N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design.

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Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Even solid world class institutions like the University of California Berkeley under the leadership of Chancellor Birgeneau & Provost Breslauer are firing employees, staff, faculty and part-time lecturers through “Operational Excellence (OE) initiative”: last year 600 were fired, this year 300.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. To prove her commitment to what she calls the ‘lifestyle component’ of her business, her employees participate in a weekly yoga class at the office. Katrina didn’t give up.

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Press Release Magazine Entrepreneur Discount 133

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

I was in my junior year of undergraduate school and I was thinking about going to law school when a professor asked me to be his teaching assistant in a communications class. We talked about the behavior patterns in my book “ Don’t Bring It to Work ” and especially the one that is all too familiar to women, the pleaser.

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Press Release Discount PR Education 160

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Book your place here! Catch up here. CMI’s proposal has already been picked up in the media and some key influencers.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Are you going after the book of business that’s right for you? Many of my medical group clients, assume “expensive advertising” when they hear the term “marketing.” When asked “how do you market your practice?” Take a class, attend a seminar, learn a new skill or volunteer for a favorite cause.

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Press Release Discount PR Long-term 157

Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Scam Orrin Woodward and Me out of a free book!) Scam Orrin Woodward and Me out of a free book!) Besides, I truly appreciate good marketing, and this is creative stuff! Still, all the great marketing in the world wont make a mini van cool. I would have bought it if I hadn't listened to the Finance Pack a dozen times.

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Meyer Finance Letter Sharpe 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

And, emotional intelligence has been linked to successful leadership (just did a paper on this for a university class). 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.

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Blog Leadership Emotional Intelligence CEO 419

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 27, 2014

It allows you to: - Access the “best in class” thought leaders. Text will be categorized so that executives can review books and articles aimed at their needs. For example, some leaders may need to change behavior; others may need functional training in marketing or finance. Fantastic Opportunity.

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360-Degree Feedback Long-term Globalization Tools 121

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In fact, if you examine failed leaders as a class you’ll find that a lack of love, misplaced love, or misguided love were a contributing cause of said failures, if not the root cause. In the text that follows I’ll examine the softer sides of leadership – love, compassion, humility, kindness and empathy.

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Blog Leadership Brand Reputation 419

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Over the years I have come to believe that “ having class &# is synonymous with demonstrating a penchant for humility over bravado. In today’ post I’ll share my thoughts on the value of learning to become a humble leader… It’s been said that life is a long lesson in humility.

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Blog Leadership Servant Leader Long-term 419

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. logistics, and finance. Define the scope of the work by applying best-in-class principles. finance, I.T., Filippo Passerini ’s leadership as President of P&G’s Global Business Services and CIO has been recognized as best-in-class in the industry.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 271

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

This weekend I had the honor of attending his graduation from EOD school where he was recognized as the Honor Graduate in his class (see above picture). As many of you know, my son is an active duty officer in the US Air Force.

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Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be. 

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Banking Price Politics Letter 110

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

You guys are first class!  We feel strong alignment in purpose: elevating the networking profession by teaching leadership and professionalism, and finally take network marketing mainstream as the most ethical and effective business model for the new economy. Main | Caption Contest 2010.3 Thank you, Chris and Orrin.

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Letter Travel Blog Class 56

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Watching how she instructs and interacts with the children in her class, I am reminded of many of the important skills a leader needs to demonstrate. A community in which little girls are either abandoned or murdered because they are viewed 2nd class citizens simply because they are girls. Tuition, uniforms, books, supplies.

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Blog Covey Learning-by-Doing Video 321

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the kind words Dan, and I hope you enjoy the book. One example from my latest book, Ruthless Focus, is Staples. You could do real service writing a book on this topic (are you, by chance?). link] Wally Bock Fine post, Mike.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I believe that if you want to build and sustain a truly world-class team, everyone needs a voice – but not everyone’s voice is equal. However, what that person could potentially bring to a class is very different and top level if digital videos were allowed to express those ideas.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

He fared even worse at his "next" adventure, NeXT Computers, in which he focused again on building and selling computers, this time to a slightly different market. So tear a page out of Steve Job's play book, or at least sing to one of his tunes on your iPod Shuffle, and get it clear in your head what your real business is.

