N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. or China should get the gold medal. The truth is: Germany wins hands down.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. Almost half of the COOs we studied had business degrees and around a third had engineering degrees. That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

But each of us can likely remember a time in our career where we said it, or heard it. Out of curiosity, I ran it through a search engine and what did I get? Alignment matters because it decreases the amount of energy it takes to go from A to Z. We can measure it by how much energy it takes to do what we do, together.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

It just refreshes me, pours new energy into my system and makes me more effective at work” – he says. The brain, as Bill Calvin said to me is “nature’s connection making engine.&# Doing lots of things provides that engine more fuel. By admin, February 9, 2010 @ 7:39 pm Thanks Maulik. Check it out.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 13, 2010

After graduation, she began a career in commercial banking. So she walked away from her career. Day after day, she brought her energy to this grueling task. Now that they’re both about 40, they have successful careers — one in software engineering and the other in systems engineering. Copyright 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

The global economy is in a massive transition from a fossil-fuel-based energy system to one using sophisticated renewable energy technologies. For tens of thousands of fossil fuel workers, though, the energy industry outlook is not promising. For coal industry workers, the future looks particularly bleak.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. First, you need to inject new energy into a tired organization under stress.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One obvious reason was that the huge trillion-dollar investment bets, most of it taxpayer money, in synthetic biology, robotics, nanotechnogy, space, and alternative energy did not pay off. The Corporate Elite continued to do what they did most of their careers: increase efficiencies, boost scale, and lower costs to maximize profits.

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