N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Coaching sharpens essential leadership skills such as decision-making, strategic thinking, and people management. We guide them through reframing challenges as opportunities, fostering an environment where innovation thrives. Developing Leadership Competencies: Entrepreneurs aren’t born leaders—they grow into the role.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As Machiavelli famously said, proposing change is a risky endeavor, as you’re only likely to garner lukewarm support from those who could benefit from your proposal, but strong opposition from those who might lose out. If there is any sign that proposing improvements might be punished or frowned upon and people rapidly clam up.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

For example, “Pat is just our assistant,” “You need to just figure it out,” or “Just wondering if you’ve looked at the proposal.” Start paying attention to the reactions you receive when speaking and cut out the words and phrases that are spurring a negative response. * * * Laurie Cure is the President and CEO of Innovative Connections.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2021

Just as parents tend to think their own children are the most amazing things to walk the earth, so too do innovators have similarly distorted opinions of the ideas that form the basis of their innovations. Grasping the true value of ideas is essential for corporate innovation success. Overvalued. Avoiding overvaluing ideas.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” As founding dean and professor at the Yale school of management, he taught a course on entrepreneurial leadership. He focused on the personal characteristics of the leader.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership. Where possible resist formalizing agreements, proposals, or other commitments until you have alignment on key expectations and deliverables.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2019

Morgan : A few decades ago, when time was still a gentle concept, companies just rocked along in their comfortable hierarchies, everything centralized, proposals moving up the chain of command and decisions moving down at approximately the speed of glue. Or should there be a single product management group within the business unit?

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 30, 2020

As innovation is increasingly important to organizations, there is a growing exploration of what conditions might encourage people to be innovative. The research revolved around a challenge the researchers created at the California office of biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific. ” Incentives matter.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 28, 2024

This meant they got to do something usually reserved for managers – making choices and allocating budgets. This effect was more pronounced for highly innovative ideas. Management needs to fully support the idea of giving decision-making power to employees and make the source of the funds clear.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2020

Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers. Think Outside the Building : How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time by Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

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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. To do this, the researchers used data from the LEGO IDEAS platform, where users propose new LEGO sets, and the crowd votes to pick a winner. The long-term implications?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2013

Below are four design thinking tools that you, as the manager of a talented team, can use to build a creativity-enhancing dataset. All of that data, cleverly applied, will extend your team''s ability to boost its operational and innovative performance. Until then, your proposed solutions are just hypotheses.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

These are, of course, widely appreciated management methods for raising performance. Perhaps it’s because they feel counter-intuitive to many managers. Because micromanagement, the opposite of autonomy and the default behavior for many managers, puts people in a threatened state. But they’re rarely put into practice.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Today’s business leaders face myriad challenges as they look for ways to improve return on investment (ROI) while managing resources effectively. As a starting point for the discussion of how best to manage morale and productivity in a corporate setting, it’s useful to go back more than a century. Managing Productivity and Morale.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers. Focus on value creation.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. This is emphasized by the fact that only 12% of respondents reported to having achieved an outstanding result using innovative dissemination channels.”

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place? Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity?

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 20, 2015

ISPIM Grand Prize 2016 is looking for cases that significantly advance the practice of innovation management in proven application, not theory. The advance should be in how innovation is managed, we are not seeking proposals that describe the actual end output, the what. The deadline for entries is 8th April 2016.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Entertainment Today, most organizations are committed to becoming more innovative, recognizing that the ability to adapt and change is critical to not only remaining competitive but to revealing potential markets and opportunities. Lesson 4: “People want to know they matter and they wanted to be treated as people.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2024

However, achieving efficient apparel fulfillment poses significant challenges that require innovative solutions. This article explores some of these challenges and proposes innovative approaches to tackle them effectively. This variability can lead to overstocking or stockouts if not managed properly.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 4, 2024

