N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. Disengaged teams stem from disengaged leaders. Leaders are expected to move things forward: the organization (business), the teams that do the work, and each individual on those teams.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

At a firm level, this is usually translated into higher wages for employees at the most innovative firms, with new research from the London School of Economics showing that over 12 years, from 2004-2016, the typical worker in a non-innovative firm in the U.K. market however, things weren’t quite so straightforward.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

Electronic medical records add extra work hours to most physicians’ days due to unfriendly user interfaces and lack of interoperability, putting information management on the list of their responsibilities. His life took a turn in 2004 and he “managed to taper off the drugs.” Photo by Online Marketing on Unsplash.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 1, 2013

Sheehan is also a former CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi in Japan and Australia, and at Team One in Los Angeles. But, before Loveworks : In 2004, Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, wrote Lovemarks: the future beyond brands. In 2010 Advertising Age magazine named Lovemarks one of their "ideas of the decade."

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Your team deserves it. Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! I reprise it today for three reasons. To celebrate the life of the late President Reagan on what would have been his 100th birthday.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. EVEN MORE: Yet another example: a good friend of mine from the 2004 Dean campaign, who was active in the 2008 Obama campaign as well, put in a request for web developers through his Facebook e-mail.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

When you have a team looking up to you for guidance and instruction, it’s important to remain consistent in the way you lead. But even if you don’t have a team of direct reports, we are all leaders who come from different walks of life with varied experiences that shape our core values. I work as a part of the team.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Here is the research he cited : A 2004 Yale study found that a highly likeable sales rep will earn 40% more than an equally educated or experienced counterpart. Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from Kennesaw State University in 2004. Complimentary Resource – Chief Marketer. StrategyDriven Welcomes Lucas D.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Known as a maverick, he often “got in trouble” with chain management for his innovative ideas and promotions. Each store employs 170 to 200 team members, fondly referred to as “roadies.” While he can easily be seen as a leader with a lot of great ideas, he credits his team with helping him come up with and implement the best ones. “If

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

When most organizations design new work processes, they assume that team members will make the best possible use of them to improve team performance. That is, they assume that team members will act rationally. The hardware team had employed similar processes in the past and found them helpful. The results?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Magazine profiles of very successful companies are endeavors of dubious value; they often manage to catch an organization just as it peaks and heads into decline, and the strengths they describe soon start looking more like liabilities. At the time Nokia was riding high, and my charge was to explain why that was so.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

The two leading candidates, according to reports , are Janet Yellen, the Fed''s vice chairman, and Larry Summers, a former member of the president''s economic team and Secretary of the Treasury under the Clinton Administration. Second, much has changed since 2004, including the Fed''s toolbox.

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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. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Companies that can successfully implement Continuous Development throughout their organization will find dramatic strategic benefits, including: Faster time-to-market. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. Customers enjoy the benefit of new features sooner.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. Every individual on every team in a company can strive, together, to deliver beyond what is deemed possible.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

If you're among the many multinational CEOs planning to appoint a local executive as your next country head in an emerging market such as Brazil, China, or India, you may want to think again. Knowing the market and possessing networks are important, but that's not all your company needs for success today.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

Searching for an untapped market? In 2004, the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave a performance of the modern classic 4' 33" by John Cage , a composition famous for its counterintuitive focus on the sounds of music not being played. I sometimes ask the executives and managers I coach to do something similarly counterintuitive.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

We studied the German mobile-handset market during the feature-phone era of 2004-2008 — a dynamic period in which competition was about equipping devices with new functions such as photography. Samsung, a classic pioneer in the handset market, also had a successful year in 2006. Asking too many questions can slow you down.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The concern I expressed in the post was that these actions have become the standard by which CEOs are expected to manage. I, along with the rest of my management team and the board, agreed with the recommendation, and the drug was withdrawn. In 2004, the circumstances were different. billion in revenues.

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Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The team ended last season at the bottom of the standings (Las Vegas odds were 28 to 1 that they’d make it to the World Series), but rallied this year. I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans.

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How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. In short, it is their primary management system. When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. To do this, Goldman used its competencies in understanding markets, convening needed expertise and business networks. Early results are encouraging.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. In India there''s Flipkart , in Russia there''s Ozon , and in Thailand, Indonesia, and other South East Asia markets there''s Lazada. In some cases this is true.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

He approved marketing campaigns that told loyal Penney''s shoppers that "you deserve to look better," basically telling them that they looked less than glamorous wearing the brand they had trusted and been comfortable with for years. In 2004, former CEO Alan Questrom was applauded for turning around the store which had hit on hard times.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It was written with Jay Terwilliger and Mark Sebell, managing partners at Creative Realities , a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. From small business to large, executives confront a constant tension between managing what is and creating new growth. We believe this is the time for real leaders to come forward.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. Complexity had brought LEGO to its knees.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Instead, leaders of these companies excel at five unconventional acts — management practices that contradict conventional wisdom. They avoid getting trapped on a growth treadmill, chasing multiple market opportunities where they have no right to win. First, these companies commit to an identity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. The CEO as Lead Product Designer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Consider the soul-searching that must have gone on at Merck in 2004 when its management finally made the decision to remove Vioxx from the market. A lot still depends on the leadership abilities of Barra and her top team. Some sponsors, like Radisson, are discontinuing their sponsorships of some professional teams.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Managers in these organizations translate corporate objectives into a few straightforward guidelines that help employees make on-the-spot decisions and adapt to constantly shifting environments, while keeping the big picture in mind. Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

When women start companies they quite naturally create more permeable and diverse management teams, having worked on gender diverse teams, or, conversely, having seen the pitfalls of being the token woman in a homogenous grouping. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. There has also been a 5.2%

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Other risk-mitigation strategies .

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

The capitals of Europe empty out in August, traditionally because of the weather, but financial markets don't take a holiday, air-conditioning has eliminated the August rationale, and growth countries south of the equator, notably Brazil, keep on with their productive winter pace. What is the rest of the team doing?

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Contingency Plans Sharpe Bond Planning 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Some 650 people had already joined, and thus began the company’s wild ride toward becoming a social networking site with over a billion users, thousands of employees, and a market capitalization well north of $100 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

Few professionals were sitting at their desks in 2004, eyeing the empty slots in their calendars and wishing that somebody would just invent a new way of communicating to fill those long and lonely minutes. They've expanded teams and reassigned resources by eliminating now-deprecated communications channels.

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Media How To Reputation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2013

Three years after I wrote an article on the Athens 2004 wiretapping case, which involved Greek government officials, I found somebody snooping on my own email as I served the next Greek administration. It was set up by the Minister''s team for issuing ministry email addresses to his reports. Online marketing Social media Technology'

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