N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

No is not all it’s cracked-up to be…Still don’t believe me? It means your vision is not understood, your team is not aligned and your talent is not performing up to par. Bottom line…Yes is not a sign of weakness – it’s a sign of intelligent leadership. It is you who have made assumptions.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. Bottom line…good leaders are kind, empathetic, compassionate and loving leaders, which enables them to be fair, just and to display a steely resolve when needed. Starting to get my drift?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium. Lack of Focus and Follow-Through : Those leaders who lack the focus and attention to detail needed to apply leverage and resources in an aggressive and committed fashion will perish. Bottom line – leaders who build a static business doom themselves to failure.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The premise of his piece is that the landscape of the Blogosphere is changing radically, and that as such many “A-Listers” have either quit, or are contemplating giving-up their blogging endeavors. The bottom line is that the numbers do in fact speak for themselves. Blogging is much more than the latest trend and is here to stay.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

My suspicion is your best memories are of those teachers who inspired you, encouraged you, brought out your passion, and challenged you in a positive fashion. They either don’t value your contributions, or they know from experience that you’ll treat their inquiry in a belittling fashion. The boss will never go for that.&#

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

only to fail in miserable fashion. Bottom line…the way you identify leaders is not through psychological profiling or some miraculous transformative process. They're the ones on behalf of the team who step up and do a faceplant with an oncoming tomato. You bring up some great points about leadership and responsibility.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict, and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion, you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict and proactively intervening in a well reasoned and decisive fashion you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. Great article. Keep them coming.

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 6, 2017

Bottom line? When I first met him, Dick was running the check processing operation in the bank’s corporate facility. It was the closest thing a bank has to a manufacturing operation and it had an ethnically diverse, primarily blue-collar employee base. I didn’t think she’d make it, but she did.”. How’d she do it?” You think?”.

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 6, 2017

Bottom line? When I first met him, Dick was running the check processing operation in the bank’s corporate facility. It was the closest thing a bank has to a manufacturing operation and it had an ethnically diverse, primarily blue-collar employee base. I didn’t think she’d make it, but she did.”. How’d she do it?” You think?”.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

To better understand the ROI, my company, Burson-Marsteller, teamed up with the Great Place to Work Institute to ask senior executives from top-ranked companies about the value of a positive work environment. The survey garnered responses from 20 of the top 25 companies in the global workplace ranking. They're upgrading.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Building a large-scale biopharmaceutical facility requires up to $500 million. The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. Model 1: Virtual operator.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Without building on the basis of a digital operating model, there is no way to ensure alignment among a company’s digital initiatives. This is why so many digital transformation initiatives don’t live up to expectations, or even fail altogether. Digital transformation requires new strengths. The way ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The capacity to operate a 747 is incompatible with social media smarts. Hand your marketing team the keys to these social network vehicles, give them a few bucks to spruce up your website with some nice share links, and your job is done. against strategic planning.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

In particular, the tremendous growth of Bangladesh’s ready-made-garment sector (RMG) – from 50 factories in the 1980s to close to 5,000 today, making up 13% of the country’s GDP – hasn’t translated to marked improvements in social protections and standards of living.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Apple gets a lot of stick about manufacturing in China, and the issue came up again recently with the release of the iPhone 5. A very similar logic lies behind fashion retailer Zara's choice to manufacture in Europe, also an expensive location in terms of labor costs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. Countless acts in the design details ladder up to one big, fat impression that Nike is the company for performance-minded athletes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. Worse, though, was when we looked at the published statistics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

Within hours of the earthquake, this corporate foundation dispatched a team of journalists to Port-au-Prince to set up an Emergency Information Service (EIS) for the affected population, disseminating verified, actionable information by SMS messages in Creole. Many graduates join Cisco as employees, contributing to the firm's bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

What’s more, those that take this initial step are getting a leg up on AI’s future, since that step is going to be a prerequisite for everything that follows. These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

During Fashion Week in September 2011, Burberry did a direct campaign with an everyday consumer (not just the editors and fashionistas) to showcase their new line in what they called a #tweetwalk, letting users tweet about what they liked (or didn't). But Burberry stopped short of doing what makes the most sense to their bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

The Future of Operations. Highways can’t keep up with demand. Given the lag time before changes in demand are actually felt by different players along the chain, their effects are amplified when they hit, leading to inventory shortages or pile-ups. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate. What companies can do.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

This prejudice shows up not just in workplace stigmas, but also in policies. I took legal action against my employer for granting 10 paid weeks off to any new parent through birth, adoption, or surrogacy — except a man who had become a father the old-fashioned way. Subsequently, Time Warner changed that policy.).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Before being attacked for behavior that could easily be labled unsustainable, the company teamed up with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) a few years ago in a project to put all of the water back that they take out. In addition, there is the matter of giving up $2 billion in revenue. In other words, they plan to become water neutral.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

We are currently writing up our results for submission to an academic journal.). Each participant was asked to recall their level of self-awareness at different stages of their life up until the age they were currently (e.g., The bottom line is that self-awareness isn’t one truth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Instead of having a few companies stagnate because they don’t move upmarket, the entire industry has ended up in stagnation. Unable to create new value, airlines focus on increasing margins by cutting bottom-line costs. Today, air taxi companies operate in a similar fashion to the Southwest of yore.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Bottom line…If you’re a leader and not an avid reader, you’re wrong. Up until a few years ago Rick Warren read a book every single day. I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. Do I have your attention yet?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you’re still asking these questions WAKE-UP – get your head out of the sand, and stop broadcasting your ignorance. I would strongly suggest reading two previous posts: “ Shut-up and Listen &# and “ Stop Selling and Add Value “ as support for these positions. Keep up the great work.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

As I’ve said in other posts, great leaders have the innate ability to call on the right skills in a contextually and environmentally appropriate fashion. Foster “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.&# - John Wayne “The true leader serves. No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Erica Jackson, chief marketing officer of the Mendoza Marathon Corporation, had risen early to watch people line up to register for next year’s event and expected an enthusiastic crowd. Alan Kurtz, MMC’s chief operating officer, was standing off to the side, and she moved to join him, but a racer intercepted her.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

” So, how did we end up with this hunger for “raw”? Simply speaking to our audience in a natural, unscripted fashion builds trust because it’s hard to hide. This shift is a fairly recent one, and it’s an important precursor to our discussion today. Experts are more important to your brand than fans are.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

I became him, after a fashion, since I am 65 now. It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. Living in a fantasy without viewing the realities of the marketplace sets companies up for failure.). Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through.

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 23, 2017

I drove the winding road up the cliff overlooking the deepening Pacific and took in the ridiculously beautiful view. The sun was heading down in the sky as I was driving up the road toward Agnes’s house. There was no denying it, the number was the same, so I drove up and pressed the intercom button. She cranked the volume up.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

’) Of course, time has marched on since the book was written, and plenty of other well-known companies have dropped the execution ball in the meantime (BP in the most spectacular fashion). OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?)

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 23, 2017

I drove the winding road up the cliff overlooking the deepening Pacific and took in the ridiculously beautiful view. The sun was heading down in the sky as I was driving up the road toward Agnes’s house. There was no denying it, the number was the same, so I drove up and pressed the intercom button. She cranked the volume up.

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