N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

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. With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 318

The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

This boils down to three core behaviors: "Fanatic discipline : 10Xers display extreme consistency of action — consistency with values, goals, performance standards, and methods. This is a very timely, inspiring, and practical book for leading in turbulent times. The book is structured around the main finding of the research.

Uncertainty 81

Uncertainty Collins Review Books 81

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it. What then were the leadership characteristics that separated the winning leaders from their industry peers? Yes, but here's the rub.

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Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). So you must demonstrate very strong leadership.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? Randy MacDonald: "We observed that 80% of leadership development is based on work experience. Fostered global teamwork.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. Set short-term achievable goals, and keep your promises.

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Tips CEO Software Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else. Crisis management'

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Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. In 1999, the U.S.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Yet, companies and executives spend endless amounts of time and money trying to foster collaboration through technology, training, and memos instead of quickly defining the problem, framing the challenges, and inspiring people to come together and tackle it. Collaboration Leadership' What can we do to solve this collectively?

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Guidelines Goal Follow-up Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). Its ambitious goals were met early despite the economic crisis beginning in 2008, and a new road map set. The CEC was dissolved.

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Software Outsourcing Committee Consultative 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

in 2002, and should touch 2.0% Their primary goal is employment and job creation, not disruptive innovation that may be risky but could create shareholder value. However, only 13% believed that China would have overtaken the US on the technology frontier by then. of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% by 2020, according to the World Bank.

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Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Bottom line…good advisors make things happen and get things done at the behest of their clients for the purpose of enabling the accomplishment of anything ranging from a single task to a lifelong goal. Now that I’ve stated my case, it’s time for you to weigh-in…what say you?

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 322

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?

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Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. When goals are only in financial terms, the company is disproportionately lopsided. Exorbitant bonuses and side ‘consulting fees’ for executives were the goals…and what were most aggressively pursued.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57