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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Being sharp means being succinct. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need.

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Leading Collaboratively…a 21st Century Necessity

You're Not the Boss of Me

Technology, too, has brought us closer together and the opportunities we have to develop relationships and work with others on-line are many and varied. Jones January 31, 2011 at 2:26 am Gwyn, I couldn’t agree with you more. Thanks, Brandon Reply Gwyn Teatro January 31, 2011 at 10:21 pm Hi Brandon, Yes, I agree.

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Family Matters | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career. What I can tell you is that I’ve always made my family a priority.

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Stop Reading Lists of Things Successful People Do

Harvard Business Review

Some lists do draw heavily from research, like this 2011 one , published by HBR. Yet our careers, families, social lives, priorities, and visions may differ significantly from those who are hailed as successful by a particular expert. A main reason why is that times change, the world evolves, and technology advances.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

Our research and work with companies suggest three broad approaches you can try, each with its own pros and cons: Enact a sharp "decree" to force a specific change in behavior. You need to find the middle ground: judicious interventions that allow knowledge workers to help themselves.

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Square Pegs, Round Holes, and the Peter Principle

Terry Starbucker

As I recited that back to my boss he looked at me sternly and said, “ now young man, you’ll remember that, won’t you ?&# I had just received one of the best lessons I’d ever get as a leader, and better still, I got it early in my career. So that meant I would never make a hiring mistake, right?

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