N2Growth Blog
APRIL 18, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Here’s the thing – We all have potential, maybe some more than others, but we all have it. Potential is easy to recognize, but not so easy to realize. Most of us intrinsically recognize the gift of potential, but many simply choose to do nothing about it, and sadly, it’s the rare few who will maximize their potential.
Terry Starbucker
APRIL 8, 2012
“ Success Covers a Multitude of Blunders ”. That was a famous quote from George Bernard Shaw, and it has always stuck with me throughout my career as a leader and executive. What it ultimately told me was yes, I was going to fail – multiple times. But if I was truly determined to overcome, or “cover” them, I absolutely needed to learn from every failure, and leverage that accumulated learning into success.
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SoCal CTO
APRIL 18, 2012
Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners - a go to resource here in LA for recruiting C-level positions at startups - was nice enough to compile some data again this year (see last year's Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data ). Even better, my good friend and data visualization guru Steve Wexler of Data Revelations was able to create visualizations of the data.
Change Starts Here
APRIL 4, 2012
Change initiative spinning its wheels? Find out how change loses traction (and find a way to regain it). Join me on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. Noon Eastern for a free teleclass! In this 1-hour conference call, I will share with you the top ways change initiatives get stuck, including what change agents do – or don’t do – that contribute to getting stuck.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Next Level Blog
APRIL 10, 2012
With a seemingly impossible shot off the pine straw, Bubba Watson set himself up to win the Masters on Sunday. After he sank the winning putt in a playoff, he stood on the green, hugged his caddy, hugged his mom and wept and wept. As has been widely reported, Watson and his wife just adopted a baby boy a few. Click headline to continue.
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N2Growth Blog
APRIL 1, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Leadership is about leading. Leadership is a 24-7-365 endeavor. In fact, I’d go so far as to say the best leaders view what they do as a calling and not just a job. If you’re a leader, what you do in public or private, in silence or in word, or in thought and in deed will be observed, evaluated and critiqued – count on it.
Terry Starbucker
APRIL 22, 2012
“We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.” – Sherry Turkle. We are living in an extraordinary era where digital communications has revolutionized the way we live, work, and play. For those of us old enough to remember a world without “devices” or “portables”, the possession of all that computing power and global reach in the palms of our hands is awe inspiring.
Steve Farber
APRIL 26, 2012
You may not have heard the name, John Segall; you may know him as Jay Jay French. Still doesn’t ring a bell? OK, how about the band, Twisted Sister ? Or their songs, “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” or “I Wanna Rock”? There you go! Twisted’s famed front-man, Dee Snider is the guy…well…out front, but Jay Jay is the founder of the band, the manager of the brand, and one hell of a guitarist, to boot.
Change Starts Here
APRIL 17, 2012
My guest on The Change Agent’s Dilemma this week is Christina Kach, a Continuous Improvement Lead within a government defense manufacturer. She’s here to share tips she’s collected in the last several years as a change newbie. Tune in to hear what to do (and what not to do) when you are new to a team, organization, project, or career and it’s your job to influence change.
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Next Level Blog
APRIL 19, 2012
So, for those keeping score at home, over the past year and a half I think I’ve become a yogi. Am I on the verge of releasing my own instructional yoga videos? Fortunately for you and the rest of the world, I’m not that kind of yogi. Nah, I’m just a guy who’s showing up for class consistently and learning. Click headline to continue.
Women on Business
APRIL 18, 2012
The Women on Business team is growing again, and I’m thrilled to announce that seasoned blogger, veteran writer, small business owner, and professional online editor and community manager Gayla Baer is our new Assistant Editor! Yes, you read that description correctly — Gayla has worn many hats throughout her career and brings a wealth of experience, insight, and personality to Women on Business!
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 9, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. What would you do if you didn’t need to work? Golf, travel, volunteer, spend time with family and friends, teach, go into politics – the list of options are virtually endless. A friend of mine called me today, told me the sale of his business had closed, and then informed me he had enough money to never need to work again.
Terry Starbucker
APRIL 15, 2012
For every person that can help you on your way to business (and personal) success, there are many more that can do just the opposite – serve as big barriers that make the task that much more challenging. There are three people in particular that you need to be wary of, because you WILL encounter them along the way. One you will see EVERY DAY.
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SoCal CTO
APRIL 2, 2012
Using my StartupRoar as a radar, I came across a great post by Gabriel Weinberg Do you really need a full-time hire for that? Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. The problem is you don't yet have product/market fit, and until you do, you don't really know what to build.
