N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms. Here's the short version: "A person can't be best friends with 2,000 people. link] Allan W. link] Allan W.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 382

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Business is fluid, dynamic and ever evolving, which means that static advice is at best short lived, but most times is simply incongruous with the very nature of business itself. And what are your strategic goals? Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Chris Brady

JANUARY 2, 2011

" The term itself deserves the quotes thus employed in the previous sentence because it conjures in people's minds many different definitions. " Still others view it as a valid goal and extend all sorts of energy in pursuit of it. and a Winner Announced! I know, I know.

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Rogers Short-term Blog Letter 124

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. The bigger the playing field, the more trust, familiarity, and rapport count.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Second, the main goal of PE investors is to increase a firm’s value so that it can be sold for profit. Startups, on the other hand, aren’t debt financed, because they’re too risky and unproven, and have no assets—not so appealing to lenders. PE’s proponents say this disparaging view doesn’t add up.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Chris Brady

JULY 19, 2010

In short, from a world-view that disdains accomplishment and merit (whatone accomplishes and earns) and instead focuses upon position and power andprestige (who one is and who one knows), heroes are made out of those who seemto succeed despite the rules of effort, contribution, and earning it.

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Blog Leadership Real Estate Letter 112

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. On routine tasks where learning is not necessary, highlighting performance goals works great. Of course, the task of a top manager is not a routine one.

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Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The 2008 NY Giants? Finance professors Eugene Fama and Kenneth French find somewhat depressingly ( PDF ) that luck matters more. In simple terms, skill refers to what we bring to the table. In such a short race, luck has substantial magnitude. Even seemingly obvious cases are open to debate: Secretariat? Smarty Jones?

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Skills White Paper Uncertainty Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

There are three trends are behind this shift: The ease of innovation and its decreasing cost mean that start-ups now face the same short-term pressures that have constrained innovation at large companies. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices. This was Keyne Monson.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Therein lies my caution…I’m fearful that people who don’t have the experience or intuition to read between the lines of a short quote, or a 140 character Tweet, might be misled by the simplicity of the appeal. This is why I took the time to author today’s post. Cynthia I agree that strategy and culture are intertwined.

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Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 366

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. I fired him from my team realizing he would never understand how to relate to a client on their terms. The number of books, blogs, tweets, videos, webcasts, podcasts, etc., And he was considered an expert!

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Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 333

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I can tell you that without question the best leaders are able to make very complex decisions, on short time frames, and with incomplete information. I wonder if we'll see a difference in terms of how younger generations approach perfectionism & failure, given digital fluency. Have you seen any trends there?

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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The financial crisis of 2008 is often attributed to deregulation and unfettered capitalism. Already, the World Trade Organization reports a rise in protectionist measures by the G20 countries, with 1,583 added since 2008 and only 387 removed. But this ascendancy is under threat. The first, and most obvious, is trade protectionism.

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Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

The Ex-Im Bank was formed in the 1930s to help finance U.S. Today, it provides financing support to exporters or to their customers overseas, when, per its charter, private credit is not readily available (locomotives to Kazakhstan, medical supplies to Viet Nam). In 2011, according to Bank numbers, it used $32 billion to finance U.S.

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Banking Globalization Finance Politics 11