N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

While developing an understanding of great communication skills is easier than one might think, being able to appropriately draw upon said skills when the chips are down is not always as easy as one might hope for. Communicate more effectively. Classic business theory tells leaders to stay at arms length.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2011

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Most innovation investments, such as product improvement, technological innovation, and research and development (R&D) traditionally aim at strengthening the innovation capacity of the organization. Nokia did have resources to develop a new operating system, but chose to stick with Symbian.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : Why now?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. The beautiful thing about your story is it makes for a wonderful case study. The simple truth is that people strongly desire to work with and for great leaders. Congratulations to you Sir.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2011

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Since 2006, she'd been managing the two contractors the CAA had commissioned to build the $1.2 Van Sant, a former Canadian army major, had a lot of skin in the project too.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Sesame Street , in fact, is a great case study of a brand that has managed to remain powerful over decades and across cultures. And while school enrollment is at an all-time high, UNICEF has reported that the educational system is "inadequately developed." "The Taking The Long View.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

At Philips, where I direct our customer experience efforts, we began using Net Promoter Scores during an initial pilot in late 2006. Products indicating high NPS rating potential are allowed to continue down the development chain. Those that don't are either sent back for additional work, or even killed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

Instead, in 2006 he took a job in the mail room of Senator Barack Obama, and a few months later became the presidential candidate’s “body man”—the staffer who awakens him each morning and travels at his side, procuring meals and providing support. He thought about joining an investment banking firm.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

According to Ben-Shaher, Branden believed that taking responsibility was the first step to developing a healthy sense of self and that we internalize the idea of taking responsibility when we realize, "no one is coming.". By 2006, she was making products for sale, and in 2010, Two Moms in the Raw had revenues of more than $1 million.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

So, how can you develop this muscle? Case Study #1: Create an environment conducive to listening. Case Study #2: Don ’t let personality traits get in the way. In 2006, Cameron Herold was proud of where his company, 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, What are the barriers to good listening and how do you overcome them?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

The voluminous case studies and articles about the firm would fill entire file cabinets in the typical business school storage area. I myself wrote admiringly about the firm’s practices with respect to venturing in an article that was published in 2006.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Case Study #1: Be honest about your requirements. The job was exactly what Heather wanted: it was in the right field, it came with great promotional and development opportunities, and Heather already enjoyed the working environment. Case Study #2: Turn down the offer that just isn't right.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

These are typically specific, functional abilities like project management, web development, financial analysis — or advisory skills that come from years of experience. “If you’re 22 and you’re not a web developer, you probably don’t have marketable skills,” he warns.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

Ford’s success with social media is well documentd in numerous case studies, and can largely be attributed to Scott’s efforts. If you want to stand apart from the masses, develop a reputation for delivering a certainty of execution. Focus on Performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Organizations often assume that a promotion should involve giving star performers responsibility for managing more people and developing — rather than just executing — strategy. Case Study #1: A new role for the firm and the employee. Case Study #2: Job sculpting to prepare for the next step.

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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. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? But is all of that changing?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Are we as an industry fulfilling the mission of developing great leaders capable of handling great challenges and accomplishing great things, or are the majority of those entering our ranks just here to make a quick buck? If you Google &# leadership development&# more than 4 million search results are returned.

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