N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Surrender fosters collaboration, encourages innovation and enables possibility. When you experience weak teams, micro-management, frequent turf wars, high stress, operational strain, and a culture of fear, you are experiencing what control has to offer – not very attractive is it?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Moreover, depending on how a business is positioned, where it is in its maturation lifecycle, or what its current financial condition looks like, will dictate which factors may be most important to measure. The best managed companies measure all 5 categories (as well as various subsets) with their focus being on items 3 and 5.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Surrender: fosters collaboration, encourages innovation and enables possibilities. When you experience weak teams, micro-management, frequent turf wars, high stress, operational strain, and a culture of fear, you are experiencing what control has to offer – not very attractive is it?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. will go into decline.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Another aspect of the challenges faced by FinTech leaders is managing teams through a series of transformations successfully. To do so, successful management of their expectations is essential. FinTech managed to do that by making financial services accessible and affordable globally.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It is my opinion that when you start to define your personal success by the value you add to the lives of others you have arrived as a mature human being who possesses true influence and has become a person of significance. I concur that it is of no use to sit in judgment of others, and applaud you for the maturity that position displays.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Realizing the path to innovation would require revolutionary new thinking; all three leaders grasped that it would also take a new way of coalescing and harnessing talent. Reading Collective Genius , The Innovators , Creativity, Inc. Sourcing Innovation Collaboratively. Larry Page at Google also did it.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

The words innovation and entrepreneurship became synonymous in our language, and the place we see this the most is in universities and business schools. Why is being an innovator means I have to launch a startup company? Can’t I be an innovator in a mature company? But why are we linking these two words?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The number of activities a CEO takes on can certainly vary based upon skill sets, stage of corporate maturation, and the talent level of the rest of the executive team. As an up-and-coming preparing for management, I'm working to grasp these core concepts. Share and Enjoy: View Comments bfpower Well said, Mike. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Is your article title really about anger management or appropriate emotional expression in business? link] mikemyatt While I agree with all your assertions, there is in fact quite a lot of overlap between emotions, conflict management, anger management, interpersonal communications, etc. I will be curating again, soon.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 18, 2021

Guy Raz interviews innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists to create a narrative of their journey from spark to movement in a highly successful podcast on NPR and now a book entitled, How I Built This. T AKING AN IDEA and building it into something tangible. That’s the entrepreneurial journey.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 29, 2013

All of this helped me to learn practical skills in marketing, business development, project and client management, and community building, among other things. My hopes turned to action and my convictions matured and grew into values. And I learned more about myself than I imagined. Reflections on the Human Condition (1973).

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

Courage to innovate and grow. With a track record of emotional maturity, you will buy yourself a lot of goodwill. Managing the Message. Success in presenting an idea or issue may very likely depend on how well you manage your emotions and those of the target of your courageous act. Courage to see the right thing done.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

But it’s the opposite of what’s needed to drive the things the financial industry needs right now – in particular, innovation. Only 53% of financial employees rate their firm’s ability to innovate: at top-performing companies, this figure is 70%. If one thing stifles innovation, it’s closed minds. Willingness to fail.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Nowhere will you find a better model for servant leadership, vision casting, discipleship, good decisioning, discernment, self-leadership, intentional leadership, crisis management, character based leadership, etc. All great leaders develop a sense of their blind-spots and weaknesses as they mature. I Think Not.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 21, 2024

The study aimed to understand how open innovation platforms affect idea generation and whether the factors people consider for success change as ideas evolve. First, people’s criteria for judging ideas change a lot as the idea matures. Our research furnishes innovation managers with a roadmap,” the researchers conclude. “By

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 22, 2013

The only way that people grow into their potential is through; maturation (growing older). having a manager who is able to determine the persons capacity and allow them to work at their full capacity. maturation of innate ability to handle complexity and make sense of longer time-spans of work. avoiding underemployment.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Use Innovation Accounting to Drive the Metrics that Matter Most for Your New Venture or Start-Up As the field of innovation management matures, many entrepreneurs and companies have built solid capabilities in design thinking, rapid prototyping, portfolio management, open innovation, and the list goes on.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 25, 2019

