Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

You could almost think about that driver as being on the receiving end of a firehose of data, sorting out the most important patterns, and then turning all of that into a best course of action — the very definition of Intelligence. Famously, Steve Jobs had no interest in market research when imagining where Apple needed to go next.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. It is not uncommon to see both vision and mission statements change over time to reflect differences in market conditions.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 4, 2011

I was recently stumped when faced with addressing a friends’ son who is unfortunately having to learn the word (or the anti-definition of the word) through observing the actions of his own father. By Webster’s definition it means “the steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code; incorruptibility.&#

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2014

In so many organizations, finance, economics and the pursuit of individual prosperity continue to be the only subjects worthy of respect and concentration. Their markets did not affect each other that much and so they operated in parallel without much worry about the impact they made on each other. It used to work.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

What is your definition of a Smart Experiment? What resources do you have – human connections, material, knowledge, expertise, experience, finances, etc. Learning – such as through books and courses – is simply one mode of experimentation. “Experiments are the only strategy for succeeding over the long term.”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

You are definitely not alone…Thanks for sharing Ron. Many good people in the organization choose the latter course, and both morale and productivity tend to spiral downward. To place a bully in a position of leadership is to consent to the abuse of those over whom the bully will control through intimidation.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 19, 2012

In so many organizations, finance, economics and the pursuit of individual prosperity continue to be the only subjects worthy of respect and concentration. It used to work. Their markets did not affect each other that much and so they operated in parallel without much worry about the impact they made on each other.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

If the list is a long one, you were probably one of the Bright Girls – - and your belief that you are “stuck&# being exactly as you are has done more to determine the course of your life than you probably ever imagined. I definitely know women who fit this description. Only they’re not.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. By definition 'best practice' is something codified by someone else. Therefor by definition it is not unique or likely to generate any competitive advantage.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The Sound to Narrows race course is a tough one. From there the course winds over torturous short hills through the woods of Point Defiance Park. If you weren’t hurting at the bottom, you definitely are by the top. We were looking forward to a chance to test ourselves against these super-Soldiers. The Meat-Grinder.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Just having a definition for what constitutes acceptable behavior is a positive step in containing the crazies. If taking the high road fails, or is not the best course of action, then relax…you’re the CEO – you can always let them go, which is probably what you should have done long ago.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Similarly, business skill is a holistic course that helps one develop and shape talent that can be used in a variety of sectors. You can be an entrepreneur, in business communication, accounting and finance or more, and still reap the benefit of this course. What can you learn from a business skills course?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 19, 2012

In so many organizations, finance, economics and the pursuit of individual prosperity continue to be the only subjects worthy of respect and concentration. It used to work. Their markets did not affect each other that much and so they operated in parallel without much worry about the impact they made on each other.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

By definition game changers happen, they exist, they have life. By definition, a game changer causes change. Would you agree that a game changer by definition is not incremental? The longer we consider it the more it fits that definition you just outlined. If you forget the people, you cannot have a game changer.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

A leader whose focus is on serving others will find it difficult to wander off course. Social and societal stigmas are definitely in play when it comes to love and leadership. It is love for those you lead that allows for right thinking, proper perspective, and pure motivations.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

My goal is to simply help them leverage their success into becoming significant individuals over the course of our dealings. My clients usually tend to be successful individuals prior to finding me.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A timid or passive person is by definition not action oriented. A study by Leadership IQ showed that 23% of board members questioned were willing to tolerate bad news and significant course corrections by the CEO. Ideally you're going where no one has been yet, so fall down, get up, and get on with it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

And the definitions that do get offered can vary pretty dramatically. Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” What wielders of the term seldom do, though, is say exactly what they mean by it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruptive products and services were, by definition, cheaper, lower quality, and lower margin. Over time, their products and services became better and better, and those innovative entrants moved up market, slowly increasing performance. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt. It’s not a level playing field.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Consider an employee who is well-recognized(of course due to his performance), highly-benefited, and well-settled with an XYZ company, but due to certain issues, he has to find another company. Isn’t the above scenario related to a businessman/businesswoman finding a stage to put their business into the market? A name that reflects.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Over the course of a couple of weeks, I had the unique pleasure of flying into four of the most populated cities* in the world: Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, and New York City. This many people are of course a boon to business — lots of new customers and employees. The problem, he said, is largely one of financing.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Continued… [link] mikemyatt Anne: I'd also be curious as to what you believe defines success…the definition of success you elude to as being controlled by white males in my experience varies from person to person, organization to organization, culture to culture. Just my opinion of course. Primarily white men.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 20, 2023

While there is no single answer or method for acquiring a good human resources job in the labor market, there are still some very common steps that every human resources professional today will recommend. What we simply mean is that employers have different definitions of how their HR departments should work.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The stock market is a big draw for novice investors looking for a big payday, and sometimes they do hit big. Investing is one way of “beefing up” your finances, so to speak. During the initial phase of investing, there will definitely be more money coming out of your bank account than going in.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Of course it would, except for one huge problem…In the face of conflict, dissension, threats, or controversy, people tend to go default to denial, justification and rationalization. Your definition of PC = being governed by public opinion. As usual your writing is dense. Not that you are, just your writing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

So when people believe that they have a strong understanding of a subject — say, finance — they tend to overclaim more, asserting that they know concepts that researchers present to them, even when the concepts are made up. The managers said this course of action would result in higher returns.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 This is a watershed moment, given that the world’s trade networks formed over the course of centuries, while cross-border digital flows barely registered just 15 years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Terry, a highly regarded marketing associate in a pharmaceutical firm, had just been asked to lead a marketing team. But problems arise when there’s no ongoing dialogue with team members, peers, and bosses about the definition of “success” and “results”— and who is responsible for what.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

But recently oil prices have dropped so low that warning bells rippled through global markets, and they remain volatile. Bremmer: Markets have been diving on low oil prices recently not because the traditional understanding is broken; it is still true that low oil prices are good for the U.S. How big is the risk? How so, and how large?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

This uncritical acceptance amounts to the assumption that reality is identical to our rational reconstruction of reality — for example, that the economy or the stock market is captured by our latest model. Ambiguity arises whenever there are two (or more) courses of action that are equally important yet conflict with one another.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

The CFO-GC alliance has always been important because the finance function and the legal function are truly the nervous system of the corporation—sending critical signals to all parts of the company about the accuracy of the financials and compliance with law. And then, of course, there are costs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Bogle had taken an event that was by definition all about him and found a way to make it about other people. This is especially rare in the financial sector, of course. In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make. Finance Leadership Motivation' Then 84-year-old Jack Bogle walked back to his chair and sat down.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

The Solyndra scandal, of course, was even worse; mere months after an infusion of over $500 million from the federal government that was supposed to fuel a rapid expansion, the company and its much-lauded breakthrough technology (this time, cylindrical CIGS) went belly up, giving President Obama and his cleantech agenda a major black eye.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

This is a problem, because without a reasonable definition (or definitions) of culture, we cannot hope to understand its connections to other key elements of the organization, such as structure and incentive systems. As with the previous definition, there are potential chicken-and-egg issues. But where do incentives come from?

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