Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

T HE BIGGEST CHANGE being brought about by AI is not human replicas, but the emergence of digital operating models. The operating model is how that is accomplished. The goal of the operating model is to deliver value at scale, to achieve sufficient scope, and to respond to changes by engaging in sufficient learning.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

Their strengths include: Organizational Skills: Designing efficient workflows and operational frameworks. Sandberg’s expertise in operational management and strategic planning was crucial in scaling Facebook’s operations and implementing robust processes to support its rapid growth.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 31, 2011

I was never a believer of Osmosis – when I was in the corporate world I had a requirement that EVERY employee in my department could recite our 3 key operating metrics (and the latest measurements), and our company values mantra, if I happened to see them and ask them. And oh yes, I asked.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 6, 2014

Wouldn''t it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. The New Smart is having the ability to discern when the label of "stupid" is masking a smart idea.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 22, 2012

I was the SVP of Operations, and my office was in suburban New York. So I traveled to the Rockies, and I spend 40-50% of my time out there, doing a lot of conversing. And I’m so glad I made that commitment, because it really was a difference maker. So 99% of the people that I was responsible for were many miles away.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Back in the summer of 2010, I wrote a post called The Business Travel Diva’s Guide to Summer Vacations. Which brings us to the upcoming holiday travel (and hosting) season. Among the many reasons that the holidays can be one of the most stressful times of the year, traveling (or hosting the people that travel) can top the list.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

The Current Digital Landscape Today’s digital landscape is constantly changing, revolutionizing how businesses and industries operate. Extensive networks, data streams, and state-of-the-art digital technologies are increasingly becoming the foundation of modern operational strategies.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A Transpersonal Leader operates beyond their own ego and personal drivers and balances the needs of all the organization’s stakeholders. A transpersonal leader has travelled a road where these attributes have been developed, alongside a honed appreciation of how to improve judgment and decision making.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2011

What you pursue will determine the paths you travel, the people you associate with, the character you develop, and ultimately, what you do or don’t achieve. Pursuit operates at greatest strength when it leverages velocity and scale. In the text that follows I’ll examine the value of being a pursuer….

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

And what about the stories we've all heard over the years about sick patients—whether infected with Ebola or COVID-19—who were sent home or allowed to travel because busy staff people were following a protocol to the letter rather than using common sense? Why and how do these kinds of things happen? The outcome was phenomenal.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Perhaps they started careers in a very different environment, for example, a well-traveled photojournalist or even a failed technology entrepreneur. . If the position is operational, hire an operations manager and a finance head. . Compromises can include not being business school all-stars or even graduates.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 3, 2011

That somebody else kept a pretty busy schedule of his own, working for a fine little cable company called Bresnan Communications in White Plains, New York, as Senior Vice President of Operations. It was a job he loved, because he got to be a leader – and travel to the beautiful Rocky Mountain region.

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I travelled the world with my first job after university,” says Anna, who runs Human, an EDI consultancy. Jenna Jenkins CMgr FCMI is senior operations manager at Nationwide Building Society. She credits her ADHD with making her more empathetic, intuitive and able to make connections others can’t. I’ve played basketball for my country.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Since then, he has provided leadership for Corporate Communications, Training and Development, Field Operations, Organizational Effectiveness, and Leadership Development. Mark also travels the world encouraging and equipping leaders to change the world – starting with their own.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Even though our headquarters was 2,000 miles away from our field operations, I still spent 40-50% of my time traveling there to be physically present with my teammates. This cure was certainly familiar to me personally, because I was a regular practitioner of the 3-steps during my executive career in the cable TV business.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Whether you are an emerging leader with a small team or an experienced leader responsible for directing the daily operations of a multinational organization, these seven CEO success tips will allow you to glean insight into your marathon by looking at the roadmap to help you win the race without fail. Follow me on Twitter @SkippersBiz.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Your business now operates as part of a global digital eco-system where leveling the playing field has become a digital impossibility. Playing for parity by traveling the traditional path of best practices just ensures one thing; you will spend great amounts of time and money failing slowly, publicly, and painfully.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

If you want your company to thrive and expand in 2022 and beyond, you need to get off to a strong start, and that involves ensuring that your operations are well-organized and productive. This is especially helpful if you need to travel or if you have team members who operate remotely from different locations.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Sometimes business was lost to brick and mortar operations because of the “unprofessional” assumptions people had about work-from-home professionals. There’s no bigger bottleneck in your operation than yourself. But it wasn’t long ago that working from home was not looked upon so keenly. Build A Team.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation. Walking into these organizations is often like traveling back in time 20 years.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

With many forced to work from home, and the amenities and events that underpin so much of our regular travel shut down, the Covid pandemic had an obvious impact on mobility patterns. The resulting analysis allowed the researchers to make three recommendations to make train travel smoother.

