Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating. When leaders are pressured into leadership styles that go against their natural way of operating, they are set up for failure. They end up focusing on themselves instead of the people and organization they are leading.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For enduring success, this framework must incorporate elements that foster continuity and innovation. While it may be tempting to focus primarily on operational metrics and bottom-line impact, an incoming CEOs style and core values must mesh naturally with those of the organization.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

Understanding the Role of a Chief Operating Officer A Chief Operating Officer (COO) holds a distinctive and crucial role in the corporate ecosystem. Equipped with a holistic view of the organization’s objectives and a deep understanding of its operations, a COO is often considered the key driver of operational excellence.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2011

You will find that the best leaders, communicators, teachers, and innovators have a true knack for taking extremely complex, dense or intricate content and making it engaging and easy to understand. I would suggest that you break down every key area of your business (operations, administration, marketing, branding, sales, finance, IT, etc.)

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Try it with your direct reports and then teach them how to. Even better when your direct reports are all amplifying and supporting your messages with their own 5×5 plan. Build an infrastructure for courage and innovation. As your team is growing resist the urge to solve problems FOR them and teach them how to think.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

At N2Growth, we believe that fostering an inclusive environment is not just ethically sound— it’s a critical driver of innovation and sustainable growth. Organizations that cultivate environments where everyone feels valued and heard are better positioned to foster innovation, boost employee engagement, and inspire loyalty.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Chief Operating Officer is an organization’s powerhouse, ensuring every process and experience in your business runs like a well-oiled machine. This key executive monitors daily operations, ensuring efficient and effective methods. Problem-Solving Skills : Navigating challenges with innovative solutions.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 25, 2024

While it may seem intuitive that technology should enable innovation, Cisco’s State of Global Innovation research suggests that the reverse is often the case. It does suggest that technology teams need to do a better job in supporting innovation, however.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Amazon’s impact is so pervasive that business leaders in nearly every sector around the world need to understand how this force of nature operates. How Innovation Works : And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley. Far from there being too much innovation, we may be on the brink of an innovation famine.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

to discuss what operational screenings and organizational development exams you need and when you need them. Your operations deserve a longer, healthier life. And according to heath data reports, only about half (47%) of people with high blood pressure have their condition under control. Treatments when your operations are sick.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Operational Excellence is a systematic approach to improving business processes and performance. Gallup reported that over 50% of employees surveyed in 2015 were not engaged, and 17.2% Employee Empowerment: A core aspect of operational excellence is empowering employees to contribute to continuous improvement.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

The hotel opened in 705 AD and is still operating. Professor Makoto Kanda from Meiji Gakuin University studied the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan Hotel and other long-term operating businesses to understand their longevity. An orientation to something more than money and metrics is hard to find in most Wall Street analyses and reporting.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

This innovative resource features real-life examples of how today’s most successful companies are building upstanding character while increasing employee engagement, happiness, and performance. Expertly reported, Collision Course explores the complex suspicions around what and who was really responsible for Ghosn's ouster.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” ” It’s tricky to be quick and clever in a scene like that.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Rarely will you come across a static opportunity in the sense that it will stand idle and wait for you to act…Significant opportunities are not only scarce, but they typically operate on the principal of diminishing returns. link] Timing is Everything « LAB report [.] Thanks for improving my awareness. I Think Not.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 22, 2023

This meant around 70% of gig workers reported feeling insecure about their reputations. ” What’s more, the researchers believe that companies were often operating with insufficient checks and balances to ensure the ratings were reliable, and neither were robust processes in place to help correct or redress the balance provided.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Here is the press release from the Hay study: The 8 th annual Hay Group study ranks the best companies for leadership around the globe and examines how those companies nurture talent and foster innovation in their ranks. At the same time, the Best Companies for Leadership foster cultures that encourage innovation.

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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? Distinctio: Accept a New Way to Play in the Leadership and Innovation Sandbox – Differentiation. . “Skipper” Pitts.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2019

As great as that idea sounds it is not realistic and leaders must decide what to do when one of their reports is not acting accountably. They typically look at their employees as having separate accountabilities (“John is accountable for sales, Mary is accountable for operations, etc.”)

