N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Your goal is to weed out the superfluous and to make your words count. While you can accomplish this by being disingenuous, that is not the goal. When you truly focus more on what you leave behind than what you take away you will have accomplished the goal. It’s called being prepared and developing a contingency plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

.” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals? These leaders and their teams comprise a range of varied strengths but are aligned toward shared goals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

To answer these questions, we began with a simple premise: Neither “smartness” nor the technology to be deployed is the end goal. Their objective, as set out by the D5 charter, is to provide the best digital public services and to share practices across these high-performing digital governments. The Government 3.0

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Or is there a bigger, more resonant, and fundamentally worthier goal we could — and should — be pursuing, like ensuring no human being goes thirsty?"

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

Outline key goals and analyze your team’s capacity to execute on them. “Look at the objectives you set back in January and ask, ‘Are these still relevant? Apprise your direct reports of the team’s progress in meeting its goals; this holds people accountable and lets them know what others are doing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Continually stating the objectives you’re trying to achieve as well as emphasizing the level of effort and engagement you expect helps focus the team, says Morgenstern. The goal is that “over the course of the year, it all balances out.” Her goal was for the Genesis team to “feel a strong sense of purpose.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2017

“Say, ‘It is taking me about five hours a month to prepare this report for the finance department. “You are partnering with your boss to fulfill the company’s goals.” “Then state what’s getting in the way” of you accomplishing the goals. Is this in line with what you would expect?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. Best wishes Justino.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Certain kinds of objective information cannot come from within your own camp. Ask for case studies which were directly supervised by the person who will handle your business… not stock narratives from affiliate offices or a supervisor. The Big Picture of Business – Setting, Meeting, and Benefiting from Goals.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

When I asked him to do research for me on case studies that proved our concepts in a practical manner, he brought me a textbook and asked me to "define" what I meant by practical, as he was looking up terms I was using and couldn't find them. One such example was a young man who was on my team with a Ph.

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