N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

True influence is rarely built upon the backs of others, but rather by helping others achieve their goals. Ultimately the best way to insure your staff has influence is to model the correct behaviors and to make sure that you mentor them in said behaviors as well. Thanks for stopping by David.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 23, 2010

The article reports that in a study conducted earlier this year by the insurer, Lloyds, the crew of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico had significant and ongoing concerns about the safety of the rig. I have the feeling that the disaster in the Gulf will be fodder for leadership case studies for years to come.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

UNUM, the insurance company, ran an ad some years ago showing a powerful grizzly in the middle of a roaring stream, with his neck extended to the limit, jaws wide open and teeth flaring. Their commitment to their goals and beliefs allows them to view reality through rose-tinted glasses – and that’s a good thing in many situations.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The intake process was ridiculously slow (why did they have to copy my insurance card and license when they’d just done so less than a month ago?). When I arrived, the place was packed with hacking kids, sniffling adults, and a couple of injuries. What choice did I have but to wait?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2005 the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh Inc., paid $850 million in fines in the aftermath of accusations that it had received kickbacks from insurance companies for steering business their way — a scheme at odds with Marsh’s commitment to finding the best deal for customers.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Odwalla was driven by a corporate conscience and a goal of leading the public toward a closer to-nature way of nourishing their bodies.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. With knowledge and practice, associates gain confidence. With confidence, they become passionate performers.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology also rightly points out that leaders and followers can often have quite different goals and agendas. It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Her company has the bold goal to attract and train hundreds of thousands of new networking professionals by offering certification courses in networking technology and other training resources. percent in 2011. Hubbard, recently told us they were well on the way to achieving that goal. One such example: veterans.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Americans are quite good at shopping for most things, so why not let them shop for health insurance? Despite political rancor about health-care reform, a key feature – health insurance exchanges – provides employers new options. Under the Affordable Care Act, employers can send employees to an exchange to purchase health insurance.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer. Are they single, raising families, older, or younger?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

Just because an entry wasn't selected doesn't mean it's not a worthy and important contribution to the shared goal of making all organizations more resilient, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. The finalists have the opportunity to further develop their entries between now and the final deadline of September 5, 2011. What's next?

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Align your ultimate goals and objectives. Who’s going to win the race – The team that puts the baton on the ground, so the next runner has to stop and pick it up, or the team that can pass the baton is off at top-speed? Work tirelessly with your peers to make the hand-offs seamless – it will pay off. Then Repeat again.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In 2011, Richard Allen Williams and I outlined five principles for eliminating racial disparities as part of health care reform: Provide insurance coverage and access to high-quality care for all Americans. Set measurable goals for improving quality of care, and ensure that goals are achieved equitably for all racial and ethnic groups.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I’ve had the opportunity to participate with many large, self-insured employers in three such marketplace collaboratives: one led by Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2005, another led by Intel in Portland, Oregon, in 2009, and the Robert Bree Collaborative , created by the Washington State legislature in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

The behavioral biases play out in a simple paradox: People overconsume health care but underconsume prevention, and insurers or taxpayers are left with the bill. Of all industries, insurance has a unique opportunity to align its commercial interests with preventive behaviors. The result is a structural transformation of insurance.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 1, 2010

» Five Ways to Disarm an Angry Mob August 1st, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Many years ago, as an inexperienced young woman working in corporate benefits, I did not have the skills to give a group of angry employees a presentation on a life insurance benefit that was changing. Thanks for touching on this issue!

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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. Some seek stricter accounting of ROI based on objectively measurable goals and achievements. percent lower than its value in 2007.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 20, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". Helping those companies to earn that honor are the perks they give their employees, some of which you might want to consider for 2011.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

"Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. ▼ 2010 (108) ► December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Just one example: Roughly 16% of Stanford’s MBA Class of 2011 chose to start their own companies at graduation, eclipsing the previous high of 12% during the dot-com bubble. Their latest goal? As prices of internet bellwethers reach stratospheric levels, more people are being enticed to start companies than ever before.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

As everyone now knows, Healthcare.gov – the $394 million website that was supposed to enable millions of Americans to shop for health insurance – is experiencing some initial technical failures. Take, for example, the problem of attracting young, healthy Americans to get insured.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 So the goal should not be greater efficiency, but rather efficiency where it makes sense. Companies have begun to change their thinking about resilience, accepting the need for a slight reduction in efficiency as a necessary form of insurance that can help them weather a crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Beneficiaries in Pioneer ACOs rated their experience higher on all four patient-satisfaction measures in 2012 than did fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2011. It calls on insurers to help providers identify waste and inefficiency, and patients to be part of the care team. The PGPD program is seen by many as a bellwether of today’s ACOs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Export-Import Bank will hit its $100 billion credit exposure limit by May 1 and will stop issuing direct loans, loan guarantees and export-credit insurance in aid of American exports to risky markets. In 2011, according to Bank numbers, it used $32 billion to finance U.S. If Congress doesn't act soon, the U.S.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 6, 2010

I could go on, but my goal here is not to convince you of all the advantages of reading. As Orrin insured you, you inspired me a few years ago. There will simply be too many others willing to do the work to learn what they need to know to excel instead. Instead, I'd like to draw a distinction for you: don't simply read, study.

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