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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Having such a sharp focus ensures you can better whittle down the complexity of processes/interactions, as well as ensuring you don't become too dependent either on your top talent or even on your bigger customers, which can cause you to shift your goals to better suit their needs instead of your purpose.

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Family Matters | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career.

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The Benefit of Dissenting Opinion | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. We serve people, lead people, we relate to people, we encourage or discourage people, and we are people.

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The Bedraggled Return of the Organization Man

Harvard Business Review

Whyte described the American worker — in particular the white-collar worker — as an "organization man" out to build his career and his life around a single corporation. For example, the percentage of workers who are self-employed , which usually rises during and immediately after a recession, has been falling steadily since 2006.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

In the photography industry, Leica provides a sharp example of how adding new capabilities can help a company reverse free fall. Yet when digital photography arrived, the company was slow to embrace it, only incorporating it into its cameras in 2006. In 2011 the private equity firm Blackstone invested 160 million euros in the company.