N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO.

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MARCH 18, 2010

A specific example of this would be that while a company’s business plan may not change for a number of years, the company’s business model consistently evolve, or may even need to be reengineered to insure the execution of its business plan. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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JANUARY 16, 2011

While they are careful to insure that their brands are visible to the right constituencies, they simply won’t allow overexposure. The reality is that premium brands are viewed as such because they jealously manage their brand exposure. They pay attention to the both the frequency and reach of their exposure. I Think Not.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Great leaders are strategic thinkers who have the ability to translate their vision into an actionable strategy to insure its success. I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. And outsiders are responding, already experimenting with digital approaches to insurance.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

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. That said, it will be how they choose to handle themselves, and how they treat others that will ultimately determine the amount of influence they have. Thanks for stopping by David.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? My challenge to you is this…set the chinning bar very high for yourself by reevaluating your goals and objectives to insure that you are on a path towards significance. Did the attainment of your 2010 goals lead you closer to success or significance? I Think Not.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Feed them, make them comfortable, insure that they don’t feel that their time was wasted or that they didn’t have the opportunity to be heard - have them leave looking forward to the next meeting. Don’t bore your members with meaningless drivel or worthless presentations. I Think Not.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# Inc.com Inc. magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Companies can make a big difference for their employees — providing good health insurance and promoting good health — all while keeping costs down. The fact that we are self-insured — the company itself pays their health claims, not an outside insurance company — makes us prudent about our costs.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. Focus on value creation.

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Women's Leadership Exchange

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Extension and Expansion of Small Businesses’ Ability to Immediately Expense Capital Investments: The bill increases for 2010 and 2011 the amount of investments that businesses would be eligible to immediately write off to $500,000, while raising the level of investments at which the write-off phases out to $2 million.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

These questions ought to be directed toward people who have spent their lives studying or reporting on various aspects of health-care; working in billing offices, insurance agencies, and ERs; suffering from illnesses haven’t been covered due to various loopholes; and writing policy to address complex health-care issues.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

These questions ought to be directed toward people who have spent their lives studying or reporting on various aspects of health-care; working in billing offices, insurance agencies, and ERs; suffering from illnesses haven’t been covered due to various loopholes; and writing policy to address complex health-care issues.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. It is this type of issue that pollutes our culture, stifles innovation, undermines our productivity, and sentences those who embrace politically correct thinking to mediocrity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Business model innovation is hard. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. To many people, this kind of change doesn’t feel like it’s real business model innovation. Take Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings. And only 15% said digital was helping them to create new business models.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2010

2 Responses to Fast Friday with Jay Woo, COO, CAA South Central Ontario John Doe | January 4, 2011 at 3:05 PM | Funny stuff. Like his EDW, which was responsible for a 64% increase in insurance sales. A huge innovation that no other company has. The idea exchange is a huge internal joke. Just ask Woo.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you aren’t sure where to get started, take a cue from other companies that have taken innovation to heart and used it to successfully win and keep customers. Geico has done a particularly remarkable job at grabbing attention for their insurance products. Or those oft-offended cavemen.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Property insurance is a good example. Despite growing personal wealth and a taste among the rich for expensive cars, jewelery and art, the penetration of property insurance in China remains very low. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4% of property losses due to natural catastrophe were insured, according to Lloyds.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Among the top performers on the 2011 World's Best Multinational Companies list are culturally-strong technology companies such as Microsoft, NetApp, SAS, and Google. Old-fashioned benefits like health insurance, family leave, and flex time ranked only 15 percent when considering most valued HR offerings. They're upgrading.

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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

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. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Industries dominated by information-rich assets (think publishing and music) were swept up in the early wave of internet innovation. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. No industry is immune.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

According to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers’ earnings rose by 47% from 1999 to 2012, but their contribution to health insurance premiums during that time went up by 180%. Health insurance premiums rose four and half times faster than the rate of inflation over the same period. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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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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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

iDecide+ A Professional Decision Making App – This is one of my favorites because it does a great job of not only allowing you to choose your criteria, it has you do a pairing exercise to insure that your weighting is aligned and calibrated. It forces you to make better decisions. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

That's the moment — and we have them more frequently as innovative technologies accelerate their entry into the market — when the creepy factor comes into play. In response to innovation in customer intelligence, however, privacy advocates are calling for all sorts of new laws to protect us from ourselves. In the U.S.,

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

iDecide+ A Professional Decision Making App – This is one of my favorites because it does a great job of not only allowing you to choose your criteria, it has you do a pairing exercise to insure that your weighting is aligned and calibrated. It forces you to make better decisions. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In your address last night, Mr. President, you correctly noted that, "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation." Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. In other words, Mr. President, everything depends upon start-ups: Job creation. Millions," said Kappos.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Think beyond the obvious connections to come up with something truly innovative. For over 15 years, Jim has helped small businesses and large companies like FedEx, Sherwin-Williams, Ernst & Young, and Progressive Auto Insurance understand how to find success on the Web. Take two ideas and put them together to make one new idea.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

This idea of peer-to-peer commerce, or the "sharing economy" as it is sometimes known, has spawned a new breed of innovations. Like other sharing economy innovators, Airbnb is now at the center of a legal maelstrom in cities around the world. And the company provides a $1,000,000 insurance policy against damage caused by guests.

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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

MARCH 23, 2010

I’m always amazed at how much money will be spent to acquire a new customer, but how little care is given to insuring customer satisfaction after the sale. Insure that your client understands what types of customer behaviors will be accepted and what types of behavior will not be tolerated. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

According to research from 2011 , some 31 million people ages 44 to 70 want encore careers that allow them to continue earning a living and give them meaning that has an impact beyond themselves. It will likewise demand new opportunities and innovations, if we are to help those many millions seeking encore careers.

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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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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Therefore, leaders adopting an evolutionary psychology approach to followership must do all they can to align followers’ goals with those of the organization and insure that the benefits people accrue outweigh the costs of working for the leader, as followers will either mutiny or leave if goals are misaligned or inequities are perceived.

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