N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Perhaps most importantly for leaders, good conflict resolution ability equals good employee retention.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. Million; not big, but interesting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

And the advice they give often sounds reasonable: The World Economic Forum published a post , in cooperation with Business Insider, listing 14 things successful people do before breakfast. Some lists do draw heavily from research, like this 2011 one , published by HBR. It includes items such as drinking water and making your bed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

At that moment, looking up from the bottom of the escalator, the idea that I would one day run a technology company seemed unfathomable. In 1970, the year I was born, Guyana’s dictator declared the country a cooperative republic and deepened relations with Cuba, North Korea, and the Soviet Union. In time, I would become a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. “We hired a talent acquisition leader from the software industry, someone who really understood technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology. Silver Star’s management says that the new policies are key to gaining workers’ cooperation. The second surprise was an exception to this general rule.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Diversity on your founding team will give you strength. Easy familiarity helps conversations move quickly and allows trustworthy cooperation. Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011.

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How To Long-term Learning Curve Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Suzlon's head of technology is John O'Halloran, a former Cummins Engine executive who now leads Suzlon's 500-strong global R&D team out of Hamburg. Cambridge, U.K. and the U.K.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. According to a PriceWaterhouse Coopers preliminary review , 2012 venture funding has actually declined. Individual empowerment. Preliminary data suggest not.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree TM and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. That having an E-mail address or a website makes one an expert on technology. That technology is the most important driving force in business and society.

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