N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor. They make bad decisions. I agree with all your assertions and conclusions.

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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 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. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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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. The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

only to fail in miserable fashion. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. IMO, what passes as 'leadership training' is often managerial grooming in disguise. They get the job done, they stand out from the crowd, they don’t need identifying – you know who they are.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

If retail operations can more reliably keep their discretionary relationships with people who have to pay for that relationship than we can with our employees, who earn their livelihood with us, we need to take a serious look at how we’re creating the environment for those relationships. Their supervisors are doing the same.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

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." If no is the ultimate outcome, then options and discussion are a great place for leadership training.

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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. For people in other professions, it may be Quora, a website that hosts questions and answers on subjects from programming languages to fashion to the outbreak of the Zika virus. What’s the trick?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

As fashionable as it is, “data science” is not a business objective or a learning objective in and of itself. Prediction is the Holy Grail for more effectively executing mass scale operations in marketing, financial risk, fraud detection, and beyond. The problem at hand is to optimize your large-scale operations.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 13, 2021

Customer contacts, payment details, marketing data, product inventories, supplier information, and more. All this data is essential for maintaining your business operations and keeping customers happy, and it has become an integral asset for companies, big and small, all over the world. Train your team.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations. defend against “attack from beneath” and maintain your reputation for ethical operations. Joseph , a scrap-metal recycler, in order to secure supplies for its operations. The Future of Operations. New operations.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Email is by far one of the best digital marketing solutions to have in your toolbox. While email marketing is definitely not rocket science, there IS a certain degree of skill and artistry involved in crafting a winning email campaign. Savvy marketers understand this. Boring the Audience. Confusing the Audience.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

What happened is very well documented: they kept running down the maintenance budget, pushing their operating budget to make their numbers. Meanwhile, I had a lot friends and colleagues saying, “The capital markets are a huge problem.” the capital markets are much stickier. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. Operational goals like productivity, predictability and alignment are woven deeply into management systems and processes. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

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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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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. Operating such restaurants is expensive.

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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

APRIL 18, 2011

The executives' role is to define the attributes of the customer experience in partnership with their operational colleagues, organize the customer-satisfaction-measurement process against those attributes, and encourage remedial action wherever warranted. Doing so in a cost-effective fashion is a practical impossibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

The concepts of lifetime employment and generous employee benefits are seen as old-fashioned throwbacks to paternalism. Employees whose positions have been eliminated go through our Career Resource Center, where they’re trained for other open positions. My own workplace is an example. We’ve certainly had to change too.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

and in its home market in the U.K. having sacrificed customer intimacy for increased operational excellence gains through widespread cost cutting, are well documented. In the UK, Tesco lost the plot several times in recent years as they grew to double the market share of competitors like Sainsbury''s and Asda/WalMart.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

By 1997 it had established AlertNet , originally fashioned as a private channel for aid workers and which later developed into the first global humanitarian news and information portal. They can examine the company's core operations to discover ways to help make a difference while continuing to make a profit. Take Cisco.

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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

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star.

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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. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2020

Quality control has always been important, but in today’s market, it is essential. Even though they have fallen out of fashion, they’re not defunct. Give the people who volunteer exclusive authority to evaluate and review processes at every stage of your operation. Get Experienced Employees To Train New Staff.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

But then T&T’s chief operating officer, Jim Zappa, had pulled her aside to tell her the shocking news: A garment factory in Bangladesh that produced and packaged merchandise for T&T and other retailers had collapsed in the middle of a workday. . “What’s your view on keeping operations in Bangladesh?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

For example, before performing every operation the surgical team should conduct a “time-out” 100% of the time to ensure that everyone agrees that they are operating on the correct patient and are performing the correct procedure on the right site and that any questions or concerns that any team member might have are addressed. (I

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Despite the inventiveness of these entrepreneurs, some operate in the informal economy, without government registration, IP rights, or access to banking. Local Craft : Africa is a land of craft with local artisans involved in leather works for shoes, bags, and fashion. Major clusters are forming in Lagos, Nairobi, and Kigali.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Around 85 players, between the ages of 12 and 18 years, either live in or visit the school every day for education and training. One of Barça’s ideals is that soccer must be played skillfully and in an artistic fashion rather than relying on sheer strength and size. Should we enter that market?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

The second truth is that competition is symmetric in its operation. One of the interesting implications of this view of competition is that market share is not always the unalloyed "good" that many managers assume it to be. Because, when a firm increases its market share it turns potential customers into actual customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

Take Jeremiah, a marketing manager. Early in his career, he focused primarily on internal self-awareness — for example, deciding to leave his career in accounting to pursue his passion for marketing. The human mind rarely operates in a rational fashion, and our judgments are seldom free from bias.

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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

JUNE 26, 2017

Erica Jackson, chief marketing officer of the Mendoza Marathon Corporation, had risen early to watch people line up to register for next year’s event and expected an enthusiastic crowd. Alan Kurtz, MMC’s chief operating officer, was standing off to the side, and she moved to join him, but a racer intercepted her.

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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. There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure.

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