N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

In recent years, global economics have caused significantly higher tensions and strain on leadership teams, specifically those responsible to lead from the C-suite levels. Well, the results from a 2008 survey stated how workers at all levels needed to learn to accept conflict as an inevitable part of their work environment.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Examining the Cracks in the Ceiling: A Survey of Corporate Diversity Practices of the S&P 100 shows that out of the 100 CEOs represented in the survey, 92 were Caucasian males. For a full copy of the 2010 study, click here. Women make up approximately 18% of director positions within the S&P 100, and only 8.4%

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 23, 2012

Globally, 56 percent of people want a job that allows them to give back to society versus 44 percent who value personal achievement more…” Two of the authors, Laurie Bassi and Dan McMurrer, are organization effectiveness researchers, consultants, and run an investment fund based on the principles outlined in Good Company. .

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. The Economist bemoans their “ great deceleration ” and HBR featured a well-researched study on how multinationals are becoming less global. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions. Asia Pacific.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. of revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

shares of the global operations of U.S.-based Despite decades of globalization, these companies remain predominantly U.S. companies, locating the lion's share of their global business activities in America (about 65% of their sales, 68% of their employment, 70% of their capital investment, and 84% of their R&D spending in 2009).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

In 2012 the rise in consumer activism and mobility, the Occupy movement, 24-hour accountability (thanks to social media), and global resource depletion will force every enterprise, large and small, to make CSR a focal point. Cause-Marketing: Cause-marketing programs will multiply. Marketing experts agree.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

In my previous post , I argued that the potential gains from globalization are larger than most people think. The global recession has recently and directly impacted the lives of many, most obviously in the form of rising unemployment — and the finger of blame is often pointed at globalization. Why is this so scary?

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year by Starbucker on January 3, 2010 As a leader, I’ve learned that getting off to a great start in a new year is very important. Very helpful.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

We witnessed Facebook overtake Google in most weekly site traffic, while some surveys reported nearly 95% of companies using LinkedIn to help in recruiting efforts. Conversations around the topic did begin to take place, But a global survey indicated that only 29 percent of companies even have a social media policy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. According to a recent survey, 76% of senior executives reported that their organizations needed to develop global leadership capabilities , but a mere 7% felt they were doing so effectively. Some 30% of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

Luxury goods marketers in China received some good news last month. The decisions are in line with other policies that will stimulate domestic consumption and, the government hopes, will chip away at the globally contentious trade surplus that China enjoys. The Chinese market for luxury products has been booming recently.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

We recently released the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 , which tracks the depth and breadth of trade, capital, information, and people flows across 140 countries that account for 99% of the world's GDP and 95% of its population. Countries' levels of global connectedness are impacted both by their domestic and their foreign policies.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 14, 2011

A “globalized hybrid,” she was born in Scotland, raised in England, has worked all over the world, and is now a US citizen. It’s so much easier and quicker – in terms of having something to say that others want or need to hear – to be derivative, to take someone else’s thoughts and market them; to be a re-packager rather than an innovator.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

market growing. Treasury market has been driven by huge investments from surplus countries such as China and Japan, which have perceived the United States as the safest place to store their savings. But they can also invest heavily in China's domestic markets. The Chinese want stability in America. They want to see the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. In 2010, the Seilers surveyed all officers and social services staff.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

In the decades since Deng Xiaoping instituted market reform, millions of women have profitably followed Deng's dictate that "to get rich is glorious." Half of the 14 billionaires on Forbes magazine's 2010 list of the world's richest self-made women are from mainland China. This post was co-authored with Ripa Rashid.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2011

a global edge. The result will be increased competition between the two countries — within China and globally — and a deepening unease on both sides. firms, the first battleground will be within China, where there is already significant competition between foreign and local companies for market share. For many U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

To find out, I surveyed senior consultants in 2010 at a top-five global executive-search firm. One consultant predicted that firms in 2020 will seek the “same [attributes as in 2010] but with an even greater appreciation for the intangibles of leadership and [for experience] having led a business through tough times.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. Of course, it takes more than market research and distribution to be an insurer. Insurethebox, a U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2010, IBM ran a survey of 1,500 CEOs and found that the most valuable management skill was no longer "operations" or "marketing" but "creativity." Since then BCG, Accenture and other consultancies have confirmed the global skill shift. CEOs say that creativity is a crucial leadership skill, but few apparently have it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The CWLP survey found that 65% of educated Brazilian women view the public sector as very desirable to work for, head and shoulders above their counterparts in other BRIC markets. In fact, the CWLP survey shows that 80% of college-educated women aspire to a top job — more than in China and Russia and far outstripping their U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. Since 2000, the Chinese economy has been growing at an increasing rate — from 6% per year in 2000 to 12% per year in 2010. For example , U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

These factors are presented in eight sub-indices that combine "hard" outcome data with survey data reflecting how citizens themselves experience reality: Economy (macroeconomic policies, economic satisfaction and expectations, foundation for growth, and financial sector efficiency). Take, for example, citizens' perceptions of job markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Women represent a growth market more than twice as big as China and India combined. They control $20 trillion in global consumer spending, own or operate between 25-33% of all private businesses, and earn an estimated $13 trillion. Women''s ideas won''t translate into marketable products or services unless leadership backs them.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. In fact, this stock market bellwether had just beat earnings estimates by 6%. But match, or barely beat expectations, and the market yawns, or worse, dumps the stock, as it did with Cisco. The problem?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2014

To answer these questions, we surveyed 32 senior search consultants at a top global executive-placement firm. Some argued that merely keeping pace with industry and market changes is inadequate; an executive must anticipate change. The consequence is that they miss the weak signals of the market.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

As a result, the risk-reward ratios that we take for granted, such tight global supply chains, may no longer make sense. Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. Of course, it takes more than market research and distribution to be an insurer. Insurethebox, a U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Called simply "The Prosperity Index," it is the world's only global assessment of prosperity that integrates measures of both financial income and nonfinancial wellbeing—in all, reflecting 93 dimensions of performance. The US remains 10th overall (same as 2010) and the UK also remains stable at 13th.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

More than half of closeted LGBT workers we surveyed told us they feel stalled in their careers, compared with 36% of gay employees who are out at work. “The less you get to be yourself, the less likely others are to remember you for high-visibility assignments and the less visible you will indeed become.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Powerful global forces—game-changing technologies, unprecedented growth in emerging markets, and rapidly aging populations, to name a few—are transforming the world economy, and with it, the way companies plan for and conduct business. Creating good strategy is more important (and more challenging) than ever.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. In a 2010 survey, a record 36% of women ages 25-29 had attained a bachelor’s degree compared to 28% of men of the same age.

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