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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand. Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

by thecoachingconnection on July 15, 2010 This was reprinted below in its entirely by Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth, who originally [.] Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. That took me sometime to understand properly… it was such a good reply from an experienced person.

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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships. They play well as a team.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 The EC’s pronouncements signal the beginnings of a “Digital Maastricht Treaty.”

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