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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business?

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Family Matters | N2Growth Blog

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I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. " I can think of friends that violated your insight and now years later they are scrambling to make sense of life. Best regards, Dan scottgould Mike, This is so good. Thanks for the great reminder.

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The Benefit of Dissenting Opinion | N2Growth Blog

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By understanding and managing the perception of others my managing our own attitudes and acceptance of others even when they don’t agree with us is vital to our ability to expand our own knowledge and skills and to be perceived as a true leader. ” Your conclusion is right on point. Thanks for sharing Gordon.

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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. It’s a ‘sharp pencil’ capabilities system rooted in superior information. This, in turn, increases the company’s leverage with suppliers and allows it to be extraordinarily efficient in moving inventory and managing working capital.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. In the photography industry, Leica provides a sharp example of how adding new capabilities can help a company reverse free fall. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. 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. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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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. And we use them constantly – the average American spends over two hours on his or her smartphone every day.

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