N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Every sound business initiative begins with a solid strategic plan. However while most anyone can cobble together a high level strategic plan, very few can author a strategy that can be successfully implemented. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

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CO2 Business Leadership

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. People get promoted for having good answers.

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CO2 Business Leadership

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. People get promoted for having good answers.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

What do great CEOs do when the business model, the strategic plan, and the revenue hurdles don’t seem to be in alignment? They make changes. They don’t sit idly by and watch the business lose market share, suffer margin erosion, see their competitive value propositions vaporize, or watch their brand go into decline.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2012

In time, Stage 1 teams arrive at Stage 2. Stage 2 teams will either get stuck in Stage 2 or move on to Stage 3. Stage 3 teams can slip back into Stage 2 or move on to Stage 4. Progress or slippage depends on whether the team builds on its momentum or rests on its laurels.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The kind that is designed to “jazz up&# and inspire the team. Terry Ricardo Bueno December 6, 2010 at 4:17 pm I really like number 6: “We have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.” — Herb Kelleher The Joy of Progress, and the Journey: “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Research shows the by-product costs of poor quality are high for any business, up to 40 percent. Marketing departments deal most often and immediately with the side effects of poor quality.

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CO2 Business Leadership

APRIL 19, 2018

We sought coaching to help with dysfunction in the executive team—personality issues we were struggling with among executives, just not clicking well together. If I had a fear, it was exposing professional weakness. No one wants to think that they’re weak, especially if you’re at the top of the food chain. You can’t fail.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Those who have captained teams tend to make better collaborators and members of others’ teams. The astute organization assesses the status of each program and orients its team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. Are the long-range strategic planning and budgeting processes integrated?

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 26, 2016

Have you ever experienced in a meeting where a seasoned leader listened intently and then, with exquisite timing, asked one question that shifted the direction, focus and thinking of the entire team? BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” What are you missing?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. Employees and executives are rarely mentored on the people skills necessary to have a winning team. Team building must be part of the corporate Vision first, not as a series of exercises delegated to trainers. 7 Steps of Professional Development : 1.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Application of design thinking to help solve myriad problems that are not typically associated with design is illuminated in a new book through vignettes drawn from such diverse realms as politics and society, business, health and science, law, and writing. Implementing a strategic technology plan.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

In this era, business started embracing formal planning. Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics. Yet, you wouldn’t know the correlation when poor customer service is rendered.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior. Develop your power play skills and use them as often as you can. Once you arrive in your new job, tell everyone how bad you predecessor did and start from zero (preferably with a consultant). Always take credit for the work your team did.

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Six Disciplines

MAY 3, 2011

Matt and Jim understand the tremendous opportunity ahead of them and their teaming with Six Disciplines, and because of their expertise and proven success, we’re excited to welcome Strategy Execution Advisors to our business coaching network.” About Strategy Execution Advisors.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

I was at a service counter, and the clerk was bad-mouthing the customers. “I Cut the weeds who will bring down the standards of the company and cast doubts on your team. Since 92% of all problems in companies stem from poor management decisions, do a better job of training managers to be leaders. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

In this era, business started embracing formal planning. Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics. Yet, you wouldn’t know the correlation when poor customer service is rendered.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 13, 2014

Poor communications skills are rampant in the workplace. When communication is poor or stops, the relationship is poor or stops and vice versa. Take a few moments over the next several days to see if you notice any of these poor interaction habits in leaders you know, including yourself: 1. What happens instead?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Strategy : planning, tactics, organizational development. Caretakers of corporate bureaucracies, departmental supervisors, short-term clients, referral sources for business development and those who dangle carrots under people’s noses. Systems and Processes : structure, hiring, control, work design, supervision, decisions.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Most often (85% of the time), they can be heeded, planned for averted. It must be included as part of a formal Strategic Planning and Visioning process. No single facet of planning should be done out of sync with the others. Business development. Economic development and community stewardship programs emerged.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

A recent Development Dimensions International study, Driving Workplace Performance through High-Quality Conversations: What leaders must do every day to be effective , reminds us in no uncertain terms, that leaders, peers and direct reports need to hold more effective conversations at work to receive more effective business performance.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree™ and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. That professionals can get by without developing public speaking and writing skills. Companies that Go Bad… self-inflicted Crises. Take no prisoners.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

Business development. These executives spend much of their energies on planning, tactics, organizational development and business development. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. That’s how this book came into being…there was no executive encyclopedia for those to make it long-term.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Business development. After all, 92% of all organizational problems stem from poor management decisions. This approach costs six times that of doing things correctly on the front end… meaning planning, sequential execution and benchmarking progress. Poor controls. Poor location. Poor controls on quality.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

Just as companies have books of business and corporate cultures, so do individuals, who in turn populate and influence organizations. Business development. However, the manual writing of spreadsheets gave us the chance to digest and learn from the information, developing the skills to better program for our audience.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Igniting Commitment: Engaging Employees for Breakthrough Performance Having a mediocre team or great team all depends on you. R eward, Recognize, and Develop. Provide training and development to help employees achieve their goals. Such thought is particularly unwise as the economy improves after a downturn.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

IF YOU WILL LEAD, LLC Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Infrastructure Consulting IF YOU WILL LEAD recognizes that your personal and professional success depends, in large part, on your ability to effectively and powerfully lead. The bad news is that it still requires a great deal of work and personal sacrifice.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 11, 2011

Based on a combined thirty years of research and experience, Rita and Ian’s book provides a breakthrough system for managing strategic growth. Instead, I recommend developing a disengagement plan. Overspend – Big flops are bad flops. She is a popular speaker and consults to senior leadership teams.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. Many managers have poor people skills, as well as poor verbal-written communications skills. ‘Develop the Drive to Accomplish Anything.’

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2010

From a Good Sales Call to a Great Sales Call teaches you how to assess your strengths and weaknesses based on information you can get from the most qualified source available—the buyer. It is only through this type of process that sales teams can learn the true, candid reasons why they win and lose. In short, it works.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is a book for the times we live in—and one that for many companies could mean the difference between success and failure. ’) Of course, time has marched on since the book was written, and plenty of other well-known companies have dropped the execution ball in the meantime (BP in the most spectacular fashion).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree TM and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. Business development. That professionals can get by without developing public speaking and writing skills. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. What we do with fear and uncertainty determines who we are.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Thought leader Sharon Drew Morgen has uncovered what keeps organizations from moving forward and in her new book, Dirty Little Secrets , she reveals what potential buyers need to know to expedite the process of bringing positive change to their companies. Bad odds: with the best solution in the world, we are dependent on luck for our results.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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