N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

While I could cite many examples of what I just described, a particularly good one is the use of the phrase “social media.” Tools like email, instant messaging, texting, blogging and micro-blogging are all examples of shortening our communications to leverage speed and time to our advantage.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

While optimism is generally a great quality for a CEO to possess, there is a point at which unbridled optimism can disconnect a person from reality. moravecglobal Here's another example of disconnected leadership and the consequences for, in this case, students, faculty and taxpayers. Best wishes for continued success Marlyn.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Let’s use “Buddy the Elf” as an example for the four steps to brand building. How endearing is your brand to your customers? What do you your customers believe and understand about your brand? This week, we’ll discuss the first two.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Just to refresh, if you have seen the delightful holiday movie Elf , you are familiar with the endearing qualities of child-like hope and wonder “Buddy the Elf” exudes. How endearing is your brand to your customers? What do you your customers believe and understand about your brand?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

If what you’re seeking is lasting relationships, long-term success, and a better quality of life (in and out of the workplace) then you’ll be well served to forgo the pompous acts of the arrogant, and substitute the humility and quiet confidence displayed by true leaders. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Howard Schultz is known to show-up at various Starbucks locations and stand in line to order a coffee to measure the quality of his experience. This was no accident…it took hard work, careful planning, and extreme attention to detail with a focus on execution…This example is exactly how a great customer experience is created.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

I am glad I did, because this book instantly made it to my favorite books in 2010 which also includes Seth Godin’s Linchpin. He is on a mission to help people live unconventional lives and he sets a powerful example for others. By Tanmay , September 27, 2010 @ 8:35 am @Chris - My pleasure Chris. Don’t Kill It!

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

If your organization is not thriving and growing, then the first thing that should occur is a long look in the mirror…Begin your triage by first evaluating your leadership qualities or the lack thereof. In addition, standing with someone as a person even if they do something stupid is, in my view, an example of loyalty.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Here are five examples of how I’ve used social networking for my business. Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. Example 3: I like Delicious.com because of the ability to save all my bookmarks in one place.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Post frequency is an often debated topic, but how often you post isn’t as important as meeting whatever commitment you make, and doing so with quality content. You are a great example of someone cultivating community around your blog by responding personally to all comments. link] Peter Hi Mike, Thank you for another fine post.

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Chris Brady

APRIL 6, 2010

» April 06, 2010 Multum, Non Multa  C. And, being as he's been dead a long time, I feel quite free in the following interpretation: Quality, not quantity. Quantity is countable, while quality is not. Plinius Caecilius Secundus  (61 - 114 A.D.), also known as Pliny the Younge r, said "Multum, Non Multa."

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Let’s use an example of a common problem that most businesses face at some point in their lifecycle (if not at multiple points) which is needing to implement a certain application or toolset to automate an existing manual process. And what are your strategic goals?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

From LinkedIn directly: “Since, like in the real world, the size of your network on LinkedIn depends on the number and quality of connections you have, we recommend you have at least 20 connections to people you know and trust on LinkedIn. Many connections = many opportunities. Few connections = few opportunities.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

If you examine the most effective teams in the real world you’ll find numerous examples which support the thoughts being espoused in this text. Good parents have the same qualities as servant leaders – they are committed, focused, loving, caring, empathetic, and are present without losing sight of the future.

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Chris Brady

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Considering the quality and content of the other represented blogs, this is quite an honor. Posted by: Phyllis Hoff | October 10, 2010 at 09:18 AM Chris, Congratulations for the job well done. Gyorgy & Anna Veszpremi Posted by: Gyorgy & Anna Veszpremi | October 10, 2010 at 08:47 PM Congratulations! Congratulations.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

They are admirable qualities so long as they don’t take precedence over, ignore, or contradict truth. We need to look to leadership examples of truly radical, innovative, in-your-face teams like that at Nucor Steel. For example, Martin Luther King was not PC. These characteristics should be present in all human beings.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another.

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Chris Brady

JULY 19, 2010

Posted by: Cathy - Team Rascals | July 19, 2010 at 05:53 PM Chris, I have been further considering your words in this post. Posted by: Cathy - Team Rascals | July 19, 2010 at 09:06 PM Thanks so much Chris for your deep insights into life and history. Posted by: Cory | July 20, 2010 at 11:27 AM Oh how these words resonate in my spirit!

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Posted by: Dorothy Hendricks | December 14, 2010 at 12:53 AM Chris, What an awesome post. Posted by: Cathy - Team Rascals | December 14, 2010 at 12:54 AM Chris: Thanks so much for sharing this. Posted by: Phyllis Hoff | December 14, 2010 at 08:18 AM Love it! I turned, amidst the crowd, to discern why. I had to share on facebook!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

In the European Union, government VCs allocated €3,621,000,000 to finance innovation and growth in small and medium-size businesses from 2007 to 2013. From 2009 to 2010 we were invited to silently observe governmental VC decision-making meetings and, more important, the conversations they had about entrepreneurs applying for funding.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2010

In fact, three of his books (The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Developing the Leader Within You , and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader) have sold more than one million copies each. Mike Myatt : What’s the best and worst example of leadership you’ve observed in recent times?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

health care costs too much, the quality is uneven, and too many people can’t get the care they need. In that brutal environment, a handful of private Indian hospitals, led by compassionate doctors, have found innovative ways to drive down health care costs to unimaginable levels while maintaining high quality.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Technological innovations ranging from smartphones to Big Data analytics to cloud computing make it easier than ever for new challengers – especially those unburdened by legacy systems or brick-and-mortar networks – to gain access to high-quality market information and mass distribution. Insurethebox, a U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

These entrepreneurs have often gotten by without any formal training in customer service, business plan writing, or in meeting quality standards. They advise entrepreneurs on areas including finance, marketing, customer service, and human resources. Since May 2010 , it has trained over 135,000 individuals using the tool Business Edge.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Consider, for example, the Shenzhen-based Huawei , which has become the world's second largest telecommunications equipment-maker. The downside will be an adverse impact on the quality of entrepreneurship, which has propelled many Chinese companies to the top.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

We’re fast, we’re efficient, and we do high-quality work. We believe that by working longer, harder, and smarter than our team, we’ll inspire by example. In most fields we add value in the early stages of our careers by getting things done. In a word, we’re doers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

In Britain, for example, fewer than 10% of the tens of thousands of social enterprises generate more than £1 million in revenue. For-profit companies in the same situation can turn to a robust venture capital community that is focused on providing the management, financing and strategy that innovative companies need to scale up quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. Emergent firms would do well to follow their example.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

While I use online for just about everything, and will be facilitating a leader’s board meeting for PBS on webcam tomorrow for example, I still prefer the page to the screen when I read:-). link] mikemyatt Hi Jim: Shameless plugs are allowed when they direct people to quality information as does yours. Thanks for sharing Anthony.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. For example, a divested business may inherit assets and capabilities that have been starved of investment by its former parent. The second category is legacy factors from whose impact the business can only escape slowly.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Posted on March 24th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Is the customer really always right? This means you can conservatively expect to lose another $600 dollars of upside in our $2000 dollar example. are brought on line and offered to existing accounts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Technological innovations ranging from smartphones to Big Data analytics to cloud computing make it easier than ever for new challengers – especially those unburdened by legacy systems or brick-and-mortar networks – to gain access to high-quality market information and mass distribution. Insurethebox, a U.K.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Heres a simple but compelling example. Earlier this fall, The New York Post ran a story guaranteed to raise hackles among parents anxious about the quality of their childrens education in the public schools. Heres a simple but compelling example. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. According to John Reed, this was Sandy Weills thinking preference.

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