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Leading Blog

JULY 21, 2023

Up to now, you’ve operated on the stories you believe in, your own personal little dramas, your own soap operas that you act out every day. You must know the nature of the reality and what it demands, and the nature of the field and terrain on which you will travel. Rule #2: To Win, You Have to Begin Take that first step.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Since then, he has provided leadership for Corporate Communications, Training and Development, Field Operations, Organizational Effectiveness, and Leadership Development. Mark also travels the world encouraging and equipping leaders to change the world – starting with their own.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

Srini Pillay wrote in the Harvard Business Review, “The brain operates optimally when it toggles between focus and unfocus, allowing you to develop resilience, enhance creativity, and make better decisions too.” Travel helps to spark creativity as does creating temporal distance.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We’re More Productive When We’re Not Travelling or Commuting All the Time – Many of us – myself included – have been amazed at how much we can get done in a day when we’re not spending 2 or 3 days a week travelling for business or 2 or 3 hours a day commuting back and forth to the office.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2013

Lead by example and let people know that you don''t operate in silos. But if you want to create a more collaborative culture in your organization, decide what’s fair and what’s off-limits and communicate it clearly. Instead, you pitch in when needed and you share your wins - and losses - as a team. Share information appropriately.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 29, 2012

Over the past year here in Portland I’ve been talking to a lot of startup leaders trying to make their fledgling businesses fly, and the image that always comes to my mind when I have these conversations is that of a race car traveling at 200 mph, and getting a tune up at the same time. Customer retention (and/or repeat business).

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2024

Just like every other field, technology is rapidly transforming the way personal injury law firms operate. Virtual Consultations and Court Appearances Remember the days of lengthy in-person consultations and expensive travel for court appearances? The world around us is constantly changing, and the legal industry is no exception.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

If that is not impressive enough, they also created the first comprehensive atlas of China and eagerly shared the findings of their global travels with all who were interested. In fact, they were the first to successfully cross the Himalayas, to paddle the Blue Nile, and to chart the upper-most parts of the Mississippi River.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Let them lead in your absence: Your top employees would be honored to “step in” so that you can travel or go on a vacation. Many or most consider it an honor, and a way to learn more about how these operations work. Stretch them in their current work: How can your most able employees be stretched?

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2011

He later started his own cable company, Bresnan Communications, in 1984, and continued to operate cable systems both internationally and domestically until his too-early passing in 2009.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Understanding and embracing today’s technological trends is the fastest way to travel to the career of your dreams. ”. We may move from frame to frame but we tend to operate in one. Webb presents us with four ways of looking at work.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

To say travel has been disrupted this year is perhaps something of an understatement. While newspaper headlines have examined the travails of the tourism industry and the impact reductions in business travel is having on the sector, they are not the only group for whom travel restrictions have had a profound impact.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

“My interviews with well over 200 executives across 18 firms revealed the secrets of these companies—not the usual facile frameworks, but new ways of thinking about business that allow leaders and companies to operate with heightened passion, urgency, and clarity,” shares Gulati. “I Second, it can attract fellow travelers.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2012

Bill Gates once remarked, “ My first stop on any time-travel expedition would be Bell Labs in December 1947 ,” That was the year Bell Labs invented the transistor—a tiny invention that makes possible the technology we have today. Finding an aspect of modern life that doesn’t incorporate some strand of Bell Labs’ DNA would be difficult.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 26, 2019

I was never a believer of Osmosis – at my cable TV company I had a requirement that EVERY single one of the 1,100 employees in my department could recite our 3 key operating metrics (and the latest weekly measurements), and our company values mantra, if I happened to see them and ask them. And oh yes, I asked.

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