N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Resist the temptation to just advance a broad number of disparate initiatives, and alternatively focus your efforts on the completion of a few high impact objectives. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s. All Rights Reserved

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

If your skill sets are best suited for business development, product development, branding, finance or other areas you may want to consider playing to your strengths by taking a senior position in the area of your subject matter expertise and hiring the best chief executive you can find to lead the company. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s. mikemyatt: More thx @BradAustin1 @LeadershipWatch @GBSL. mikemyatt: RT/mention thx @AMAnet @SmartBrief @Leadersh. mikemyatt: A leaders Intellect should not be a depreci. All Rights Reserved

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

So to me, we need to carefully look at what should be driving 'next' practice innovation, vs. the 'best practice' frameworks that can cost effectively provide the non core services our businesses need. They innovate & reduce cost to customers. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

When you notice an approaching showdown between logic and emotion, resist the impulse to procrastinate. Work within your resistance level. When a task sets off procrastination triggers, we resist doing it. But just how resistant are we? List the costs of procrastination. Reverse the procrastination triggers.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s. mikemyatt: More thx @BradAustin1 @LeadershipWatch @GBSL.

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Chris Brady

MAY 19, 2010

They know the miles they've traveled and the resistance they've had to overcome. Avoid it at all costs. Excellence only comes with a price, and sometimes paying that price will almost bring us to our knees. This kind of talk is nothing new to high-achievers. Puffy Face is a quitter's disease.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Since people don't like to be told what to do and will generally resist being bossed around, something must happen to convince them to allow what would normally and naturally be considered contrary to their best interest. The camels, however, resisted this fact. Here's how it works.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Resist this temptation. Goals are actually quite easy to set; the process is painless, quick, and costs nothing. We take a look at ourselves and see so many areas for improvement that we are tempted to attack them all at once. Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. Focus is the key.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Personal savings, insurance, credit, cash transfers from family and friends and other financing mechanisms offer promising opportunities to create security and steady employment but they require a nuanced understanding of product design and the local market conditions in order to be effective.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

hospitals and health care groups have experimented over the past decade with new management structures and alternative payment models to provide quality health care at lower cost. And it explains why management-led organizations that have not embraced physician input have run into resistance. But that’s how physicians see it.

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Health Care Resistance Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

She was intrigued by the notion of a rebate for any bad data, but first she had to estimate what it would cost. All met resistance but persisted until they had a real result, such as million-dollar savings, a tenfold decrease in error rate, or a distinct advantage over competitors. That required measurement.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

In addition to improving the experience for business owners, digitization has the potential to substantially reduce the cost of lending at every stage of the process, making SME customers more profitable for lenders, and creating opportunities to serve a broader swath of SMEs. Banks’ cost of capital is typically 50 basis points or less.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Wireless Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. This may sound obvious, but it was in sharp contrast to typical patterns in the pharma industry of recruiting from within, resistance to new thinking, and sclerotic bureaucratic structures.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Most managers do reorganize with good intentions — to grow revenues, reduce costs, improve customer focus, etc. For example, one consumer packaged goods company centralized its marketing team so that it could reduce costs, but also focus on products with the greatest growth potential.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Nearly everyone in health care wants to cut waste and reduce unnecessary costs — until the conversation turns to advanced chronic illness and end-of-life care. Consequently, many people, their families, and their physicians resist hospice until all therapeutic options are exhausted.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. Informal retail and cash purchases are the norm, and that has its risks and costs. The second is the need to lower the costs and risk of retail and trade based primarily on cash transactions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

In the process Vanguard has transformed its industry, pressuring rivals to emulate its low-cost ways and changing the popular conversation about investing, possibly forever. In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make. Finance Leadership Motivation' This is especially rare in the financial sector, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

For example, the rules governing limited liability corporations worked well to provide the capital needed for the industrial revolution with its large scale financing requirements, so debtors prisons died off. When rules work well, they become widely distributed; when they are harmful, they leave the system. So capitalism is bound to change.

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Banking Globalization Finance Incentives 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Interestingly, individuals working in customer service, sales, production, logistics and R&D were more likely to feel that bureaucracy was growing than those working in functions like HR, finance, planning, purchasing, and administration. How do you overcome pockets of resistance? Bureaucracy frustrates innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The problem is that it might appear convenient, to those in charge, to take the path of least resistance, which unfortunately exactly what seems to be happening in Greece right now. What makes this charge especially ironic is that applying the rules gives us a relatively rosy picture of the current state of Greece’s public finances.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. Dominant providers leverage their market position to raise prices independently of cost or quality.

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Health Care Cooper Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

But it isn't true that the entire finance and investment industry is guilty of the cultural lapse that Smith is describing. One of our chapters tells the story of Mabel Yu, a Vanguard fixed income analyst who had the courage to resist buying Wall Street's "toxic waste" in the form of mortgage-backed derivatives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The protests have already cost the CEO of Air France his job : He stepped down after workers rejected his proposal of a 7% wage increase over four years (unions want a 6% immediate increase). last year, unemployment is slowly decreasing , and public finances are improving faster than anticipated. GDP grew by 1.9%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. And I couldn't resist following up with an email Q&A: Justin Fox: A lot of smart people have been saying for a while now that public-company executives should put less time and effort into dealing with Wall Street.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Most relevant to stunted growth, however, is cultural resistance — the inertial apathy of traditional financial players who are wary of novel, risky investment structures and skeptical about trading some amount of profitability for social return. Corporate social responsibility Finance Generational issues' The first report of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

The issue is that Greek “resistance”—not just Syriza’s, but also that of the previous government—takes the form of protecting rent-seekers. Besides the short-term costs of such a move, history shows us that Greece has never managed to benefit from currency devaluations. In a country slipping from 1.8%

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Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The failure stemmed from resistance in the U.S. by both insurance companies and cardiologists to a new and expensive drug (which costs more than $4,000 a year, compared to pennies a day for existing drugs). Yet, in the first quarter of 2016 the company sold only $17 million of Entresto in the U.S. What builds management perspectives?

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Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Samsung's journey from low-cost OEM producer to a global brand name synonymous with innovation is an admirable one. I can only imagine the resistance involved when an established, hierarchical company like the old Samsung decides to introduce practices that threaten the status quo. August 2011 HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

But as their availability increased and their cost decreased — as they became ubiquitous — they became commodity inputs. They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Top management told store managers and staff to honor requests and obey directives from their new “colleagues”; the resentment and resistance were palpable. At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

But Zuckerberg may try harder than the Google guys to resist them. Take it away, Grant Thornton: Generally speaking, economists and regulators have maintained that competition, and reduced transaction costs are of great benefit to consumers — but only to a point. Similar pressures will keep growing at Facebook.

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Long-term Short-term Marketing Cost 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Product improvements such as hurricane-resistant doors can nearly eliminate certain disaster risks and have relatively low installation costs. Using this modeling strategy, cities can determine which protection measures are most cost-effective.

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Insurance Real Estate Industry Bond 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. In healthcare, change is even harder than in most industries. Insight Center.

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Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. And we describe steps needed to overcome these obstacles, lowering costs and improving quality. They are also among the lowest-cost physicians available. Barriers to Transformation. How leading providers are delivering value for patients.

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