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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Sure, it’s your business, your idea, your net worth at risk and certainly nobody else will work as hard as you will, but is this really the right way to evaluate who should be the chief executive? After starting and selling 3 companies now I can look back and see I was definitely the seagull in the fist one, arguably all 3.

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What Cincinnati Could Teach New York about Hurricane Readiness

Harvard Business Review

Coastal city" has a new definition. But increasingly, at the local level, innovative approaches involving unlikely partners playing unlikely roles are disrupting the status quo and addressing seemingly unsolvable challenges like those posed by Sandy. Surprisingly, similar innovation can be seen with taxes.

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike. That has resulted in some misconceptions that can be counterproductive in the quest for innovation. But you how do you get there? You can''t just ask for it.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Book of Acronyms

Strategy Driven

Clinging to obsolete definitions and viewpoints have a way of perpetuating companies into downward spirals. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Symbolic are these phrase definitions which I have created for familiar business words.

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Reinventing the Chief Marketing Officer: An Interview with Unilever CMO Keith Weed

Harvard Business Review

The rationale for combining marketing and sustainability is, to grow our business we need to do great marketing. But in a resource-constrained world, that definition of sustainable growth is too narrow. That means innovating products to reduce their impact and changing consumer behavior about how to use products.

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Culture Trumps Strategy – Not | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

But if culture is developed outside of strategy, if it’s not driven by strategy, then said culture can become a very dangerous intoxicant. It is something you're thinking about and planning for, therefore it is part of the overall strategy being developed. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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