N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The truth is that even these world-class leaders have room to grow and can find ways to identify their weaknesses, optimize their performance, and become even better leaders. Executive coaching and talent development, in general, have been around for a few decades. How is that possible?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

As a result, many of them tend to have a major blind-spot (translation: weakness ) when it comes to the anticipation of set-backs. While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans. link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.]

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. to discuss what operational screenings and organizational development exams you need and when you need them. determine what health services and screenings are best for you and your team. By Damian “Skipper” Pitts. WHY ARE ORGANIZATIONAL CHECK-UPS IMPORTANT?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A move toward the Advantage Strategy Paradigm begins with the adoption and commitment to a set of principles that guides all executives in the decisions and actions they take related to developing, planning, and executing strategy. How many more times do people have to hear it before it actually becomes a priority?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2019

I have noticed that their story consistently repeats itself: their organizations are underperforming, and they want to discuss ways to optimize, share ideas and collaborate on experience that could help set up a plan to turn that situation around. The Disconnect puts the sales team outside of the strategic conversation.

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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? 7 Leadership Questions That Will Move The Needle in 2016. How do you know if your leadership ladder is against the right or wrong wall?

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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 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. They make changes.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 21, 2021

Your staff needs to share in your ambition to develop a future-oriented business. You will also rely heavily on integrated learning tools that facilitate employees’ professional development and streamline business operation. Oftentimes, when entrepreneurs recognize their weaknesses, they end up holding on to their failures as well.

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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’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s.

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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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. In this era, business started embracing formal planning.

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He is reminding us that true leadership requires a degree of selflessness. 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.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. In this era, business started embracing formal planning.

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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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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

I was at a service counter, and the clerk was bad-mouthing the customers. “I Where mid-managers buy the hype of the marketing slogans but stonewall the progress that would enable the company to live up to its claims. Cut the weeds who will bring down the standards of the company and cast doubts on your team. About the Author.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A few months ago I was asked to review a product strategy a team had put together. In his book Good Strategy, Bad Strategy , Richard Rumelt puts forward the three essential elements of a strategy. I’ve seen the aftermath of a number of failed strategic planning initiatives. There is a formula for articulating strategy.

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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. Slowly, we are seeing a shift from a buyer’s to a seller’s labor market.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Strategy : planning, tactics, organizational development. What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing. Never were too busy to set good examples, share ideas with others and help build the teams on which they played. Firms which package and market services.

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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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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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The Empowered Buisness

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Yet, in my 30 years experience of working with leadership teams and companies, the terms “vision,” “mission” and “values” are THE most overused, misunderstood and abused words in the business community today. Weak visions are meaningless superlatives or vague language that have no energy and fall flat on your organization.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Unfortunately, with the focus on profit, solution placement, timelines, and commissions, the potential for true servant-leadership has been overlooked. Decision facilitation” enables a smoother, faster process that leads to a better outcome for both the marketing manager and the design firm. The result?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Whether you’re a man or a woman, it’s time to start embracing your feminine side (and yes, many women have squelched their natural leadership style for far too long). Commit to developing and improving your social and emotional skill sets. Women tend to be ‘people persons’ at heart – and so do great social leaders.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Business development. This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Business development. Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). Poor controls.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

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. ‘Odds and Ends of a Beautiful Love Affair’ – Go back and examine your company’s strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats.

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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

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. Public pension funds nationwide lost at least $6.4

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Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2011

Business development. There are three key ingredients in developing deep leadership roots. The evolution, education, enrichment, professional development, training and life experiences that one amasses. In the marketplace, there exist large quantities of fair wine, some bad wine and some good wine. The Big Picture.

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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. So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. Business development. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? So what happened? It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Strategy development requires the mining the gold within any organization and seeking new outcomes via creative applications of ideas. Business development. Marketing can be either inward or outward. Companies undergo marketing campaigns to promote products and services to potential customers. Running the business.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture. Self-promotional brochures.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 11, 2011

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. Instead, I recommend developing a disengagement plan. Overspend – Big flops are bad flops.

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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. These are my considered opinions, having conducted Performance Reviews, Strategic Planning and Visioning for other companies over 35+ years. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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