Chris Brady

JANUARY 19, 2011

There were the occasional family trips across the country, the most memorable being the one to California and back after my High School graduation, complete with a robbery, car accident, and engine flames in the cab of the motor home while driving down the highway (these and other episodes will perhaps be covered in future musings).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

Use social networking as a powerful way to engage your audience, share your expertise, increase your “validity&# as a provider in your chosen field, and build your community of clients on the web. By Monica S Flores This post is for women business owners who want to expand their brand using social networking tools.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis. Interestingly enough, I think your example of Google is a great one. Even their advertising model is simplistically brilliant.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Posted by: Phyllis Hoff | September 09, 2010 at 07:56 AM Not only is that post an unbelievably efficient statement of life-changing truths, but its also an almost ironic testimony to the power of the "different game" those who have access to your blog, training system, etc. are playing. just amazng the depth this reaches.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. That said, your cautionary comments are well worth noting and greatly appreciated.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But there was one that, to me at least, was world class: GMI Engineering & Management Institute (today's Kettering University ). The program was attractive to a kid like me without any finances because it offered a co-op experience in which every other twelve weeks were spent in the workplace somewhere out in actual industry.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. 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.

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Chris Brady

APRIL 18, 2010

Posted by: Yitz Weiss | April 18, 2010 at 10:58 PM After many years of research and countless hours of investigation, traffic engineers proudly announced today their new, bold plan for dealing with large trees in the path of planned highways -- go around them!! Even da Brooklyn accountants know der's only TWO of 'em - not TREE.

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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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Just last week Bob was watching television after dinner, but he wasn’t really watching. All rights reserved.

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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. God Bless [link] mikemyatt Thanks for the sharing the powerful reminder of what that day was like from someone who experienced it first hand. " Mike, this is the most powerful sentiment expressed thus far.

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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. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! 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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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I admire your keen insights and courage to speak your truth. link] Naveen Goel [link] Hi Mike, I am Naveen Goel (Sr. I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer. But I have been doing people and project management for years.

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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. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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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. " Thanks for this powerful and important reminder, Mike. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Listen to the words of a finance manager in a large consumer products company, whose efforts to improve his business team's profit margins were repeatedly undercut by people in the sales department: "I learned that pricing for one of our key accounts has already been confirmed to the customer, without any prior approval or review. [.]

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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. GE is another firm that has committed its size and deep pockets to innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

In 2011, U.S. As inflation rose in the 1970s — because of labor-union muscle, two powerful oil shocks, printing money, and other factors — this view gained adherents. Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) Why can the U.S. The difference isn't their debt and deficits.

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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. An engineer, he says, because engineers help other people solve problems. percent lower than its value in 2007. And what does President Roger want to be when he grows up?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. He didn’t know whether we made nuclear power plants or French fries. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' In 2012 it was $1.9

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections. Thanks for saving me time, and revealing your experience!

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2011

Powered by WordPress. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. They Communicate Powerful Narratives About the Future.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. In some respect, every person's compensation is configured as a base plus commission. Is payroll difficult?

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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. The difference between the two positions while subtle, are very meaningful and powerful. If you don’t engineer everything around the client, your client relationships will vanish before your very eyes.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Don’t get me wrong, recognizing the value of participating in the most powerful medium on the planet by getting in the game is a good thing, but it’s an even better thing when coupled with a plan. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target. Social Media Influence [.]

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Like it or not, the reality (in supply chains, as elsewhere) is that power is asymmetrical – large customers typically have more clout than you do, and they know it. In 2011, Havens’ collaboration with IBM procurement paid off, winning Havens four significant projects.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In comparison, TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Magical, really. Big Data meets travel.in

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

From January 2010 to March 2011, 91% of the state's $35.8 The letters also warned that "the regulatory agencies involved hold powerful leverage through their ability to cut off financing to groups that fail to comply.". But all charities receiving state funds were implicated in Cuomo's irresponsible rhetoric. Cut to present.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

Your page ranking in search engines is determined by the relevancy of the content on your website. Typically, blogs, news sources, or business sites with relevance to your own website will provide good linking power for your site. Use this power! NOTE: Lead your customers forward by making your process easy to use.

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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! Thanks for sharing Elliot.

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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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