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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

The production was The Sound of Music , starring Carrie Underwood. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. Ready… Set… Be productive. Get Your ‘to do lists’ in order.

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The Big Picture of Business – Avoid the Tired, Trite Terms: Encourage Original Thought, Focus on Priorities and Strategy

Strategy Driven

Many people used to do the same thing with the word ‘technology,’ using it far from its reasonable definitions. These expressions are trite and reflect a copy-cat way of talking and thinking: ‘Solutions’ is a tired 1990’s term, taken from technology hype. Portray their company as a contributor, not a savior.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Future Has Moved… and Left No Forwarding Address.

Strategy Driven

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. Capitalizing upon change, rather than becoming a by-product of it. .” Will Rogers. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. ” Alan Kay. ” Abraham Lincoln.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge.

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Operations are sound, professional and productive. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Customers get what they cannot really get elsewhere. Running the business.

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The “Business in Society” Imperative for CEOs

Harvard Business Review

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. These include legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement, litigation, ethics, reputation, crisis management, corporate citizenship, and pressures from public officials, NGOs, and the media.

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