N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Cornell (Chairman and CEO of Target Corporation), and Roger Enrico (CEO of Pepsi) all received coaching at the executive level while being at the helm of some of the most notable companies on the planet. There’s also no guarantee of proficiency that a leader will operate at when skills and qualities are learned or developed informally.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

The difficulty in changing is often mostly about our psychology (not the technical difficulty of operating under changed systems and processes after making adjustments to adapt to take advantage of new opportunities). by Will Rogers, or somebody else. Whoever said it, it is certainly true.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I love the way you have clearly differentiated between strategy and tactics – so many people get them confused and end up playing checkers instead of chess… Thanks, Landon Creasy [link] [link] Roger Martin Mike: This is an excellent tool. Section IV: Tactics. Thank you for sharing this freely. link] davidburkus Great exam.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Will Rogers. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

And while the dynamics of the talent market have changed over time, the impact of this change is now upon us in full force. There simply was not enough hiring taking place for Millennials to make their mark on organizations, and so the dynamics in the workplace and how these companies operated really didn’t change. Think about it.

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Resources Talent Management Rogers Follow-up 52

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Volunteering, as time permits and worthy causes appear.

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Strategic Planning Planning Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. Develop and fund a sales and marketing capability from the outset. Let’s look at each of these.

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Innovation Rogers NGO Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. When they are operating from their strengths, Pleasers can become the glue that holds a positive corporate culture together. Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

They think of the “lights-out” factory that General Motors Chief Executive Roger Smith fantasized about in 1982 and Elon Musk talks about building today—plants so dominated by robots and machines that they don’t need lights to work. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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Process Automotive Rogers Operations 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Opportunity's investment in an agricultural processing plant, which enhances the value of poor farmer's crops and provides year-round access to new markets, achieved 30 percent higher yields and an average income increase of 50 percent over last season for our farming clients. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

Initially, these innovations are adopted only by the least demanding industry consumers or those who couldn't afford to participate in existing markets (like the college students who use Reddit to find entertaining Youtube videos instead of paying for HBO). Innovation always finds a way to drive cost down and bring people into the market.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. The company recently took a hit on the stock market. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises. Roger Schwarz. Stu Heinecke.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

While all good leaders must keep the company’s internal operations moving forward, the very best ones must also be looking outside the company towards the customers, clients, financiers, volunteers and the organization’s entire affected constituencies. Mid-Level Sellers (consumer services, multi-level marketing, retailers, vendors).

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Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

When Roger Enrico took the helm as CEO of Frito-Lay, in 1991, the company was developing an innovative and distinctive approach to direct-store delivery that would allow it to consistently deliver the right products to the right stores at the right time. Five big mindset shifts can help you and your organization manage costs in the right way.

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Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In the January issue of HBR, Roger Martin sets out some rules for avoiding common mistakes in strategy making. Most businesses try to build their market around what they offer. It offered other items besides furniture (housewares, unique toys), and customers could drop children off a brightly designed, company-operated day care center.

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Strategy Document Comparison Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We were supposed to be coming up with ideas for improving the company’s customer experiences, but the head of operations could not think of a single new customer service idea to explore. Each of these executives offered plenty of ideas when the discussion turned to promotions, social media tactics, and marketing messages.

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Brand Reis Objective Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” This initiative will soon connect all 1.3

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests. As a result, a new era is emerging.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

The poster child for his view was Roger Smith who was an MBA-trained accounting and finance specialist. During his ten year tenure as GE's CEO during the 80s, Smith made breathtaking strategic and operating blunders. He believes that CEOs and the top management should not be bean counters but rather should be a "product guys.".

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CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2015

The abysmal job market for teens is forcing many of them to think differently about work. A whopping 70% had jobs that are best described as self-employed; ranging from owner/operator of Diva Day Care to selling on eBay to teaching piano lessons. And don’t forget the competitive college admissions market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

In the face of indisputable financial and political corruption, even David Brooks, a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, is forced to question his own longstanding beliefs about the rationality of markets. Roger Martin is on to something when he declares that the future of business thinking lies in the ability to be ambidextrous.

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Porter Emotional Intelligence Rogers Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. Sephora has become a leader in the cosmetics market by transcending this tradeoff, finding ways to achieve transactions and relationships.

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Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Consider the story of Bud Frankel, the founder of Frankel , a firm that created the marketing services industry (where both of us eventually worked) that gained a national reputation and attracted clients across both the consumer and healthcare areas. “We were Abelson-Frankel, yet operated as two separate agencies.”

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Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

But ask CEOs and they will give you chapter and verse about the many constraints they face, from capital markets to boards of directors to regulations. In complex organizations, there is very little choiceless doing.

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Execution CEO Strategy Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Consider the approach to front line engagement taken at Martin Health System , a community healthcare system in Stuart, Florida, which implemented a new enterprise-wide system for managing patient records and core operations. And we replaced quarterly releases with biweekly or monthly ones.".

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Technology Software CIO Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Because they have been trained and incented to care about the real game, the one happening on the field, and not about the associated betting market. But in the business world, their precise equivalents are standard operating procedure. We've never seen an apology from a QB for winning a game, but by less than the point spread.

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CEO Consensus Conference Rogers 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Each branch makes its own loan decisions, sets its own pricing on loans and deposits, controls its own marketing budget, runs its own website (on a shared platform), and serves all customer segments — from individuals to multinationals — within its catchment area.

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Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Schultz is already well-known as one of this generation’s CEO activists, a group which includes Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein , Duke Energy’s Jim Rogers , and Google’s Eric Schmidt — and other high-ranking corporate leaders like Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg.

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CEO Policies Politics Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. The application was one of the first marketing campaigns that allowed interaction with a digital model in real time. Aside from complex technological advances (e.g.,

Tourism 10

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers.

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Drucker Bottom-up Rogers Uncertainty 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T. These types of processors power huge computer servers, which play vital roles in companies’ day-to-day operations.

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Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. 5) Operational Transparency -. Mayer, James H. Davis and F.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Instead of reading like it was written by a committee of academics, it's as easy to understand as Mr. Rogers. It consists of thousands of super-skilled, conscientious, and objective analysts who visit each and every operating charity in America to do annual surveys. Instead of intimidating you, it invites you.

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