N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If you suffer from analysis paralysis, procrastination, timidity, a lack of courage or confidence, being indecisive, or being in over your head, there is trouble looming. Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. If you can’t make decisions, you can’t get things done.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Thanks for the great analysis and the context within which it was framed. I offer my best wishes for success with your new company and your mission. Please stop by again and keep us updated. Thank for your comment. link] mikemyatt Hi Susan: You did a bit more than ponder didn't you?

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

Despite what many leaders believe, strategic thinking is NOT quantitative analysis – eg, generating sales forecasts – nor quantitative goals – eg, $100 million in revenues. Although there are many books about strategic thinking, my focus for this article is on the structure of strategic thinking … the Core 6 characteristics.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

A bias toward action is always a better path than falling prey to analysis paralysis. If so, again don't get fall into analysis paralysis. " Too often, as you indicate, we think it's all about me; I'm being picked on by the cosmos. On the other hand, it may be about me. I may have some personal issues. Do something.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In the final analysis it’s really all a matter of perspective…you can either view yourself as part of a hierarchical world sitting at the top of the org chart puffing your chest and propping-up your ego, or you can view yourself as the hub at the center of a large and diverse network.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

This point is made forcefully in a recent post here at Harvard Business Review by MIT’s Andrew McAfee, and in Average Is Over , the latest book by economist Tyler Cowen. His key metaphor throughout the book is that of a freestyle chess player. We call them “super forecasters.”

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Much like you have performance reviews for your employees you should conduct an analysis of how your customers are performing. Posted on March 24th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Is the customer really always right?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

I first heard about it when everyone did in 2006. Technology changes. It turns out there are lots of people who don''t get the new technology and now social life is a little like a competition to show that we''re not "falling for it." Instead, do a careful, thoughtful analysis, for and against the innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them. Strategy & Execution Book.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

But Edmund Phelps, the Columbia University economist who won a Nobel in 2006 " for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy ," has been doing his best to change that. He''s also just written a book, Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change. Yes, that''s right.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. Daniel Senor and Saul Singer offer additional explanations in their book, Start-Up Nation.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I would caution you against confusing speed with reckless abandon…I’m a big proponent of planning, assessment, analysis and strategy, but only if it is concluded in a timely fashion. “Analysis Paralysis&# leads to missed opportunities and failed initiatives.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

The number of books, blogs, tweets, videos, webcasts, podcasts, etc., Was it when I wrote my first book on the subject or the third? There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. In the fall he came out with a book setting out his new and improved worldview, The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting. The book is not the world’s most coherent.

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