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Bigger is Not Always Better When Selecting a Search Firm to Partner With

N2Growth Blog

“If your organization is not a Fortune 500 company, your search can easily get lost in the shuffle or pushed down below the partner level, and placement costs can quickly exceed your price range with antiquated administrative fees that cover big overheads.”. On the other end of the spectrum, however, are boutique search firms. Typically, Ms.

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The Best Office Chairs for Short People – Comfort and Ergonomics for Every Height

Strategy Driven

Before buying any specific office chair, it’s important to carefully consider the intended use and budget constraints. However, depending on the model and price range, adjustable office chairs might not efficiently meet certain user requirements. Support should be provided to arms, back, bottom and thighs if possible.

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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

You should know from the outset that I fundamentally disagree with the concept of CEO term limits, and quite frankly I cannot really come up with a valid reason for supporting such a regressive concept. Then follow-up your great hiring decision by providing the CEO with the tools and resources necessary to get the job done.

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Whole Foods Is Becoming Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Pricing Lab

Harvard Business Review

Amazon’s relentless price testing in the online world anchors its competitive advantage. Its unrivaled base of knowledge allows it to use price as a communications tool, a recruiting tool, a psychological weapon, and a value driver in ways that transcend the basic mechanics of supply and demand and profit and loss.

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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

On a 1-5 scale (where 1=Strongly Agree; 2=Agree; 3=Neither Agree nor Disagree; 4=Disagree; and 5= Strongly Disagree), rate the thinking of your company's key decision-makers on the following statements, then add up the total of all 10 items. As they develop, poor countries will catch up with rich ones. We need only to be patient.

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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

If you've ever had anything to do with business initiatives among the world's poor — the so-called bottom of the economic pyramid — you've no doubt heard the advice that enterprises in this space need to aim for low prices, low profit margins, and high sales volumes. At a price equivalent to 10 U.S.

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Making Microfinance More Effective

Harvard Business Review

We recently conducted a literature review of rigorous academic studies of financial service innovations among the very poor to find out what services and products would unlock the most value for those at the bottom of the pyramid. Traditional microcredit hasn’t lived up to expectations, but we are learning how to improve it.