N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Great CEOs possess the ability to refine their thinking and leadership skills to reflect the evolving needs of the enterprise and the changing global business climate. Stating that a CEO of a start-up should operate with the same term limit constraints of a CEO of a Fortune 500 company is very unrealistic and dangerous thinking.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management. Entrepreneur.com From Entrepreneur magazine, a resource they call the first online business-to-business community marketplace built exclusively for small and emerging businesses. Inc.com Inc.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 2, 2011

The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company William Capodagli and Lynn Jackson McGraw Hill, Second Edition (2006) The ROI of “Magic” According to William Capodagli and Lynn Jackson, “This book tells the inside story of just how Disney’s success was achieved — not by epiphanic flashes of creative insight (..)

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Moreover, the 2012 Accenture Global Consumer Pulse Research Study found that 63 percent of consumers said the quality of customer service received is the most important factor when choosing a brand. Retention Is Key.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the kind words Dan, and I hope you enjoy the book. link] Wally Bock Fine post, Mike.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 22, 2012

Is Bribery an Ethical Condition of Doing Business in the Global Economy? Munich wrote, “it would seem more prudent to develop a follow-up plan of action, independent of Walmex management participation.”. The wisdom of assigning any investigative role to management of the business unit being investigated escapes me,” Ms.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8%

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. Lou Schachter is the global leader of the BTS Sales Practice. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The essence of managing cognitive bias is to realize that it is unavoidable, it is an essential part of being human." For a variety of reasons, women are stuck in what the FT calls the “marzipan layer”, or 30% leave the workforce for periods, some never to return, resulting in a massive brain drain.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

Although there are many books about strategic thinking, my focus for this article is on the structure of strategic thinking … the Core 6 characteristics. Global (or Holistic) Thinking. Essentially, strategic thinking is a mindset. Below are my Core 6 characteristics of strategic thinking. What would be your chances of success?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2014

In 2006, a database was created that measured the economic and political power of women in 162 countries. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. For those in certain positions, it’s time to encourage this power in women.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It’s an argument that Haas Business School’s Henry Chesborough wholly agrees with, and outlines the case for a more open way of innovating as the solution to this productivity paradox in his latest book, Open Innovation Results. The new products, new technology, new startups. ” Variable outcomes.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2011

This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe. In this book, you will learn not only why the Happiness Advantage is so powerful, but how you can use it on a daily basis to increase your success at work.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

It is also the basis of the research underlying this book. This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe. Clearly, I live a very exciting life.) This is a scatter-plot diagram. This isn’t just an empty mantra.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Check out these new, and forthcoming books from HBR Press: Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works. Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures without Losing Yourself in the Process. What does it mean to be a global worker and a true "citizen of the world" today? Check out the newest books in the series.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

As a leader in business, you are familiar with the fact that you have risks that need to be managed or avoided completely. Trust has taken a back seat to a host of culture development programs and, over the past few years, cost cutting measures to survive the global financial crisis have eroded trust even further. And guess what?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

He reads 100 books each year that are NOT related to his work, he maintains work-life balance as evidenced by the fact that at age 50 he still goes rock climbing at least three times a week, and what really impressed me was his humility. Fear is dead as a management tool. The Teacher’s Union has killed education in America.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2010

For those of you not familiar with John’s work, he has authored several books, the most recent of which is “ Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managng Up.&# I do this through my work as an executive coach, teaching as a leadership educator, and writing my columns and books.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Ben Stephens is the poster child for contact management. . • Started out slow, but a good message overall. Very good, very useful information for all of us. These relationships and contacts are key. His emails and calls always bring value. Language was a bit of a barrier. If the speaker spoke more strongly, it would help quite a bit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

But the findings presented in the 2006 Harvard Business Review article "Are Leaders Portable?" still managed to surprise me. I read the article when I was finishing my book Great People Decisions , and it has dramatically influenced my thinking, practice, research, and teaching ever since. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

Let me recap my take of what's happened over the past several years: In 2006-7, the prevailing narrative discussed a never-ending boom thanks to hyperfinancialization. I suggested, instead: a historic, generational crisis — not just a crash, but a titanic reconfiguration of the global economy. Who has been paying attention?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

This book helps you identify your firm’s distinctive blend of strategic direction and differentiated capabilities that give you the ‘right to win’ in your chosen markets. In 2006, Pfizer directly redeemed the value built by PCH by selling the business to Johnson & Johnson for an unprecedented US$16.6

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

In his new book, The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World , veteran Bloomberg technology writer Brad Stone unravels the facts from the mythology surrounding the companies’ rise. It took a while for me to realize that this was a main theme of the book.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

In one of Oatley and Mar's studies in 2006 , 94 subjects were asked to guess the emotional state of a person from a photograph of their eyes. In addition to the Trollope, below are some of my favorite books to get you started. Meanwhile, their hedge-fund-manager best friend is involved in big-time stock manipulation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?” Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In 2006, Timothy Ferriss and his publisher were searching for a title for his book about productivity, outsourcing, and mini-retirements. The phenomenal sales of the DVD and book ($100 million last time I checked) and subsequent spin-offs testify to global relevance of Dan's AdWords test results.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

as global hegemon. I'm working on a book, CQ — Creative Intelligence , that will, in part, explore that topic. As for global corporations themselves, very few invested in upgrading their manufacturing plants and their employee skills in the way that German corporations have done through the 21st century.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Since my Stanford colleague Huggy Rao and I decided several years ago to study scaling (it’s the topic of our forthcoming book Scaling Up Excellence ), we have heard about many others – so many that we thought, early on, that we might need to put a finer point on which form we hoped to shed light on.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Blogging about leadership organizes and crystallizes your thoughts – When I started writing about leadership on my blog back in 2006, I was surprised at how the act of putting things “on paper&# was so effective at taking the concepts in your head, organizing them, and converting them into quicker action. Great post!

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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. Daniel Senor and Saul Singer offer additional explanations in their book, Start-Up Nation. Here’s what the data say about Israeli startups: They’re Israeli-run but with global footprints.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. A new book written with three coauthors attempts to answer the question of why some companies, such as Pixar, are able to invent continuously, while others aren’t. Join the Conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. A new book written with three coauthors attempts to answer the question of why some companies, such as Pixar, are able to invent continuously, while others aren’t. Join the conversation.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Keep in mind that your credibility as a leader depends greatly on your actions: your interaction with your family, friends, and co-workers; your way of managing your personal and organizational responsibilities; and even the way you talk with a casual acquaintance in the elevator. Leaders are always in the limelight.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

The number of books, blogs, tweets, videos, webcasts, podcasts, etc., When I ran the Talent Management division of a large global consulting firm after I left GE, I realized that these consultants were working from concepts that were academic vs. real life. being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions.

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