N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Poor Communication Skills : Show me a leader with poor communication skills and I’ll show you someone who will be short-lived in their position. Any leader is only as good as his or her team’s desire to be led by them. Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Values based hiring increases performance, enhances collaboration, reduces turnover, increases morale, and creates a stable culture. Don’t be quick to hire based upon gut feel, but rather take time in the interviewing process to let the prospective new hire get a feel for your culture and your company.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

From a team of 30 people to now a giant tech corporation with over 70,000 employees, Google is one of the hallmarks of OKR as an organisational goal-setting methodology. The company used to adopt the “rank and yank” system wherein managers had to identify their least productive team members through a yearly evaluation.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

This type of behavior is proof certain that the entrepreneur is not being effective at leading, team building, delegation, leveraging process and a variety of other highest and best use activities for CEOs. Priority number two is team building and talent management.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

As much as it may be politically incorrect to say so, it’s not nearly as much about the team, as it is the leader’s ability to assemble and lead the team. In all but the rarest of circumstances, teams simply don’t function well in the absence of sound leadership. is who they are going to put in charge?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

If you’re a leader who has created a fear based culture I can guarantee you two things: 1.) After reading the above comments it should already be obvious, but just in case, review the 5 items below: A Team of Yes-men : Feared leaders either surround themselves with like-minded people, or train people to share their views in a vacuum.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

What do you think when you experience poor design in your life? Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base. In today’s blog post I’ll examine why design matters.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Great leaders lead all people under their care, not just those who agree with them. As much as some don’t want to hear this, there is an “I&# in team because teams are comprised of individuals. If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Clearly this endeavor will take time, and may not yield immediate results, but the payoff organizationally, relationally, culturally, and in terms of future contribution can be huge. They become efficient and we created an effective team. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? When was the last time your executive team brought in some new blood by recruiting a rock star? Does anyone on your executive team have a coach or mentor? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Apiumhub

JULY 16, 2019

million professional developers in 2018, 200,000 more than the previous year. Germany and the United Kingdom are the countries with most professional developers. Countries with the highest population of professional software developers . Why software developers are moving to Barcelona? Source: Digital Talent Report ).

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Treat your brand as an asset not an afterthought: If building brand equity is not a key strategic focus for your executive team don’t be surprised if your brand remains in stealth mode. Never sacrifice quality: Your products, services, leadership, management, culture, customer service, communication, etc.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

They also seek the advice and counsel of their board and executive team in addition to a plethora of outside advisers. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca. Great CEOs are the glue that provides continuity between vision and strategy. I Think Not. Our Freedom.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

No body ever wants to spend 8 hours doing poor work. Recognize them and while you play to their strengths, accept their weaknesses. Sometimes, the ‘soft’ aspects of your work (inspiring, motivating, respecting, building a culture) as a leader can become ‘hardest’ part of your work. Tom Glover´s last blog. Katy´s last blog.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Book Review: Lead Well and Prosper by Nick McCormick Being a good manager (self-management and team management) is essential ingredient of success in today’s business environment. Looking at all the bad examples of poor management around, we all know what good management is not.

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Kaseya

AUGUST 26, 2021

CCTA was commissioned to combat the problem of poor-quality IT services being procured by the British Government. As such, the CCTA developed a set of recommendations to ensure effective and efficient provisioning of IT services for a fraction of the cost. This results in fewer business disruptions for the team and also the company.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2010

Have you ever realized the costs of: having an inefficient leadership team? poor communications and expectations management? poor communications and expectations management? loosing great ideas because of a “compliance” culture? setting wrong examples? not treating people well? not allowing people to make mistakes?

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QAspire

JULY 4, 2010

When you don’t respect your team member’s time, you loose respect too. Yes, that may minimize the risk of failure, but your team members will not grow. Take a stock, retrospect and take corrective steps to ensure that your team is on track. A leader has to overcome fear and help team members do the same. Another mistake?

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

reminds me a quote If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. By Tanmay , September 29, 2010 @ 9:20 am @Jay - Thanks for sharing that quote, but my thinking is that if situation is good/bad, it won’t change on its own unless we do something about it ourselves. It may cause friction.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Started the school a few years ago to teach students who were too poor to attend regular school. John Rego was a Ranger Team Leader in Iraq. He was on the creative planning team for catalyst, works with leadership development of Chick-Fil-A, and is quarterbacking many projects for well known leaders.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Whole Team. The Hole Team. Modern software development takes a lot of skills.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I care about your contribution to the enterprise at every level…not just culturally. I don’t mean to downplay culture, as a diverse corporate culture is something to be strived for, but only if quality is not sacrificed. I have done business with the highly religious, the agnostic, and the atheist.

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Datavail

AUGUST 25, 2022

However, the process of ‘developing’ an application (AppDev) is decidedly different from ‘operating’ an application (DevOps). Simply put: No organization can afford a slowdown or the cessation of function altogether when the operations side of an application aren’t tightly keyed into the development side.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Here are top 10 project management mistakes that should be avoided: Estimating project tasks based on poor inputs on scope and too many assumptions. Underestimating people issues thinking that everybody on the project team is equally good at everything. Not saying “No” when required. Not learning from your past mistakes.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Round Up of My Writing in February 2010 February was an amazing month for me personally – lot of new exploration, new experiences (good and bad, bad left me with some good lessons) and new ideas. It only helped me sharpen my own thinking and write better. I enjoyed writing this the most.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 8, 2009

This rather harsh statement was spoken in front of all team members! With wrong examples around, people are bound to underperform, get de-motivated and hence, disengaged. Toxicity in words, deeds and thoughts of leaders builds an organization culture that is very difficult to unwind. It has little to do with title/designation.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. Thank you for joining us.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. The "networked organization" functions because its members develop complex communication patterns. American business exited the 1970s in terrible shape.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

He led the platform from its launch in 2006 until he passed the torch to co-founder Ev Williams two years later. The Equity podcast team discussed his departure in a TechCrunch+ post yesterday afternoon : Alex Wilhelm: A call to return to the old normal from the new normal. Is Nubank’s lower IPO pricing bad news for Brazilian startups?

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Make the investments and ignore the practices, and your teams are still likely to improve.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I started for Frankfurt but because of bad weather at Frankfurt, the flight was diverted to Paris. Here are the top 7 mistakes in customer service: Not smiling enough : The cabin crew team was very serious. Even my travel was a great learning experience. Customer service is fun (for both the parties) when you smile a lot.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Make the investments and ignore the practices, and your teams are still likely to improve.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. For a team to be Agile, they need to change their method to reflect the Agile philosophy.

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