N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms. If you believe the hype, social media will immediately solve all your problems and require no time, energy or effort on your part. link] Allan W.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. The bigger the playing field, the more trust, familiarity, and rapport count.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. Women are driven by achieving business results and making a positive impact.

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CEO Benchmarking Mentor Career 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career. What I can tell you is that I’ve always made my family a priority.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

She went onto a journalism career at the Financial Times, Globe and Mail, and Reuters, and wrote books on Russia’s transition to capitalism and the rise of the global plutocracy. But in the short-term, particularly given the subsequent Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is turning out to be a rather prescient action.

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Politics Tourism Short-term Globalization 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 12, 2021

Chapters are like paragraphs, or sentences: some may be short, some long; the variation of pacing, of phrasing, of crescendo and decrescendo, all has its own meaning and impact. Speaking of rhythm and music, for Steel Fear I decided early on to go with very short chapters — the shortest is 20 words long! The term is again a giveaway.

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Open-book Books Short-term Advice 133

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Many founders fall into the same trap: they focus all their energy and resources on building a product and finding customers, and when they come up for air, they realize that they need to raise outside capital. The average outside equity financing round, from the beginning of the roadshow to when the money is wired, takes six months.

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Long-term Learning-by-Doing Advice Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. What do you mean by that term? Companies have spent enormous energy responding to the existential threat of new entrants. We’ve had the opportunity to study the doers, for lack of a better term. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

“You are managing the energy and brainpower of an entire group,” she says. Without a purposeful plan, Davey says that “managers too often do what’s easy in the short-term and ask the most talented person” to do the hard work. Have a plan. You must devote time to it.” ” Clarify roles.

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Delegation Project Team Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

If policymakers hope to be successful in their efforts to promote entrepreneurs and small businesses, they need to know what works – in short, they need a “Playbook” for small business job creation. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

“After board dinners, we inevitably sit around and talk about our kids and their careers,” Dave Calhoun recently told me. The truth is, it’s difficult to advise kids about how careers really work today and how to get any job, much less a great job. This the Career Triangle. Photo by Andrew Nguyen.

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Career Follow-up Advice Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. Exposure to real-world engineering is a crucial and cost-effective way to build interest in manufacturing careers—through either four-year engineering degrees or vocational training.

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