N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

After reviewing all the comments, I decided to talk on how to lead effectively when dealing with the collision of cross generational cultures within an organizational setting. How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation. You make an excellent case for cultural innovation and leadership.

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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

Created in 2006, this social networking service has rapidly gained popularity in the world. These include fostering collaboration through two-way communication, asking employees’ feedback, focusing on what matters (setting priorities right), measuring success through key results, and building a culture of accountability. Take The Test.

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Erik Bernhardsson

MAY 1, 2018

Job interview scene from Devil Wears Prada (2006). 2000) find that highly structured interviews add some signal on top of testing cognitive ability + conscientiousness, but that unstructured interviews are almost useless. I have had some decent success using online coding tests like Hackerrank. Cortina, Goldstein et.

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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Book Review: The Leadership Test by Timothy R. " Any one who aspires to be a leader must read " The Leadership Test - Will You Pass?" At the end, teacher puts Marcus through a leadership test. There are plenty of resources available to address "How to lead?"

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QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2011

It starts with getting the right people and building the right culture. It is their choice. Getting people to exercise their choice of delivering excellence is #1 leadership challenge. Finally, just like quality , excellence is a moving target. Today’s excellent becomes tomorrow’s good enough and day-after-tomorrow’s mediocre.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Never sacrifice quality: Your products, services, leadership, management, culture, customer service, communication, etc. Innovate: Your brand will have at best a limited shelf life if a culture of innovation doesn’t pervade your business. must all reflect high standards of quality.

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QAspire

AUGUST 24, 2010

Note: My book ‘ #QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project ’ explores the people, process and leadership aspects to build a constantly improving organization culture. Check it out if you haven’t already ! Bonus: QAspire Blog was recently featured on Community of Program and Project Managers (PPM Community).

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Michael’s track record of leadership has stood the test of time. As a result, I think it is more important to build a culture that is flexible and nimble, so you can respond to changes quickly. I agree with his comment about needing to, "build a culture that is flexible and nimble, so you can respond to changes quickly.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer On Delivering In software world, delivering is generally associated with painful process of testing, rework, defect fixing, perfecting, packaging and then shipping. We build our reputation as professionals by the stuff we deliver, quality of what we deliver and timeliness of our shipments.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

“My way or the highway&# thinking, and/or positional dictatorships rarely create the culture and performance demonstrated by winning organizations. “My way or the highway” thinking, and/or positional dictatorships rarely create the culture and performance demonstrated by winning organizations.”

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QAspire

JANUARY 2, 2011

Striving for excellence” should be a call to action for us to renew our focus on developing a culture of excellence, great leadership, adopting best practices, making them work in our context, continual improvement and superior service to our customers/peers. On that note, wish you an “excellent” 2011!

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2010

loosing great ideas because of a “compliance” culture? efforts spent in resolving personal conflicts and protecting individual/departmental fortresses? poor communications and expectations management? not allowing people to make mistakes? acting from a reactive standpoint? not treating your customers well? not demonstrating integrity?

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QAspire

OCTOBER 10, 2010

. - - - - - Note: My book ‘ #QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project ’ explores the people, process and leadership aspects to build a constantly improving organization culture. Check it out if you haven’t already ! Leadership , Process Improvement , Quality | Tanmay October 11, 2010 No Comments No comments yet.

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QAspire

AUGUST 8, 2010

.” - - - - - Note: My book ‘ #QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project ’ explores the people, process and leadership aspects to build a constantly improving organization culture. Check it out if you haven’t already ! Bonus: Read my post (How to) Have a Great Monday! – and have a wonderful start into the week!

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QAspire

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Whether the topic is business excellence, leadership, teamwork, building a winning organizational culture… I try to take massive amounts of research and years and years of personal experience as a business executive – and boil it all down to the essential, fundamental things that make up the foundation of success.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2010

All three of these individuals are published authors, speakers, and advisors on the topic of leadership that have stood the test of time. Two, working globally stretches human abilities to adapt to different cultures and different situations. Maxwell ( @johncmaxwell ). One, our economic conditions are very tough.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

A man’s character is tested in adverse conditions and difficulties. Reading from the top, I was amazed to read that the flowers bloomed at their best in dry sunny climate. When I came to the end of the post, I understood that this was the lesson of the day. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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Datavail

AUGUST 25, 2022

Examples of how well-intentioned leadership failed to fully realize their DevOps vision offer insights and lessons: Failing to Embrace a DevOps Culture. An early (2006) version of SlideShare (now owned by LinkedIn) launched a DevOps model that would facilitate faster response times to best the efforts of its competition.

