N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

When it comes to the construction of messaging, I have found that people will tend to fall into one of the four following groups. The Message “is&# the Message : This group believes that content is king…The emphasis here is that if the message is creative enough, or valuable enough, nothing else matters.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If only we could learn the art of dealing with conflict in a collaborative and constructive way, I am sure that organisations would be transformed. This is such a common problem for executives that I coach.

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Chris Brady

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Mediocrity is worshipped, decadence masquerades as creativity, and lazy is the new cool. Make excellence the cornerstone of the life you are constructing. We reach for an explanation that takes the pressure off ourselves and find one readily at hand in the popular culture around us. Truth, however, is a pesky thing.

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Ask Atma

APRIL 20, 2012

The idea is to blend creative vision-the ‘act’-with scientific method to get a stronger balance of imagination and practicality. Establish clear kill points for constructive endings. No financing. Part of this potential is that by failing faster you learn faster. An example of this is the act-analyze and adjust methodology.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Great leaders like to build capacity within a company to encourage others to reach their potential and be creative. Maintain a positive attitude to show that you can help your employees rise above any personal or professional problems or conflicts at work by offering constructive feedback and avoiding harsh or critical reprimands.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The VC algorithm, if properly constructed, will systematically and objectively take into account “ prospective companies’ financing… intellectual property and previous funding rounds” in a way that might be hard for biased, pressed-for-time humans to replicate. Will they learn to?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Construction equipment and disk-drive manufacturing required heavy machinery, distribution facilities, and immense amounts of working capital. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt. They’re financed with equity—in other words, a stake in the company. It’s not a level playing field.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The VC algorithm, if properly constructed, will systematically and objectively take into account “ prospective companies’ financing… intellectual property and previous funding rounds” in a way that might be hard for biased, pressed-for-time humans to replicate. Will they learn to?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

DPR Construction, for example, is a deeply thoughtful, highly progressive force in an often troubled, slow-to-change industry. How many companies do you know that have a core ideology?) “We must be different from and more progressive than all other construction companies; we stand for something.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our audacious challenge was followed by a spirited effort, in a series of HBR blog posts by experts in design, energy, finance and urban planning, to answer the following questions: How can organic, self-built slums be turned into livable housing? What might a house-for-the-poor look like? Boniface Haiti Foundation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. Then came sales forces, finance departments, and R&D labs—including the original labs of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Particularly in business schools, various Finance and Accounting professors have argued for including more long-term incentives, and for replacing variable pay packages that largely consist of stock options with a mix of bonds and stocks. On routine tasks where learning is not necessary, highlighting performance goals works great.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Such relationships form the basis of an executive's ability to influence and persuade others and deal constructively with conflict and the differences of opinion that inevitably arise in fast-paced organizations. None of the steps I've described is either easy or foolproof.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

Be creative. “Negotiation isn’t about conceding, it’s about being creative,” Weiss adds. “Be mindful about what draws other people out in a constructive way,” says Wheeler. You can “challenge people respectfully,” says Weiss. Further Reading. Negotiations Article.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2011

We expect that Patty from finance will role her eyes when Antoine from marketing suggests an idea, we expect that Don from engineering will begin to scream when Sasha from sales wants faster turn-around on special customer orders. These expectations create a Folkloric Construct of belief, because our brains are essentially lazy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Perhaps people and societies are a tiny bit more adaptive, resilient, intelligent, and creative than yesterdays institutions assume. Perhaps people and societies are a tiny bit more adaptive, resilient, intelligent, and creative than yesterdays institutions assume.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In a perfect world, governments would have the cash and the consensus to fund and coordinate the construction of the infrastructure required to sustainably accommodate a rapidly urbanizing world. The vibrant, sustainable cities of the future will be funded and delivered by creative financing arrangements that encourage collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

But, occasionally, you can discover new information that “will help you construct a solution.” Case Study #1: Be creative and accommodating about knowledge transfer. . “Very often you can do nothing about it,” she acknowledges. Sometimes the person simply got a better offer and her mind is made up.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. For example, in some industries — say, construction — long-term ROEs are very close to the cost of equity capital. Creativity and ingenuity have always been precious. They must reward the creativity and ingenuity required to devise new growth options.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into. Who authors the destiny of nations? Whose rights are sacrosanct?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

The code not only works, other coders — perhaps less talented — can safely and creatively build on it, with it and for it. Whether in education, consulting, medicine, construction or finance, the 100X gap between median performance (and even 2X to 20X gap from "pretty good" performance) is becoming a New Normal.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. If a company wants to be better than anyone else, at something relevant to its customers, its specialists must be more efficient, technically proficient, and creative than ever before.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Siege Media Siege Media provides an outstanding content marketing service by combining a data-driven approach with genuinely exceptional creativity. With a team of talented marketers, amazing creatives, and SEO experts, they create content that stands out in an industry overloaded with a content publication. That's not the case.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland must be doing something right, argues Sara Miller Llana, because they produce a lot of companies that are not only successful but also possessed of a powerful creative capacity that transcends languages and cultures. Think of Spotify, H&M, Ikea, Lego, Nokia, and Skype.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” Get rid of the buybacks, and there will be lots of money for other constructive programs to reward employees for their commitment to the company.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward. The project would generate 10,000 construction jobs, the Michigan Transportation Dept. The world is becoming more democratic and reflective of the will of the people. This is Canada's No.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Whether constructing, deconstructing, or smashing brands, Martin’s understanding of branding goes far deeper than the tired noise you typically hear from brand agencies. I love creative thinkers and her presentation focused like a laser beam on creativity of thought and approach.

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