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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. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation.

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

Harvard Business Review

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, marketing wants to clearly quantify the impact of its long-term branding efforts while finance is more focused on macro-economic drivers of marketing performance, such as interest rates, employment levels, inflation and retail sales. Inside Intel. This has spurred re-thinks that include changes to key executive relationships.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

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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). Only a long-term commitment to maintaining a culture that fosters trust will pay off. Daniel Goleman used the term in his book Ecological Intelligence.

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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., Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology. technology), rivalry could be an important lever for managers to pull to incentivize risk-taking.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency. But rules affect profits and long-term sustainability.