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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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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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

job market is that it's far less robust than it use to be, despite a steady improvement in the official jobless rate since the Great Recession high of 10.0% labor market doesn't stop here. personal income peaked in 2006. Consumer Price Index fell 0.2% and that the Producer Price Index declined by 0.5%.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

link] mikemyatt Hi Dan: What a great observation about the "price" of loyalty. Blind loyalty is not the same a true loyalty because there is no foundation to underpin it. As a result it will be misused, abused and eventually broken. Thanks for sharing your insights Dale. Loyalty is not free, nor is it cheap.

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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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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 6, 2011

by John • June 6, 2011 • Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 2 Comments. Al thinks the stock market is pressuring the company for more top-line growth. Hammered by Wall Street in 2008, the stock has finally crawled back to its 2006 highs. But, compared to last November, the share price is up by 30%.

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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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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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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Related Posts: Ways to distinguish yourself #198 – Don't focus on the "derivative" at the expense of the "core" The competition dilemma Get a bargain but not at the price of mindshare How can you cut your marketing budget? 25 Creative "Site Maintenance" Messages Posted in the Main Page category.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

But if you tell them that you have a powerful insight that can help them raise the prices on all of their products, they might ask you over to their house for dinner. Unfortunately, in most companies, the power of story to affect pricing still remains unknown, or at least it''s vastly under-utilized. It is also a book.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

On the other hand, if you try to do something that nobody has ever done ( almost saying you have no competition) then the question is “whether there is a market for what you are doing&#. 25 Creative "Site Maintenance" Messages Prices are always relative… Posted in the Main Page category. Have a great morning!

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing. In the interim we might also look at piloting an Affiliate Marketing Strategy. We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project.

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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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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

These include offering a more expensive product whose superiority shifts consumer buying patterns, a “blue ocean” alternative that redefines consumer expectations to create new market space, and a long period of growing revenue but shrinking profits that lead to industry collapse and reincarnation based on a new value proposition.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In the course of researching my new book Entrepreneurial You , I discovered three strategies that allowed leading online marketers to build trusting, respect-based relationships with their customers. I was intrigued by these stories because Internet marketers are often derided by critics due to some practitioners’ scammy tactics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

After the stock market’s rocky ride in recent months, some analysts are wondering whether a new economic crisis might be around the corner. Several individuals I spoke to for my book, Before I Was CEO , provide a helpful guide. He had quit college, and his only other work experience was junior marketer in an ad agency.

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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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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. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress.

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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. Back in 2014 a leading automaker worked with an ABS marketing analytics platform to plan the launch of a new model. But is the pendulum starting to swing too far?

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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. At that 27-to-1 leverage ratio, only a 3.7%

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

The stock market had more than doubled in the previous five years , and the unemployment rate was at a 30-year low. People often have a strong affinity for movies , music , and books that were popular during these formative years. ” Imagine you were sitting in the audience that day, about to begin constructing your career.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The academic study of strategy took a big leap forward in the 1970s when Michael Porter of HBS looked at earlier economic research on industry structure and noticed that market power — which economists wanted to minimize — was the same thing as sustained profitability, which corporate executives wanted to maximize. Should we lower our prices?”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

(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. By the mid 2000s MasterCard and Visa were handling trillions of dollars of transactions between consumers and merchants around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

The share price plummets. For those with a desire to dig deeper, this book chapter is particularly illuminating. It wasn''t until 2006 that Bill Ford (Henry''s great grandson) and the board of directors found a leader that understood the Ford narrative and knew how to act Ford-like again. Leadership Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. In fact, advanced payments may be just the kind of proof that banks or equity investors need to open their pocket books.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In 2006, the last time a President had to nominate a Fed chairman, the job went to Ben Bernanke, who had spent his entire career as an economics professor before being called up to Washington for a stint as a Fed board member in 2002. He answered by splitting the Bernanke tenure into before the financial crisis and after.

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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. By the time we got to Frozen , the marketing organization completely lined up behind it worldwide, built upon the earlier successes. It has passed a billion dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. 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.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2010

Winning an argument isn’t particularly difficult, but it may come at a very expensive price. How's the book coming? Posted on August 20th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth My question is this: Is your intellect an asset or liability?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

The number of books, blogs, tweets, videos, webcasts, podcasts, etc., being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. If you can prove the results, like improved market share, increased employee engagement, increased customer retention, then you have proven you know what you are doing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. The result is that large firms are gaining market share.

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