N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. Our nature will always create gaps in thinking & philosophy, and no matter how much we all wish it wasn’t so…it is. Thank you for sharing Mike! Your insight is fantastic.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? ” We are also on the same page that “Walt Disney’s one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time who knew how to quit talking and begin doing.” Don’t tell me, show me…Don’t talk the talk, but walk the walk.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers. Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc.,

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

That's why I think the best thing we can do is to lead by example by making this not the focus of our energies, which I personally believe is more decisive than anything, and demonstrate instead how much more we thrive when we openly embrace and utilize our inherent diversity to our advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Policy signals from California, the world's 9th largest economy, are clearing a path for energy innovation. The market will decide that.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. We can only know how to connect by listening. It seems that in today’s world many people have lost the ability to disagree with someone, yet still respect them.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Following are a few of the ideas Carlos shared yesterday: Dreaming BIG and dreaming small take the same amount of energy – why not dream BIG? Carlos was passionate, on-point, and as you might have guessed consistent in his messaging. Companies are made of people, so dreams matter.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

They are demonstrating that meaningful work, social responsibility, and accountability are more important than raw titles and the next salary level. Be well Gwyn.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. In addition to a stripped-down, modern design, Logan is reliable and energy efficient. As a result, it has become Renault's best-selling car across recession-weary European markets as well as in many emerging markets.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

In today’s blog post I’ll share my opinion as to the validity of this old business axiom, and also offer a few insights on where to draw the line… I believe that all businesses should use great care and concern when determining how their customers and clients are treated.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Consider this example: When The Interpublic Group (IPG) merged the direct-marketing company Draft with the ad-agency Foote Cone & Belding (FCB) to become one agency in 2006, “it was immediately apparent that the cultures of the two agencies were wildly different,” shared Marty Stock, then head of Coors advertising at FCB.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

We have three billion new middle class consumers coming into the world and there's more and more pressure to find out how to manage these resources. So in 2006, I started talking with people to understand more. I read a lot to learn how our economy worked. How do you begin to address those? The marketing model changes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

A year into their jobs, how many employees still have the unbridled energy and enthusiasm that they brought with them to their first day on the job? How many still believe they can make a difference? Organizations waste too much time - see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

To win in the market, every company must emphasize the specific capabilities that make it better than the competition. For example, an organization that makes its money out-marketing the competition isn’t likely to be inspired by a leader whose best talent is cost management.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Build a Re-Founding Team. Since then its stock has more than doubled.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate. Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate. with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams.

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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. But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. I am no longer limited by geography.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

Specifically, the industry has a great deal to lose if it doesn’t understand and manage global mega-trends, such as increasing pressure on natural resources, rising demands for transparency, and global action on climate change, which affects all energy-intensive companies. Let’s start with the risks. And EVs need a lot of copper.

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