N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

There is a tremendous amount of conflicting data as to whether or not incentive compensation in any form is an effective motivation tool. As an example, the marketing assistant who receives a comparatively small bonus when contrasted to that of a sales person feels that his/her contribution is minimized and feels treated unfairly.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Employees must buy into the process by offering constructive input. Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Setting goals that are too low. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s. Customer retention.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

If salespeople aren’t clear about which markets and products are priorities, they’ll create their own rules about how to spend time. ” Coaching, performance management, and sales goals reinforce communication, while metrics track performance: “What gets measured gets done.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

” Create win-win incentives. Incentives are a powerful lever to convince people they need to forget the old ways. CEO Mike Kneeland changed the incentive system for branch managers. IBM’s Emerging Business Opportunities (EBO) process provides cover for experimental business units targeting embryonic markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The answer is to create networks of organizations that can act together to reach common goals. They agreed on a vision for the future of agriculture which reflected the shared goals and values of their emerging network. Such networks often lack formal hierarchy and depend upon voluntary commitments and incentive-driven action.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Such performance-insensitive pay packages seem to defy both common sense and established economic theory on optimal incentives. On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors. It’s not just the incentive package.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Yes, too much involvement can lead to a fixation on incremental improvements that can be shepherded to market quickly, to impact the next quarter’s results. ” But as that transition plays out, few companies are paying sufficient attention to creating accountability and incentives for success.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

At home, the UK faces dissolution pressures if Scotland seeks to salvage its EU membership, while the EU has every incentive to make Brexit a painful experience to deter other defectors, making the outcome of negotiations difficult to predict. Keep talking about progress against goals. Real economy. For example, a U.S. Run scenarios.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

This is especially common in high tech, where the market is constantly evolving. Get them discussing stretch areas in a constructive way, so they won’t just shut down. It may be that you haven’t tapped their full potential yet because you haven’t provided the right kind of support or meaningful incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

Most of us assume that if we want to change people’s behavior, we need to change their incentives. Harness your internal sales data to show people that smart collaboration is not just a nice-to-have — it’s a strategic advantage for capturing market share. Convince with quantitative evidence.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Tackling maintenance backlogs, future-proofing infrastructure to cope with climate change, and meeting development goals such as access to clean water and all-weather roads to transport goods to markets would cost a great deal more. There is every incentive to be smarter about tackling our infrastructure problems.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Now in its second year , the initiative’s goal is to create a world where no woman dies from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Voices we heard in this “market research” told us that pregnant women may walk for miles through dangerous floodlands and game reserves to get to a place where they can deliver.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

In construction, a platform is something that lifts you up and on which others can stand. Consider the market for smartphones. Successful platforms achieve these goals with three building blocks: The Toolbox creates connection by making it easy for others to plug into the platform. The same is true in business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

If you have months for a transition, Leonard suggests creating a “carefully constructed action plan of learning,” whereby the “highly skilled, deep smarts employee is paired with one or more replacements” so they can observe her in action, learn and practice new skills, and receive feedback on their performance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

Your goal is to show your “commitment to helping your colleague develop and grow,” but also to “step back, remember the organizational mandate, and think about how best you can work side-by-side with this person to get things done.” “Then you, as the manager, can offer constructive feedback.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Yet, if the ultimate goal is to bend the arc of unsustainable business practices enough to make a crucial difference, we still have a long way to go. This partial view sees business’s relationship to nature as separate, instrumental, and reducible to market transactions alone.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The Harvard researchers believed that their expertise in value-based health care delivery could help the physicians and the insurer construct a superior BP contract in which the insurer paid a lower price, providers preserved their financial margins, and patients enjoyed superior outcomes. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

Mr. Rockefeller’s business strategy was to vertically integrate every aspect of the oil business (exploration, development, logistics, marketing) to assure an ongoing competitive advantage. Likewise, the airlines have demonstrated that well-constructed alliances can be a powerful way to build market position and capitalize on scale.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. Gaining real insights into customers’ needs demands more of companies than those arising from typical market research.

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