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yet it affects so much of a how a business operates, from the individual in the team to the company as a collection of teams to the entire market place. These employees psychologically “own” their work, helping move their organisations forward by driving performance and innovation. Michael Jordan.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The legacy CMO who reads industry reports, signs off on AI budgets, and nods along in meetings is already obsolete. They’re leading operations that would’ve taken an entire department to handle just a few years ago, now streamlined and supercharged by automation and AI. They’re lean, mean, and driven by AI, automation, and data.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 16, 2012

Guest post by Rick Lash, from the Hay Group: The matrix has often been described as a new type of organizational structure that is flatter, more interconnected, more global and more innovative. Innovation and the Ghost Organization. Dinosaurs in an Asteroid Storm. Matrix Competencies in Short Supply.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

It’s perhaps little surprise, therefore that a recent report suggests that the UK is ill-prepared to assume responsibility for key aspects of regulation after leaving the European Union on the 1st January. This report provides a baseline for us to measure against going forward.”

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s the board’s prerogative to chart a strategic course, oversee the operational ambit, and instill a culture of accountability—morphing it into a cornerstone of organizational governance. It orchestrates the operational rhythm, supervises decision-making, and enforces accountability across the hierarchy.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

Trust needs to become baked into the DNA, strategy, and day-to-day operations of all aspects of business because it impacts relationships with all the business stakeholders. Key players in today’s business value chain are suppliers and trusted partners as they enable faster innovation cycles with more flexibility.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Value-driven organizations thrive in this new economy because they promote trust, open communication, diversity and inclusion, thus making fertile ground for innovation. We can see many of these examples on the market; some even developed with Chief Innovation, Chief Impact, and Chief Sustainability Officer roles on their executive boards.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

A leader’s view on competition will not only reveal a lot about their beliefs on current and future market trends, but also on innovation, branding, talent management, supply chain issues, constituency management, capital markets, and customer facing. Do your R&D and innovation programs evaluate the competitive landscape?

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 29, 2025

Why You Need To Play With AI Right Now AI Tools arent just shiny new toys for tech enthusiasts; theyre a transformative force for productivity, decision-making, and innovation. Heres what it can do for you today: Supercharge Your Efficiency: Imagine drafting emails, creating presentations, and summarizing reports in minutes, not hours.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This proactive approach helps organizations stay nimble and ready to pivot and innovate when faced with new challenges. Effective succession planning helps: Prepare Internal Candidates: Equip them to transition seamlessly into key roles, minimizing disruptions and maintaining operational stability.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In fact, it were the L&D teams that were instrumental in bringing about wider acceptance of innovative measures, processes and strategies, including reimagining how employees learn to work in a digitized world. Managers will increasingly need to take up more innovative roles to manage disparate and dispersed teams.

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Leading Blog

JULY 5, 2017

More and more people are disconnected from their company’s goals, even though they still report being satisfied with their jobs. A Global Workforce Survey conducted by Towers Watson revealed that a mere 21 percent of workers feel engaged and truly committed to their company’s success and goals, even though 86 percent report liking their jobs.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

I listened to an IT manager explaining on a speakerphone to a colleague he served in the marketing function why it was going to take two days to get a requested report. Numerator thinkers operate with an abundance mentality; denominator thinkers use a scarcity mentality. They cultivate, grow, innovate and invest.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Guest Post By: Sheri Staak, Innovative Business Leader at Staak Report (learn more about Sheri at the end of this post). In industry today, we’re all operating in a pressure-cooker environment, laden with deadlines, quotas, and conflicting personalities. Here are 9 techniques women can us to combat workplace negativity: 1.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. But as execution capabilities become commodities, and the life cycles of new offerings get increasingly shorter, it’s precisely these innovation skills that need to be learned.

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Lead from Within

MAY 1, 2024

Furthermore, a report by Great Place to Work found that companies with strong, values-driven cultures tend to outperform their peers in terms of financial performance, innovation, and employee satisfaction. Values like “innovation” can be made actionable by encouraging employees to present new ideas regularly.

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