Change Starts Here
APRIL 26, 2012
Change gets stuck when your organization succeeds at resisting it. What if your initiative were IRRESISTIBLE instead? As someone whose role is to facilitate change in your organization, your success and the success of your project depends on your ability to avoid, remove, or navigate the obstacles that make change get stuck. Among them are: Deeply ingrained habits and mindsets.
Next Level Blog
APRIL 17, 2012
Why is this man smiling? Jeff Neely, the Western Region director of the General Services Administration, is probably asking himself this question. In case you haven’t heard, Neely invoked the Fifth Amendment when he was called before Congress this week to explain why he approved $823,000 in expenses for a GSA management retreat at a Las Vegas casino and resort.
Women on Business
APRIL 4, 2012
Women desire to be in social gatherings, supporting one another and uplifting to each others mission or goals in life. This was proven by the amazing Global Initiative that took place in 2010 by the United Nations and understanding the impact women have in the global marketplace. “The Women’s Empowerment Principles seek to point the way to best practice by elaborating the gender dimension of good corporate citizenship, the UN Global Compact , and business’ role in sustainable d
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N2Growth Blog
APRIL 29, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. I read an interesting article in Inc. Magazine entitled “ Where Have All the Bloggers Gone ?” If you read this article it would lead you to believe blogging is in decline and on it’s way out as a marketing tool. The article cites a study from the University of Massachusetts in which the respondents (170 executives from Inc. 500 companies) indicated the use of blogging was down 13% from the prior year.
Terry Starbucker
APRIL 29, 2012
Like many others here in Portland I’ve been increasing my consumption of a certain vegetable – one that has magical powers. “It’s a superfood!”, the stores proclaim. Low calorie, low fat, high in essential vitamins and minerals, etc, etc, etc… That’s all good, quite good in fact, but there’s one big problem with it.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
APRIL 12, 2012
During the research for our forthcoming book, Social Business By Design , I ended up taking a close look at a number of other excellent titles on the subject. In the end, I came away concluding there was more than ample room in the market for another entry, but that’s a story I’ll tell when the book goes into the print in the next couple of weeks.
Change Starts Here
APRIL 10, 2012
There comes a time in most change initiatives when you are spinning your wheels. Without realizing you are in fact stuck, you will most likely keep trying the same approaches to move the organization forward, with little success. Once you acknowledge that what you are doing isn’t working, you can stop doing what got you stuck in the first place and then try something new to gain traction again.
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Next Level Blog
APRIL 4, 2012
So, I got an e-mail yesterday from my brother, Steve. He’s a University of Kentucky grad and was the student manager for the basketball team during the Joe B. Hall era. These days, he’s the newly promoted CEO of a hospital in North Carolina. Being a rabid Wildcat fan, he was miffed that on the morning after UK won the. Click headline to continue.
Women on Business
APRIL 25, 2012
“Nothing in this world has ever been accomplished without great passion” – Hebbel, German Poet. Passion for life and business is what excites us to jump out of bed in the morning and set out to accomplish our goals. As a business owner and professional it is very easy to set out on the path of success and keep walking until we reach that elusive finish line.
The Recovering Engineer
APRIL 3, 2012
I’m experimenting a bit with video shorts to illustrate situations I have observed in my personal experience or heard about in my work with clients and workshop participants. I’m hoping that short videos can help to convey ideas and illustrate concepts in a fun, humorous, and effective way that helps people to relate to both the scenario and the concept so that they can use it in real life.
Terry Starbucker
APRIL 1, 2012
You can save money AND increase customer satisfaction. You can make higher profits AND create an awesome customer retention machine. Just by asking customers 5 simple questions (And of course, writing down, sorting, trending, and analyzing what you find out). Since I was converted to the indispensable benefits of constantly talking to customers back in 2004, I’ve discovered that this feedback is like gold. .
Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group
As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX
Steve Farber
APRIL 20, 2012
Are you frustrated with some of the things you’re seeing around you at work? Do you wish that “those people” (whomever they might be) would just get their acts together and give you the resources, support, time, etc that you need to do what you need to do? Do you find yourself saying something like “If these freakin’ customers would just leave me alone, I could get my job done around here”?
Change Starts Here
APRIL 24, 2012
“I’m responsible for implementing change. But how do I actually do it?”. If you are a change agent – someone who leads change from within an organization without having authority – then this is a question you are faced with every day. Your challenge is to figure out the actual steps you can personally take to make change happen in your organization.
Next Level Blog
APRIL 24, 2012
Here’s a thought experiment for you. Take a deep breath, clear your head and think for a little while about what kind of leadership the world is going to need in the future. Need a jump start? Just think about the rapidity of change in the global economy, global politics and consumer technology in the past five years. Five years. Click headline to continue.
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