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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# In fact, more likely is the case that the opportunity will completely evaporate if you wait too long to seize it.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Focus on value creation.

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Communicating with customers

Lead on Purpose

You need to build those relationships to let clients know you’ll be there for them in the long term. Once you have a solid relationship with customers and you help them through a crisis, their memories can be pretty long. Instead, this is the time when you should spend more money with customers.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Perspective – ability to see or sense the big picture, long-term thinking. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). These are just a few examples.

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To Create Change, Leadership Is More Important Than Authority

Harvard Business Review

Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010. In the former case, it was believed that illness was caused by an imbalance of humors and in the latter, the threat of online video seemed too distant to justify forsaking short-term profits. While today the insights of Semmelweis and Antioco seem obvious, they did not at the time.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

Consider some of these numbers: In 2010, Ericsson set the bar for much of the subsequent IoT hype by predicting there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. In our minds, the whole package was a tremendous leap forward in terms of efficiency, convenience, and comfort. The finish line keeps on moving.

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Research: We Take More Risks When We Compete Against Rivals

Harvard Business Review

Whether it is rivalry between people (Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs; Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal), between organizations (e.g., ” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. Rivalry is everywhere. Ford versus GM), or between nations (e.g., should U.S.