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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design.

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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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Google, Don't Choose Micromanagement

Harvard Business Review

If your company had just announced a 27% increase in revenues in this market, you'd probably be quite happy. And you'd think the market would be, too. Like many other companies that have a core product line, Google is struggling to find its next market. Since the beginning, Google has had a great culture of innovation.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Accordingly, it consists of a collection of broadly defined markets (“where to play”) and strategies (“how to win”), rather than a group of more fully defined businesses. The innovation portfolio. area health care market has indeed shifted. and Maryland to launch a more general health insurance plan.

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Become Businessperson of the Year

Harvard Business Review

Fortune recently named its Businesspersons of the Year for 2010 , and the list was, for the most part, predictable. Increasingly, businesses need 2-in-1 leaders to help cope with everything from globalization to quickening innovation to shorter product lifecycles. What's the market for them?" Are our new ideas big enough?

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

and China take the lead in tech innovation. ” 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 Investing in innovation capacity.

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