Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

He said: “Today, mankind produces more information, data and ideas than from the stone age until the year 2003 together.“ Back then, not only did I have to deal with tough competition, changing markets and the upcoming phenomena of online shopping but also with a huge crisis within the company itself. Everything changes. Permanently.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Instead of a monolithic one-way interaction, business is now being conducted through constant and meaningful two-way conversations between organizations and constituents – at every stage of organizational development. And it’s a good thing, too. Building your Social Nation means changing what you think it means to build a company.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2011

And an employee in marketing is furious about being passed over for a promotion in favor of her coworker and is trying to discredit her. The trick to moving past these conflicts and on to increased productivity for everyone at your organization is knowing how to broach the topics in a way that leads to improved working relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

In a 2003 study of past Fed chairmen Christina Romer and David Romer of the University of California, Berkeley, reckon that a candidate who subscribes to a "sound" framework of basic monetary principles is most likely to do well. Summers nets some 12.5 million results. The Economist observed : The low tone of the debate is disappointing.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

Create opportunities for people to engage in professional development and acquire new skills. Some data-driven insights will understand customer preferences, identify market trends, and optimize internal processes. Develop a process that learns from these efforts and views them as a sense-making step to notice change.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over the last fifteen years Apple has made a series of successful market-creating—or blue ocean—moves (think the iMac, iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the App Store, and the iPad). From the 2001 launch of the iPod to the fiscal year end of 2014, Apple’s market cap surged more than 75-fold as its sales and profits exploded.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

As proprietors of a college-focused recruiting firm since 2003, we've seen examples like this again and again. More than anything, recent college grads are looking to see how they will fit into your company's culture. Outdated interview practices turn off would-be Millennial employees too early in the recruitment process.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Marketing professionals have learned the hard way that no matter what they do or do not plan to do with consumer information, privacy matters. In part, that''s because marketing has always been something of a black art. How did they know what I wanted, perhaps even before I did? How the Internet of Things Changes Everything.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. How Porsche got the product right. When the Cayenne came to market in 2003, it was an instant hit. Money was not going to be an issue.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

In 2000-2003, the emphasis switches to employees and the struggle to get employees to buy into a new corporate culture. Our research also indicated that 2000-2003 seems to be a time when failure fatigue had set in. The issue of increasing margins might really be about how to corral both of these trends in ways that increase margins.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one. Let’s delve a little deeper to see how to win using each of the basic colors of strategy and why each works best under specific circumstances.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. So we added more training and developed incentive programs. So we either offer a compelling design — based on insight into how our customers' lifestyles are changing — or we go out of business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Unlike any earlier empire, it got most of its wealth not from plunder or tax but from its dominance in trade, and used its military and economic muscle to protect free trade and open markets. The story of how this system broke down is well known. Some in the “Leave” campaign see themselves as part of this history.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Monster is the most iconic of those that brought the service to market, and the first to do it at scale. Dice was actually launched in 1990, initially as a bulletin board service for recruiters – and by the late 1990’s had ascended to prominence as the go-to site for finding software developers in Silicon Valley.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

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.

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