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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Having such a sharp focus ensures you can better whittle down the complexity of processes/interactions, as well as ensuring you don't become too dependent either on your top talent or even on your bigger customers, which can cause you to shift your goals to better suit their needs instead of your purpose. Our Freedom.

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. A large local presence – particularly in manufacturing — can help insulate the business from the worst of the depreciation.

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Don't Anesthetize Your Colleagues with Bad Writing

Harvard Business Review

And remember what George Washington said when questioned about the fallen cherry tree: not "It was accomplished by utilizing a small, sharp-edged implement," but "I used my little hatchet.". Think of Winston Churchill's famous phrase blood, toil, tears, and sweat. Small wonder, too.

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The Great Recession Drastically Changed the Skills Employers Want

Harvard Business Review

For routine-manual occupations, we find evidence consistent with firms’ substitution of technology for labor — a sharp increase in layoff risk for workers in harder-hit areas early in the Great Recession, followed by persistently depressed employment level with little impact on skill requirements. production and operatives).

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Navigating the Complexities of Doing Business in Russia

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian Since 2014, we have guided numerous consumer goods firms through this process to mitigate the effects of the extreme depreciation of the ruble on their businesses. ” Similarly, hours after the U.S.

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The Benefit of Dissenting Opinion | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. mikemyatt: A leaders Intellect should not be a depreci. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. We serve people, lead people, we relate to people, we encourage or discourage people, and we are people. Our Freedom.

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Family Matters | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. mikemyatt: A leaders Intellect should not be a depreci. [link] Bert Decker Great post Mike. I had to learn that lesson, and almost blew it many years ago. Our Freedom.

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