N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. While they are careful to insure that their brands are visible to the right constituencies, they simply won’t allow overexposure.

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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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In fact, your influence quotient will be a much greater determinant of your ultimate success than your “Intelligence Quotient” could ever be. The following fundamental concepts of influence, which if properly understood and implemented, can help anyone become more efficient, productive and successful: 1. Trust Matters….

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N2Growth Blog

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 agree that trust and urgency are critical factors for successful leadership. Want to find out? I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. 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.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it?

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N2Growth Blog

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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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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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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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Innovation and real change come from asking. Wisdom is in the crowd. Yes, we want confident leaders, but not know-it-alls. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Innovation and real change come from asking. Wisdom is in the crowd. Yes, we want confident leaders, but not know-it-alls. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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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. But the true success came in the way that they appealed to their customers. And the Clients Went Wild!

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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. What successful companies are doing right. Why is that?

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Roundtable Talk

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. He makes up “success&# stories constantly. Like his EDW, which was responsible for a 64% increase in insurance sales. A huge innovation that no other company has. Just ask Woo.

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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. Get the keys to digital transformation success here.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. The more people develop leadership and followership skills, the more successful they will be. Followers Get Things Done Better followership often begets better leadership.

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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. This trend is unsustainable.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

is the key to success, and getting attention often starts with that first great idea. Think beyond the obvious connections to come up with something truly innovative. In three parts, it teaches readers how to get off the ground and thrive in the social mediasphere. That’s fine. Take two ideas and put them together to make one new idea.

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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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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. You’ll be surprise to see that, with the help of a proper tool, how easy making a decision can be when your mind work systematically. It forces you to make better decisions.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? Scott Cook , founder and chairman of Intuit.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. You’ll be surprise to see that, with the help of a proper tool, how easy making a decision can be when your mind work systematically. It forces you to make better decisions.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Employers are the largest single provider and purchaser of health insurance in the United States, covering over 150 million workers and their dependents and purchasing 34% of all health care dispensed in the country. And in recent years, employers have enjoyed some success in controlling rising health care costs.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

That said, my typical pro-marketing position assumes that certain key fundamentals are in place to insure that the lunatics don’t somehow become in charge of the asylum. Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate. Thanks for sharing Tom. I Think Not.

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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. ” To inspire the idealess, I’ve spent the past month investigating exactly where successful founders got their revelations.

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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. To be successful, leaders need to focus on reducing complexity rather than amplifying it. Engage unusual partners.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While scaling these services is challenging, our research shows that having the right business skills is critical to success. However, some primary care programs are overcoming these barriers and creating successful care models with substantial scale. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

The success of platform businesses like Alibaba, Airbnb, and Uber is so remarkable that discussion about them often misses just how hard they are to build. For every successful platform, there are many more that struggle or simply don’t make it. By 2011, its PlayStation had become the best-selling game console of all time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Clayton Christensen has nicely described how the very things that made a company successful, including its efficiency, can also cause it to become obsolete when it's unable to adapt to disruptive change. Everyone knows the story. Here the Army hasn't done a good job.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

An Avalere Health study found in 2011 that health care at home improved outcomes and saved $2.8 Reimbursements from Medicare and private insurers should reflect the true value of home care. Health Innovation' In the process, home care is doing exactly what''s most needed -- increasing quality and driving down costs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, insurance companies face technological uncertainty that comes from how big data and analytics investments will drive revenue; whereas demand is based on highly predictable demographics. In other words, if you are in a high uncertainty industry, you must excel at innovation…or die. Customers Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. In 2011 81 digital health startups received venture funding; with consistent year-over-year increases, 296 startups were venture backed in 2016. Uncertainty surrounding the health care bill shouldn’t have a material effect on the success of various solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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