Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. Strategic agility enables entire enterprises to detect and assess major trends and environmental changes and dynamically adapt their vision, business models, human capital and strategy to the new reality. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

As should be obvious, this set of metrics is biased not only to product centric data, but also toward historical data, and does not take into account experience or forward looking trends & preferences. CEOs/COOs are looking at the wrong data…they look for trends while or after they happen, not searching for clues before they happen.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. While many have scoffed at the CBS show &# Undercover Boss, &# I believe it signals a very disturbing trend.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

LeadsandBids.com A virtual platform offering a network of services and proposes to bring contractors, property owners, finance, insurance, real estate and other pertinent services together. Small Business Trends Anita Campbell Editor provides information of interest to entrepreneurs and executives. N2 is a proud member of Linked-In.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has put an exclamation point on the idea that we live in a world of perpetual whitewater. Whether caused by a pandemic, an economy in free fall, an unforeseen change in the competitive business environment or a problematic geopolitical issue, the world in which we operate is volatile and unpredictable.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. According to a recent survey in USA Today, Americans are far more worried about their finances than their health amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

trend blog comments powered by Disqus Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer N2growth Author/Moderator Facebook Twitter LinkedIn You Tube Blog Feed Favorite Posts Dont Negotiate.Facilitate Leadership and Opportunity Leadership & Political Correctness How To Make Great Leadership Decisions Buzzwords Arent All Bad Success vs. I liked your post.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. According to a recent survey in USA Today, Americans are far more worried about their finances than their health amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have found that business-speak can be particularly beneficial in using just a few words to explain situations, scenarios, processes, trends, attitudes and any number of other ethereal and esoteric concepts that might have otherwise needed several sentences or paragraphs to describe.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Banks have developed fortress balance sheets, improving credit quality by 54 percent, increasing net income and, restoring aggregate lending to pre-crisis levels of nearly $7 trillion. If it had been, there wouldn't have been a financial crisis.). And then there's the issue of risk, as illustrated by the recent financial crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. The real issue is whether anything can be done about this investment trend.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Blogging is much more than the latest trend and is here to stay. A simple cost/benefit or risk/reward analysis should indicate whether your effort will be of value to you, and even if it is not of value to you, it may be to others. The bottom line is that the numbers do in fact speak for themselves.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

This post is a great example of facing up to the expedient and popular trend of using no as a silver bullet. link] Dan Collins Mike, If there is one characteristic I admire in leaders and respect in you it is the willingness to state in no uncertain terms (sorry for the play on words) their stance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

A looming crisis. First, it’s important to understand the magnitude of the coming congestion crisis and its underlying drivers. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. These include the following: Not enough port container capacity. Insight Center.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

If you buy into this line of thinking my guess is that it won’t be the first time you’ve fallen prey to a failed initiative around the latest trend. I always love the excuse “I don’t have time for social media.&#

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

While I can't blame social media since I've seen this trend in metropolitan areas (old woman's purse snatched; no one ran after the snatcher), what you noted here is more than passivity, it's active withdrawal from reality, which is pretty dangerous.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Three trends characterize the environment within which global businesses must contend: rising trade protectionism and a concomitant fall in global trade volumes, declining cross border capital flows, and mounting regulatory requirements. This has significant and far-reaching implications for corporate decision making. at the forefront.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The land reforms triggered a series of events that spiraled into a major economic crisis and caused formal unemployment to soar to 90%. The move scared away foreign investors, starving Zimbabwe of much-needed capital – a trend that was exacerbated by U.S. Lower-income consumers also present a lucrative opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small business sales were hit hard during the crisis and may still be soft, undermining firms demand for loan capital. Taken together, these trends are cause for concern, as they may threaten the viability of U.S. Finance Small/medium business Technology' small businesses. But there is also reason for optimism.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. After the Russian financial crisis in 1998, LTCM imploded and lost $4.6

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

The trend is a disturbing one not only for its societal implications but because microfinance organizations more than ever must be equipped to make good decisions — and decisions are always enhanced by the sharing of diverse perspectives. One result was the innovative supplemental health insurance product MFW launched in April 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In my work in competitive intelligence I have met many managers and executives who made major decisions involving billions of dollars of commitments with only scant attention to the likely reaction of competitors, the effect of potential disruptors, new approaches offered by startups and the impact of long-term industry trends.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

For one thing, it’s not clear that the stock buyback trend is actually limiting corporate innovation spending. Not only has business investment in R&D been outpacing economic growth in recent years (2012 is the most recent year available), but it’s also outpacing longer term trends. Not so fast. billion by more than 7%.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The net result of being a late stage trend follower is that you will likely experience little more than yet another in a long line of great adventures that ended in frustration due to the time wasted and the investment squandered.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Business and organizational stories do not hit the public consciousness until there is a crisis. Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Where are the next trends and opportunities? This chapter talks candidly about recent trends.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

They do not vacillate with the swings and trends of "popular opinion" This, along with an open mind to listen, learn from and entertain the possibility of equally valid, dissenting views is what makes great leaders. But they do believe and stand up for what they believe in. They attempt to change through their example.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It has been 10 years since the global financial crisis, and the fall-out continues in the industry that was at its epicenter: banking. Stung by a series of risky foreign adventures that came back to bite them, most large global banks in Europe and the United States have retreated from foreign operations. trillion, or 45%.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

However being aware of industry trends, competitive positioning, who the thought leaders are, etc. Periodicals, Trade Publications and Industry Journals : Again, not being able to address the specific needs of each reader, you must make your own choices here as well. are all critical to your success.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Have you seen any trends there? Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. Avil Forum Corporation Great post … you mention the speed of the digital world.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

The bad news is that lots of leaders or companies are in crisis mode when they call for a consultant or coach, so they don’t really have the time necessary to really get to know the person they are hiring. Truth is, when "everyone" gets on-board a trend, the trend is usually over. That should speak volumes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. There is not an infrastructure spending crisis. There is no spending crisis? is roughly in line with post-WWII historical averages, with little variation in the trend line.

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