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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CEO Blog Long-term Short-term 305

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! And it’s a good thing, too. Still skeptical?

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. It made me sit down and think… Just yesterday I attended the opening of the second Columba 1400 Leadership Centre here in Scotland. The bottom line for C1400 is to help young people from “tough realities&# to reflect on their personal leadership.

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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. The company was in free fall.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

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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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. A cautionary tale from the past: After acquiring EachNet.com, eBay controlled 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market in 2003.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2014

Freeman Dyson is a famous theoretical physicist and mathematician who’s made numerous contributions to the fields of physics and mathematics — contributions that have paved the way for many of the technologies we enjoy today. But just by trial and error, we found out how to do it, and the error was essential. He’s a great scientist.

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Execution Technology Brainstorming Strategy 8

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? In the U.S., It''s also misguided.

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Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

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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Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

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. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Using microtargeting — a system of gathering and analyzing enormous amounts of data on behavior and opinions — both the Obama and Romney camps are drilling down on which voters matter, how to best reach them, and with what message. How do you measure success when you work on political campaigns? Predict faster.

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Survey Politics Information Discount 8

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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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 9