N2Growth Blog
MAY 16, 2010
Having such a sharp focus ensures you can better whittle down the complexity of processes/interactions, as well as ensuring you don't become too dependent either on your top talent or even on your bigger customers, which can cause you to shift your goals to better suit their needs instead of your purpose.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 21, 2010
Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. We serve people, lead people, we relate to people, we encourage or discourage people, and we are people.
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N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 30, 2010
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. Getting outside input, including from books or history, can be invaluable; others have faced or are facing similar issues of this nature.
Strategy Driven
MARCH 18, 2011
Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. 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. Schick razors and Trident) and acquired other products (e.g.,
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2011
The manufacturer of DVDs was featured in a book on front-line suggestion system, All You Gotta Do Is Ask by Norman Bodek and Chuck Yorke (which I mentioned in a previous post on Toyota's approach to front line improvement). Some departments started trying it and some developed a few sharp ideas, which generated excitement.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 6, 2014
You can see what he means: our capacity to produce data on everything requires packaging; otherwise, it is like finding oneself in a library where all the books have been disassembled into piles of paragraphs, sentences and words. The researchers looked at systematic reviews conducted between 2006 and 2013.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
I'm working on a book, CQ — Creative Intelligence , that will, in part, explore that topic. A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008.
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