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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia. Loyalty is a missing ingredient in job market of both the secular and sacred. Show-up : You can’t make a difference if you don’t show-up.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. Participants can share their experiences, exchange ideas, and collaborate on solutions to common business challenges.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

Participants of the network have a shared vision of a more equitable talent marketplace driven by emerging technologies and evolving data standards. Upskilling, in the end, should be a team sport, one even where employees support one another in their mutual goals to advance their skills.

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Rich Gee Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

When people tell me about the bad business atmosphere, I tell them “I have chosen not to participate.”. You need to present a extremely positive persona to management – this is the time where they might be looking at cutting the bottom 10%. This may be a sports cliche, but right now, it rings true. A little bit better?

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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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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction? Probably the same as mine - not so good. Coaching is one of the fastest growing professions on the planet.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 16, 2014

Apple also made this mistake, and until the advent of the iPod, the company was relegated to being a small player in a vast market. For years Apple focused on the PC market, and while their products may have been “insanely great,” they never gained more than a minor share of the market.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

This book highlights Paul’s significant experience in a 40-year career of managing people and as a well-respected consultant to managers and their organizations across the globe. And he and I have participated in a fabulous monthly Master Mind group with Jan Andersen of Beyond Words, Inc. What are the 8 skills?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with businesses in an industry whose customers already self-identify as fans: sports. In sports, every second matters.

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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. In essence, we needed less administrative work and more research and marketing. This is different than in the world of sports. That is the culture most adults live in.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2014

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. The more these paths effectively address the concerns of participants, the more positive the moods prompted by the story. Bill Gates had a different story. The Great Eraser.

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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. Don't fight this wave of expression.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They came back in the 1980s as sport utility vehicles. Participated In It. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. The 1980s brought us compact discs, which play at a speed of 78-RPM. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.”

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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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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Mine your backyard.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

They came back in the 1980s as sport utility vehicles. Participated In It. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. The 1980s brought us compact discs, which play at a speed of 78-RPM. About the Author.

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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. A New Type of Local Partner.

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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. We learned to apply strict time limits and to manage the process so information moved into the debrief quickly. The new paradigm: Time is your enemy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Cisco's councils and boards — a language that already suggests committees rather than goal-oriented projects — were supposed to speed things up and stimulate more innovation by creating cross-functional groups that could generate ideas about market-facing, solutions-oriented projects and organize across the organization to get them done.

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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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Reiter Thinks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Army ROTC has a “Varsity” sport called Ranger Challenge. It’s a great event for the cadets who decide to participate. Start there and once you work on the internal issues you can shift focus to gaining market share in your industry. I was lucky enough to have the honor to coach one of those teams.

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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. Prior reviews have found that effort and experience are highly valued in management. The same recording was used for both groups.

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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

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. ” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

It's a subject that I study closely, focusing particularly on the lessons that can be found for business leaders from the world of sport. Successful sports coaches typically use rituals to build social bonds between team members. It stimulates the emotions and reduces anxiety.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

I label the lessons and skills that parents hope their children gain from participating in competitive activities "Competitive Kid Capital." Sports are important in American upper-middle-class culture. Instead of managing employees and clients, Lois micromanages her daughters'' lives.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Across the economic spectrum — whether business, law, sports, politics, academia or religion — women represent less than 20% of the leaders in the U.S., even though their workforce participation is equal to or greater than that of men, according to a White House Project study. In this day and age it only makes sense.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Victoria Brescoll , a social psychologist at Yale School of Management who studies gender stereotypes, was curious how people evaluate women who make mistakes in traditionally male occupations. She and her colleagues gave participants a fictional news story about a police chief in a major city preparing for a big protest rally.

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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. If the talent market continues to get more competitive, this needs to change.

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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 11, 2015

Second: if you have different prices in the market for a similar product, there is no preventing your well-heeled customers from taking advantage of the lower prices, too. Pricing Marketing Business models' First: it is not easy to identify and group customers according to their willingness to pay.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

The design of the study was simple – the researchers took one group of participants, randomly paired people up, and instructed them to get to know each other by asking probing questions. After ten minutes of such interaction, the participants were given a battery of cognitive tests. Collaboration Innovation Knowledge management'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

of senior management and executive roles of S&P 500 firms, 2.2% We sought to understand the barriers they faced, their strategies for ascending through the organization, and the tools they used to manage significant organizational change efforts and navigate career risks. Currently, they make up 12.7% of the U.S. corporations.

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