N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

However it has been my observation that you will rarely come across someone who possesses a great sense of timing that is anything other than successful. Those who currently lead are aware that our times and this market demands flexibility and quick decision making. I always appreciate your kind words. pastortom2022 Great post Mike.

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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. pastortom2022 Great post Mike and especially to many of us who have not experienced a great level of success or notoriety. will go into decline.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership? The American Express Leadership Academy has helped more than 300 emerging leaders in not-for-profit organizations build the skills needed to run a successful organization through a weeklong program, funded by American Express.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information. When you take part in gossip you do none of these things. At its core, gossip is the highest form of disloyalty, and it is far from innocent or idle.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Most companies can claim an element of success in some aspect of CRM proficiency such as sales force automation, database marketing, development of a knowledgebase, etc., Successful organizations understand and embrace this. I think this is critical to identify what's working and what's not.

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Six Disciplines 1:1 Executive Coaching - Is Now Open for Enrollment for 2011. Recent 2010 research* confirms what we know to be our biggest challenges as executives: 52% of executives don’t feel their company’s strategy will lead to success. A Grade-Card for success, showing the key metrics and targeted results.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

“The death of the traditional salesman has been greatly exaggerated,” heralded a recent column in The Economist (October 22, 2011). Yet there’s been nothing traditional in sales for the past 15 years thanks, in part, to women making it a successful career path. She wonders: Is it worth it?

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

Through the period of March of 2002 to March of 2011, my small executive coaching company, Signature, Inc., in February 2008 had its second straight month of disappointing growth in "paid clicks," a key metric that reflected the overall health of the company, according to data released by research firm comScore Inc. . Google Inc.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

  Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005.    In the Times article, he says “Ecomagination had a favorability rating of like one when it started, maybe two, me and (Chief Marketing Officer) Beth (Comstock).   Immelt stuck with it and today, G.E. Click Here.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Even if you don’t find yourself having to frequently deal with extreme situations, it is often nothing more than normal dealings in the ordinary course of business that can place you at a nexus…Do you make your decision based upon the facts at hand and sound decisioning metrics, or do you let your emotions drive your decisions?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

I want metrics that mirror experience. Tenure is too qualitative. I agree that loyalty is critical. It is a symbiotic relationship where corporate and individual Vision dovetails Have a great week!! Tenure | N2Growth Blog By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth After my last post Focus on Performance I [.]

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

Traditional marketing — including advertising, public relations, branding and corporate communications — is dead. Many people in traditional marketing roles and organizations may not realize they're operating within a dead paradigm. Actually, we already know in great detail what the new model of marketing will look like.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

While most successful leaders subscribe to this theory, the real question in not whether you should seek counsel, but in fact where, and how much counsel you should seek. You see more input, or the wrong input, doesn’t necessarily add value to a decisioning process. What would happen if no decision is made?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

When we drew up our plans and budgets, the key metric was consumer impressions: how many people would see, hear or read our ad? Now information flows in many directions, consumer touch points have multiplied, and the old, one-size-fits-all approach has given way to precision marketing and one-to-one communications.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

On your road to success (whether it be to increase profits, become an industry leader, capture more market share, etc.), Replicating your successes to bring your product to the masses. What it delivers is success – in business and in life – far beyond your initial plans and dreams.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Where levels of responsibility and consequences for success or failure fall differently on various participants. A team is a feel-good label that implies the voluntary participation of all members is necessary for success. ” Great post Mike – it is obvious you have spent a lot of time thing about and work with top teams!

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Thanks for sharing this information.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? How clear are you about the criteria for success? Mahesh has received numerous corporate, client, and industry accolades for coaching senior executives at Fortune 100 companies to become successful transformation leaders and organizational innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

But Slack is generally aimed at the enterprise market and doesn’t specialize in intimate relationships. It’s proven hard to solve these problems partly because of metrics: It’s hard to identify and measure the factors that lead to high-quality information or connection.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let the attacks begin – I’ll publish any comments that are civil… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] MAPping Company Success [.] While my list had more "diversity" it was a larger list based upon specific metrics as the standard for qualification – diversity was not one of these metrics.

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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. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

From where I sit as the Global Head of Digital AT Pepsico Beverages, charged with navigating our brands foray into the digital world, I see three big changes: The value we put on an advertisement will change as we seek to account for engagement metrics in the pricing. But what are the implications of this for marketers today?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

When the graduating classes of 2009, 2010, and 2011 hit the job market, their employment prospects were depressingly bleak. These early career experiences appear to have lasting negative consequences for later career success. adamkaz/Getty Images. Unemployment rates were at historic highs and job openings were scarce.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. Avaya’s 2011 Net Promoter Score (NPS) was in the 20s (on a scale of -100 to +100), suggesting that it would have a hard time keeping the customers it had, let alone grow on word of mouth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Marcy Shinder, chief marketing officer at Work Market, the New York City–based firm that helps businesses manage their freelancers and consultants, was working on establishing herself as an influential member of the team before she even started the job. The new Work Market website will go live this spring.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York has grown by almost 65%. Raising venture capital isn’t the be all and end all of entrepreneurial success. But it is an important metric. Not focused on new marketing campaigns. It takes longer to raise money.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% For a new digital technology to deliver a disruptive innovation, a new technology must leverage two things: A new route to market. As with disruption in the private sector, Estonia’s e-residency program offers both a lower price and fewer features while simultaneously creating a new route to market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

In fact, several of my current research projects are not producing evidence that individuals with prior entrepreneurial experience have superior social performance, more commercial success, or larger online followings. valuable resources and capabilities, reliable organizational routines, and powerful market signals).

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

One of us (Chia-Jung) conducted a study in 2011 with Harvard social psychologist Mahzarin Banaji, presenting 103 participants with written descriptions of two classical musicians. Other domains may be less interested in prodigies and more focused on those who achieve success through hard work and repeated effort. But why is this so?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. It was a successful campaign: CEO paychecks came to consist mostly of stock options. Only 31 companies (2%) have gotten sub-50% no-confidence votes in 2013. Since say-on-pay hit the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. In today’s post I’ll examine one of the most frequent offenders; “ Talent is our biggest asset.&#

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

They are starting an estimated 1,288 companies each day, up from 602 in 2011-12. The women who make it to leadership roles perform better than their male peers , by several metrics. We do need more successful female women entrepreneurs – but not at the expense of more great female corporate executives. rose by 68 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

This is valuable for several reasons: Small brands can’t just open online stores and expect to be successful without hosting and curating a vibrant and nurturing community. Warby Parker’s transparency was also evident in their unique approach to marketing communications. Each year since 2011, the company unveils an Annual Report.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. The assumption is that company growth is good. Conclusion? This innovation has impact.

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