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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you choose to dive into the social media world without a strategy, without understanding how to create social media influence, you will not be pleased with your results. Following are a few tips to help you build influence online: Have a Strategy - If you want to create success and influence using social media you better have a plan.

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McDonald’s Has to Do More than Manipulate Its Stock Price

Harvard Business Review

The “turnaround plan” recently announced by McDonald’s includes an aggressive program to manipulatively boost its stock price via stock buybacks, an activity that has become the major focus of its corporate strategy over the past decade. ” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

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To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

Harvard Business Review

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. LEYF's initial plan for growth was to franchise its successful model nationwide.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right? Here is my bottom line take. Thanks for stopping by John.

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Cool Alone Won't Save Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Hence lots of the analytical, linear thinking at GM drove him to distraction; Product Planning analysts in particular: "a department composed of recycled finance types" as he calls them in the book. There is a third element that was missing entirely at GM: strategy. market: small and mid-car.

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How Europe's New Gold Standard Undermines Democracy

Harvard Business Review

So, the gold standard could only work well in the depoliticized environment of the Belle Époque, when the electoral franchise in most advanced economies was limited to wealthy white men and well before the advent of powerful labor unions. The EU's strength was always that it tried to celebrate and preserve this diversity.

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Statesman vs. Politician | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

One might add that at the time of the Founders, America had approximately 2 million people, and many fewer had the franchise than today. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. What in the hell has happened to the fabric on which our nation was founded!?! Now we're over 300 million.

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