Remove 2002 Remove 2008 Remove Marketing Remove Technology
article thumbnail

Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

Media 382
article thumbnail

Google: Too Big and Out-of-Control

Coaching Tip

By 2002, when I began advertising with Google, the company had become very profitable, thanks to a novel program called AdWords, in which advertisers bid to display their ads whenever the user searches for keywords. Through the period of March of 2002 to March of 2011, my small executive coaching company, Signature, Inc., Google Inc.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. We all "buy" consulting so if coaches just want to transact they just need to market and burnish their brand. Client's do not want a coach.

Blog 385
article thumbnail

What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Lots of people blamed Greenspan for some or all of this, and the man himself famously allowed, in a Congressional hearing in October 2008, that he had “found a flaw” in his model of how the world works.

article thumbnail

How Mobile Technologies Are Shaping a New Generation

Harvard Business Review

The cohort I like to call the "Re-Generation" began to take shape around 2008. Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. Mobile technology. 6% of 2- to 5-year-olds have their own smartphone.

article thumbnail

China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). China, too, needs more technological innovation. It contributed 1.4

GDP 9
article thumbnail

How Colombia Can Turn Its Economy Around

Harvard Business Review

a year, on average, between 2002 and 2007, with foreign investments touching a record $10 billion in 2008. It's one of the fastest-growing countries in Latin America and boasts a red-hot stock market too. in 2008 and actually contracted in 2009. People haven't noticed, but the Colombian economy expanded by 5.5%

GDP 14