The Five Strategic Rules of Leadership Clarity
By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth In today’s leadership and strategy methodologies, leaders and organizations need to have five strategic rules of leadership...
View ArticleThere Is No Time To Hurry Up And Wait
By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth Making any progress, process transformation or change across American communities and throughout the global business communities...
View ArticleFive Strategies for Leaders in Law to Remain Culturally Fit
By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth Albert Einstein said; “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them.” In thinking about...
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Get Off The Strategy Merry-Go-Round
By Mark Hefner Global Practice Chair, Strategy N2Growth Most organizations, and even most strategy consultants, are using strategic planning frameworks built for business models that were designed...
View ArticlePRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS
By Mark Hefner Global Practice Chair, Strategy N2Growth ADVANTAGE STRATEGY Five Paradigm-Shifting Principles Repeatable processes and procedures add great value in stable and predictable times. Those...
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Write Your Leadership Legacy in 6 Words
By Grant Wattie President, N2Growth Australia While having lunch with a number of writers, Ernest Hemingway claimed he could write a short story that was only six words long. When the lofty group of...
View ArticleA Chief What Officer? The truth about titles.
By Brody Clemmer Chief Innovation Officer, N2Growth I have been a Digital Marketer, a Genius, a Business Representative, and a Shift Manager. I have guided through the titles that life has graciously...
View ArticleThinking Ahead – Millennial Leadership
By Brody Clemmer Chief Innovation Officer, N2Growth Leadership is a hot topic today and will continue to be for a while. I don’t want to tell you the things that you already know, but make you think...
View Article4 Indisputable Principles for Building a Business Worthy of High Esteem
Over the past couple of years, I’ve written extensively in this column on the subject of competitive differentiation. Many of my articles offer advice on becoming “of choice” and “indispensable” among...
View ArticleHow to Select the “Right” Approach For Your Next Strategic Initiative
Many of my clients struggle with how to determine the best way to tackle strategic opportunities as they arise through the strategic planning frameworks that I’ve help them to institutionalize. They...
View Article8 Tips for ‘Keeping It Real’ During Your Cultural Transformation Effort
Whenever I consider the pain and toil that goes into every deep, cultural transformation effort I recall the words of Japanese author, Haruki Murakami, “pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.”...
View ArticlePreparing Your Organization for the “Big Change”
Organizational change is inevitable. Like all living things, it’s vital that organizations regularly adjust in order to accommodate the ebb and flow that goes on within the ecosystems in which they...
View ArticleWelcome to Strategic Planning 2.0
As a strategy consultant, I have had the opportunity to review a lot of strategic plans over the years. It’s been truly amazing to discover just how many major organizations develop strategic plans...
View ArticleWelcome to Business 2.0 as Powered by New IT
Business 2.0 represents a new way of thinking and doing for early 21st Century companies. Unlike e-commerce where consumer transactions are done via the Web, Business 2.0 is about using the...
View Article5 Ways to Become Indispensable
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “indispensable” as being absolutely necessary and not subject to being set aside or neglected. Wouldn’t you like to become indispensable to your customers?...
View ArticleFreedom to Shine: Empowerment through Free Will
There is recent research that points to the notion that the belief in free will is a significant predictor to personal achievement. It is suggested through this work that one’s motivation is often...
View Article10 Signs Your Company Culture Needs a Fix
10 Signs Your Company Culture Needs a Fix There is little doubt that the best performing firms on the planet have exciting and healthy cultures – think Google, Southwest and Nike – while other...
View ArticleHow to Get to What Happens Next
All of my strategy, culture and organizational design work over the years comes down to one thing – enabling my clients to differentiate themselves from their competitors so to dominate the markets...
View ArticleStrategic planning must change with the times
If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. Whether they’re developed in-house or brought in by...
View ArticleThe “Next Practices” of Strategy-Setting
Are your strategic planning practices flat and uninspired? Have you reduced your planning process to a once per year, budgeting exercise? Do your senior people feel disengaged and removed from your...
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