N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. My mind is racing around between what I've been a part of over the last two years in social media and the participants in the story.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

As a junior researcher, I had the unenviable task of collecting saliva samples from dozens of participants. ” How can we overcome the distortions and blinkers, developed from our experiences and training, that impede our breakthrough thinking? It seemed that there was a genetic propensity to becoming an entrepreneur.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 9, 2023

workers ranking them as the most important skill for success in both the current and future labor markets. A wide range In a recent article , I argued that such investments should not only be in high-end skills, such as coding or cybersecurity, but also in basic digital skills to allow people to participate in modern society.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 9, 2016

During their plebe (freshman) year at the United States Naval Academy, midshipmen are required to read two news and one sports page article each day in order to remain up-to-date on those current events impacting our nation and its military. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

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Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2014

We couldn’t take all participants swimming in deep water because of the risk, but we could put them in waist­ deep and have them carry logs or go through “surf torture” (sitting at water’s edge with their arms interlocked). Alden had raised $1.5 Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t figure it out.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 18, 2012

This concept is commonly understood by sports teams and the military. Boot Camp for the military and pre-season workouts for sports teams are the norm. Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1) by Bruce Hodes. This is different than in the world of sports.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 10, 2010

» June 10, 2010 Leadership Lessons from the World Cup Whether one is a sports fan or not, it would be hard to avoid the hype surrounding the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, which begins today. It is truly THE cosmopolitan sport. It's hype and sport-induced tension at its most elevated level.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. In fact, consumer research we’ve worked on at Accenture shows that in the U.S.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

And he and I have participated in a fabulous monthly Master Mind group with Jan Andersen of Beyond Words, Inc. and Gretchen Johnson of Virtual Wordplay Marketing Communications for a few years, a caring and supportive group of individuals who have helped each other without reservation to be successful in business and in life.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Using two National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) surveys, it looked at senior year math scores on standardized tests, questions about extracurricular participation and leadership roles, and individual earnings seven years after graduating high school. And it corroborated the findings with Census and CPS data.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2014

This means a leader must be well informed about emerging trends and developments in multiple areas that affect the business. For example, in the ‘70s, IBM was convinced that the real profits in the personal-computer (PC) market would come from the manufacture of hardware. Bill Gates had a different story.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Now information flows in many directions, consumer touch points have multiplied, and the old, one-size-fits-all approach has given way to precision marketing and one-to-one communications. Feed it with content that touches consumers' passion points like sports, music and popular culture. Develop content that is "Liquid and Linked."

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Mine your backyard.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

We are invited to participate, but in order to do so we have to 'choose a side.' A small amount of 'speculators' is allowed in so a 'ready market' is available at all times for both buyers and sellers (who therefore don't have to wait for each other to make a sale or purchase).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

And those who move to harness that collective voice have an opportunity to storm many traditional vertical markets. It's already happening at scale in one of the most centralized industries in the world — sports broadcasting. Without barriers like FCC licensing, studios, and broadcast towers, any sport (curling?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Conventional wisdom suggests that marketers should emphasize the novelty of new products to get people to buy them. Despite the fact that firms spend billions of dollars on developing and marketing new products, these products face persistently high failure rates — often up to 40% to 90%, depending on the product category.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When companies expand into foreign markets, they need to gain the trust of local business partners and prospective customers in order to succeed. Both of these approaches, however, are time-intensive, requiring executives to spend weeks or months in foreign markets. William Andrew/Getty Images.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. They must close the gap between what was true about the market yesterday and what the new truth is today. Will Duke is Afterburner’s Director of Learning and Development. The new paradigm: Time is your enemy. The new paradigm: Speed is everything.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. Macs keep their names with each successive upgrade, analysts noted, while iPhones sport sequential numbers and letters to indicate improvements. Join the conversation. With John Gourville and Elie Ofek.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

One of us (Chia-Jung) conducted a study in 2011 with Harvard social psychologist Mahzarin Banaji, presenting 103 participants with written descriptions of two classical musicians. Tsay randomly assigned participants to read profiles of either a “natural” or a “striver” entrepreneur.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

We see rivalries in sports, business, school, and basically any arena where there is competition. Participants were told that they would be competing against another participant on a decision-making task that mimicked Blackjack. Second, we surveyed participants after the competition to understand their thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

” Indeed, not just in business but also in politics, sports, and the arts, there is no shortage of real-world examples of successful partnerships that were fueled as much by the alignment of ideas as by creative tension or discord. William Wrigley Jr., Being happy with the status quo is a sure way to escape creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Event marketing is currently a very expensive and sloppy process in most firms because the relevant information is fragmented, difficult to assemble, and the “database” is often a pile of business cards. GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Who should lead our transformation?

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

After spending years running businesses and sales teams, I am of the firm view that the ability to achieve a target is a blend of a number of factors , a few of them being: the environment (market/economy, etc.), " 12 hours ago #adweekcdn #genesimmons lesson in what can go wrong with interactive audience participation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

The answer depends on the students participating in MOOCs. Though a few studies from Harvard , MIT , and the University of Pennsylvania have examined MOOC participants, none to date have focused specifically on those taking business classes. Are these fears well founded? Our data suggest that this is not the case.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It sports the near field communication chips I've been dying for ( read: secure mobile payments, instant device to device information transfer ). Apple's sub-par but static hardware is easier to design applications for — instead of quality checking thousands of devices, Apple developers only need to QA a handful. Who distributes?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

“ Employer branding ” is no longer simply a concern for recruitment marketing; it is also a key component of effective organizational leadership. Our participants were responsible for employer branding efforts in their companies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

A company must get its sales, marketing, research and development, operations, and even customers and suppliers to work together. However, the more important outcome is actually development of the team itself. Whether in sports or business, a team is a group of people with a shared goal.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2013

This may seem like a silly question, the answer being of course, the sales & marketing team. Marketing that''s based on customer advocacy and influence must keep this basic truth front and center. If you want to develop a customer as a reference, know everything you can about them. Market and sell your customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Consider the market for smartphones. It is from the app store on which external developers create value. Building on the success of its Digital Sport products, Nike recently launched its Nike+ Accelerator to help companies build on the Nike+ platform. This infrastructure enables interactions between participants.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In a previous post , I outlined the key capabilities I've found to be present in the social ventures that are able to reach sizeable impact (which can be remembered with the acronym SCALERS—they are Staffing, Communicating, Alliance-Building, Lobbying, Earnings-Generation, Replicating, and Stimulating Market Forces).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Researchers found that participants' estimates were consistently off the mark, and off the mark in the same way: They underestimated. The mean of participants' self-reported value was 6.8 It grows out of insights in fields like high-performance sports science, cognitive science, and health care. It's an emerging trend.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2010, IBM ran a survey of 1,500 CEOs and found that the most valuable management skill was no longer "operations" or "marketing" but "creativity." Many of these are formal — labs, product development, design. They're also the ones who can connect your creativity circles to the financial, prototyping, marketing they need.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

But their impact on sales has been underwhelming, primarily because they ignore the needs of one key constituent: the frontline employee working to make the best possible marketing decisions day by day. Measuring Marketing Insights. Some just give up entirely and look for a different role. Insight Center. Turning data into action.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

When it comes to technological development for safer guns, it is a task assigned to the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security — not to the U.S. For example, Ruger’s new product development process is “doing things right.” ” Good management is an ample supply at the gun manufacturers.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. Participants of the network have a shared vision of a more equitable talent marketplace driven by emerging technologies and evolving data standards.

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