The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. What’s more, the study found that such is the rush for scale that entrepreneurs were forced to always choose the path of least resistance and homogenize their products for the biggest market possible.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 94

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.

Blog 419

Blog Leadership Brand Depreciation 419

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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Press Release Discount PR Leadership 192

Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

 That said, how could I resist featuring this post by Ajaero on the Young Entrepreneur blog where he highlights seven traits common to highly successful salespeople.  That said, how could I resist featuring this post by Ajaero on the Young Entrepreneur blog where he highlights seven traits common to highly successful salespeople.

Blog 157

Blog Middle Management Talent Management Human Resources 157

Tim Milburn

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While some may have built up a resistance to what you are passing on, many will find themselves susceptible to your influence. If those are your symptoms, I’m going to do my best to stay away. I don’t want to catch those things. I don’t want to pass them on to others. Every interaction leaves an impression.

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Resistance Influence Resources Tips 83

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?

Entrepreneur 382

Entrepreneur CEO Blog Welch 382

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Stop feeling overwhelmed with changing technology, culture, business, trends, and values, and regain the confidence that can give you a real advantage. What people don’t understand, they will resist. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Stability, once a mainstay of American life, is now a pipe dream.

Organization 88

Organization Resistance Self-aware Open-book 88

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.

Blog 419

Blog Leadership Brand Reputation 419

Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 11, 2010

  That said how can I resist featuring a post like this from HR Capitalist Kris Dunn.    That said how can I resist featuring a post like this from HR Capitalist Kris Dunn.    Kris Dunn, HR Capitalist : 10 Bitchin' Facts About Jack Welch - It is no secret that I am a huge fan of Jack Welch. 

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Blog Welch Human Resources Taylorism 100

N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

Home About Overview News Careers Contact Blog Services Branding/Identity Executive Search Leadership Development Overview CEO Coaching Executive Peer Groups Strategic Growth Consulting Innovation Management Personal Branding Reputation Management Social Media Consulting Pro Bono Services Clients Intermidiaries Downloads Blog Contactus N2growth Home (..)

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Blog Leadership CEO Brand 379

CO2

AUGUST 8, 2010

— David Whyte from Where Many Rivers Meet ©2007 Many Rivers Press We can have faith that tomorrow will come or we can resist that temptation. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Let this then, my small poem, like a new moon, slender and barely open, be the first prayer that opens me to faith.

Positioning 90

Positioning Executive Coaching Politics Open-book 90

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Seth Godin calls this “the resistance&# or “the lizard brain.&# (Folks…you gotta read his latest book, Linchpin …I’m just saying). One Less Option New Word: Critischism Choosing Three Words for 2011 You can subscribe to the RSS feed of timmilburn.com by clicking here. Would love to have you join in.

Godin 83

Godin Resistance Productivity Products 83

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.

Blog 419

Blog Leadership Emotional Intelligence CEO 419

Ask Atma

MAY 13, 2012

As you know, humans tend to resist change. Shapiro -University of Maryland; Jiing-Lih Farh -Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Motivating and Demotivating Forces in Teams: Cross-Level Influences of Empowering Leadership and Relationship Conflict , Journal of Applied Psychology 2011, Vol. Edinger, and Debra L.

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Team How To Team Building Influence 66

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. the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law.

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Kaplan Audience Chief Executive Officer Seminar 67

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Being questioned by people resistant to change is not out of the ordinary, and nothing to be concerned about. link] mikemyatt Hi Tom: Thanks for sharing your insights Tom. Doing things differently is likely one of the things that makes your church stand-out. In fact, it's probably a good sign you're on the right track.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

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.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

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.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

It’s a grotesque irony that our experiences of the world wide web today are actually pretty local, despite warnings from the likes of Eli Pariser back in 2011. Of course, resistance to algorithms is difficult because we’re up against a sophisticated, secret system. What can be done? But it’s not futile, yet.

How To 13

How To Ethics Media Content 13

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). I like to share interesting articles (and other resources) that provide examples of organizations applying Deming’s ideas in practice.

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Deming Health Care System Cost 28

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

When practical, leaders then need to support the solutions offered, provide reassurance, resist stepping in when solutions are not working out as planned, and periodically ask these individuals what they are learning by implementing their own solutions. Leaders need to break through this resistance and may need to press Criticizers for help.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

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. “We hired a talent acquisition leader from the software industry, someone who really understood technology.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

We contributed to this research in 2011 with a study on participants who completed an eight-week mindfulness program. Meditators, on the other hand, demonstrate superior performance on tests of self-regulation , resisting distractions and making correct answers more often than non-meditators. Source: Tang et al. ).

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Stress Participative Document 8

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).

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

This resistance to state-of-the-art statistical models has frustrated the academics. Customers Decision making Information & technology' Gerd Gigerenzer , director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has been making the case for decades that heuristics often outperform statistical models.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 9

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.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Wireless Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

When a novel information service appears to have zeroed in on one's deepest darkest secret preferences, it's hard to resist a strong emotional response — what might be referred to as the "creepy factor." Perhaps the best explanation for today's resurgent and generalized anxiety about privacy is that it just doesn't seem that way.

Advertising 14

Advertising Software Information Ryan 14

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.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

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.

Advertising 8

Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Age discrimination is the most widely experienced form of discrimination across Europe according to a 2011 Age UK report. In a work context, this can be particularly harmful. In fact, recent research suggests these damaging stereotypes fall into six categories, most of which may sound familiar. their perceived stereotypes).

Report 9

Report Learning-by-Doing Health Care Career 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

China, with a per capita GDP of $7,827 in 2011 (in 2005 dollars, according to the latest edition of the Penn World Tables ), is getting close to that first landmark. In a newer working paper with more-complete data, they revise that to report two inflection points, one in the $10,000-$11,000 range and another around $15,000-$16,0000.

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GDP Banking Finance Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2016

In a 2011 Supreme Court class action case , Walmart successfully used the mere presence of its anti-discrimination policy to defend itself against allegations of gender discrimination. We put young white men through a hiring simulation for an entry-level job at a fictional technology firm. All this has a real effect in court.

Diversity 8

Diversity Policies Mission Statement Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Dear Mr. President, Your State of the Union address last night offered hope to a nation made weary by an economy stubbornly resistant to job growth. But I must take issue with your claim that "None of us can predict with any certainty.where the new jobs will come from.". Actually, we can. Nothhaft's next "Memo to the President.".

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

When outraged Vancouverites turned to blogs and Facebook to identify participants in the Stanley Cup riots, many celebrated sites like Vancouver 2011 Riot Pics and Vancouver 2011 Criminal List as examples of putting social media to concrete and constructive use.

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Consensus Media Policies Groupthink 12

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.

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Engineering Fashion 14

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.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

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. During the last decade, the number of unemployed older workers has increased 300 percent. Consider the industry.

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COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 13