N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I want to frame my thoughts on the topic of significance by beginning with an excerpt from my book “ Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual “: “By the time you reach the CEO level you should be striving to move beyond success and towards significance. Just as success must be defined before it can be achieved, so must significance.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

An additional argument in support for CEO term limits is based upon the premise that the price of CEO terms that last too long goes deeper than the obvious performance metrics…that there is somehow the missed opportunity of a different vision, never heard and never realized.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Lack of Interaction : Along the lines of number one above, if executives, management, and staff don’t proactively seek your advice and input then you have a respect problem. link] mikemyatt Hi Dan: What a great observation about the "price" of loyalty. As a result it will be misused, abused and eventually broken.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 27, 2014

A recent Bain Capital Customer Loyalty study found that consumers are four times more likely to do business with a company that provides good customer service versus a competitor that offers a lower price. Retention Is Key.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.&# - Eugene B. Covey “It’s not the will to win that matters…everyone has that. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The big thing for me is I know when I add something to my life and work, there's a price to pay – time wise! So, I 'm thinking, why not take a piece of that and post it a few times a week and see what happens? Something has to be subtracted. We only have so much time. I wonder how many bloggers families pay?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the cold hard truth…if you cheat your family to invest into your career, you and your loved ones will pay a very heavy price. When you're doing a start-up or a book or a symphony or a painting or a legal brief or whatever, or are in a crisis at work, you may have to decide to do less in other areas.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 30, 2017

Quickly promoted to a management position, his first employee quit! Alan took this feedback to heart and realized he was acting out Habit #2 (Adding too much value) and Habit #6 (Telling the world how smart we are) from my book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. Alan started out as an engineer at Boeing.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I hope your inspiring and heartfelt thoughts cause others to reflect on the great price that has been, and is continuing to be paid to protect our freedom. It is because of men like you that we all have the privilege of freedom. Best wishes Bo… [link] mikemyatt Thank you Mark.

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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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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

In this column I discuss a book called Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home by David Shipley, the deputy editorial page editor of The New York Times and editor of its Op-Ed page, and Will Schwalbe, the editor-in-chief of Hyperion, who is also my publisher and friend. We go through lots of them in the book.

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Deming Institute

JULY 27, 2017

We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W. Aileron is proud to support the illuminating, alternative perspective of Dr. Deming’s teachings and philosophy presented in Ed Baker’s book, The Symphony of Profound Knowledge. Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

2006 photo by Vincent Munier It appeared on page 80 of the January-February 2011 issue of Audubon magazine. According to the blurb by Julie Leibach, Munier took this 2006 photo in the mountains of Norway in the middle of winter. Thats the price Munier paid to get this photo. Do you have this much passion for what youre doing?

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

The real problem is the managers who lack either the courage or the discipline required to deliver effective feedback. Managers often confuse two terms that appear to be synonymous but are actually quite different: simple and easy. Diet and exercise books are almost always at the top of the best-seller lists. Distractions.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Jiffle: 2008 "Webware 100" Finalist; Need your vote Book recommendations for Middle Managers… Posted in the Main Page category. Related Posts: Seth Godin on "the power of smart copywriting" How To Increase Value for Your Readers Discipline is in the details.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. In a typical big data project, a manager engages an internal or external team to collect and process data, hoping to extract insights related to a particular business problem.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

With the acquisition of Pixar by Walt Disney in 2006, Catmull became president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar. In his new book Creativity, Inc. Catmull expands on his ideas about managing a creative company that he explored in his 2008 HBR article “How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity.”

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Yet when I perform in public, the feedback is, shall we say, more varied (especially when it's fueled by half-price bottles of Pabst Blue Ribbon). In 2006, Timothy Ferriss and his publisher were searching for a title for his book about productivity, outsourcing, and mini-retirements. Everything seems hilarious and insightful.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

that has now grown into a book. drop in asset prices would wipe out the equity of the bank. According to SEC filings, in 1998, the year before it went public, Goldman Sachs was leveraged at nearly 32-to-1, while in 2006 it was leveraged at 22-to-1. Ethics Finance Risk management' At that 27-to-1 leverage ratio, only a 3.7%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

Several individuals I spoke to for my book, Before I Was CEO , provide a helpful guide. But through “a lot of hard work, creativity, and a portion of luck” they managed they get without too much damage, he said. In the end, they managed to sell the company, and return money to the shareholders.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Both associations managed their brands and ran the clearing and settlement systems for banks that issued cards or helped merchants accept cards. For more on this, read Dee Hock’s book about starting up the Visa network.). MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Should we lower our prices?” His 1988 book The Theory of Industrial Organization became the standard graduate textbook on the topic. As an example, Rivkin cites the notion of commitment, which Ghemawat wrote a book on. Then, in 2006, came The Theory of Corporate Finance — not a field Tirole had really been known for.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

A professional manager with an impressive resume is brought in. The share price plummets. And some, like Ford Motor Company, have managed to do both. The professional managers in charge weren''t students of story. For those with a desire to dig deeper, this book chapter is particularly illuminating.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I'm working on a book, CQ — Creative Intelligence , that will, in part, explore that topic. economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. as global hegemon.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

That means that to control costs going forward, employers may have to confront the true underlying causes of rising health care expenditures: high prices and health care inefficiencies. The proportion of workers with HDHPs (deductibles of more than $1,300/$2,600 for an individual/family) increased from 6% to 22% between 2006 and 2018.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Greater productivity meant lower prices and faster growth, leading to increased industry dominance. In 2003, then-HBR-editor Nick Carr wrote an article (and later a book) titled “IT Doesn’t Matter.” Vox is a digital publishing company known, in part, for its proprietary content management system.

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