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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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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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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. In 2006, Pfizer directly redeemed the value built by PCH by selling the business to Johnson & Johnson for an unprecedented US$16.6 billion, or 20.6

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The Bedraggled Return of the Organization Man

Harvard Business Review

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. Then, in the early 2000s, the declining tenure trend for men bottomed out; since 2006 it''s been on a steady upward path. percentage in 2011: 21.9).

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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.

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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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