N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The analysis you describe seems to me to happen after a flash of insight. The flash and analysis don’t always result in a win, even if the idea seems to meet your criteria, so another key behavior of winners is that they keep trying. Flash-analysis/trial again and again until it clicks. Flash of inspiration.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Have you ever sat in a meeting where all parties sit around the table with a deer in the headlights look trying to figure out how to dance around an issue rather than address it head-on? Thanks for the great analysis and the context within which it was framed. Please stop by again and keep us updated. Thank for your comment.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

Let’s look at how to turn those symptoms around. Despite what many leaders believe, strategic thinking is NOT quantitative analysis – eg, generating sales forecasts – nor quantitative goals – eg, $100 million in revenues. The personal computer revolution was started by putting together existing technologies in a way never done before.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. 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

The difference between those who succeed, and those that fail, is their perspective on how to deal with the barriers they encounter along the way. 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. On the other hand, it may be about me.

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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. I love to help, people love to help.

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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

MAY 8, 2017

With these criteria in mind, our final list is as follows: Our analysis revealed characteristics shared by the winning firm’s leaders as well as common strategies they employed. That knowledge helped them understand how to make change happen inside an organization. For more on our methods, see the sidebars below.)

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

These are typically specific, functional abilities like project management, web development, financial analysis — or advisory skills that come from years of experience. “The most successful freelancers know how to use their network for all sorts of things, like outsourcing work when they have too much,” Horowitz explains.

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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. So how early should the founders pack their bags and ship out to the U.S.?

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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. In it, he describes why action is more important than [.]

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

I fired him from my team realizing he would never understand how to relate to a client on their terms. Teaching one what to do, and even how to do it, doesn't automatically create leaders. And it addresses the "Who or what we are" and "How we are?" And he was considered an expert!

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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. Lots of people blamed Greenspan for some or all of this, and the man himself famously allowed, in a Congressional hearing in October 2008, that he had “found a flaw” in his model of how the world works.

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