N2Growth Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

Twelve years after launching culture change consulting services, I am finally sitting down to write about six defining values of a leadership culture. No surprise that all six values rise and fall on leadership. Here are six leadership values that impact culture: Leadership Cares. Leadership Alignment.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Setting milestones were very relevant in Intel that time because theirs was a large company and has a need to translate strategic planning into actionable goals and milestones. If you liked this article, feel free to visit my company Products and Services pages.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full My 10 Favorite (and Most Effective) Leadership Quotes by Starbucker on December 5, 2010 One of my favorite things to do as a leader is make a big speech or presentation. Every step may be fruitful.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 12, 2021

When strategic planning, a SWOT helps you define your business strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Please click the article headline above or go to [link] for more. A useful tool you can use to assess the environment you’re competing in is called the SWOT analysis. And typically, it’s drawn on a grid.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Martin Fowler wrote an article in 2003 titled Cannot Measure Productivity. If you did this exercise with your leadership team, youd probably get different answers. So were looking for people who have peer leadership skills, who are great at teamwork , who will take ownership and make decisions on their own. Not possible.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

This article explores three critical areas where CIOs can transform their roles from operational leaders to strategic visionaries. Its a process that not only aligns IT with the organizations goals but also cultivates strategic thinking across the IT leadership team. Contact us today to learn more.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

How to Strategically Plan for Your OKRs. Many organisations make use of strategic planning systems that allow them to focus on the goals they set under each category. In general, the key results of your company will show the main metrics that the leadership team supervises and held accountable for. Take The Test.

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The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

From time to time, I find an article written by one of my colleagues that I want my clients to know about. The following article — Time is Money: The 3 Different Approaches to Strategic Planning — was written by Gabriel Najera — Founder, Najera Consulting Group. I learned alot from this article.

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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. Actionable : A successful idea cannot remain in a strategic planning state. via n2growth.com [.]

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans. This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

“Yes, my team can do that for you,” might mean, “I’m going to have to postpone our team’s strategic planning offsite. In our leadership programs, we always recommend facing difficult conversations with confidence and humility. But for now, our focus is training humans on human-centered leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

What we’re noticing about leadership, teams, and company culture. About your leadership? We’re seeing more offsites, leadership training kickoffs, executive leadership workshops, and team innovation events. We see a renewed commitment to strategic planning groups. What are YOU NOTICING?

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General Leadership

APRIL 16, 2014

In a fascinating study of 60 top management teams who were engaged in an annual strategic planning, problem solving, and budget setting summit, researchers set out to determine what it was that made some teams perform better than others. This Article was Originally Published. Louis ’s top homebuilders.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Implementation Plateaus – The strategic plan growing out of the Vision Story will prioritize and group key initiatives into multiple implementation phases based on each initiative’s strategic significance and any interdependencies that may exist among the efforts. This article was originally published at [link].

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2024

The best weapon to make decisions in a dynamic world is accurate and relevant information so organizations can carry out strategic plans in the most reliable way. Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, Digital Transformation, IT Leadership, Machine Learning, Microsoft Azure

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

From there, the phrase went viral among practitioners, media, researchers, and executives as it described strategic plans for competitiveness and growth. This is important, as a recent article in the New York Times pondered whether AI could also threaten CEO roles!

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 30, 2013

It’s been another great year for the Everyday Leadership site. 2013 featured a Leadership Profiles series and Powerful Questions series in addition to everyday leadership content. What a Leadership Coach Won’t Do For You. This article was picked up by the Ziglar Newsletter and Personal Excellence Magazine.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 22, 2022

It linked to an article that described Russia’s operations plan for its attack on Ukraine, obtained by sources of Ukrainian news website ZN.UA. When he pinged me on Signal, it was from a bunker. They were expecting another missile attack at any moment. Read this ”, he said, and sent me this link. “ Use Google Translate. ”.