In their search for innovative solutions, businesses actively seek a variety of unique ideas. Limiting the future Many businesses and leaders may not realize that their past choices can limit the variety of proposals they get. Why does this happen? They start by wanting a wide range of ideas but end up with very similar ones.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The end result being local people who have not received the full value of what is possible, exacerbation by limited budgets, gaps in resourcing—especially staffing, and a dispersed geographical area to manage. What is needed by the authority is a can-do, customer-focused attitude that delivers innovation and is outcomes and impact-focused.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2020

Innovation is something organizations the world over are craving as they strive to cope with these most uncertain of times. In his latest book, Humanocracy , London Business School’s Gary Hamel teams up with his Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini to explore how organizations can better structure themselves for the modern age.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2019

The first item on the agenda was a proposal by ACME Consulting. I participated in engagements as a manager and I sponsored or led engagements as a Sr. Without in depth knowledge of the work in process and its impact, it was way too easy for NIH leadership to put on their blinders and buy in to ACME’s proposal. Executive.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. Let’s consider a few examples.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Ensuring your team members get feedback from their colleagues will also reduce top-down management and foster a more collaborative spirit as team members are willing to help each other improve.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 7, 2023

These are individuals who seemingly do little to no work yet manage to remain employed. By crafting an image of hard work and dedication, they manage to create an illusion of productivity. Moreover, these individuals often have excellent crisis management skills. Instead, strive to handle all situations professionally.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. Before too long I plan to invest in a Kindle, but at the moment I am rereading the wonderful book THE BRAIN THE CHANGES ITSELF, and am making many new applications as I read.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 11, 2016

Here are seven metaphors to help you drive innovative behaviour as a creative leader. Lift the veil - why does your organisation want to innovate? If your top management team plans to launch an innovation initiative, have them answer three questions first: a. What value will it bring in business terms?

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LDRLB

MARCH 1, 2013

[Editor's Note: This post is adapted from Max's book The Truth About Innovation.]. Such turning points force a choice between inertia and innovation. Waiting for a real crisis to drive innovation may not allow enough time or resources for new ideas to save the company. Intel also believes in using crisis to drive innovation.

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In it he proposes that “what’s important to you&# is the most powerful question of all (read it, it is less than 300 words – and the comments are awesome too). Another question I advocate managers and leaders ask their staff – in a similar vein – is “why are you here&# ? Very powerful.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 8, 2025

In an experiment at a Latin American bank, the researchers observed a significant increase in sales of credit cards, term deposits, insurance, and other products both in the days leading up to and the weeks following a visit from the division manager. “We believe theres an ideal frequency for these visits,” the authors conclude.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 19, 2023

Leading Through Change Pro Tip: Have everyone write down their best practices on a card as it relates to the change you’re proposing. Look for people on your team (including support team members like HR, Finance, and project managers) who really understand what you’re doing. Give them an active role in the change process.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

You would like the group to challenge assumptions, think differently and come up with plenty of radical proposals. You want to hold a meeting with your team in order to generate some really creative ideas. Here is the dilemma. You naturally want to lead the meeting but should you be in the room at all?

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Modern Servant Leader

JULY 11, 2024

That’s what Danelle Morrow is doing for proposal response teams of all shapes and sizes. Most large businesses have a department dedicated to developing responses to Request for Proposals (RFPs). Accordingly, the departments are often titled, “Proposal Management” or “Sales Response” teams.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2018

When Proposing Change, Try Reducing the Threat Level First by @artpetty. Why Wandering Works Wonders for Managers by @tedkinni. Innovative Service is Inspired by Bold Leaders by Chip Bell via @leadchangegroup. The Best Way to Offer An Opinion On Anything by @LollyDaskal. Who Asks For Feedback? by @michaelaroberto.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2017

The beauty of a sunset might inspire you to propose marriage, or maybe just to buy someone a beer. When a new challenge excites you or an innovative idea moves you, these are internal inspirations. What if you’re ready to act, but it’s repressed by a naysay manager or a soul-crushing company culture? isn’t enough.

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