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Blog Letter Learning-by-Doing Travel 117

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith Blog : Marshall Goldsmith is a class act, a competitor of mine (one of only two or three CEO coaches that I would recommend), and a deep thinker on the topic of leadership. I tend to agree with most of Michael’s positions (except when he left my book off his list) and find his business logic to be solidly grounded.

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Blog Leadership Follow-up Media 411

Chris Brady

JUNE 24, 2010

  Yaobang had been a popular figure among students andintellectuals, standing for the concepts of free markets and democracy in acommunist nation.   What began as mourning for the loss ofa national leader, Hu Yaobang, grew into a gigantic demonstration known to theworld as the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989.

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Letter Blog Learning-by-Doing Travel 109

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Posted by: douglas | February 03, 2011 at 02:36 AM Numb-Bubba thought to himself, "This 'driving his goats to market' idea might need a little PDCA," and decided he'd better call his upline before he made his next trip. Posted by: Paula Trippensee | February 03, 2011 at 12:22 AM Wee!

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Travel Letter Blog Wilde 76

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As a member of the the class white men in business you are part of a privileged group that long ago set the criteria for success and excellence. She is well-versed on the "ignorance of education" She would welcome your attendance, input and debate in any of her classes. Perception sets the stage for cognition.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Chris Brady

JUNE 10, 2010

Special edition magazines fill the shelves, newspapers feature full inserts, marketers have plastered signs with advertisements featuring local heroes, and television adds have been running all spring. Just what is all the fuss about? It's called "The Beautiful Game," and as such, can be quite wonderful.

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Sports Leadership Blog Travel 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In today’s hiring market, a generous benefits package is essential for attracting and retaining top talent. Google is famous for its over-the-top perks , which include lunches made by a professional chef , biweekly chair massages, yoga classes, and haircuts. SAS has a college scholarship program for the children of employees.

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Insurance Policies Survey Bond 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

As an adjunct professor for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business , I’ve taught multiple classes for degree programs, as well as executive education offerings. Do you really need to learn everything about corporate finance — or do you just need some accounting basics to help you get a better grasp on reading a P&L?

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P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 8

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Posted by: Sara | February 24, 2010 at 12:42 AM Hummer's struggling marketing department had begun to despair, but then they met Cletus. You've waited long enough! You've waited long enough! It's time for a caption contest.  Enjoy!

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Health Care Henderson Blog Letter 85

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2011

As Glenn Reynolds , a faculty member at the University of Tennessee law school, points out, higher education shares some salient features with the pre-collapse housing market. And Mark Perry , a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan, puts it in perspective with a handy chart.). It's not clear that they are.

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Education Human Capital Class CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

in a garret somewhere" would "outline an ideology of the future that could provide a realistic path toward a world with healthy middle-class societies and robust democracies.". Now he's wondering which liberal democracy, and clearly leaning toward one that's more about "a flourishing middle class" than the bottom line. Note to U.S.

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Consultative Porter Management Press Release 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

It has to be the responsibility of every single department: human resources, training, marketing, support, sales, IT, finance, operations and, most importantly, leadership. Employee compensation needs to be as focused on customer retention — delivering world-class customer service – as it is on customer acquisition.

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Company P&L Bottom-up Advertising 72

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. In my book I offer an Innovation Matrix, which I’ve described previously.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The Dutch government listened, and the new charter ended up providing for regular audits of the company’s books, limited terms for the directors, annual dividends, and the appointment of a second board (still appointed by the cities, not the shareholders) to oversee the inside directors. Boards China Finance'

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Class Price Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Toby Johnson, who I interviewed for my book Reinventing You , taught me this one. She ultimately realized she had to take control of how she told her story, and make those hiring managers understand she wasn’t marketing her flying abilities — it was about the leadership skills she’d developed.

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Career Skills Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

For my company, I focused on a big market and found a profitable and attractive niche. Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. Getaroom stands out because it presents a new model for hotel room booking. Find your niche in a sizable market.

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Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales. ” App store research, which I collected in my book, Apponomics , reveals only 5% of apps accounted for 92% of downloads in 2013. million apps as of July 2015.

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Development Advertising Download Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

More entrepreneurs are thinking small, because the costs to starting a company have fallen so dramatically that there is now a whole new class of entrepreneurs creating companies. Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry?

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17