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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? This isn’t rocket science, rather it’s just plain-old, good leadership. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. They make changes.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JULY 27, 2020

Here are four tips for leaders to adjust their strategic planning process to support a networked model. Please click the article headline above or go to [link] for more. The top-down hierarchical structure of organizations is limited and outdated. Today’s post is by Chris Yates, author of Share (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

CIOs know that they need to be strategic, but where is the time? Pick up any IT trade journal and you’ll probably find an article that is telling CIOs that because of the importance of information technology they need to get a seat at the company’s planning table. Image Credit: catd_mitchell.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MARCH 17, 2021

Break that down into major themes over the course of the strategic planning. Please click the article headline above or go to [link] for more. Take a look at your vision and your mission. Look at where you’re going as an organization. This is only the beginning of the thought.

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Perficient

AUGUST 28, 2024

With that backdrop, we – the authors of this article – would like to introduce ourselves and share how our leadership in Perficient’s ERGs has affected our experience. These company-wide groups facilitate connection by offering a platform for diverse perspectives and knowledge sharing within our global community.

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Luis Goncalves

APRIL 12, 2018

Some CoPs are highly organized, with codes of conducts, standard roles and responsibilities, strategic plans, even budgets. However, there are key differences that should be noted, according to the “Creating and Facilitating Communities of Practice” article published by the Queen’s University School of Business.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

If you’re in a leadership role, so much the better as whatever you stop doing will have a positive ripple effect for the people on your team. My colleague Beth Schumaker shared this article from National Geographic that explains what it is and why it happens. The new notice is the emerging trend of Zoom fatigue. Here’s the summary.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

This calls for an individual with exceptional leadership qualities and cross-functional experience. Owing to such demands, organizations often need help identifying prospects who embody these traits and perfectly fit their unique culture and strategic alignment.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 21, 2016

Business leaders trying to plot the future of their companies without a plan often find their business not going exactly where they intended. But a strategic plan for the organization is key if, and only if, it is a living, breathing document to be used frequently. A few years ago, I made a business plan.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Budgets get more attention than the umbrellas under which they rightfully belong: Strategic Planning and Visioning. By itself, Budgeting does not constitute full-scope planning and business strategy. Does your strategic plan adequately describe what you do? How diverse is the planning committee?

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 26, 2016

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? Are your leadership and organizational goals primarily focused on moving up the ladder or do they also serve a greater good? Defining your leadership or company goals is the easy part.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 5, 2021

As you begin your strategic planning process, it’s important to assess the market you’re competing in. Please click the article headline above or go to [link] for more. Identify your organization’s major threats and opportunities by assessing these five aspects of your market.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Adopt a policy of strategic planning. Strategic goals and objectives must filter downward throughout all the organization. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along. You just finished reading The Big Picture of Business: Goal Setting… An Important Part of Strategic Planning. !

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Ultimately this comes down to you changing your leadership style. Leadership and mentoring is never easy to do. Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World IT Department Leadership Skills™. In order to do this, they need to become more strategic. This means that you are going to have to embrace social media.

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Tenable

JULY 29, 2022

It’s a chronic problem among many security teams: Spending most of their time responding to emergencies while devoting little time to strategic plans. Talk to leadership in terms of risk, not just about compliance requirements, explaining why – not what – you’re doing, and how this yields business benefits.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2014

Let’s see how many of us have been involved in this type of conversation: Strategy Consultant: “ Do you have a Strategic Plan? Strategy Consultant: “ Umm, this isn’t a strategic plan. ”. Strategic Planning is one of those things that every leadership team claims to do, but, few actually perform.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2011

Complimenting the StrategyDriven Management & Leadership articles, these conversations examine the real world challenges managers face every day that are not easily solved with a new or redesigned process and instead demand the application of soft leadership skills to achieve a positive outcome.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

Strategic thinking is NOT the same thing as strategic planning. In fact, many strategic plans have little strategic thinking behind them. For most companies, strategic planning focuses on breaking down a goal into action steps and connecting those steps to resources, timelines and budgets.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In our previous article , we illuminated the significance of business transformation for life sciences and healthcare organizations (LS/HCOs). Align Organizational Strategy and Leadership : Set the course by crystallizing the organization’s transformation vision and objectives. Leadership is instrumental here.

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