Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

In the real world, of course, change is not easy, and resistance is not only common, but to be expected. They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone. Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Yet, my teacher persisted and encouraged me to find a way to make “lemonade out of lemons”.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Resist the temptation to just advance a broad number of disparate initiatives, and alternatively focus your efforts on the completion of a few high impact objectives. The simple reality is that if you continue to add new responsibilities to an already full plate, all of your obligations will suffer as a result.

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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? link] ATIG Dear Mike, Reasonably at the crucial moment, We can’t resist and reject that process. Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Due to this resistance, I believe that culture CAN trump strategy, to the extend that the strategy and execution thereof are unsuccessful. In my experience, culture is frequently at the center of resistance to a strategy and the required execution. However, Cultural marketing simply makes sense. Of course this is rhetorical.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. People’s resistance to display compassion, other than to family and friends, is what makes it so complex. I don’t know anyone whose been on the receiving end of authentic and appropriate love and compassion that has a distaste for it.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. Great CEOs lead by example…they set the tone for others in the organization by demonstrating proactive, rational, logical and balanced thinking as opposed reactionary emotional thinking.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer. Time moved on, and during the nineties technology overran, and transformed the creative industry like it did most others.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Become a part of them as opposed to a vendor to them …This is a difficult concept for old-school marketers to get their arms around, but a critical one nonetheless. Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. I am not referring to things like accounting best practices but to business strategy, marketing approaches, etc. link] mikemyatt Hi Tom: Thanks for sharing your insights Tom.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

NLP is a behavioral technology – a set of guiding principles, attitudes and techniques – that allows sales professionals to build rapport and trust, the basis for all business relationships. Resistance to your message indicates a lack of rapport. Only 7 percent of communication is made up of the words we use. James, MA, Ph.D.,

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. link] Diploma in Digital Marketing Qualification – MMC Learning | Digital Marketing [.] Social Media Marketing an hour a day – Dave Evens 7.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The development process continues and we introduce the “Amalgatome” in the middle of 2011 to a narrow market of fifteen primary processors with an annual sales potential of $2.76 Million; not big, but interesting. More valuable than this success is the realization that diamonds are sparkling within our reach.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Marketing can be either inward or outward. Companies undergo marketing campaigns to promote products and services to potential customers. Those same consumers do their own marketing when they shop at grocery stores. Yet, out of fear, they fight, resist and are combative toward change and to those who are change agents.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

Resist the temptation to tell the boss every little detail to show you’re ready for all possible glitches that could delay the project. Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. Step 2: Report the headlines.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. Investors are already keenly focused on this area, with many startups competing for a slice of the market. Insight Center. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

Marketers want to know intimate facts about individual behaviors, but only so they can fit them into increasingly refined demographic groupings of other individuals with similar behaviors and, they hope, similar interests. The relationship between large-scale customer intelligence data collection and privacy is more complicated than it seems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

This resistance to state-of-the-art statistical models has frustrated the academics. Financial markets are rife with uncertainty and correlation — and the correlations are strongest when the uncertainty is greatest (think of the parallel downward trajectories of lots of different asset classes during the financial crisis of 2008).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. million records).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Deep changes in technology and globalization that started in the 1990s continue to up-end how we live and work. AT&T was blocked from acquiring T-Mobile back in 2011 and Sprint and T-Mobile talked but couldn’t get a deal done this year. Carson Jimi Filipovski/Unsplash. What we watch. The remix in media took a similar path.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The Wall Street Journal recently posited that the secret to Apple's success lies in its "foot-dragging" — its history of resisting introducing products like the iPod until they can expertly fulfill consumers' desires. Indeed, Apple has consistently prioritized user experience over the latest in whiz-bang technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. Remember, these difficulties are the fruits of success. China Economy Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

“I think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world” were the words Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s new headquarters in 2011. The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. Their business models are fluid.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Their number one answer: employee resistance. Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology. About half of the firms that accepted this offer adopted the technology in the next six months. We asked owners why not.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

Alarm waned toward the end of the 19th century, as experts came to believe that “modern industry” and “rapid communications” were making people more open to change and hence more resistant to the disease. between 2011 and 2015 found that most were confined to the wealthiest 20% of zip codes in the country.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. CEO David Karp has openly expressed his resistance to display advertising, one of Yahoo!''s CEO Marissa Mayer acknowledged the long odds of making the $1.1 s main revenue streams.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

And federal age discrimination actions filed annually increased 66% between 1999 and 2011. Digital technology, one of the world's fastest-growing and most lucrative sectors, is popular with consumers of all ages. The organizational "geography" also matters — chief marketing officer versus chief financial officer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But thanks to social and mobile technologies, consumers are now "hyper-connected and super-empowered," to use Thomas Friedman's memorable phrase. We normally think of insurgency in a political context, but today's digital technologies are creating a similar dynamic in business. The first step is to understand the nature of insurgency.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

But they are constantly scanning the horizon for big enough market insights ; for that next game-changing idea; for the trend that will upset current market conditions and create opportunity. They ask themselves big, searching questions like: "What new trends and technologies could possibly undercut our current business?" "Are

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. Unlike much larger companies, midsized firms usually lack deep operational and technological talent who can quickly recognize, understand, and resolve huge systems glitches.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Rigorously (with honesty and diligence). Cambridge: MIT Press.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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