N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. Few things in life are as motivating as being told you're not good enough. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Entrepreneurs who are highly motivated to be successful often put themselves last when it comes to down time, relaxation, exercise and living a healthy lifestyle. When this happens they aren’t motivated to update their headshots, create video marketing or present themselves as speakers. Energy levels are also affected.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Perhaps this is an issue of confidence.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

It is not my intent to offend anyone with the text that follows, and if you find yourself being offended, it is my opinion that you need to examine your motives and principles. The issues of diversity in business when handled properly can be catalysts for growth.

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

There’s a lesson here for all leaders in the importance of setting targets that motivate. After spending years running businesses and sales teams, I am of the firm view that the ability to achieve a target is a blend of a number of factors , a few of them being: the environment (market/economy, etc.), Happy leading!

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

And when I met with Jason to talk about what the average Director of Marketing in a giant accounting firm could do to make a difference, part of me was really skeptical that anything was really possible. Quite honestly, climate change is one of those issues that overwhelms me. If you have ideas that you’re already doing… pass them along.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Community Marketing becomes strategic to a respected organization. Actually, a Community Marketing strategy helps define the business purpose and elevates the concept. Figure 1: The Community Marketing Strategy The relational diagram involves the entire spectrum of people. Relational Leadership is people-centric.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 28, 2010

While you’re competing to get more budget, headcount, resources for your team, the guy in marketing is doing the same. If he had put half the energy into building the right relationships, he probably could have gone on to become the CEO. As the saying goes, leadership is earned, not given.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

With a happy motivated team, you can achieve anything! Jason has recently launched a new project management planning Software called Project Plan to go along with the very popular project management software he released in 2008. So keep your team happy by rewarding and recognizing them for their successes. And there you have it.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! Avon was one of the few companies to chart growth during the 2008-2009 recession. And it’s a good thing, too. Still skeptical? And guess what?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Combine social media with traditional marketing techniques for breakthrough results! And the Clients Went Wild!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I don’t care in the slightest about winning arguments, whether someone is right or wrong, or whether logic is sound or flawed, but I do care about motivation and intent. 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.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The methods presented in the book will help you build a motivated and responsive team within your workgroup. Frank was inducted into the Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame in October 2008, one of 38 individuals so honored and the first not-for-profit executive to receive this distinction in Delaware’s 300 year business history.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. billion from reduced energy and wastewater consumption in manufacturing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

None of this should matter to a levelheaded HBR readership, except that stock market behavior is influenced by eclipses. Given that eclipses are perfectly predictable, this trading behavior not only appears to undermine the Efficient Market Hypothesis but highlights the role of superstition in markets.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Most would agree that if the energy and morale in an organization or team is lacking, Customers may notice and be impacted by that poor morale. You’re looking to lift, strengthen and maintain a powerful motivating and productive working environment. Keep the good, high energy, and always useful stuff coming!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In 2008, Pfizer was struggling with an unwieldy and costly model of obtaining outside legal help. As Linda Hill and her colleagues have described, the company needed expert knowledge as it navigated the technically and ethically challenging waters of pharmaceutical development and marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

During his acclaimed six years at the helm , Owens brought Caterpillar profitably through the 2008 recession. As they’d flown to Peoria together on Air Force One, Owens had explicitly stated that the layoffs were an outcome of an international market crash, and the stimulus plan was irrelevant to this particular factory.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Then Josep “Pep” Guardiola-i-Sala, the former Spanish footballer who is currently the manager of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich, further evolved the idea when he was the coach at Barcelona FC between 2008 and 2012. This egocentric mentality is still present in soccer, but it’s less prevalent, and no smart coach will stand for it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Then Josep “Pep” Guardiola-i-Sala, the former Spanish footballer who is currently the manager of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich, further evolved the idea when he was the coach at Barcelona FC between 2008 and 2012. This egocentric mentality is still present in soccer, but it’s less prevalent, and no smart coach will stand for it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

In employer surveys that we conducted with the Economist Intelligence Unit, we found that less than half of respondents said they agree or strongly agree that their leaders were inspiring or were unlocking motivation in employees. Related Video. What Great Managers Do. Vision, focus, servanthood, and sponsorship help them lead.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Over the years, online community research has matured from novelty to necessity – an essential tool for marketing professionals. According to the Market Research Society (MRS) , spending on online research increased 15 percent from 2008 to 2012. The use of communities has grown steadily as a result. Measure the ROI.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2018

Consumers motivated by pleasure believe that what pleases them differs greatly from what pleases most other people. Asked to indicate the exact number of song choices they preferred, pleasure-focused participants wanted to consider more song options, on average, than participants with a utilitarian motivation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index , which has been polling at least 1,000 American adults daily since January 2008, shows that people have felt worse about their jobs this year than any previous year. Corporate leaders often proclaim that their employees are their most valuable asset. For many people, though, this is an empty platitude.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In 2008, as the CEO of a software company that had just missed its target for the second quarter in a row, I was so intent on hitting our fourth-quarter revenue number of $8 million — and so scared for my job — that I promised the company I would get a tattoo of the number somewhere on my body if we hit it. The result?

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