N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. It will be interesting to see if the next round of Google innovation will be as successful as the beauty of their initial simplicity. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought. I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. She is a seasoned business professional and author, who brings a wealth of real-world experience and an innovative style to her position at Hammer and Company.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I’m not an MBA.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Collaboration across departments or units of the same company will likely be a good thing only if managers set up the conditions for what Morten Hansen — citing Procter & Gamble's collaborative innovation as a prime example — calls " disciplined collaboration." Progress ground to a halt, crippling innovation.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Google your name periodically. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking to reduce its cost structure by redesigning its health-care-delivery model to reflect the true costs of care (the early stages of the project were described in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article by Robert S. Leading Health Care Innovation. Kaplan and Michael E.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. is dynamic, and investors know that there are companies interested in buying innovative tech startups. That's why most investments in Africa are in mature industries like oil & gas, real estate, and finance, among others.

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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. How can world-class engineering and design capabilities be utilized to solve the problem? Boniface Haiti Foundation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. When presented with a surprising idea, smart organizations will bravely listen, because what comes next might just be game-changing innovation. percent lower than its value in 2007.

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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. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. May I take to heart these good words of advice in 2011 and the years ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Startups are an engine of prosperity, albeit a highly imperfect one. By this logic, there’s no reason to applaud the growing number of graduates from top universities opting for jobs in startups and tech rather than finance. As Lerner writes, “Venture funding does have a strong positive impact on innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Rahul and Noelle both made the transition into public service through Fuse Corps—a social sector start-up launched in 2011 with the support of companies like McKinsey, GE, and Starbucks to provide a pathway for talented professionals who wish to contribute to the public sector but don’t know where to begin.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. 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. That's right. Contestification.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17th, 2011 Posted by: mike Is experience enough? We expect that Patty from finance will role her eyes when Antoine from marketing suggests an idea, we expect that Don from engineering will begin to scream when Sasha from sales wants faster turn-around on special customer orders. All rights reserved.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. ” [link] lightridr Great post, Mike. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale. If you don’t engineer everything around the client, your client relationships will vanish before your very eyes. I equally look for problem solvers or fresh innovation and not salesmen.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. In a perfect world you would build relationships with the largest possible universe of targeted constituents where you can productively engage and contribute.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever. Narrowly focused.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Always appreciate your insights Peter… [link] mikemyatt Hi Elliot: The four items mentioned in your list regrettably happen to exist in many domains far beyond the engineering field. Thanks Brian. elliotross Allow me to echo the 'spot on' comments above! I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. The rest of the services are for paying members only.

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