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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# Not too surprisingly, people who possess a poor sense of timing usually don’t even understand timing is an issue.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They are voracious learners always looking for better methods, different approaches, enhanced efficiencies, better technology and increased velocity. These tenets are discussed at length by Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies, in his book ‘employees first, customers second’ [link] mikemyatt Hi Kavita: Thanks for your comment.

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Henry Chesbrough: A second interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

His landmark book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (2003) articulated a new paradigm for industrial research and development. His more recent book, Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape (2006), carries the open approach a step further, arguing that business [.].

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. Share an ah-ha moment, an experience, a process, but share…This post can be a game changer to many people if those who read it are willing to share their collective wisdom.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Everyone still here? Thought so. billion), proclaiming McKinsey’s analysis “shallow and superficial.”. When the industry tipped, it did so with a fury.

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CEOs Must Engage All Stakeholders

Harvard Business Review

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. By comparison, it had a negative cash flow and and occupancy rate of only 60% in 2006.

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