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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. The change to an emphasis on analytics will require strong leadership. Analytics alone can't carry the day.

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Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. In other words, what if cultivating a successful inner life was front and center on the leadership agenda? These are skills and qualities you have to cultivate and practice.".

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Development Biotechnology CIO Short-term 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences.

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GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

In a 2002 HBR article titled “Predicting the Unpredictable,” my business partner Eric Bonabeau introduced the concept of a gent-based simulation (ABS), which at that time was a relatively novel approach to solving complex business problems through computer simulations. Navy from recruitment to retirement.

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Management Supply Chain Tools Article 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Conventional wisdom has it that the traditional arrangement raises hackles because it is a dated relic of the bipolar Cold War Western power era. Yes, with regard to what the emerging powers are asking for. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough. But haven't we heard this before?

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

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. About the Author.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe. in 2002, and should touch 2.0% An anonymous survey shows that over half the executives believed that China would have a bigger economic power than the U.S. of GDP in 2012 from 1.1%

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Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

Over his decade as IBM's leader, he made a number of moves, each instructive, but their power came from their cumulative effect in the transformation of a good company back into a great one. That council of barons was replaced by teams for strategy, technology, and operations whose members included the next generation of operating leaders.

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Software Outsourcing Committee Consultative 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When Sir Dave Brailsford became head of British Cycling in 2002, the team had almost no record of success: British cycling had only won a single gold medal in its 76-year history. That quickly changed under Sir Dave’s leadership. Perhaps the most powerful benefit is that it creates a contagious enthusiasm.

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Kaizen Critical Success Factor Competitive Advantage Brainstorming 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Related Post : The Leadership Vacuum Share and Enjoy: View Comments John Mike, I believe you are correct in that the key 'qualification' for being effective at helping others is experience and of course that is a word open to considerable interpretation.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. One must question why one company could wield such control over the investment community and what powers Wall Street had acquiesced in order for such power to grow. Think they can make more money, amass more power.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57