N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice. Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. You deserve input – but that done not mean that 100% agreement is the goal. Consensus isn’t the goal. I particularly liked: "Consensus isn't the goal. Good input is. Good input is."

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Life’s too short to sit on the sidelines. Some may argue that the term revolutionary is too strong a word to use. Accomplishes their objectives and goals through a variety of people and not by him or herself. What kind of steps do you need to take to reach your goals? Leads others by example.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Business is fluid, dynamic and ever evolving, which means that static advice is at best short lived, but most times is simply incongruous with the very nature of business itself. And what are your strategic goals? Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

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. You can help the audience remember your main points with short catchy phrases.

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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. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. This is not guesswork.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. The bigger the playing field, the more trust, familiarity, and rapport count.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

It tackles both long-term and short-term sustainability challenges. Given those science-based plans, Ford is investing in the long-term — the sexy, new EV market that everyone is going after — and rolling out a series of efficiency technologies in the existing, combustion-engine fleet. It's heretical.

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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. They often kill any long-term strategic initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Three short minutes of explanation usually make excellent junior employees excited, since they feel the immediate benefits of gaining insight into decision-making processes. Emphasize long-term rewards, and set an example. Set very short-term projects. Young employees have short attention spans.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

“Information overload and the pace of our digital lives have [led to short attention spans].” “When you adopt a certain [slumping] posture, you think in subordinate terms and you talk in subordinate terms, and it increases the likelihood that you’ll be seen as less authoritative,” Morgan says.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2015

The technology doesn’t quite work as planned. At some point the data do become overwhelming, and if you gave team members truth serum, they’d admit that the project will never contribute meaningfully to the company’s financial and strategic goals. Its financial projections, while always uncertain, look reasonable.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 likely ? China, China, and China.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

The manager needs to make sure that the company’s short and long-term objectives are always in the front of everyone’s mind, as well as make sure that every individual clearly understands what is expected of them on a day-to-day basis. What’s the overarching goal? “ Fc&# is Focus.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2011

‘Make it pleasing to the eye’, ‘your goal is to avoid being at the pile of resumes in Personnel!’ But to give the same well worn advice now that technology has changed both the purpose of resumes and the delivery system, is to literally cost people interviews rather than help them acquire them. Amateur hour.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

That's how many views a video our organization, DoSomething.org, posted in 2011 got. In terms of donations, the video was a complete failure. In short, players play to the metrics their management values, even at the cost of the team. and personnel strategy in the mid and long terms. How about 1.5 Zero donations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

A 2011 Nielsen Co. It turns out there’s both good news and bad news when it comes to the answers: Our research found that, among multitaskers, certain types of ads are more (or less) effective in terms of driving TV viewers online. Advertising Sales Technology' So what does all this mean for advertisers?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

We saw a similar situation in our recent work with a technology company, in which the executive team complained that major quality initiatives impacting multiple business units had fallen through the cracks. Begin a series of rapid cycle experiments to solve long-term issues. Complex processes need a leader with a larger perspective.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Therein lies my caution…I’m fearful that people who don’t have the experience or intuition to read between the lines of a short quote, or a 140 character Tweet, might be misled by the simplicity of the appeal. This is why I took the time to author today’s post. Cynthia I agree that strategy and culture are intertwined.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. I fired him from my team realizing he would never understand how to relate to a client on their terms. The number of books, blogs, tweets, videos, webcasts, podcasts, etc., And he was considered an expert!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I can tell you that without question the best leaders are able to make very complex decisions, on short time frames, and with incomplete information. I wonder if we'll see a difference in terms of how younger generations approach perfectionism & failure, given digital fluency. Have you seen any trends there?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

In 2011, according to Bank numbers, it used $32 billion to finance U.S. But, the fundamental, long-term debate should be about how government in general, and "state capitalism" in particular, is distorting economic competition in the global market place, and what is the proper response for the U.S.

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