBR article that is an uncanny precursor to today's "lean startup" meme), traditional business planning processes are less relevant to bootstrappers — where resilience trumps planning and energy trumps experience. In short, the business plan is overrated.

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