They are built to change and innovate. No matter how smart or talented a person is, there’s always room for growth, development, and continued maturation. If you don’t challenge people’s minds, they’ll leave you for someone/someplace that will. They NEED to contribute by putting their fingerprints on design.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Posted on November 22nd, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth As much as some people won’t want to hear this, “ help &# is not a dirty word. Rather asking for help is a sign of maturity as a leader. So my question is this: Are you easy to help?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people. Well, most people were already around 150 before social media arrived.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

For the first time, Dell reveals the highs and lows of the company's evolution amidst a rapidly changing industry—and his own, as he matured into the CEO it needed. Why are some of the world’s most successful companies able to stay ahead of disruption, adopting and implementing innovative strategies, while others struggle?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

Leaders will have to go much farther than their usual efforts to break down silos and create collaborative platforms, and they will be called on to manage vast knowledge pools and coordinate the skills of experts from myriad fields. Leadership, then, becomes about trust – both earning it and exercising it. Georg Vielmetter, Ph.D.,

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 20, 2012

In the “western world”, we have a demographic where these young “Digital Cowboys” are still a relatively small minority in our organizations and especially in the management ranks. For us here, there are enough “old school” managers available to fill the open positions in the second and third tiers of management.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 3, 2016

We don’t look at the maturity of an employee idea program by years. We evaluate maturity by using a Maturity Model that uses measurable indicators to show the progression of our clients’ idea programs. Continue reading →

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Having recently concluded my fourth leadership tenure as “The Innovation Guy” in a corporate setting, I thought I’d share some patterns that seem to emerge when introducing innovation systematically to organizations with low innovation maturity. However, it doesn’t appear to matter whether an.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 4, 2025

2021 marked the re-birth of my original Blogging Innovation blog as a new blog called Human-Centered Change and Innovation. Thanks to an outpouring of support I’ve ignited […]

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

Admonished by my mother and father for unsportsmanlike behavior, I eventually matured and forged a stiff upper lip in defeat. Live a culture of innovation. Increase your lead, and while they are catching up, you are embracing the next innovation. I ’m an extremely competitive person. You cannot outspend the giant competitor.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 3, 2011

Managing Across Generations. Further discussion surfaced these issues: Within 5-8 years the majority of the agency’s management team would retire. The agency, while successful, has grown stagnant ; Sharon is not receiving new ideas nor innovations for the future. The Leadership University. The Mentoring Program.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 10, 2018

For larger and mature companies, the hard part seems to be giving up the familiar space that isn’t working so well anymore, so that you can focus on a new segment or opportunity. This culture must be maintained by every company at every stage of maturity. Innovation-driven mindset and actions. Don’t wait for a crisis.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

So how do you know when your skills have matured to the point that you’ve become an excellent communicator? 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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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

What the heck does a dishwasher have to do with management? Think about how many managers (including us!) It takes maturity, desire and compassion to unlearn these habits. So, what management lessons can we learn from the above 4 options? How would you want to be managed ? Everything – stick with me.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Yes, certainly, there are more than a handful of organizations that manage not only to change, but to set the pace for everyone else. Or they are serial product innovators making us “need” things we didn’t know we needed – anyone need another Swiffer with a disposable (and revenue-generating) attachment? They do more than cope.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the journey of your career, the phrase "Put on your big-boy pants" (or big-girl pants) is more than just a call to maturity; it's an invitation to step into the realm of personal growth and professional excellence. Pushing beyond these boundaries is essential for skill development, innovation, and leadership.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The money and effort they spend pays big dividends as the company progresses and matures. Leaders of product managers do themselves and their company a favor by hiring people who will eventually replace them and be more successful than they have been.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 25, 2019

They are built to change and innovate. No matter how smart or talented a person is, there’s always room for growth, development, and continued maturation. If you don’t challenge people’s minds, they’ll leave you for someone/someplace that will. They NEED to contribute by putting their fingerprints on design.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Once we release Gravity, we focus on finding our true value, mapping that to realistic market opportunities, create a flight plan (including waypoints to manage progress) and away we go! The book helps readers learn to release their Gravity – those beliefs that hold them down. Once we challenge our beliefs and knowns –the sky is the limit.

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