N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Positive Attitude : To the one, the best leaders I’ve ever known all smile, listen, engage, have a positive outlook, and have a high energy level. It’s just not that hard to deliver on your promises, and if you have no intention of doing so, don’t make the commitment to begin with.

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 2, 2011

» January 02, 2011 The Wasting of Your Life There seems to be no limit to the number of varying interpretations of how one is to view the concept of "wealth." " Still others view it as a valid goal and extend all sorts of energy in pursuit of it. It's already 2011. and a Winner Announced!

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Figure out what is sucking up your time preventing you from being productive and profitable. It’s how you achieve those goals that matters most in terms of time, expense and energy. Find a way to rework your ratio of administrative and billable activities that will allow you to stay focused on your strategy.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 10, 2010 · 2 Comments The clock is ticking: next year, in 2011, the oldest of the 76 million Baby Boomers turn 65. Many will decide to stay in the workforce and replenish their savings and retirement accounts.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. She is also a fellow of the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank based in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

It is absolutely possible to build very productive relationships with even the most adversarial of individuals. If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. Thank you for sharing Mike! Your insight is fantastic.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

 Conversely, a team of highly functioning and productive people is one of the most heart-warming and inspirational. People must combine into productive groups and each contribute their best to a team effort for real accomplishments to occur. The difference is leadership. 

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Read your leading-edge industry publications, Forbes , other finance journals, and popular business books. If you don’t hold a finance or operations position, consider cross training. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. She is also a fellow of the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank based in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

If you believe the hype, social media will immediately solve all your problems and require no time, energy or effort on your part. Oddly enough, I have also found it is usually the network where they spend the most time, energy and effort. The key is knowing *when* – and how deeply – to interact.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

He is an advisor to business leaders from a variety of organizations throughout the world, including major Fortune 500 companies, as well as private and nonprofit institutions in industries such as aerospace, healthcare, government, professional associations, telecommunications, and finance. Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. No one is equally expert at both.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Don’t tell me, show me…Don’t talk the talk, but walk the walk. Taking action always begings with one simple act – making a decision. Do you have great vision? Are you a master of strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Having something productive to do saved my sanity.). For instance, 82 percent of the companies on Fortune's 2011 100 Best Companies to Work For list offer telecommuting options. So what about the concern that this change lowers productivity and performance?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. She is also a fellow of the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Thanks for sharing!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Companies that score high in the Trust Index will see lower turnover and greater productivity. I once hired someone with excellent “pedigree” i.e. fine university training, JA program volunteer, excellent work record in finance and extraordinarily enthusiastic about Junior Achievement. He used words that most people never heard of.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers. It is about people.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". Don''t get us wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. In 2011, the U.S.

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Chris Brady

JULY 19, 2010

I am reminded of the Stephen King quote concerning the authorof Gone With the Wind: “Why didn’t she ever write another book?”   Success is the product of many components, of which one of themost prominent is focus. We can do many things in our lives, but we can’t doeverything.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Her lab had discovered new ways to convert carbon emissions into useful products, and they believed the technology had enormous commercial potential. Disappointed, but still determined, Etosha got a break when she attended a cleantech event hosted by the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy in the summer of 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. Corporations like these have the assets, resources, and capabilities necessary to fuel innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

However it is my opinion that diversity is not being addressed properly, and as a result has become one of the leading killers of corporate productivity. When you force the diversity agenda for the wrong reasons (no matter how well intended) productivity suffers and resentment grows. In fact, the report points out how “U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. May I take to heart these good words of advice in 2011 and the years ahead. Have a joy filled 2011. I wish you and family a blessed 2011 as well. Thanks for the great reminder.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

These preparatory steps are of particular importance for carve-outs that are not full-fledged business units with profit & loss responsibility, such as R&D centers or production units whose only customer is their parent. The outsiders provide new blood in support functions such as finance, legal, or administration.

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Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

This bid to create local green jobs quickly foundered as the company fell behind commodity Chinese manufacturers, then desperately tried to move production to China , before finally selling itself to a Chinese firm for pennies on the dollar at the end of the year.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The idea to design and build a $300 house first appeared here on the HBR site in August 2010, in a post by me (Vijay Govindarajan) and Christian Sarkar, and then again as one of several ideas in the HBR Agenda 2011. What might a house-for-the-poor look like? Durability.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. The causes vary for this epidemic of counter-productive interference, which is threatening a long and successful policy, at least in the U.S.,

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Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Following are a few of the ideas Carlos shared yesterday: Dreaming BIG and dreaming small take the same amount of energy – why not dream BIG? Carlos was passionate, on-point, and as you might have guessed consistent in his messaging. Companies are made of people, so dreams matter.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. It seems that in today’s world many people have lost the ability to disagree with someone, yet still respect them.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

The time, energy, and cost associated with acquiring a customer are substantial, the benefits of retaining customers are considerable, and the costs associated with customer churn are significant. are brought on line and offered to existing accounts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

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Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. One third of our nation’s Gross National Product is spent in cleaning up mistakes. Less successful include Somalia and Bosnia where there was less local support for their presence.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

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IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. In 2011, Havens’ collaboration with IBM procurement paid off, winning Havens four significant projects. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however.

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