N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2011

Here’s the thing – nobody really cares if you have all the right tools if you don’t know how and when to use them… . They don’t indulge themselves in half-hearted attempts destined for failure, rather they choose to focus all their efforts and energies on accomplishing their mission.

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Leadership Objective Case Study Succession 330

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. Cameron sighed.

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Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

TOOLS AND RESOURCES. This book is packed with loads of practical advice, tips, case studies, suggestions and examples that not only retain, but also engage and make your people as productive as possible. The award comes with a designated gift certificate (usually $25) to a variety of stores. Employee Selection and Development.

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Newsletter Library Video Class 162

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Here, I’ll outline new research and case studies that help us understand digital nudging even more deeply: Case One: The Power of Framing an Email. If a basic digital tool like email is so effective, I’m optimistic we can get even better results using text messaging, personalized videos, and chat bots.

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Tools Participative Planning Education 10

Miles Anthony Smith

MARCH 3, 2018

Evergreen Content Case Study: Why Long Form Content Performs Infinitely Better on Google’s Search Engine You’re probably wondering to yourself, “I don’t believe SEO works anymore.” You perform extensive keyword research on all things pertaining to leather and boots using a reputable tool like SEMRush.

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Content Video Short-term Case Study 56

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. For example, adopt new methods to share information, and use tools like discussions and wikis to communicate and collaborate. Say please and thank you.

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Guidelines Management Media Newsletter 62

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

This book contains original case studies in which the author was directly involved, not a rehash of others that have appeared elsewhere. Business visionary Peter Drucker termed Hank’s Business Tree TM as the most original business model of the past 40 years.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Coaching Tip

APRIL 30, 2015

In a world overpopulated with enormous egos, 40-year old Paul seemed to be an anomaly," begins the first of Waldroop and Butler's twelve case studies. "He Executive coaches can provide their clients with some of the tools that they do not have. 1) Never Feeling Good Enough. "In

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Waldroop Execution Career Learning-by-Doing 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Inside you’ll find scenarios, case studies, tips, templates, and checklists that will help you capture and retain your company’s intellectual capital as Baby Boomers leave the workplace. Workplace demographics paint a startling picture: Almost 40 percent of the U.S. workforce is between 45 and 64.

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How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets offers dozens of examples to clarify precisely how buying decisions can be facilitated through the right kind of questions, including an in-depth case study of a marketing manager who recognizes the need for a better website and wants to bring in an external design team.

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Inside you’ll find scenarios, case studies, tips, templates, and checklists that will help you capture and retain your company’s intellectual capital as Baby Boomers leave the workplace.

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How To Tacit Knowledge Mentor Intellectual Capital 62

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. Don’t ignore spelling and grammar.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Newsletter Blog 58

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Ming is a tech optimist, believing that all kinds of previously intractable problems will be able to be solved as the tool kit for addressing them is developed. I put a lot of energy into making certain that I was shepherding everyone along, doing all the right things for my teams.

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Power Charisma Learning-by-Doing Project 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Participants, who invest time and energy in it, often care more about its personalization instead. We should define the elements of entrepreneurial leadership at the company, ask senior executives for recent examples, and write case studies on them. Bringing leadership to life.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership How To 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

And then I say: "But thinking of social tools that way is a little bit like using a positronic brain multiplier from the 25th century to tie your shoelaces faster. The right function of "social" tools is to give yesterday's creaking, rusting institutions social — as in societal — significance.

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Media Tools Banking Definition 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. Meagher takes it a step further and imagines that Lowe’s could use energy usage data to inform consumers of programs that would save them money with local energy companies.

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Industry Retail Software Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role. Then the November 16th issue arrived at my door and the cover story was about alternative energy. And on and on.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. The vision of an all-renewable energy system comes into focus. In the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. Meagher takes it a step further and imagines that Lowe’s could use energy usage data to inform consumers of programs that would save them money with local energy companies.

Industry 8

Industry Retail Software Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Interviews, case studies and ethnographies tell us proximity matters to certain industries. Using their cellphone data and a social-media tool we tracked their geographical movements and documented exactly where they went and when, compiling a real-time, minute-by-minute, day-by-day, snapshot of what they did.

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Fashion Industry Parcell Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

The Syngenta story, like the other three case studies in the article, had a clear protagonist, a "corporate catalyst": someone who marshaled resources both inside and outside the company and built organizational support for the disruptive growth strategy.

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Innovation Company Globalization Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

As its victims know all too well, “death by PowerPoint,” the poor use of the presentation software, sucks the life and energy out of far too many meetings. The enterprise history of personal productivity tools offers plenty of unhappy litanies of unintended consequences. They shouldn’t be so sure.

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Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

They're interested in gaining experience in general, rather than in gaining access to specific tools they can use as stepping stones to the realization of their own pet projects. This helped them build new skills, reduced the cost we incurred on outside agencies, and created a great case study for the strategy work we sell as a service.

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Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

“One-on-ones are one of the most important productivity tools you have as a manager,” she says. ’ It’s a great way to start a one-on-one because it creates positive energy.” It creates positive energy. Case Study #1: Keep the conversation going by asking open-ended questions.

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Productivity Products How To Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

“Startups are cauldrons of energy, stress, and joy. ” He recommends familiarizing yourself with tools and publications such as AngelList, CB Insights, CrunchBase, and PitchBook, which can help you identify and research startups by industry. Case Study #1: Get to know the founder and spend quality time with the team.

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Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

At the same time, we know a new movement requires constant infusions of fresh energy to build its momentum. This year, there are training and workshop opportunities, online tools and kits, compelling videos, and sample Tweets. GivingTuesday developed case studies and metrics to capture what happened in 2012.

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Decentralization Media Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Challenge to connect the efforts, energies, and insights of in-the-trenches management innovators, to inspire aspiring innovators to action, and to collectively make progress on the urgent challenge of creating organizations that are fit for the future and human beings. We launched the Management 2.0

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Management Short-term Strategic Planning How To 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

If not, can you make a case for future profitability based on similar business models used by others in different sectors or geographies? Root Capital , a lender to small-scale farmers in the developing world, discussed a potentially large market-rate loan from a major bank a few years ago.

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Entrepreneur Business Model Case Study Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Participants are taken out of their day-to-day workplaces to be inspired by expert faculty, work on case studies, receive personal feedback, and take away the latest leadership thinking (and badges for their résumés). Training people with tools and models is very different from simply holding a space for leaders to be.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Smart companies understand that workspaces are a business tool. To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with. The company wanted to preserve the energy of a start-up while creating sufficient space to accommodate future growth.

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Maturity Real Estate Survey Project 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

“You are managing the energy and brainpower of an entire group,” she says. “There needs to be a clearly articulated and repeated value that everyone ought to be equally contributing his or her talents, skills, and energy,” she says. Have a plan. You must devote time to it.”

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Delegation Project Team Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

“Your best tool is curiosity,” says Valcour. And where does our working energy feel good?’ Case Study #1: Don’t gossip and adopt a positive mindset. Case Study #2: Accept your boss for who he is and be helpful when opportunities arise. ” Get to know her. This will wring me out.’

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Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Case Study Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In our case study on Central Park, we elaborate on ways she built and maintained her team’s momentum, and we discuss the Park’s current forty-nine team, decentralized zone management system.) Cross-sector partnerships can draw from and combine various financial tools and investments.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Technology is but one tool of the trade. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights. When we see how far we have come, it gives further direction for the future. Ideas make the future happen.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 63