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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking. Great businesses are dynamic, fluid, vibrant and ever changing. Your business isn’t really different, but it can become better… Share and Enjoy: View Comments Mark Oakes Another excellent post, Mike!

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your skill sets are best suited for business development, product development, branding, finance or other areas you may want to consider playing to your strengths by taking a senior position in the area of your subject matter expertise and hiring the best chief executive you can find to lead the company.

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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

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. Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year).

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Restaurant Week (An elementary look at quality culture fundamentals)

Deming Institute

Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics. Edwards Deming, The New Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1994, p. Parents were patrons. Students ran operations. Liker and James K.

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How to Pick a Co-Founder

Harvard Business Review

If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011. Different operational skills.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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Will You Be The Next Blockbuster, Borders, CDs or Mail?

Eric Jacobson

iTunes debuted in 2003 and Tower Records closed in 2004 and Musicland folded in 2006. What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? Perhaps it won't be digital technology that will change or crush your business model. FYE is shriveling. Or expand, or morph?