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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. Thanks for sharing Dan.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. That compilation of tasks that go from time sheet to paycheck?

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Doing Less, Leading More

Harvard Business Review

In most fields we add value in the early stages of our careers by getting things done. ” Instead simply doing more , sustaining our success as leaders requires us to redefine how we add value. And yet their current success has created a meaningful inflection point in their careers; things are going to be different from now on.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

From Alexander the Great to the modern day, the elements of management — from organizational behavior to supply chain management — have made the difference between success and failure. In 2010, the government of Malaysia launched the third wave of its National Blue Ocean Strategy. There is nothing new in this.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. is the improve the Venture Capital model, which yields a 10% success rate at best.

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What Africa's Entrepreneurs Can Teach the World

Harvard Business Review

African-style hyper-entrepreneurship and excess diversification are so different from the standard models of business success that prevail in the West that I figured they must be the problem. This was crazy, we initially thought.