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2010

Process culture best established when you are still small. A leader’s belief about people goes a long way in building culture. The next post talked about leadership belief and building a people-centric culture. My next post helps you do that. In the race to win, we forget to enjoy the journey.

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QAspire

JULY 14, 2010

Oftentimes, in the larger corporate culture of focussing on quarterly results, the priority becomes the immediate short- term strategy–leading to high risk growth. Cultivating people takes time, but is at the core of leadership and building a sustainable culture. Overuse of fertilizer and pesticide would be an example of that.

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QAspire

AUGUST 20, 2010

Three Years of CO - by Kurt Harden Cultural Offering blog completed three years and Kurt ruminates on the journey so far. He also offers practical tips to handle a performance problem. He says, “That is the deal that is blogging. You take a shot at it. Put some thoughts down. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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O'Reilly Media - Data

JULY 24, 2018

Users lose trust because they feel abused by malicious ads; they feel abused by fake and misleading content, and they feel abused by “act first, and apologize profusely later” cultures at many of the major online companies. The five C’s need to be part of every organization’s culture. Why was their insurance claim denied?

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Erik Bernhardsson

MAY 1, 2018

Job interview scene from Devil Wears Prada (2006). 2000) find that highly structured interviews add some signal on top of testing cognitive ability + conscientiousness, but that unstructured interviews are almost useless. I have had some decent success using online coding tests like Hackerrank. Cortina, Goldstein et.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Article Series on Quality – A Round-Up As announced earlier , I am writing a very exciting series of articles on QUALITY over at ActiveGarage.com – it is a 12-part series that touches upon some of the most critical aspects of building a quality-centric organization culture.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Practicing servant leadership is most effective when the overall organization’s culture is built accordingly. It allows a leader to strongly influence the people and rather than “commanding-controlling&# , they focus on&# communicating, listening and enabling&#. I hope this helps.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I read somewhere that the only legacy of great leaders is the culture they create. Culture of a team or organization forms an eco-system for people to deliver great results. Hence, culture is at the very core of a quality oriented culture. Long after a leader is gone, these examples and precedence stay on.

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QAspire

JULY 27, 2010

Note: My book ‘ #QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project ’ explores the people, process and leadership aspects to build a constantly improving organization culture. All improvements are about change - in habits and in culture. Check it out if you haven’t already !

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QAspire

AUGUST 5, 2010

Stories create alignment and hence culture. Tell tales of triumphs and trials, of success and failures, of past and future. Stories reinforce the belief system. Stories validate people’s aspirations and empower them. Listen to their stories as well. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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Steve Farber

MAY 17, 2012

I graduated college in 2006 and was fortunate to land in Delaware [Ohio] (only 30 minutes from my hometown) right out of school. I couldn’t stand the school culture compared the elementary. I changed my grading policies to revolve around what students learned, not what a test told me they memorized. And magic happened.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 3, 2010

A lot of what you build as a part of your organization’s culture is a result of what you have rewarded over a period of time. You can only create and reinforce a culture if you consistently catch people in the act of demonstrating the values and behaviors that make up the “how&# we get the job done.

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QAspire

AUGUST 2, 2010

with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. In our culture, it's too easy to chase and acquire the decorations without any of the substance. link] Mike Henry Sr.

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scruminc

JULY 29, 2021

This book chronicles the adventures of David & Glaudia as they trekked around the world visiting companies embracing agile ways of working and detailing how cultural differences play a role in adoption. Principal Agile Transformation Consultant. Jess Jagoditsh. Scrum Master, Transformation.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

An excerpt: The purpose of any quality management system is to build a quality oriented culture (internal goal) and deliver exceptional value for money to customers (external goal). The format of the book also makes it easy to go back and reread. QUALITYtweet – An Interview with Tanmay Vora – Part 1.

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QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2010

It is also a great validation of your thoughts. Hat tip to my friend Tanveer Naseer for pointing me to the HBR post via Twitter. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Quotes: Super Seven From The Collection of Michael Wade Michael Wade is a GREAT blogger I have been following since 2006. He was the first blogger to have linked back to this blog way back in 2006. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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