N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict, and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion, you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. Be well and have a great day sp [link] mikemyatt Glad to hear you've got the train back on the tracks, and I hope this post was of some use. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Nevertheless the reality is this…blogs are not a tool for those looking to get rich quickly (that train left the station a long time ago), nor are they likely to transform insignificant thoughts into something other than what they are. Bloggers will continue to come and go…while some will be missed, many will not.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is it more imagination or innovation? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. Every marketer believes the customer experience is important.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. I believe the fear of public misperceptions have trained many people to completely avoid outward displays of compassion. It’s as if it has been socialized out of them over time. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The first key in understanding how to make great decisions is learning how to synthesize the overwhelming amount incoming information leaders must deal with on a daily basis, while making the best decisions possible in a timely fashion. The best leadership training I ever received came from my time and experience in the military.

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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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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

multinationals, it now invests far more heavily in the growth markets of the BRICS. The Chinese admire America, especially its entrepreneurial spirit and track record in commercializing innovation. America should not underestimate China's capacity to innovate. From gunpowder on, the history of Chinese innovation is strong.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It’s so unusual that customers will set the meeting, and then talk about how innovative it was. Talk fashion. His website, www.gitomer.com , will lead you to more information about training and seminars, or email him personally at salesman@gitomer.com. But Jeffrey,” you whine, “What do I talk about during the meeting?”.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

New research , funded by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and conducted by my team at the African Institution of Technology , shows that within Africa, innovation is accelerating and the continent is finding better ways of solving local problems, even as it attracts top technology global brands. Innovation Economy Africa'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. My concern over innovation condescension was provoked by surprising comments on a previous post. What could be less innovative?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. Geofilters become available when a user is in a specific location — think Athens, Greece, or Morristown, New Jersey.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

To develop a new customer experience, companies need a real-time engagement process that encourages customers and employees to devise new interactions between them and facilitates the emergence of innovative customer experiences. There are also practical challenges tied to the massive nature of the required market research.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

But it's this set of beliefs that explains why Western companies fail to succeed in emerging markets where middle class consumers demand good quality at low prices, and why these companies struggle to develop value-for-money products for their home markets during slow growth times like these. Why can't more companies do the same?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley. So what makes a good Growth Manager?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Arthur Nielsen, market research pioneer and founder of the Nielsen Corporation, once said , “The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.” To cope with the shortfall in market supply, companies need to better leverage their existing talent. Westend61/Getty Images.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2020

Quality control has always been important, but in today’s market, it is essential. It creates a suffocating environment where everyone is terrified of being innovative and introducing ideas, just in case it has some unwanted knock-on effect. Even though they have fallen out of fashion, they’re not defunct.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. That’s where our work is really about innovation. I strongly believe that design and innovation are exactly the same thing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

So why do companies spend millions on big data and big-data-based market research while continuing to ignore the simple things that make customers happy? Big data is today's panacea, the great new hope for unlocking the mysteries of marketing. We all have. Shut down their customer service on weekends? Far from it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

The downside is customers become trained to play the game of checking prices on the Internet first, which has negative long term effects — you can''t make money when more and more of your customers start paying incremental prices. Fashionable clothes, for instance, benefit from being tried on prior to purchase. Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Meanwhile, I had a lot friends and colleagues saying, “The capital markets are a huge problem.” My colleague Clayton Rose and I set out to discover whether the capital markets really are a problem, and we just couldn’t find much — or any — any evidence that this was true. Do the firms do better?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Each one apparently accompanied by a breathless press release describing how it represents genuine innovation, not to mention fabulous design. But this as the face of modern day innovation?". If there's one phrase I might use to describe the global economy's malaise, it's this: "value" (and possibly values ) of little worth.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As CEO of the TLEX Institute, Johann Berlin specializes in bringing mindfulness training to CEOs and corporate teams. They want to see how these approaches … are truly beneficial to existing priorities like retention, talent advancement, innovation.” The trading desk was an organized riot. ” You and Your Team.

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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. We are not proposing the elimination of functions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

From reducing costs by improving quality, to enriching existing products and services by informationalizing them , to innovating by bringing big data and analytics to bear, data are showing themselves worthy across the board. Training and hiring are critical, so we need HR to step up its game. is not the critical one.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Dench's character lands her first job, drawing on her experience and accumulated know-how to train young Indian call center workers in the subtleties of cross-cultural communications. Next year's The Intern features Tina Fey as the founder of a fashion company who takes on a 70-something mentee. They find new life instead of old age.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

Dialing phones all day is emotionally exhausting work that also requires a lot of real-time training and adjustments. So for the inside sales teams, we still needed to be distributed, but distributed in a co-located fashion. There’s tremendous benefit in being co-located with others doing the same thing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

He will be “on trend,” as they say in fashion — in recent months, leaders from the new Mayor of New York to the Pope have also been vocal on the subject. The companies regularly voted among the best places to work are generally known for increasing their employees’ skills and value on the labor market.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Become a part of them as opposed to a vendor to them …This is a difficult concept for old-school marketers to get their arms around, but a critical one nonetheless. I created a successful language school in the 70s, the old way, of course, literally, physically knocking on corporate doors and asking to speak to the training manager.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

The road map starts with creating an environment for frontline workers to imagine innovative new ways of delivering care. When I was CEO of ThedaCare in Wisconsin, we chose a medical-surgical unit at our Appleton Medical Center in 2007 as the place to develop an innovative process for caring for inpatients we dubbed Collaborative Care.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

For instance, teams that prioritize reliability over adaptability (think accounting departments) may require highly stable structures — and they’re often well served by traditional training (in regulated environments, the rules are the rules, and you have to know and apply them).

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

It’s about having the guts to seek feedback from others in a sincere and genuine fashion. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. Because innovation requires it. Authenticity is about owning your failures and shortcomings.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In recent years, the fashionable suggestion has been that companies sell experiences and solutions, solving the needs and aspirations of customers. Nike could provide you with its traditional sports gear, but in addition it could include a training program, a dietary plan, a coach, and a monitoring system to help you achieve your dream.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

When it comes to innovations in health care delivery, these Indian hospitals have surpassed the efforts of other top institutions around the world. Moreover, when hospitals consolidate, the motive often is to increase market power vis-à-vis insurance companies, rather than to lower costs by creating a hub-and-spoke structure.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

In the world of marketing, brand anthropomorphism can be a powerful mechanism for connecting with consumers. It’s no surprise then that “personality training” is becoming such a serious business, and people who perform that task can come from a variety of backgrounds. Cat Yu for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Pichai now leads an all “bits” business even though he was trained, solidly, in the world of “atoms,” as a metallurgical engineer. And that will require old-fashioned, in-person persuasion. Find new growth markets – fast. Born in Chennai, India, he came to the U.S.

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