N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. The idea should be in alignment with the overall vision and mission of the enterprise.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Is there a point when satisfying the customer is actually harmful to the enterprise, or back to the original question, is the customer always right? How far should a company go to satisfy their clientele or customer base? What is the lost opportunity cost associated with customer churn?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

One would hope that the employees would understand and put the needs of the enterprise ahead of their expectation that this year’s bonus should eclipse that of the previous year, but would they? How do the employees feel about this?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager. The fact is that business is not a static endeavor. This isn’t rocket science, rather it’s just plain-old, good leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Furthermore, in well run organizations you can determine which initiatives are most important to the enterprise by examining which leaders are tasked to what initiatives. Great organizations assign their best leaders to the most significant opportunities and/or to correct key shortcomings (see previous post: Resourcing 101 for CEOs ).

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Rather than binding the enterprise to a rigid set of static operating principles and procedures, the elasticity and flexibility of a well defined business model allows the organization to influence necessary inflection points and key business drivers in a real-time manner.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It is more critical than ever in today’ economic climate that leadership development be a top priority for CEOs who want to build a thriving enterprise moving forward. When an organization stops learning they begin dying. Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Oh, and by the way…if you’re a CEO you better have a very clear understanding of what your customers are experiencing at every level of interaction across your enterprise. You engage your employees through leadership, coaching and training. Richard Branson is a frequent passenger on Virgin flights.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Great CEOs possess the ability to refine their thinking and leadership skills to reflect the evolving needs of the enterprise and the changing global business climate. Stating that a CEO of a start-up should operate with the same term limit constraints of a CEO of a Fortune 500 company is very unrealistic and dangerous thinking.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

They understand how to effectively deploy these highly productive and valuable team members to create tremendous leverage and velocity across the enterprise. As a CEO you can either pit your executives against one another, or have them collaboratively engage in supporting one another for the overall good of the enterprise.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If all enterprises had socially acceptable values and based all behavior on those values, how would that have changed the outcomes of things like, for example, Enron Corporation, Bernard L. Think about that.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It is precisely the dispensing of one-size fits all advice that has allowed the ranks of consultants, coaches, mentors and other professional advisers to swell to historical proportions. After all, if you can apply someone else’s theory in a vacuum it lowers the barrier to entry doesn’t it?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Unless you are a very large enterprise it is unlikely that you have the time, money, staffing, or external professional relationships to execute a brand management strategy such as the one outlined above. The preceding description paints the perfect illustration of why branding is one of my favorite topics…It is complex.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

As a CEO Coach I am often asked to provide counsel on the political hot potato de jure, and let me be perfectly clear that it is not only possible, but preferable, to successfully handle highly charged political topics without being politically correct. Yes, Leaders need to be role models for commpassion, mentorship, coaching, etc.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

Refusing to surrender, having the ability to make the tough decision, the needed sacrifice, and the focus to place fiduciary obligations above your self interest will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Rebel Brown : I began to realize that regardless of my client’s size or market focus, from early stage to small business to enterprise, I was constantly having to deal with the same challenges in thinking and planning, before we could focus on the project objectives. Rebel Brown : I see myself as a coach and facilitator.

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James Shore

JUNE 19, 2021

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. One of the limits on your ability to scale will be the availability of skilled coaches. Remember, coaches are the people who help each team learn how to apply Agile ideas and practices.) Other team members may be able to step into a coaching role, too.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. 1 Excerpted from Fowler’s “Enterprise Rails” article at [link]. There’s a wide variety of help available: occasional mentoring; training; help with process design and implementation; and full-time (or near-full-time) coaching. Your feedback is appreciated!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Deloitte member firms help enterprises create and protect value… Welcome to Baker & McKenzie Baker & McKenzie is the world’s leading global law firm.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2015

A coach's job is to facilitate potential change, usually by asking questions to identify the components of the problem and decide between solutions while reinforcing the changes and maintaining a trusting relationship. You just finished reading What Should Coaches Be Listening For? ! The post What Should Coaches Be Listening For?

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2023

The latter was a new position, the company’s first enterprise CIO focused on delivering operational excellence and competitive differentiation. Scott left GATX in 2007 to become CIO of Crowe, an accounting, consulting, and tech firm. She worked for GATX, a railcar company, for 17 years in a series of increasingly high-level roles.

