N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

Brands have always catered to our emotions viewing them as associative triggers – the tactics I’m describing are clearly not new. Isn’t Starbucks using the same addictive business tactics as those industries listed above? Does your company partake in addictive marketing strategies and tactics? Thoughts?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Manufacturers and retailers play similar games to lower costs without creating a perception that the product is less valuable. While this tactic sounds strange, it can make sense by preserving the value of the brand while finding a justifiable reason to lower prices. Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

The next step is recognizing the specific opportunities and tactics it will take to fulfill the picture painted by the transformational leader. Earlier in his career he worked at EDS (an IT services provider), where he learned how to run IT as a business. The Innovation Instigator.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2011

The most effective tactics included persuasion, threats, and even misrepresentation; compromising and accommodating approaches to negotiation were not associated with any negotiated salary gains, the researchers say. Among customers who solicited salespeople for information about an MP3 player, 78.8% from nonmimickers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Below are several tactics to get the most from your fastidious team member. Help perfectionists see that their behavior may limit their career. Part of Helen's job was to place products based on a diagram a retail store. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and the author of Flying Without a Net.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. I see the leader from the big picture perspective and how he-she paints career panoramas by interconnecting the pieces. They are forced by circumstances to change (career obsolescence, down-sizing, marketplace factors). Career Worker.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

You should also avoid “implicitly or explicitly threatening to leave” as a negotiating tactic, says McGinn. Lori Moss was enjoying a lucrative career as a luxury retail sales professional when management approached her and asked if she’d take on the additional responsibility of turning around a poorly performing division.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

One of the most important lessons I’ve learned in my career is that respect doesn’t have to be won by giving orders and demanding adherence to those orders. He is also CEO of Max-Ventures, a venture capital and retail consulting firm, and founder and CEO of Max-Wellness, a comprehensive health and wellness retail chain that launched in 2010.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Banks buy money wholesale and sell it to borrowers at retail rates. ’ What they’re really selling: Retail merchandise. Retailers are motivated by keeping the cash registers ringing. Greatness is earned over an entire career.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

If you’re a mid- or late-career marketer, chances are your job today is mostly unrecognizable from what you signed on for. They orchestrate content marketing tactics that situate their brands at the moments that matter to their audiences. Perhaps no other business function has changed as dramatically over the past decade.

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