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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

I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. May I take to heart these good words of advice in 2011 and the years ahead. Have a joy filled 2011. I wish you and family a blessed 2011 as well. Thanks for the great reminder.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. SD : It sounds logical to develop strategy by starting with one’s capabilities.

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The Benefit of Dissenting Opinion | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you don’t engage those who hold dissenting opinions and viewpoints in candid and open discussions you will struggle in developing to your true intellectual potential. Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. In the photography industry, Leica provides a sharp example of how adding new capabilities can help a company reverse free fall. Enter Andreas Kaufmann, an Austrian investor who acquired a controlling stake in Leica in 2006.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. Collins worked primarily on IT related work, such as systems integration and software development.

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The Ripple Effects of Parents Not Using Their Vacation Time

Harvard Business Review

That’s even higher in America, where nearly two-thirds of adults own one – roughly double the 2011 number. These soaring rates of phone-usage coincide with a sharp decline in taking time off from work. Of course, it’s true that America has a more threadbare social safety net than many other developed, wealthy nations.

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