N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

I have watched many a well intentioned executive get sucked into gossip in an attempt to help, only to pay a big price down the road for their error in judgment. If that doesn’t work, and you must get involved, offer to accompany the person with the problem in addressing the individual they have an issue with.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

But Everything has a price, there is no smoke without fire!!!! Leaders who operate behind a veil of secrecy are only setting themselves up for a rude awakening. Section IV: Tactics. Great leaders tend to be tactical geniuses and display a strong bias to action. should anything be transparent? I always appreciate your insights.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Higher prices and reduced advertising created an opening for competitors to take away market share, which they did. So while profits were rising and ROIC was high, market share was declining.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

There are several ways to generate Revenue Streams: Asset sale, Usage fee, Subscription fee, Lending/Renting/Leasing, Licensing, Brokerage fees, Advertising and corresponding Pricing Mechanisms) Key Resources – Key resources are the assets required to offer and deliver the previously described elements.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. When insurers or health care providers have to battle one another to attract customers, they must differentiate themselves by charging lower prices or providing better service.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Twitter Marketing [link] mikemyatt Perhaps in some cases, but not in every instance…This is a very fluid topic that is heavily influenced by individual personalities, environmental context, and situational nuances. And it's hard to lose your self from your emotions, because your self and emotions are one.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? While both require sacrifice, success comes at a great price and is often based upon the compromise of values. Did the attainment of your 2010 goals lead you closer to success or significance?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The big thing for me is I know when I add something to my life and work, there's a price to pay – time wise! So, I 'm thinking, why not take a piece of that and post it a few times a week and see what happens? Something has to be subtracted. We only have so much time. I wonder how many bloggers families pay?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Sad but true…real talent won’t be attracted to, or remain engaged with leaders who operate on fear-based tactics. link] mikemyatt Hi Dan: What a great observation about the "price" of loyalty. Poor Performance : Leaders who have the respect of their team will outperform those that don’t.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

And it grew then some where along the lines the willingness to exploit exceeded the need of the market. If your company produces safety products for food production perhaps the greater world needs you more than your current market. Where are you taking your company and why? Which one do you want to be world best at serving.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

And it grew then some where along the lines the willingness to exploit exceeded the need of the market. If your company produces safety products for food production perhaps the greater world needs you more than your current market. Where are you taking your company and why? Which one do you want to be world best at serving.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 27, 2011

Rather, this simple statement captures the thinking required to build a sustainable competitive advantage that forces trade-offs among competing resources, tests the soundness of particular initiatives, and sets clear boundaries within which decision makers must operate. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. See Figure 1).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. McKinsey teams are beavering away in places like the United Arab Emirates and the 'Stans — Turkmenistan, say, or Tajikistan — but they're as likely to be doing operations projects as pure strategy work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

shale oil and gas producers have been ramping up production to take advantage of rising crude oil prices — prices that had been rising in the wake of a deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia, and other non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Led by its Steve Jobs-inspired CEO Lei Jun, the company has experienced breakneck speed since its first smartphone launch in October 2011. The “jobs-to-be-done” theory articulates the gap between how producers view and market a product and how customers actually use it.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

and Gretchen Johnson of Virtual Wordplay Marketing Communications for a few years, a caring and supportive group of individuals who have helped each other without reservation to be successful in business and in life. Readers of this post are entitled to a 10% discount off the cover price if they contact Paul at PaulK@MidwGroup.com.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Alternatively, the company can operate in stealth mode by targeting customer segments that have been poorly served or ignored by traditional distributors. Starting in 2011, Mercedes chose to develop direct distribution capabilities for electric bicycle sales under its Smart brand. market for personal computers. Minimize Pain.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. Complacency has it’s price, up to and including some morally and ethically reprehensible leaders who have been elected to public office. We might simply vote without doing our homework first. Worse yet, we may not vote for anyone.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

It boasted rapid economic growth, abundant natural resources, and a large (and increasingly wealthy) market of 200 million consumers. But because of economic deceleration in China and the abrupt fall in iron-ore and other commodity prices, growth began to slow. In the early 2000s, Brazil became the darling of corporate investment.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. Aldi offers not just low prices, but convenience. Everyone shops at Aldi.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

That year, according to our proprietary research, non-tech companies scooped up 707 computer and electronics firms, often at highly inflated prices. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Defensive Moats. Users in Different Ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

We've extensively analyzed the applications to the Echoing Green fellowship between 2006 and 2011, and built a rich dataset that allows us to rigorously study trends in the field of social enterprise. These hybrids pursue a social mission while engaging in commercial activities that generate revenues that help them sustain their operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

But, in 2011, ours is a different world, which made me wonder: Were these Hearst facilities artifacts of a by-gone era? Today, consumers, not marketers, rule the roost. Today, consumers, not marketers, rule the roost. As consumers, we readily dictate how and when marketers reach us. Price usually signals quality.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 19, 2011

A Boomer’s Advice to Marketers: Go Ahead, Make My Day. by John • June 19, 2011 • Life , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. Today, we represent a marvelous marketing opportunity. We operate by the mantra of “use it or you lose it.” Aha,” say the savvy marketers. June 21, 2011 at 5:57 pm.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

A brand’s difference gives consumers an easy rationale for choosing it, and a ready justification for paying a price premium. Research by Millward Brown finds that brands with a meaningful difference command a price premium 13 percent higher than weaker category alternatives. But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. The global tilt is an irreversible shift of economic power from North to South: from the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The company was hell-bent on entering a new market but knew it had to automate its warehouse to do so. BlueArc’s devices were high-end, but its management believed it needed a mid-priced product to get it through the recession. Then it cut general and administrative expenses and sales staff to contain operating losses.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. You might not always be able to slash your prices lower than those of your competitors.

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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 In fact, we are really losing a lot of money.".

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I hope your inspiring and heartfelt thoughts cause others to reflect on the great price that has been, and is continuing to be paid to protect our freedom. It is because of men like you that we all have the privilege of freedom. Best wishes Bo… [link] mikemyatt Thank you Mark.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. In 2011, the U.S.

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