N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. Parents are raising their children in the same fashion and we are breeding a world where people cant take rejection, and people or managers who do say no are bad or don't practice "intellegent leadership."

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Blog Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Brand 385

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

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Real Estate Company Brand Operations 353

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt. They’re financed with equity—in other words, a stake in the company.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

A fast-moving startup can secure talent as it needs it, outsource more quotidian tasks like payroll, and stay lean and mean; indeed, I see entrepreneurs employ this approach through my work at EY supporting creative, successful startups. But there are lots of myths about gig work, whether full-time or part time. 3: Gig is better.

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Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth. .”

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Media Hammer Software Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Namely, George stresses the importance of: An executive mandate; A creative structure; and. Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. This is where a startup''s lack of profitable operations would have worked to their advantage. Patient capital.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. During Fashion Week in September 2011, Burberry did a direct campaign with an everyday consumer (not just the editors and fashionistas) to showcase their new line in what they called a #tweetwalk, letting users tweet about what they liked (or didn't).

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Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 16

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. It fuels creativity to succeed. link] Keith Bossey Mike, great post.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

As I’ve said in other posts, great leaders have the innate ability to call on the right skills in a contextually and environmentally appropriate fashion. For C1400 this is not a style as much as some areas for reflection ( they call it a “code&# ) and are Awareness, Focus, Creativity, Integrity, Perseverance and Service.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

“Ideally you should operate at some level of overcapacity so that when you lose an employee, you don’t need to panic,” she says. Case Study #1: Be creative and accommodating about knowledge transfer. Julie* told René she was leaving the company for her dream job in the fashion industry.

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Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Enter Harvard Business School.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. When you get into a bar fight, you revert to what comes naturally — the old-fashioned tactics." They get you all fired up, but you fall back into your old ways pretty soon.

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Succession Conference Outsourcing Long-term 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The downside of this is that it stifles candor, creativity and innovation and often leads to a my way or the highway environment. I would caution you against confusing speed with reckless abandon…I’m a big proponent of planning, assessment, analysis and strategy, but only if it is concluded in a timely fashion.

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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

As Ogilvy’s Ian MacKellar, who helped develop the current creative platform, would say: “For any campaign or creative idea, it helps to have a conflict, a tension, an enemy.” The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades.

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