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Agile42

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Since 2007 we have been helping companies change the way they work in a profitable and sustainable way. Organizing a corporate training program is a challenging and time-consuming task and educating people into new roles can be daunting. With the agile42 Corporate Learning Program, we want to make your life easier.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 5, 2011

"There's no question that being an advocate eclipsed my reputation as a musician," Dr. Taylor said in a 2007 article in The Post Magazine. Hopefully, I’m catching you with this post at a time when you still have a bit of that post-holiday season reflective, what am I trying to do with my life thing going on.  Click Here.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. 1 Excerpted from Fowler’s “Enterprise Rails” article at [link]. There’s a wide variety of help available: occasional mentoring; training; help with process design and implementation; and full-time (or near-full-time) coaching. Your feedback is appreciated!

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2015

Used in sales, and now being used in the coaching industry, my Buying Facilitation® model offers a unique skill set that teaches systems how to change themselves, and includes listening for systems rather than content, and a new way to use questions (Read Dirty Little Secrets ( www.dirtylittlesecretsbook.com.).But About the Author.

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CollabNet VersionOne

APRIL 10, 2018

Started by VersionOne in 2007, the report is the largest, longest running, and most widely-cited agile survey. Here are some more themes and takeaways from the 12th annual State of Agile report: Agile is expanding within the enterprise – Agile adoption is growing within organizations, both more broadly and deeply.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 5, 2016

Most of you are really good at what you do: as influencers, sellers, coaches, change agents, or leaders, your intuition, excellent skills, and history of success guide your ability to facilitate change for your clients. I’ve trained it to 100,000 sales people, coaches, leaders, and negotiators globally. Facilitating Choice.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

This blog focuses on how to motivate, engage, and coach the Executive Sponsor and Process Owner during a Business Process Improvement (BPI) project. The Executive Sponsor has wider authority and recognizes enterprise opportunities and challenges for the particular BPI Project. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Xicom

JANUARY 9, 2020

Service/Expertise Section: Web Development, Enterprise wide Web Applications, Cloud Computing, Web 2.0 Enterprise. Service/Expertise Section: Website Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, Enterprise Solutions, Mobile Application Development, Internet Marketing. Founded: 2007. Applications, Mobile Apps, iPhone Apps.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2017

Great sales managers see themselves as observers and coaches , not players. That means filling your time with coaching and helping your reps create their personal development plans. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. But sales managers are not put in the job to keep selling. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Senior Vice President and Leader of the Executive Coaching practice at Partners in Human Resources International (New York), Dr. John Hoover is a former executive with The Walt Disney Company and McGraw-Hill. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Already a client? Login to access this article. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Sales and marketing folks, managers, trainers, coaches, leaders – any profession that focuses on offering advice or promoting action – must stop trying to ‘pitch’ even if someone needs to hear it. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. We protect our system at all costs. When Information is Applicable.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 15, 2015

She has worked as a speech trainer, coach, professional speaker, and has co-authored two books titled, Talking Business: A Guide to Professional Communication and Talking Business: When English is Your Second Language. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2015

You can help someone develop new skills, but it’s almost impossible to coach an employee to become someone they’re not. He has over 25 years consulting and coaching companies from the local entrepreneur to the Fortune 500. In 2007, Mike founded Performance Breakthrough to help mid-sized companies achieve dramatic business growth.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

This is why relevant solutions in sales, marketing, coaching, implementations, doctor’s recommendations etc. Most fields have been designed in a way that disregards this in their sales, marketing, leading, coaching, healing, etc., In other words, when we Facilitate (sell, coach, lead, etc.) often fall on deaf ears.

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James Shore

MARCH 18, 2021

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. See the “Further Reading” section to get started, and consider hiring a coach to help you learn. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture [Fowler 2002] has a good discussion of the trade-offs between domain models and other architectural approaches.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

As outsiders – leaders, sales professionals, coaches, managers - we are engaged to amend the status quo of clients, prospects, or staff, using information as the rationale for change. Conventional sales, marketing, training, coaching, and leadership models use sharing and gathering information at their core. All rights reserved.

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