N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? By contrast I am always impressed by those who choose a life of service over personal glory, or those who understand how to leverage their personal success into significance. Our life cannot be measured from the bank balance but by service.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. Why do we crave leadership nowadays? Because there is so little of it around!

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? Our nature will always create gaps in thinking & philosophy, and no matter how much we all wish it wasn’t so…it is. it is about having a people connection: with students, parents, as well as staff.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

B usiness Model Generation caught my eye in a book store in December – It is rare I find myself in book stores anymore given how many books are sent to me as a blogger and my preference in reading on Kindle or IPad. The Empathy Map by XPLANE Design : How to build a business model around customer insights.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I would also add that it works at home as well. link] mikemyatt A great motto Anna, and sound perspectives as well. Thanks for commenting. link] landoncreasy Hi Mike, Great post. [.]

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. Successful CMOs give an answer that includes a subset of “how I do my job/how we generate value/how we deliver on the promise of the brand.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sony, Gap, Yahoo, Nokia — that need to get it, don't. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. This is the disciplined and effective debrief… something most companies talk about but don’t know how to do. Murphy For the last 50 years, elite U.S. Authors James D.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Folks at Danone learned it from Grameen Bank Founder Mohammad Yunus, who asked them to consider putting Danone’s special formula nutrient in an edible cover, not a disposable package. It illustrates how much sustainability is becoming a critical environmental and economic issue. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The tick-borne illness kept JPMorgan Chase's Ina Drew out of the office for extended periods in 2010 and 2011. And it was during Drew's absences, according to a richly detailed account in The New York Times , that the bank's chief investment office, which she ran, began to get into trouble: The morning conference calls Ms.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment. The stock price declined 0.3%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

I had an interesting conversation earlier this week with a very experienced consultant whose company works with many of the largest financial services providers in the world — the banks, funds, and insurance companies we've all heard of. There are two types of bad news here for the services providers. I hope they show up soon.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. One publicly traded company, OnMobile , an operator of premium SMS services, now does business in 52 countries around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Morgan Bank with a back-office department in which the staff was hard-pressed to collect and reconcile data at the end of every month. Go to the leadership sessions with an open mind and your own creative ideas about how to improve performance. How can you make 2011 a breakthrough year? I was working at what was then J.P.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% how to keep all her channels operating in concert with one another. She has also held executive positions in banks and healthcare companies, including M&T Bank, Montefiore Medical Center, and St.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Even the big banks are getting social. In recent years, incumbents have fought back. Big-box retailers, like Best Buy, now have large, fast growing e-commerce businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Back east, established firms worked with big banks to launch new enterprises. They estimated it would take $1–$3 million to build out a working prototype, money they didn’t have and had no idea how to get. All they had were some chemistry papers, scientific data, and an idea to change the world.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

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. link] Social Influence Measurement – Tools, Resources & Commentary | Digital Marketing Blog // Digital Operative [.] Everything you say is entirely true!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. How much further should we extend ethics? They don’t know how to cope. Operational Statistics. The recent years succeeded in exploding a great many myths and presumptions about business.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. When my bank can't do the thing the client needs i find them someone who can. It’s about meeting customer needs and adding value. I send people to a competitor?

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Building Personal Strength

JUNE 21, 2011

Back then, colonels and generals talked tough about Vietnam because the worst hadn't happened yet, and because they experienced the war mostly from inside of Tactical Operation Center bunkers inside the perimeter of a base camp - far from where the action was actually taking place. Copyright 2011. He was a tough-talking colonel.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. In 2011 the private equity firm Blackstone invested 160 million euros in the company.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

How to Pick the Right Consultants for Your Company. Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. People Often Say They Have… But Really Haven’t! It’s lonely at the top.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. Embracing this approach isn’t easy – it doesn’t always seem natural to talk about how to replace profitable businesses. Back in 2009, there were just four companies that fit the bill.

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Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

How could things be different? And why should media organizations consider “making their own data” as journalist Javaun Moradi urged us to do back in 2011 (and as Scott Anthony argues here )? Why does this matter? Persuading with Data. An HBR Insight Center. That Mad Men Computer, Explained by HBR in 1969.

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Offshoring Media Analysis Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Export-Import Bank will hit its $100 billion credit exposure limit by May 1 and will stop issuing direct loans, loan guarantees and export-credit insurance in aid of American exports to risky markets. Then, on May 31, the legislation authorizing the Bank will expire, threatening the Bank's very existence.

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Banking Globalization Finance Politics 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

You will learn how to identify and prioritize your company’s full portfolio of opportunities – from new product lines to entirely new businesses. I’m thinking of HDFC Bank in India, Yahoo! Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. Copyright 2011. Be prepared.

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